On November 9, 2004 the first official build (1.0) of Firefox was released. Eight years later Firefox is still going strong as both a desktop as well as mobile (Android) browser. Read more at The Den.
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“Users of the popular IncrediMail may have noticed that the service has modified the default search engine and homepage of the Firefox web browser after installation. The free version of IncrediMail will make those changes to the Internet browser unless you select the custom installation option during program installation and uncheck the “Make MyStart by IncrediMail my default search engine” and “Make MyStart by IncrediMail my homepage”.“If you do not, you end up with a new home page that opens up in the browser and a new default search engine. Let me show you how you can reverse the changes…
Mozilla identified some security vulnerabilities with Location object issues in Firefox 16.0.1. The 16.0.2 update addresses said vulnerabilities. Firefox 15 users are not affected by these vulnerabilities. Existing Firefox 16.0.x users can updated to 16.0.2 via Help > About Firefox or download and install Firefox 16.0.2 manually via the getfirefox.com site.An update for Firefox 16.0.2 for Android has already been pushed out to Google Play Store.
Early last month we wrote about a change in the closing multiple tabs warning behaviour when using the option to close other tabs (even with the warning turned off in the preferences). Within the past week or so, Bug 772319 which was filed to undo this change was changed to RESOLVED FIXED with a target milestone of Firefox 18. This means starting with Firefox 18, users will no longer (as they didn’t get in the past) this warning when using the close other tabs function. The current work around is to use Tab Mix Plus 0.4.0.3 add-on. Firefox 18 is scheduled for…
“About this Add-on Site to Phone lets you send links, text, images and more to your smart phone. Phones supported:– All iPhones, iPads and iPod Touchs– All Android phones– All Web OS phones– Blackberry phones running version 6+– All Windows Phone 7+ phones Features include:– Send any link or text to your phone– Youtube, Mail, Phone and Maps links open directly in the corresponding apps on iOS– Send any page, link or image via the right click menu– Send text via right click menu– Setup with multiple installs of Chrome– Setup with multiple phones– Optionally save history of items sent…
There may be a point where you want to ‘reset’ AdBlock Plus back to ‘factory defaults’. This can be the case where you are blocking something you don’t want to and can not figure out how to unblock it or AdBlock Plus is mis-behaving (can happen to any add-on). So, how do you reset AdBlock Plus, is it just a matter of uninstalling the add-on then re installing? Not quite, there ara a couple steps in between uninstalling and re-installing AdBlock Plus. Here is what you need to do to ‘reset’ AdBlock Plus: From the Add-ons Manager (Firefox Menu > Add-ons…
Mozilla identified some security vulnerabilities with Firefox 16, released earlier this week. The 16.0.1 update addresses said vulnerabilities. Firefox 15 users are not affected by these vulnerabilities. Another update, Firefox 16.0.2 is still being evaluated as Mozilla is still determining the full scope of the window load handler failure issue which causes some add-ons not to load when a new window (not tab) is opened. Existing Firefox 16 users can updated to 16.0.1 via Help > About Firefox or download and install Firefox 16.0.1 manually via the getfirefox.com site.An update for Firefox 16.0.1 for Android has already been pushed out to Google Play Store.
” … The update is rated ‘Critical’ by Adobe, and was given the highest deployment priority rating for Windows users. Adobe is not aware of any exploits targeting the vulnerabilities, which impact Adobe Flash Player 11.4.402.278 and earlier for Windows, version 11.4.402.265 and earlier for Macs and version 11.2.202.238 and earlier for Linux. The update also impacts Flash Player 11.1.115.17 and earlier on Android 4.x versions and 11.1.111.16 and earlier on Android 3.x and 2.x. …” Source: eweek.com/security More Adobe Patches Flash Player in Massive Security Update
From the Firefox Add-ons Blog comes this alert: The problem is that the window load event handler that many add-ons depend on isn’t fired under some circumstances. So far it appears that this only happens when a popup window is opened, and only in cases where the domain in the new window is different from the one that opened the window. Since most add-on scripts rely on the load handler being called, many of them will not work in the newly opened popup window. There’s more information about this in bug 799348. Depending on the scale of this issue (how many…
Mozilla has released an update for Firefox on October 9, 2012 with Firefox 16 for desktop and Android users. There are several fixes and updates in this version. However, most notable for desktop users is improvements to JAVA Script related to incremental garbage collection. This should hep reduce (and possibly eliminate) the dreaded ‘unrepresentative script’ warning.Bill McCloskey wrote about this feature: The basic purpose of the garbage collector is to collect memory that JavaScript programs are no longer using. The space that is reclaimed can then be reused for new JavaScript objects. Garbage collections usually happen every five seconds or so. Prior to incremental GC landing,…