Mozilla’s popular Firefox browser’s market share has been gradually diminishing over the past couple of years, and if the latest figures are anything to go by, that downward trend appears to have accelerated alarmingly over the past couple of months. According to statistics provided by […]
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Most ardent Firefox users would have been frustrated at one time or another by the popular browser’s excessive RAM usage, but did you know that a bare bones Firefox actually compares very favorably with competitor browsers and it’s the add-ons which are actually consuming the
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The following is an excerpt from an article recently published by leading security expert Brian Krebs on his KrebsOnSecurity blog. The article follows an investigation by KrebsOnSecurity and describes how a malicious add-on is trapping Firefox users into joining a botnet utilized to hack web
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As with other parts of Firefox, the ‘NewTab’ or start page of Firefox can be tweaked to suit your preferences. I didn’t like the idea of nine ‘shortcuts’ as my home page in the beginning, so by mooching about in the Configuration page quickly found
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I am a great fan of the Firefox browser but every now and again I find something that niggles me. I usually have quite a few tabs open and when I wanted to close one or more of them found that Firefox was taking a
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NoSquint was referred to me by my good mate “EJ” who runs two Windows laptops plus a gaming machine and is pretty computer savvy. After trying out this Firefox add-on myself, on EJ’s recommendation, I am mightily impressed. NoSquint adds readily accessible and easily applied
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Just over a week ago I published an article on how to Increase your browsing security easily and effectively. Co-incidentally, I just came across a very simple yet useful add-on for the Firefox browser which also helps in this regard. I am guessing Flagfox is
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It appears that Mozilla’s leak-management project, code-named ‘MemShrink’, might finally have achieved the results all dedicated Firefox users have been waiting for. Mozilla is confident that the new Firefox 15 for PCs will put an end to the multitude of memory-management issues which have plagued
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Sophos, the highly regarded U.K. security software company, has just announced the discovery of a serious privacy leak emanating from the popular Firefox add-on ‘ShowIP’. According to the Mozilla add-on page, there are currently 169,000 people utilizing ShowIP. Here is ShowIP’s offcial description: “Show the
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Mozilla has announced that, after April 24th, there will be no further updates for Firefox 3.6. With the exception of any last minute security patches, Firefox 3.6.28 released last month, will be the final update. Firefox 3.6 was the last of the legacy versions before
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