I’ve been having problems with Google Chat (in Gmail) this afternoon. I decided that logging out of Gmail and restarting Firefox might be a helpful exercise. When I returned to Gmail, I noticed that something was wrong: everything was right.
For some odd reason, I seem to have been zapped back to the days [...]

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The good folks at Mozilla keep plugging away at Firefox 3. Now Firefox 3 Beta 5 is ready for download.
The two big ticket items for Firefox 3 Beta 5 are improved OS integration (Windows, OS X, and Linux) and increased Javascript performance. If you are one of those people that felt Firefox 2 [...]

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It’s a new day and new Firefox!
Okay, so the latest version of Firefox really isn’t all that new (the original version of Firefox 2 was released way back in 2006). But, Firefox 2.0.0.13 does include some critical security updates over previous versions of Firefox 2. Another memory corruption fix is included in the [...]

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I’m not a fan of Firefox 3 Beta 4’s new navigation buttons. I don’t really use these buttons, but that huge Back button keeps distracting me. Thankfully there’s a way to fix this, but it’s not in the Preferences menu.
The key to getting a more reasonable set of navigation buttons is in the View [...]

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Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 4 was released today. The release notes claim that more than 900 enhancements over the previous version have been included in this release. So far, I haven’t noticed a real difference in my normal use. I guess that’s a good thing, really. To me, that means we’re [...]

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