Tag: Firefox
Favicons missing from Firefox
I’m not sure why, and I don’t appear to be the only person reporting this, but recently my favicons have disappeared from my Firefox installs. Although it’s only affected 2 out of the 3 Firefox installations that I use (one XP and the other Windows 7 – the one unaffected is also Windows 7). In [...]
Internet Explorer 9 Test Drive
Microsoft, always ready to introduce their own program naming, have introduced the concept of the “Platform Preview” for Internet Explorer 7, which you can download and try . Basically, it’s IE but without the ability to change the URL or move backwards through pages – they want you to try it out, but without thinking this is anything [...]
Asus EEE PC 701 – Updating Firefox & Flash
My wife has had her Asus EEE PC 701 for a good few years now and still uses it on a daily basis – pretty much only for internet access, though. However, she’s now found that she can’t access Google Calendar as it’s no longer compatible with Firefox 2, which the EEE PC has. Asus [...]
Xmarks is closing
For quite a few years now I’ve happily used Xmarks (formerly Foxmarks) as my de-facto bookmarks synchroniser. However, they’ve now announced that within the next 90 days, Xmarks will be closing down. It’s mentioned on their blog, but not their site front page (and I probably wouldn’t have realised if I hadn’t seen the news elsewhere). It would appear [...]
PC security for the new user
I’ve always been a believer that new computer users should get themselves a good manual or enrol on a course – just ask the resident family “computer expert” how many times they’ve had to bail out a family member who’s badly infected their PC through not knowing what they were doing – “But it said [...]
Changing the location of Firefox bookmarks
If you wish Firefox to look elsewhere for the bookmark file Type about:config in the URL bar Right click within the window and add a new string entry The entry name should be browser.bookmarks.file Set its value to the new location (eg F:\bookmarks.html)
Xmarks and star ratings!
The latest version of Xmarks for Firefox has added a new feature where, in the status bar at the bottom of the browser window, there are 5 stars, allowing you to easily rate websites that you visit. Unfortunately, they’re a bit of an “estate” hog and can only be turned off along with the Xmarks icon [...]
How to get incompatible Firefox add-ons to work
Firefox 3.6 has been released and that means, once again, that you might find some of your add-ons don’t work. Now, this isn’t Firefox just wanting to cause problems for us all, but for genuine security and stability reasons. None-the-less, if you need to get an add-on working, then there is a (relatively) simple way to do it. Download the [...]
Vacuum Firefox for improved performance
Since Firefox 3.0 bookmarks, history and most storage is kept in SQLite databases and, ass with any other database, SQLite databases become fragmented over time. But, since there are no managing processes checking and optimizing the database, these eventually result in a performance hit. So, a good way to improve startup and some other bookmarks [...]
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Why I still don’t like Chrome
Last year I made an attempt to move from Firefox to Chrome – as much as I love Firefox, Chrome is a lot quicker in use. However, after living with Chrome for a few days, I’ve moved back to Firefox again. There was always the issue over searching. I love having a little search box [...]
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