So Mozilla, the organization that prides itself on openness and freedom of thought and being different, pulls a bonehead group-think move. No, not firing its CEO for daring to have his own political opinions. Finally implementing its threat to look just like every other browser out there, and move tabs from the bottom to the … Continue reading
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Firefox and other mozilla products
Yahoo returns to its roots
Remember back in days of yore, when Yahoo’s toolbars infested browsers, often multiple times, taking up valuable space, and the arcane uninstall procedures changed with the phase of the moon? Then Yahoo! got legit, and started showing up in the uninstall section of Control Panel. Well, to me right now, it looks like we are … Continue reading
Firefox 16.01 update loses bookmarks, breaks Tabs on Top (should be Bottom!)
Firefox 16 to 16.01 update on my MINT 11 system today, pretty much a disaster. First of all, all my bookmarks were lost. Secondly, all my window customization was lost. Fortunately, my .mozilla bookmark backups were still there: $ ls -l /home/freebore/.mozilla/firefox/wqx9uxni.default/bookmarkbackups/ … so a restore was easy from Show all bookmarks->Import and Backup->Restore. What … Continue reading
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