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It seems like for at least a couple of years now, I've had problems when trying to login to newegg.com with Firefox. Across different installs of Firefox, on Windows, OS X, and Linux, etc.. no matter what I tried, Firefox just didn't work at all. Today after my typical google search session, [...]

Between many machines at home, Virtual Machines, a work laptop, etc, I always seem to manage installing Firefox from scratch at least once a month. There are several add-ons that I pretty much require for Firefox to work for me, and I thought I should post them somewhere. I know that [...]

Admittedly I don't find myself debugging CSS all that often but CSSViewer is one of the coolest Firefox extensions I've seen in awhile-- check it out!

How To Fix Flash in Firefox

If you've ever had the Macromedia Flash Player stop working after upgrading Firefox, I'm sure you have an idea how frustrating it can be to find out the culprit or even try to google for fixes. I had the same problem again after upgrading to Firefox 1.5, but luckily I came across this great [...]

If you'd like to get a jump on downloading Firefox 1.5 before the official release annoucement later today, it's started to show-up on various mirrors. Here is a link to the directory which has the English version of Firefox 1.5 for Windows for instance.
The signature looks to be the same as RC3 however, so [...]

I came across a Firefox extension as well as a Greasemonkey script which adds a delete button to GMail. Sweet!

Over the past week or two, IBM has announced a couple of progressive items such as encouraging their employees to blog, as well as beginning to support Firefox in-house. Granted blogging has been around for at least 6 years now, but it's good to see a large corporation supporting both open standards and open [...]

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.1 Released

My current favorite browser Mozilla Firefox has been updated to version 1.0.1. You can read the release notes here.

In the past week or so Firefox has been very slow and generally unpredictable on my machine. I've done a bit of everything to try and correct it-- reinstalled Firefox, upgraded to Windows XP SP2, upgraded my various security software (firewall, AV, anti-spyware), disabled various bits of software, etc. I tried a bit [...]

I came across this link tonight, and it's good stuff. After applying these items, I noticed a huge improvement of the speed which Firefox loads pages.

How To Speed Up Firefox (Helpful Vanity)
Posted on 12/12/2004 12:45:50 PM PST by KoRn
Here's something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:
1.Type "about:config" into the address bar [...]

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