“The web is a generally free place, but some sites and services want to make it annoying to navigate and enjoy. Stream any video you’d like, see the sites you need, and get at services you thought were down with these tips.” 10. Skip Past Annoying User/Pass Requests 9. Read Articles That Rupert Murdoch Wants You Paying For 8. Change User Agents to Get Around Browser Blocks 7. Get to Gmail When It’s Down 6. Get Actually Usable BitTorrent Speeds 5. Get To Sites Taken Down by Traffic 4. Control Computers At Home 3. Download YouTube and Other Flash Videos…
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Oracle has pushed out JAVA Version 6 Update 20 to address a sever security exploit. While I am usually pretty good about keeping my plugins such as JAVA updated I did notice I currently had Update 16 installed 🙁 This update is for Windows, Linux and Solaris operating systems including Windows XP, Vista, 7 as well as Server 2003 & 2008. Note: This exploit currently affects users running 32-Bit browsers. To install the update simply go to java.com and click the big red Free Java Download button. The site will auto-detect your operating system and present you with the correct…
As mentioned earlier today there is an Important JAVA Update available for all platforms, but more importantly for people using 32-bit versions of Windows. Now, Mozilla is blocking the JAVA Development Toolkit versions 6.0.200.0 and older. The reason is due to a security voluntarily as described in Bug 558584. Firefox users with this version(s) of the plug-in installed with see a dialog box informing them the plug-in has been blocked and to restart the browser so it can be disabled. Most Firefox users are not going to miss this plugin as it is used for developing JAVA Applications. As long…
Just Released Firefox 3.7a4 – April 12, 2010 Schedule this Coming Week None Future Release Firefox 3.5.10 – May 4, 2010 Firefox 3.6.4 – May 4, 2010 Firefox 3.7a5 – TBD
Over the past four years since this blog was started, we have posted various Add-ons Compilations or ‘collections’ of add-ons with a common theme. With nearly 1200 posts and nearly 200 of those in the ‘Add-ons’ category it can be somewhat difficult to locate these collections. To solve this issue, we have now added a new section to The Firefox Extension Guru’s Wiki. Introducing the Add-on Compilations, a complete list of all the collections that have been mentioned on the blog.
It never ceases to amaze me just how many Firefox add-ons there are now. But it not just the number of extension, but all the different types/categories of add-ons. Case in point is the latest in our ‘Add-ons Compilations’ posts: 100 Amazing Firefox Add-ons for Homeschoolers. Categories in this Add-ons Compilation targeted towards Homeschoolers include: Math Science English Language Arts and Reference Materials Foreign Languages Productivity Research Parental Controls and Computer Security Search Engines and Web Browsing
Mozilla has released the fourth Alpha for Gecko 1.9.3 layout engine likely to be used in the future Firefox 3.7. This release is being made available for testing purposes only, and is intended as a preview release for web application developers and the testing community. This release includes improvements to performance, JavaScript, Plug-ins and stability.See Release Notes for more information and download/installation instructions. One item that did stand out in the Release Notes: Performance One area where people complained about performance was restart performance when applying an update. It turns out that a lot of what made that experience poor…
The author of the YouTube: Auto Buffer and Stop AutoPlay Greasemonkey script has released an updated version (1.2.5) on April 8th. Recently Google/YouTube made changes which caused this script to stop working. Also new with this version, if an HD version of the YouTube video is available it will automatically be selected (this can be an issue for folks with older systems). Edit: There is an ‘Autobuffer Options’ button just below the video title and to the right of the ‘Subscribe’ button. Options includ: Autoplay Autobuffer Auto HD Hide in-video-ads Hide annotations YouTube Auto Buffer
Just Released Firefox Lorentz Beta – April 8, 2010 Schedule this Coming Week None Future Release Firefox 3.5.10 -May 11, 2010 (Tentative) Firefox 3.6.4 – May 4, 2010 Firefox 3.7a4 – TBD
Last month I received an email for a nearly dedicated Thunderbird user. I say nearly dedicated because they were still using Eudora to send out monthly club emails. The club has a strict policy that their email addresses will not be shared. They were unable to find an easy way to send out to the group where all the recipients were BCC (Blind Carbon Copy). Sure each recipient added to the message could be changed to ‘Bcc’, but with around 50 recipients this was time consuming and a good chance of accidentally leaving one or more of the recipients set…