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Entries Tagged ‘Firefox 3’

Firefox 3 and Tesco Direct

There’s a bug in Tesco Direct’s website that makes it almost unusable to firefox 3 users.  It keeps trying to download the aspx files instead of running them on the server – strange and utterly useless if you’re doing some shopping for groceries or a kettle & baby monitor as I was. Tesco themselves are [...]

Firefox 3 Super speed increase

Following on from my previous article, Firefox 3 Easter Eggs, I have discovered that broadband users can get a significant speed increase from Firefox just by changing a couple of settings.  Firefox is distributed with settings that will work with any machine or setup, but really anyone with a half-decent connection can make these changes [...]

Firefox 3 Easter Eggs

There are some moderately amusing Easter Eggs in Firefox 3.  Simply type one of the following into the address bar (no spaces or http) and you’ll get a message: about:robots about:mozilla about:config (ok, technically “about: config” isn’t an Easter Egg, but the title on the warning screen is relatively amusing!) Enjoy! Also, don’t forget to [...]

  

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