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Firefox doesn’t warn when closing multiple tabs
A few weeks ago, my mouse started to slowly conk out: It kept double-clicking unintentionally, so it frequently happened that, when I closed a program by clicking on the “X”, it would also close the window behind it. That was very annoying – especially because it very often hit my Firefox with 20 pages open,…
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“View image” in Firefox 11
On March 13, a new Firefox version came out once again, namely version 11. Apart from the fact that I find their insanely small update intervals completely over the top – to me it seems like version 3.6 was only a few weeks ago – Mozilla now started to build in new “Annoyances” with each release,…
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Miranda doesn’t receive messages via ICQ
Some time ago I had the problem that (probably for months) nobody could send me any messages via ICQ. Well, I was a little surprised about the lasting silence … But I thought that maybe people simply didn’t like me anymore. ;) But the problem lay elsewhere, namely again in my instant messenger Miranda IM. Whenever…
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Ginchen’s Blog finally online again!
My website has been offline for about two months now. Someday in November 2011, I received an e-mail from my previous web host WebGo24 to the effect that, due to increasing visitor numbers, my blog was firing too many processes, generating too much server load and affecting other customers. I couldn’t quite believe it, because my…
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Font smoothing in Firefox 4
Since the new Firefox 4 is out, many people are being brought to my website again, because they searched for keywords like “anti-aliasing”, “ClearType” or “font smoothing”. They then discover my two year old article Anti-Aliasing in Firefox, which describes how to enable ClearType in Windows XP – where it is not enabled by default after…
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A happy new year …
… the best of luck and success, and, above all, health! All this and more we wish for ourselves and our fellow men (but mostly for ourselves) at the beginning of each year. As if we didn’t know better. 2011 will, too, be a year full of flops, bad luck and mishaps, of failure and disease,…