Posts Tagged ‘firefox’

Firefox turns off WPF plugin

I was greeting with an interesting dialog box when I got back to my computer just now: I did some digging and it turns out that WPF did have a vulnerability, but it was patched a couple of days ago. Firefox, however, has no way of knowing if you’re running the...

Google Wave plugin for Firefox

Here’s an interesting plugin for Firefox if you have Google Wave. To date, I’ve been keeping my browser open on Wave in the hope that someone will send me a message, but that’s quite wasteful on resources. Yes, bandwidth is cheap, it’s not like I’m using commercial satellite or anything...

I miss FasterFox

One plugin I really miss on FireFox is FasterFox. The plugin only works up to FF2.0 and there hasn’t been a release for FF3.0. Here’s what I had written about it: I’ve been using FasterFox for some time now and it has definitely been useful to measure the load time...

Firefox v3.0.1

I’ve just upgraded to FireFox v3.0.1 which seems like a minor issuefix release. Here’s what has changed: Firefox 3.0.1 fixed several issues found in Firefox 3. Fixed several security issues. Fixed several stability issues. Fixed an issue where the phishing and malware database did not update on first launch. Under certain circumstances,...

FireFox 3 Release Date

FireFox 3 will be available on Thursday 17th June. I picked it up this morning from Techeme and the news is already spreading like wildfire. The developer ecosystem has been preparing for this for some time now with lots of plugins already supporting the new version and it’s nice to...

FireFox 3 RC2 now available

I’ve just upgraded my browser to Release Candidate 2 of FireFox 3 which has some bug fixes over the previous version. I had some problems with Beta 5, but have been using RC1 without any issue ever since it was made available. It seems like there’s quite a bit of...

TweeterSearch: Firefox Custom Search to find your friends on Twitter

Corvida from SheGeeks was looking for a custom search to Twitter earlier, so I thought I’d knock one up for her. It’s not tremendously difficult to do, and I might post how to do it on AskOwen sometime soon, but in the meantime, TweeterSearch is available for people to download,...

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