Hacking Firefox: The secrets of about:config
Ever since its debut, Firefox has garnered a reputation for being an enormously customizable program, both through its add-on architecture and its internal settings. In fact, many of Firefox's settings aren't exposed through the Tools > Options menu; the only way to change them is to edit them manually.
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29.5.2007 Windows Vista Secrets for Tablet PC
Tim Sneath has been posting a wonderful
series of "Windows Vista Secrets". (The ability to start Quick Launch items with the [Win+<n>] keys has changed my life -- thanks Tim!)
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29.11.2006 Firefox vs. Internet Explorer, Ahead of IE8 and Firefox 3.1
For the past couple of years Internet Explorer has been on a downward spiral, albeit slow, but inching down with every passing month, with only Firefox to blame.
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2.12.2008 Memory test - Firefox 2.0.0.9 vs Firefox 3.0 b 1
Does Firefox 3.0 beta 1 do a better job of handling memory than earlier versions? In a test put Firefox 3.0 beta up against Firefox 2.0.0.9 in a series of tests.
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21.11.2007 Convert your firefox favorites and feeds into IE7 with "Firefox To IE7"
My friend blake, who runs windowscoding.com, has just posted this really useful application to his blog..
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30.7.2006 Firefox 1.0.7 Released
Firefox 1.0.7 was just released today. It's said that the only updates for this minor version change are security related.
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Download Firefox 1.0.7
Firefox 1.0.7 was just released today. It's said that the only updates for this minor version change are security related.
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Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 Out Now
Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 is now available for download. This is the second Beta release of our next generation Firefox browser, to be released later this year, and it is being made available to our developer and testing community for compatibility testing and to solicit feedback.
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Best Firefox extensions
When you ask most people what Web browser they use, the answer often will be Internet Explorer. After all, it comes preloaded on Windows PCs, so most people just use it by default.
But while IE maintains a stranglehold on the majority of computer systems, Mozilla's open-source solution, called Firefox, has made significant inroads into the browser market. Handy extra features are part of the reason for its growing success, as is the continual supply of third-party add-ons.
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22.12.2005 Just how buggy is Firefox?
Security researchers that carried out a code analysis of popular open source browser Firefox using automated tools, have discovered scores of potential defects and security vulnerabilities despite coming to the conclusion that the software was generally well written.
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12.9.2006 Firefox 2.0 RC2 available
The dev team over at mozilla.org have quietly released RC2 to the FTP.
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6.10.2006 A First Look at Mozilla Firefox 3.0
ArsTechnica have posted an in-depth look at Mozilla's new project, Firefox 3.0. The significant jump from 2.0, released a mere 2 months ago is mainly due to Mozilla's use of the new Gecko rendering engine.
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13.12.2006 Portable Firefox 2.0.0.1
Portable Firefox is a fully functional solution of Firefox optimized for use on a USB key drive. And by
this poll is Firefox your favorite browser.
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15.2.2007 Dumping Firefox for IE
Office 2007 works so well with Internet Explorer 7 and does not mesh with Firefox. With that in mind I dropped Firefox in favor of IE.
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16.4.2007 First look at Firefox 3.0 Beta 1
I noticed that the Beta 1 for Firefox 3.0 was made available sometime yesterday. Ive been curious as to whether the Firefox dev team would do a serious revamp for this release or just concentrate on bug fixes and performance improvements.
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20.11.2007 Firefox 3 Beta 3
Firefox 3, Beta 3 has just been released. Over 350 memory leaks have been fixed and reductions have been made in the memory footprint.
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13.2.2008 Firefox 3 vs IE 7 vs Safari 3.1
A few short years ago the browser war seemed dead and buried. After Microsofts Internet Explorer usurped Netscapes Navigator in the late 1990s, its domination of the Internet seemed complete, over 95 percent of us using a version of IE.
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24.5.2008 Firefox 3.1 Beta 2
The second Beta development milestone of Firefox 3.1, codenamed Shiretoko, is now available for download.
