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Change Firefox menu shortcuts with Menu Wizard

“Menu Wizard is a handy browser add-on for the Firefox web browser that you can use to hide or move menu items. It supports the Firefox menu bar (not displayed anymore by default), the tab and main context menu, and the bookmarks bar by default so that you can customize what is displayed and how it is displayed in the browser. …” Source: gHacks Tech News More  Change Firefox menu shortcuts with Menu Wizard

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Firefox 32 Arrives with New HTTP Cache, Public Key Pinning

“Mozilla today officially launched Firefox 32 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Additions include a new HTTP cache for improved performance, public key pinning support, and easy language switching on Android. …” Source: The Next Web Review & Details  Firefox 32 Arrives with New HTTP Cache, Public Key Pinning

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Sponsored Tiles in Firefox, here they are

” Sponsored tiles on Firefox’s new tab page have appeared for the first time in Firefox Nightly 34 versions. Find out how they look and how to disable them. “ Source: gHacks Tech News  Sponsored Tiles in Firefox, here they are

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Control all Firefox add-ons, plugins and themes with Extensor

” … Extensor is a powerful extension for Firefox that gives you better control of all installed add-ons, themes, plugins and even dictionary files and services.”You can use it to change the state quickly which is great if you require some features only at times and not all the time. It is also great for quickly switching themes for example. … “ Source: gHacks Tech News Review  Control all Firefox add-ons, plugins and themes with Extensor

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Hide plugins, visited links and WebRTC from websites in Firefox

Shows how this works and some add-ons, settings to prevent it. ” Whenever you connect to a website using any browser, the site receives a variety of information automatically. While not all sites process the information or record them, some may very well use them for tracking and other purposes. “ Source: gHacks Tech News Details  Hide plugins, visited links and WebRTC from websites in Firefox

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Mozilla rolls out update hotfix for old versions of Firefox

” Mozilla will install a hotfix on Firefox 10 to 28 Stable versions on Windows that have automatic updates enabled to get those installations to the latest release version of the web browser. “ Source: gHacks Tech News Details  Mozilla rolls out update hotfix for old versions of Firefox

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14 Mozilla Articles to Help Make You a Better and Safer User of the Firefox Browser

“Do you use Firefox as your Internet browser? It turns out that even regular users are often unfamiliar with the rich resources available at Mozilla. There are many articles there that can help make you a better user of Firefox. Areas covered include installation, configuration, security, privacy, maintenance, and other areas of Firefox use. Here are 14 of my favorite links from the Mozilla collection. Read these and you can become a Firefox ace. … “ Updated 14. July 2014 Source: Gizmo’s  14 Mozilla Articles to Help Make You a Better and Safer User of the Firefox Browser

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Greasemonkey 2.0 released, introduces changes that may break scripts

“The development team behind Greasemonkey has just released version 2.0 of the extension. As always, it takes time before the new version is made available to all existing users and users who visit the Greasemonkey page on the website.“Interested users can install the new version of the extension on the “versions” page of it on the website where it is already made available.“The new version introduces several changes that may make some scripts incompatible with version 2.0 of Greasemonkey. …” Source: gHacks Technology News Details  Greasemonkey 2.0 released, introduces changes that may break scripts

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Here is what Firefox for Android’s new Hubs feature is all about

Overview of Home Panel add-ons “Firefox 30 got released a couple of days ago and with it came a new feature for the Android version of the browser that Mozilla named Hubs.“While it launched with Firefox 30, it is not really advertised in the mobile browser itself which means that you will have to do some research on your own to find out more about it.“The Hubs feature more or less adds an API to Firefox for Android to add contents to the browser’s home screen.“As you may know, the home screen of the browser displays top sites, the browsing…

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What is Seer, and how to disable it in Firefox

  I just disabled it. Summary Article Name What is Seer, and how to disable it in Firefox Author Martin Brinkmann Description Takes a look at Firefox Seer, explains what it is, how it is linked to netpredictions.sqlite in the profile folder, and how to disable it. GHacks.net

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