November 9, 2011

Firefox 8 ‘Top crashes’

These two add-ons/programs seem to be causing the majority of startup crashes with Firefox 8. 1/ If you have the addon Roboform, be sure you have the latest version v7.6.2 because the previous versions of that addon cause crashes of FF Bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=691271 You can delete the addon folder in your profile which is {22119944-ED35-4ab1-910B-E619EA06A115} (Roboform GUID). 2/ If you have the program Rapport from Trusteer Ltd (security tool provided by banks etc to secure user transactions), remove it. It is very crashy. Bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=699776

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Kindle Cloud Reader hits Firefox

The HTML5 Kindle Cloud Reader app is now supporting Firefox. To start reading, Firefox users just need to go to http://read.amazon.com using the browser on their computer or device. “  Kindle Cloud Reader hits Firefox as HTML5 app – SlashGear ↑Go get it↓

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Lightning Updates for Developmental Thunderbird Builds

Important: At least in the Thunderbird 11 Daily builds, you will need to manually update Lightning by going the the Calendar Versions page then down and install the correct version. As mentioned earlier this week Mozilla Lightning, the Thunderbird Calendar add-on had been updated for Thunderbird 8. The Calendar Versions page on MDN now shows new versions (with an entirely new numbering scheme) of Lightning for the upcoming (channel merges are still in progress) Thunderbird 9 Beta, Thunderbird 10 Earlybird and Thunderbird 11 Daily builds. As odd as the old numbering scheme was, it did sort of make sense (compared…

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Disable Firefox Add-on Controls

Note: This article may be updated in the coming days as we learn more about the new add-on controls in Firefox 8. As mentioned earlier this week, Firefox 8 introduced some new Add-on Controls that were designed more for single users. These incldued the ability to review and disable user installed add-ons on the first run of Firefox 8 as well as automatically disabling any 3rd party installed add-ons. However, there is a minor glitch in that corporate/enterprise bundled add-ons are classified as 3rd party install add-ons and therefore will be disabled by default.In a corporate/enterprise environment most users are…

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