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9.12.2008 Firefox 1.5 RC2 released!
Mozilla has just released Firefox 1.5 RC2 (Release Candidate). This release contains many bugs (about 36 fixes) over the previous RC. If no critical issues are found, then this is 1.5 final, otherwise there will be some more fixes before final, with possibly another RC release.
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Firefox 1.5 Final Released
Firefox hit its second major milestone Tuesday with the release of version 1.5, arriving just over a year after the alternative browser debuted at 1.0. The update sports Mozilla's new Gecko 1.8 rendering engine to speed up Web surfing, along with a myriad of other fixes and improvements.
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29.11.2005 New Default Theme for Firefox 2
There's a discussion going on in mozilla.dev.apps.firefox about "Changes
to Fx2 Chrome" which is about proposed changes to the main browser
window structure (buttons, layout, functions) that is exposed to users
by default in Firefox 2.
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13.3.2006 Firefox 3.0 Alpha released!
Today Firefox 3.0 Alpha was released to the public even before Firefox 2.0 has been released.
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9.4.2006 Firefox 2.0 Beta Delayed
The open source Mozilla Foundation has delayed the release of Firefox 2.0 Beta 2 by a week because of bugs yet to be ironed out in the browser software.
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10.8.2006 Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Beta 2
Beta 2 of Mozilla Firefox 2.0 has just appeared on the Mozilla FTP in the release folder, it's safe to say that this is Beta 2 and not a pre-beta.
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31.8.2006 Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Download Available
The Mozilla Corporation have today uploaded the follow-up to their hugely popular web browser, Firefox.
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23.10.2006 Firefox 2 Tweak Guide
The release of Mozilla Firefox 2 further expands the capabilities and features of this highly regarded Internet browser, proving that just because you are popular doesn't mean you should slack off.
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17.2.2007 Firefox 3.0 Release Candidate 1
Many of you will know that Ive been following the progress of the Firefox 3.0 browser carefully over the past few months.
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18.5.2008 Mozilla Firefox 3.0 RC2
This second Firefox 3 Release Candidate is a preview release of Mozilla's next generation Firefox browser and is being made available for testing purposes only.
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6.6.2008 Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 Available for Download
With Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 delivered in the first half of September 2008 and the feedback incorporated in the development process, Mozilla is gearing up for the next stage of Shiretoko.
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1.10.2008 Download Firefox 3.5 RC2
Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate 2 is live and is available for download. This is the development milestone of the open source browser that will be made available to the general public.
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19.6.2009Security Briefs: Encrypting
Without Secrets
Encryption turns big secrets
into smaller secrets called
keys. But there's still a key
somewhere. If you encrypt your
secret data, you'll need to
separate the key from the data
to keep them safe. Keith Brown
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21.12.2005Hacking Firefox: The secrets of about:config
Ever since its debut, Firefox
has garnered a reputation for
being an enormously
customizable program, both
through its add-on
architecture and its internal
settings. In fact, many of
Firefox's settings aren't
exposed through the Tools >
Options menu; the only way to
change them is to edit them
manually. In this article,
we'll explore some of the
most useful Firefox settings
that you can change on your
own, and that aren't normally
available through the
program's graphical
interface.
The
closest analogy to how Firefox
manages its internal settings
is the Windows Registry. Each
setting, or preference, is
given a name and stored as a
string (text), integer
(number) or Boolean
(true/false) value. However,
Firefox doesn't keep its
settings in the registry, but
in a file called prefs.js. You
can edit prefs.js directly,
but it's often easier to
change the settings through
the browser window.
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29.05.2007Working in IT: 10 dirty little secrets
If you are preparing for a career in IT or are new to IT, many of the "dirty little secrets" listed below may surprise you because we don't usually
talk about them out loud. If you are an IT veteran, you've probably encountered most of these issues and have a few of your own to add -- and please,
by all means, take a moment to add them as a comment below.
Most of these secrets are aimed at network administrators, IT
managers, and desktop support professionals. This list is not aimed at developers and programmers -- they have their own set of additional dirty
little secrets -- but some of these will apply to them as well.
