Topic: Firefox

News articles, tutorials, add-ons and other miscellaneous tips for the Mozilla Firefox Web Browser.

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Gorgeous Elementary Firefox skin is coming soon

Elementary fans longing for a Firefox theme to match do not have much long to wait. The skin is the work of a Thomas 'Seahorse Pip' and looks every bit as sumptuous as you'd expect.

1 September 2010
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C’mon Mozilla, show me my Firefox icon!

Firefox - why won't you adhere to my icon theme!? Small issues sometime grate the most and the following bug falls squarely into that category... Click through for the rest of the rant.

1 September 2010
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LastPass – free, Secure, Password sync

You know the score: You use, blog, post and wax lyrical on a million different websites and that means lots of different accounts and, thusly, lots of different passwords too. So many passwords fast become […]

8 July 2010
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Firefox 4 Beta 1 Released

The first beta of Mozilla’s Firefox browser is now available for the bleeding-edge insatiable to get their teeth into. Many of the new features and enhancements we’ve mentioned over the last few months finally make […]

6 July 2010
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Get native Ubuntu notifications working again in Firefox 3.6.6

Popular Firefox extension ‘Firefox-Notify’ – which uses native Ubuntu notifications in place of the default Firefox ones – no longer works with Firefox 3.6.6 in Ubuntu. Thankfully users  needn’t forgo native notifications for long… It’s […]

1 July 2010
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Get Safari’s new ‘reader’ feature in Chrome & Firefox

Apple pushed out Safari 5 earlier today. With it came a new feature called ‘Reader’ that, in the words of Apple themselves,: – “…removes annoying ads and other visual distractions from online articles. So you […]

8 June 2010
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Preview the slick new (new) Ubuntu 10.04 Firefox Start page

With Ubuntu 10.04 having switched its default search engine from Google to Yahoo! and then back to Google again we’ve had a few ‘new’ Firefox start pages to look at this cycle. The latest, and […]

26 April 2010
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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Won’t Use Yahoo! as Default Search Engine After All

Canonical has canned its plans to make Yahoo! the default search engine in Mozilla Firefox in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. At the time, it said the deal with Yahoo! would provide additional revenue that would go […]

7 April 2010
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Firefox 3.7 Pre-Alpha Available; Still slower than Chrome, Opera

Another pre-alpha version of Firefox 3.7 for Linux has been made available. Speed improvements aside there is no discernible difference between this release and the last Pre-Alpha for Linux users, but for those who live […]

28 March 2010
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Ubuntu 10.04 Radiance/Ambiance Personas for Firefox

Having just reinstalled Ubuntu 10.04 I couldn't help but notice how "un-integrated" Firefox looks in the default set up. But this mismatch can be remedied by applying custom 'personas' - Firefox themes - to the browser.

25 March 2010

Yahoo! to Become Default Search Engine in Ubuntu 10.04

Yahoo! will replace Google as the new default search engine in Mozilla Firefox on Ubuntu 10.04 ‘Lucid Lynx’, Canonical has announced. Canonical’s Rick Spencer, a member of the desktop team, shared news of the change on […]

26 January 2010
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Firefox 4 Theme For Linux – Tabs on Top, Tab Peek, Lots More!

With Firefox 3.6’s release earlier today you may be falling in love with your browser all over again – especially thanks to the integration of ‘Personas’. A month or so back we posted the mocked […]

21 January 2010