At the end of last year I mentioned in my Help with Minefield Error post I was getting odd error messages when I exited Minefield. I got a response in the thread I had posted over on Firefox Builds. Someone suggested disabling/removing the talkback extension has they too were getting similar problems with the newer version (3.0a2pre). After disabling the extension, I closed Minefield, restarted Minefield updated to the latest nightly build, closed and restarted Minefield to apply the update and then finally closed Minefield again. No Windows error messages! The only downside is I won’t be able to report…
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A couple days ago I explained in the Bookmarks: Backing up and Recovering post how to recover your missing bookmarks if Firefox ‘eats’ them. But I didn’t give much thought to if something major were to go wrong, until Freesitebuilder left the following comment: “Great tip – I’ve lost my bookmarks twice when they simply disappeared from Firefox, and a third time with a HDD failure.” Good point! Five days worth of backed-up bookmarks aren’t going to do you much good if your hard drive is toast! Now, if you are doing regular system back-ups to CD-R, Tape Drive or…
Over the past couple days I have noticed a rather large increase in pingbacks and overall traffic to my Adobe Acrobat vs Foxit Reader article. I thought it may have had something to do with including it in the “Posts of Interest”. Then I started following the pingbacks and discovered there is a major flaw involving Adobe Acrobat Reader version 7.0.8 and malicious JavaScript. Here is part of the article Adobe Flaw May Be ‘Worst’ Bug Of 2007 from Yahoo!: “Adobe has promised to patch buggy versions of its popular Reader software next week to close a cross-site scripting vulnerability…
Updated 04/18/2011 – Added information for Firefox 4 and Restore feature added with Firefox 3.5. Also added directions for manual backup/restore. While I have never had this happen to me personally, I know several folks who have started up their Firefox to discover all or some of their bookmarks are gone. If this happens to you…Don’t panic! All is not lost! A cool feature with Firefox is it keeps a back-up of your bookmarks for the past five days (Firefox 4 upto 10 days). Recovering your bookmarks is very easy: From the Bookmarks Menu select Organize Bookmarks… (Firefox 4: Show…
I am taking a quick break from my Blog Vacation to add a couple helpful entries. Earlier this week I received a frantic e-mail from a family member saying they couldn’t their Firefox to start and attached a screenshot of this error message: “Could not initialize the browser’s security component. The most likely cause is problems with files in your browser’s profile directory. Please check that this directory has no read/write restrictions and your hard disk is not full or close to full. It is recommended that you exit the browser and fix the problem. If you continue to use…
I spent most of the last couple days research, compiling and posting the Blog Year in Review posts for the past 8 months. I am going to take a short ‘blog vacation’ this week. Unless something major happens in the Mozilla world, I won’t be posting anything new until next Sunday (January 7th). Once again Happy New Years from the Guru!
December 2006, saw several blog design changes. I am happy to report that the Blog design changes are done (for now). There were new ways to “Spread Firefox” in December with the introduction of four Firefox Flicks TV commercials airing in select markets and several Firefox/Thunderbird wallpapers; Firefox 1.5.0.9, 2.0.0.1 & 3.0a1 along with Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 & 2.0b1 were all released; an update on the Firefox Password Manger vulnerability and what you can do to protect yourself; information about the “Improper Shut-Down” bug. In addition there were a couple posts for testers on migrating profiles and changing your update channel….
November 2006, was an unusually quiet month for the blog. All the hype and anticipation associated with IE7 and Firefox 2 were over. However, Firefox and Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 were released. I added a couple minor tweaks for Firefox 2 which are not in the tweaks guide. Plus, a vulnerability in the Firefox Password Manager was exposed affecting 1.5 and 2.0 builds. All this plus some noteworthy Firefox/Mozilla news. Memory usage has been a hot topic issue with both Firefox 1.5 as well as Firefox 2. I found a couple methods to view your Firefox cache both disk and memory caches….
October 2006, the month of the browsers! The new IE7 was released, followed quickly by Firefox 2 (but not 1.5.0.8). Plus I looked at a couple of other browsers. Bunches of Firefox 2 tweaks plus a follow-up on the contest to name Mozilla Japan’s New Mascot along with Google & Microsoft news. I started off the month with a Browser Smörgåsbord, taking a look at the other browsers available for Windows. These included Netscape (also Mozilla), Opera, Flock (built on top of Firefox but NOT by Mozilla) as well as a couple developmental versions of Firefox. A quick follow up…
September 2006, was a big month for The Firefox Extension Guru’s Blog. We moved to our new home on WordPress, Microsoft released (more like leaked) the prices for Windows Vista/Office 2007 plus they try to compromisers on the Windows Vista Start-up sound. Mozilla hired a former Microsoft executive and releases Firefox 1.5.0.7, Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 as well as more updates to Firefox 2 Beta 2 and finally RC1. In September I tried out Yahoo Mail Beta again and found a cool extension for the regular Yahoo Mail. All this plus some unusual non-Mozilla related posts. In late August, news of Windows…