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06.09.200715 must-have Firefox tricks
What good is a browser unless you can tweak it, hack it and bend it to your will? No good at all. The more you can hack it, the better it is.
And that means that Firefox must be a great browser. It's infinitely customizable, via editing a text file called userChrome.css, making changes
via a command called about:config, and using free add-ons to extend the features of the browser.
In this article, with those techniques and
others, I'll show you 15 great Firefox tricks, including how to build your own Firefox search engine, how to speed up your browsing, how to hack
the interface and plenty more. So launch your favorite browser, and get ready for some great tricks.
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17.01.2008First Impressions of Firefox 3
Firefox 3 is finally here. I've been testing the betas and release candidates off and on and there's no doubt it's an improvement on
Firefox 2, probably a big improvement. I'm moving over to it. This is a good upgrade to a good browser, but it's not the godsend many make it
out to be.
For me, the biggest improvement in Firefox 3 is that it no longer (at least not yet in my testing) consumes huge amounts of
memory. As I work right now, with 4 tabs open including some Flash content, it's consuming 130MB, which is the most I've ever seen. Firefox 2
regularly consumed several hundred MB on my systems, and usually much more than Internet Explorer 7. Mozilla seems to have solved that problem.
But not everything about it is wonderful. Even if I'm basically happy with it, there are a few things I definitely don't like about
it. For example, I use the Clear Private Data feature now and then, which clears the browsing history (when you drop down the address bar), among
other things. You can select Tools-Clear Private Data or press Ctrl-Shift-Del. When you do this in Firefox 3, it does not clear any browser history
where the domain is in a bookmark, so your address bar drop-down may still have addresses in it. This seems wrong and confusing, and I bugged it in
Bugzilla during beta. To the developers, it's one of those "it's not a bug, it's a feature" things, and they provide no way to turn it
off in about :config or anywhere else. I think this was a bad choice.
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19.06.2008Listen, do you want to know a secret?
Do you promise not to tell? Closer, let me wisper in your ear. Ahem; setting
the Beatles classic aside, do you really want to know a secret, or
two, or 30? Secrets about Windows 7 that is. If you do, then Tim Sneath over at MSDN has a great blog entry for you.
With 30 different
tips and tricks, Tim's article has a great rundown of hidden tweaks and shortcuts that you can use to truly optimize your Windows 7 experience, for
both casual and power users.
Head on over below to get in on the secrets. But shhh, you can't tell anyone...
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14.01.20097 dirty secrets of the security industry
Corporate IT executives need to beware the seven dirty secrets of the security industry that can undermine the safety of business networks, a security
expert told attendees at Interop Las Vegas.
Its best to have a healthy level of skepticism about what security vendors are
trying to tell you, says Joshua Corman, principal security strategist for IBM/ISS, which itself is a security vendor.
He called
his talk "Unsafe at any speed: 7 Dirty Secrets of the Security Industry," harkening back to the 1960s Ralph Nader book about automobile safety,
Unsafe at Any Speed . Naders book took car makers to task for worrying more about cosmetic improvements that upgrades to make cars more safe.
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01.05.2008Firefox 3.5 benchmarked, not as fast as Chrome
The results are in from benchmarks of Firefox 3.5, performed by ZDNet. The benchmarks test all the main browsers from Google Chrome 2.0.172.33,
Safari 4, Firefox 3.5, Firefox 3.0.5, Opera 10 Alpha and Internet Explorer 8. Each browser was put through three tests including SunSpider
javascript benchmark, V8 Benchmark Suite and finally the ACID 3 test. Firefox 3.5 was built for speed and performance, compared to previous
versions of Firefox. Firefox 3.5 performed better than Firefox 3.0.5 and Internet Explorer 8 in all three categories. From the graphs, it is clear
to see that Google Chrome performed the best overall, followed shortly by Safari 4 and then Firefox 3.5.
Read full story.....
