Category Archives: Fx 7.0

Firefox 8.0.1: JAVA & Mac Crashes Continue
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Posted on November 29, 2025 by

I knew it seemed like things were a bit too quiet. Turns out, the email stopped working Wednesday night or Thursday morning. Last night I started getting some emails on Bug 701537 (Tracking bug for build and release of Firefox … Continue reading →

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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

Wiki Updates
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Posted on November 15, 2025 by

Over the past couple days, we have gone through and updated the Wiki. The Extensions section has been updated for Firefox 7.0 and 8.0 compatibility and about a dozen new extensions that have already been discussed on the blog were … Continue reading →

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Replace Firefox Default Favicon
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Posted on November 15, 2025 by

The new default favicon for sites that don’t have a favicon is nothing more than a dotted square. In the past it resembled a piece of paper. Here are a couple options to replace the current favicon. Add these lines … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, Fx 7.0, Fx 8.0, General Mozilla, Tips & Tweaks | 5 Comments

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 →

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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 →

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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