January 2015

Tinfoil for Firefox provides easy access to advanced privacy preferences

“While you can make privacy related configuration changes in the Firefox options, many advanced options become only available when you load about:config or install add-ons that provide you with frontend access to those settings.“You can check out our list of best privacy add-ons for Firefox which gives you an overview of good extensions for that purpose.“Tinfoil is a brand new extension for Firefox that makes quite a few privacy related preferences available in its options. … “ Source: gHacks Tech News More 

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Firefox 35.0.1 Released

Mozilla released an emergency update to Firefox 35 on January 26, 2015 with Firefox 35.0.1. There are several fixes including for startup crash with this release. See the release notes for full details. Users may be prompted to update to the newest release (35.0.1) of Firefox or can do so manually within Firefox by going to Help > About Firefox and following the update prompts. Users may also manually download and install the newest Firefox update (35.0.1 via the getfirefox.com site. The next scheduled update for Firefox is February 24th, 2015 with Firefox 36.

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Addictive Tips Best Firefox Add-Ons Of The Year 2014

“Last Monday, we recapped the best Chrome apps and extensions we reviewed in 2014 and we’re ending the week with the 12 best Firefox add-ons we found last year. The list is short but the add-ons themselves add some great functionality to a very powerful browser. …” Source: Addictive Tips  Addictive Tips Best Firefox Add-Ons Of The Year 2014

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Fix Add-ons not working in Firefox 35

“Firefox 35 has been pushed to the Stable channel recently by Mozilla and while the majority of users did not notice any incompatibilities or issues, some users noticed that one or multiple of installed browser add-ons stopped working suddenly. …” Source: gHacks Tech News Details 

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Thunderbird 31.4.0 Released

Mozilla released the next scheduled update for the Thunderbird 31 branch on Tuesday, January 13th with Thunderbird 31.4.0. This release addressed these issues: The previous issues with jp mac builds have now been fixed, and Thunderbird will no longer need to be run in 32-bit mode. Security fixes can be found here Installing extensions within Thunderbird no longer requires download and installing as a file (Bug 1081190) Autocomplete suggestion sort order was adjusted to prioritize entries where the search string matches the beginning of a word (Bug 970456) Users may be prompted to update to the newest release of Thunderbird or can…

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Firefox 35 Released

Mozilla released an update to Firefox on January 13, 2015 with Firefox 35. There are several new features and fixes for this release and these can be viewed in the release notes. Users may be prompted to update to the newest release (35.0) of Firefox or can do so manually within Firefox by going to Help > About Firefox and following the update prompts. Users may also manually download and install the newest Firefox update (34.5 via the getfirefox.com site. The next scheduled update for Firefox is February 24th, 2015 with Firefox 36.

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Pale Moon Tweaks and Info

I found one in the comments that I changed.I set the cache compression to 0. “Pale Moon and Firefox are two popular web browsers that share many features. Most Firefox add-ons run perfectly fine in Pale Moon for example and the same is true for the majority of about:config tweaks. …” Source: gHacks Tech News

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Play Music From Any Folder Or Your Music Library

“… Local Music Player is a Firefox add-on that can read all music files in any folder or library, and queue the files to play. You can play a single track, or have the add-on play them all. The player itself is very basic and lacking loop and shuffle features …” Source: Addictive Tips  Play Music From Any Folder Or Your Music Library In Firefox

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