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01.07.2009Evidence tabs will get more attention in future Firefox releases
Google's Chrome developers -- some of whom have worked, and are still working, on Firefox -- acknowledged their debt of gratitude for Firefox's
inspiration. But today's latest development in Firefox 3.1 suggests it's now playing catch-up...
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09.09.2008Mozilla Launches Firefox TV Ad
Contest
Mozilla on Thursday asked
Firefox users to create a
30-second broadcast quality
television ad for a contest
called "Firefox
Flicks." The company said
that winning ads could
possibly be used in global
marketing campaigns for
Firefox 1.5, the newest
version of the open source
browser...
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22.12.2005Firefox 3 Beta 4 review
Percy Cabello: Firefox 3 Beta 4 is about to be released (later today or tomorrow), as the twelfth milestone, in what already is the longest
development time for a Firefox version since the initial Firefox 1.0 back in 2004.
Fortunately, Mozilla has not been shy to set
as many milestones as needed, and given the many new features and tweaks Firefox 3 introduces, it seems anything but sensible, specially considering
its not only about Firefox but Gecko, the web page rendering engine and the Mozilla platform as a whole which affects the many products based on
it.
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10.03.2008Firefox 3 ultimate feature: Performance
Percy Cabello: Along with the long list of new features and improvements we can find in Firefox 3 betas so far, there is a series of performance
improvements coming to Firefox 3 Beta 4.
Ive finally managed to run a set of tests to see how Firefox 3 performance compares to
Firefox 2s.
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29.02.2008Firefox Director Talks Firefox 3.6, Tasks, and Competing with Chrome
Lifehacker: We were eager to know what's happening for Firefox. Mike Beltzner, the open-source browser's director, was glad to tell us. Here's what
he had to say about future features, competition with Chrome, and keeping thousands of Firefox contributors in sync.
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06.08.2009Tab Mix Plus for Firefox 3 stacks up a new version
For those of us who not only need to keep dozens of Firefox tabs open at once but need to see them to remember they exist, Tab Mix Plus' upgrade to
Firefox 3 compatibility is some of the week's best news...
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25.10.2008Mozilla Admits Firefox Exploit Caused by Firefox Bug, Not IE
On July 10, engineers at
Secunia issued a security
advisory, rated "Highly
Critical," warning Firefox
users that their browser could
be tricked into executing
arbitrary JavaScript code.
While Internet Explorer was
originally blamed for the
ability to trick Firefox, as
it turns out, Mozilla admitted
today its own browser is to
blame, even after a patch was
released...
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25.07.2007Image Processing Flaw Found in
Firefox
Firefox users may be
vulnerable to a denial of
service attack after
researchers looked into
reports of a new vulnerability
within Firefox 1.5.0.3. The
SANS Internet Storm Center
first wrote off the problem,
but continued research has
shown that the flaw could be
used maliciously...
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18.05.2006Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 Unleashed
Mozilla has released the first
beta of the long-awaited
Firefox 1.5, the first major
milestone since Firefox 1.0
debuted last November. The new
release, code-named Deer Park,
brings to the table a number
of performance and usability
improvements, along with new
Web standards support...
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09.09.2005Firefox Tops 200 Million
Downloads
The Mozilla Corporation on
Monday celebrated the 200
millionth download of its open
source Firefox Web browser,
with the community planning
parties to commemorate the
event. The milestone was hit
one year and nine months after
the debut of Firefox 1.0...
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01.08.2006Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 Released
The Mozilla Corporation
launched the first official
beta of Firefox 2.0 early
Wednesday, signaling that its
major upgrade to the popular
alternative browser is inching
ever closer to release. New
features in Firefox 2.0
include enhancements in
security, tabbed browsing,
performance, and extensions...
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12.07.2006Firefox 2.0 Alpha, MacTel
Version Soon
Mozilla plans to have an early
alpha version of Firefox 2.0
in users hands by February,
with builds of Firefox, Camino
and Thunderbird for Macs
running on Intel processors
available the following month,
recent statements from company
developers indicate...
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