Category Archives: Fx 6.0

Unhide Forward Button in Firefox 11
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Posted on November 23, 2025 by

For whatever reason, Mozilla has decided starting with Firefox 11 to hide the forward button when you can not go forward. For once, this is not something that Mozilla has copied from Google Chrome, as the forward button is always … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Browsers, Firefox, Fx 11.0, Fx 3.6, Fx 4.0, Fx 5.0, Fx 6.0, Fx 7.0, Fx 8.0, Fx 9.0, General Mozilla, Google, Tips & Tweaks | 4 Comments

omni.jar to become omni.ja
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Posted on November 16, 2025 by

Bug 701875 was created a few days ago to address a major issue with Windows and Gecko 2.0 (Firefox 4.0+/Thunderbird 5.0+). omni.jar is a core file for Gecko 2.0 versions of Firefox and Thunderbird. From MDN: Firefox 4 and Thunderbird … Continue reading →

Posted in Browsers, Firefox, Fx 10.0, Fx 11.0, Fx 3.6, Fx 4.0, Fx 5.0, Fx 6.0, Fx 7.0, Fx 8.0, Fx 9.0, General Mozilla, Other | Leave a comment

FaviconizeTab
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Posted on November 14, 2025 by

While Tab Utilities has a lot of stuff to offer, the only feature I really needed was to have the ability to Faviconize a tab. As B. Moore pointed out, there is add-on that does just that, FaviconizeTab. For those … Continue reading →

Posted in Add-ons, Blogs, Browsers, Firefox, Fx 10.0, Fx 11.0, Fx 4.0, Fx 5.0, Fx 6.0, Fx 7.0, Fx 8.0, Fx 9.0, General Mozilla, Tips & Tweaks | 1 Comment

App Tabs
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Posted on November 14, 2025 by

Back when Firefox 4.0 rolled out in March one of the (many) new features was a little something called App Tabs. This was something borrowed from Chrome and even we didn’t really understand the correct use of this feature when … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Browsers, Facebook, Firefox, Fx 4.0, Fx 5.0, Fx 6.0, Fx 7.0, Fx 8.0, Fx 9.0, General Mozilla | Leave a comment

Starting with a Fresh Profile
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Posted on November 11, 2025 by

Updated 11/16/2011: Added info for backup and restore of Greasemonkey and Stylish scripts. Also added new step in the Starting Over section. If you’ve been using the same profile since Firefox 3.6 (or older) you may run into performance issues … Continue reading →

Posted in Add-ons, Blogs, Browsers, Firefox, Fx 3.6, Fx 4.0, Fx 5.0, Fx 6.0, Fx 7.0, Fx 8.0, General Mozilla, Tips & Tweaks | 13 Comments

Brief 1.6b1
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Posted on November 11, 2025 by

The Brief feed-reader extension was last updated on April 8th, 2011 which was shortly after Firefox 4 was release. There are some issues with using Brief in Firefox 6 and newer. While the add-on says it will work for Firefox … Continue reading →

Posted in Add-ons, Blogs, Firefox, Fx 6.0, Fx 7.0, Fx 8.0, Fx 9.0, General Mozilla | Leave a comment

OpenDownload²
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Posted on November 8, 2025 by

A reader commented about my add-ons screenshot, that I was running OpenDownload 1.0.0 which has not been updates since January 2007 (Firefox 2.0.0.1 was the newest release back then). I’ve been forcing the extension to work either via Nightly Tester … Continue reading →

Posted in Add-ons, Blogs, Browsers, Firefox, Fx 10.0, Fx 11.0, Fx 3.6, Fx 4.0, Fx 5.0, Fx 6.0, Fx 7.0, Fx 8.0, Fx 9.0, General Mozilla | 1 Comment

Restore Firefox Address Bar to Pre-Firefox 6
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Posted on October 19, 2025 by

While we did post this back in July when this feature had landed on the nightly builds for Firefox 7, we felt it was worth posting again. We’ve also included the tweak to turn off the Domain Highlighting feature which … Continue reading →

Posted in Browsers, Firefox, Fx 5.0, Fx 6.0, Fx 7.0, General Mozilla, Tips & Tweaks | 1 Comment

Firefox Release Recap: September 10, 2025
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Posted on September 10, 2025 by

Just Released Firefox 3.6.22 - September 6th Firefox 6.0.2 - September 6th Schedule this Coming Week None Future Releases Firefox 3.6.23 - September 27th Firefox 7 Final Release - September 27th Firefox 7 for Mobile Final Release - September 27th … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, Firefox For Android, Fx 3.6, Fx 6.0, Fx 7.0, Fx 8.0, Fx 9.0, General Mozilla | Leave a comment

AMO Changes to Incompatible Add-ons
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Posted on September 9, 2025 by

In the past while addons.mozilla.org (AMO) would indicate an add-on was not compatible with the user’s version of Firefox, it would still allow the user to try and install the incompatible add-on. The user would get a warning that the … Continue reading →

Posted in Add-ons, Blogs, Firefox, Fx 4.0, Fx 5.0, Fx 6.0, Fx 7.0, Fx 8.0, General Mozilla | 5 Comments