I use Flock for all my feeds but am disappointed that I could not get my favorite extension CoLT. Tonight I had done a search on the Flock Extensions site and this what was displayed: No results were found for your search query. Please try another or just upload a Firefox extension to convert it so that it will work with Flock. When you click the above link you will be taken to an upload utility where you can either upload the Firefox Extension XPI file or the URL for the XPI file you want to convert to Flock. The…
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A while back I posted about The Firefox 2 SSL 2.0 Tweak. Still some folks continue to have issues with Firefox not being able to access secure sites. SSL (Secure Socket Layers) is a protocol that secures communication over the Internet, which most banking sites and online stores require to send sensitive information. Here are some things to check if you are still having issues: Since SSL requires Firefox to use a loopback connection, check to be sure your firewall is not blocking INCOMING connections to Firefox. This is by far the most common reason for this issue. I had…
I’ve added a couple new features to the right side bar: Posts of Interest: These are posts which are great reference guides and contain a wealth of Firefox information. Currently there are only two posts included: Firefox 2.0 Tweaks Guide and Fx Year In Review. More should be added in the future. Note: If there is a post you feel should be included let me know, it is easy for me to overlook some posts. Latest From The Guru: Lists the last 5 posts in order as they appear in the blog (not necessarily as they were published). On rare…
[digg=http://digg.com/software/Firefox_A_Year_In_Review] Here we are at the end of 2006! I can’t believe this year is nearly over and thought wouldn’t it be neat to take a look at all the changes to Firefox over the past year? A lot has happened (more then I first realized) with a total of 11 official releases. For each release I’ll discuss the new features/fixes as well as link to security enhancements/fixes for that version. Now before we begin, I have a couple quick clarification notes: Releases are listed in order by which they were released (date), not by their version number. Which is…
Just a reminder if you regularly visit Bugzilla: On Tuesday, December 26, at 6pm PST (2am UTC Wednesday) we will be upgrading Bugzilla to the current pre-release of version 3.0. We are expecting the upgrade to take anywhere from 4 to 6 hours. Bugzilla will be down for the duration of the upgrade process. For more information, see the upgrade notes.
Wishing y’all a very Merry Christmas! A little later today I will be posting a very special entry: Fx Year In Review. I’ve spent quite a bit of time over the course of this past week doing research and taking notes for this entry. This is a very in depth review of Firefox throughout 2006 from 1.5 to 2.0.0.1 and even 3.0a1! I have covered features and fixes as well as included my thoughts (some good and some not so good) about these particular releases. Also, something different with the Fx Year in Review entry, I have included several external…
New to Fx 3.0a2pre (Gran Paradiso), starting with the December 20th nightlies (Build 20061220XX), is a warning message when you access about:config the first time (or if you don’t uncheck the ‘Show this warning next time.’ box). I guess you could say about:config is to Firefox as the Registry is to Windows. However, while there a lot of Firefox settings that can be changed via about:config, but I can’t really think of anything that would be critical enough to cause Firefox to stop working. Some changes may produce undesirable effects in which case you just go back in to about:config…
Wow! 2006 is almost over and what a year it has been for Firefox with 11 releases over two versions (1.5 & 2.0)! I am in the process of putting together a Firefox Year in Review Blog entry which I plan to have up tomorrow night. Stay tunned…
Your Firefox User Agent or build ID contains a lot of information about your browser as well as your operating system. Here is break down on what is in your User Agent: Mozilla/MozVer (Platform; Security; SubPlatform; Language; rv:Revision[; Extension]*) Gecko/GeckVer [Product/ProdVer] Mozilla/MozVer ~ All Firefox build IDs start with Mozilla/5.0. Simply put this means the browser meets the standards to be Netscape 5 compatible. This was the first Mozilla based (never released) version of Netscape. Platform ~ This is the operating system (but not the version). Possible values include: Windows Macintosh X11 (Linux) Security ~ This is the encryption strength…
Warning: This extension should only be used if you are using/testing nightly builds and/or betas. Note: This extension is not hosted on Mozilla’s Firefox Add-Ons, but I have deemed this extension and its source as trustworthy. At some point I downloaded a milestone version of Gran Paradiso (Firefox 3.0a1) which caused me to no longer get the Minefield nightly builds. I really didn’t want to go digging through the Mozilla FTP, download and install the nightly, so I thought I could go into about:config and change the app.update.channel setting to nightly. Of course this seemed too easy, change the setting…