Posts tagged firefox

Firefox 4 Beta out now with modified user interface

It’s heeeere! The much awaited Mozilla Firefox 4 Beta (or rather Beta 2 to be exact). With its ‘all new’ layout. That’s quite similar to Chrome but still needs work. Feature-wise little has changed since the Firefox 3.7alpha5 release. And there are still plenty of gap areas. That in the Beta can’t be addressed through add-ons because of changes in the Firefox 3.7alpha5 add-on structure. Even Nightly Tester Tools, every tester’s jailbreak app, doesn’t work.

Right now there’s just the one add-on that does work: Mozilla Sync (aka Weave, Dec 9, 2009).

Several previewers have been complaining that Firefox 4 Beta starts More >

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Tip Jar: Firefox Spell Check – Do Word-style grammar squiggly underline

Jun 14th

Posted by Administrator in E-Musings

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The Download Squad dug out this gem from the Mozilla Knowledgebase.

Firefox’s integrated spell checker is extremely handy for avoiding an embarrassing typo in an email, blog post, or Twitter update, but after a while, the light red underline is easy to ignore. Fix that with a quick about:config tweak as follows:

  1. Enter About:config in the Firefox address bar. If it pops up an alert, tell it that you know what you’re doing and proceed.
  2. Search for ui.SpellCheckerUnderlineStyle. If you find anything, skip to step 5.
  3. If your system is like mine, you found nothing. That means you have to add this configuration value. Right-click the More >
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Use Spyware Blaster to Protect Portable Firefox

Jan 18th

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I’m sure (by now) you are aware of the Portable Firefox application that bundles a complete Mozilla Firefox 3.x version as a ready-to-use browser setup. All you have to do is download the relevant file (available in Firefox 3.0.1x and Firefox 3.6 Beta builds) from PortableApps.com to your systems. Click to run the installer. And save the files to a location on either your hard disk drive. Or on a portable (USB pen) drive. Whatever floats your boat better.

Spyware Blaster (for those who haven’t been paying attention) is a powerful anti-spyware protection application. The free for personal user version should work for 99% More >

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Plug that Burning (er, Firefox) Leak

Dec 15th

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If you are as regular a Firefox user as I. You do need to be aware of two key learnings about Firefox extensions.

First, it’s not a good idea to load up your browser with multiple extensions. The greater the installed extensions, the longer the browser takes to fire up (load into memory for the non-geeky). And think by installing then disabling extensions speeds matters up. You are W-R-O-N-G!

As far as Firefox is concerned those extensions must be loaded. Before the next instruction is to disable them. They remain embedded into memory along with the rest of the browser. Until More >

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