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Firefox 2 Updated

By ray | December 19, 2006

Firefox was updated on my Windows machine a little while ago. It’s version 2.0.0.1 and includes 8 security updates, five of which are listed as critical. Critical means code can be run or program’s installed with normal browsing. Here’s a list of what’s included: (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#firefox2.0.0.1)
The update hasn’t shown up on my Mac yet but it [...]

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Firefox: One Too Many Closed Tabs

By ray | November 27, 2006

When Firefox 2 came out and had a close button on every tab I thought it would be great. Convenient and easy to find. Then I started closing tabs accidentally. Sure, they can be re-opened using “History” -> “Recently Close Tabs” but that doesn’t always get back the data when I’m using a web based [...]

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Firefox 2 Is Here!

By ray | October 23, 2006

Hot on the heels of the IE 7 release, Firefox 2 is being released Tuesday. Google news had a short article from MacWorld which had a link to the files on an FTP server. The files are time stamped this morning. I decide to go for it. My only real concern is for the add-ins [...]

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Firefox Plug-ins Added

By ray | October 12, 2006

On my newly installed Windows box… I Went to a couple of sites with Firefox today to force the installation of a couple of plug-ins. Installed the Java Runtime environment and Macromedia Flash Player. Both were added by clicking the icon for the missing plug-in. Firefox found and installed the necessary plug-ins. [...]

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