If you take advantage of Firefox’s ability to save passwords and prefill them on certain web pages, eventually you will have a bunch of dead or out of date entries. It is good idea to occasionally review and clean them out. Here is how (Firefox 3):Go to Tools > Options. Security tab > click Saved Passwords. Click Show Passwords. It is good to show...

My primary browser is Mozilla Firefox v3.0.1. The reason I champion that particular browser over others is because it has the most plugins available. If there is anything on the internet that can be done in a browser, chances are it will happen in Firefox first. Plugins, while a blessing, can also be a curse. As cool as it is that you have tons of nifty add-ons...

For those who were bummed out (including me) that the "full version" of Hotmail didn’t work with Firefox 3, it appears that it’s now a-okay and working great. I logged in this morning and noticed no warning messages or anything like that. In addition, the operation is smooth. Very nice. The operation of full-version Hotmail in FF3 is way...

Firefox 3 was recently released by Mozilla and they broke a world record in doing so for the most downloads in a 24 hour period. There is a reason the browser is so popular: it is flexible and well thought out. Out of the many new features available with the new version, one of them is the way it handles bookmarks. So, what’s new and what are my tips for...

I have already found that the “Smart” Location Bar, a new’n'improved feature in Firefox 3, really ticks me off. Why? Because there’s absolutely no way to shut it off via the options panel. Note before continuing: Some people really like the “Smart” bar. I don’t. Fortunately you can somewhat disable it via...

Honestly said I wasn’t all that excited about FF3 but decided to go ahead and download it anyway. There were only 2 things I wanted to know about this release:Did they (Mozilla) fix that oh-so-stupid memory leak? Did the zoom improve?Per no. 1, I can tentatively say yes. I’m noticing it’s not eating up as much resource as version 2 did. And...

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