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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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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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Firefox & Windows Media Player: plugin not working
It has long bothered me that I couldn’t watch any embedded Windows Media streams in Firefox. Instead of a video I always just saw a gray box and the message: “Additional plugins are required (…)” There is a plugin alright, and I’ve installed it, too. But even after installation Firefox is still complaining that the…
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Firefox 3.6: graphic bug finally fixed!
Can you believe it? The graphic bug in Firefox that I once told about was finally fixed in version 3.6! The bug was first reported in May 2009 – so it just took them almost a year … ;) But well, it was only a rarely occurring bug and therefore probably didn’t have the highest priority.…
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“position: fixed;” flickering when scrolling in Firefox 3.5
Some Windows users may already have noticed it on certain websites: Since the update to the current Firefox version 3.5, fixed images (or fixed containers with background images) start flickering terribly when scrolling, so much that it almost hurts your eyes. So it was here on my site with the photos on the left and the…