I've read so much here lately 1 2 3 about not browsing as an admin, decided to check it out and yepper, I surely was using an admin account. I've set up a non admin account, made a few other changes (described inside), hoping to find out from The Hive Mind if I am now safe enough to breathe easy(er). [more inside]
posted on Jul 21, 2008 - 11 answers

How secure is Firefox 2.0? I recently attended a short seminar on Web security and the horrors of "drive by downloading". So how vulnerable is the latest version of Firefox 2.0 to this type of nastiness? What about 3.0? [more inside]
posted on Jul 19, 2008 - 10 answers

How do I tell firefox3 to stop checking ssl certs. I access many sites using self signed ssl certificates and up until now that was fine but now I have encounter two self signed certs that have the same serial number and firefox wont even let me add an exception. I cant even access the second site. How do i just tell firefox I don't care if a site is using a bad ssl cert.
posted on Jul 17, 2008 - 8 answers

YouTube isn't displaying videos in Firefox 3.0 (upgrade) - why? [more inside]
posted on Jul 8, 2008 - 5 answers

How can I prevent flash from stealing my keyboard focus in Firefox on Win XP? [more inside]
posted on Jul 7, 2008 - 3 answers

How can I change the behavior of searching in windows in Firefox? The Firefox search-in-browser bar is, and has always has been, awful. [more inside]
posted on Jun 29, 2008 - 14 answers

Whenever I run Transmission on OSX, my Firefox browsing slows to a trickle, or simply stops altogether. [more inside]
posted on Jun 29, 2008 - 11 answers

I've been running Firefox 3 since Download Day. I'd like to update it with some settings from Firefox 2 that didn't automatically carry over during the installation process. Is there any way to (temporarily) revive my old copy of Firefox 2? [more inside]
posted on Jun 28, 2008 - 6 answers

How do i use two separate instances of firefox at the same time? [more inside]
posted on Jun 27, 2008 - 14 answers

Why do links in pdf documents open in Explorer instead of Firefox? [more inside]
posted on Jun 25, 2008 - 8 answers

I want to use Firefox 3 in a thin client environment - SBS2K, RDP. Terminals cannot display more than 256 colors, and FF3 does not seem to support this. [more inside]
posted on Jun 23, 2008 - 11 answers

What is wrong with my Google login? Recently my Google sign-in has been acting strange. Whenever I access a service that needs a login (such as my iGoogle page, Gmail, but not Google Reader), all I see at the end is a blank page. There are no error messages, etc. [more inside]
posted on Jun 21, 2008 - 4 answers

Is there any way to move or delete a top-level folder in the All Bookmarks folder in Firefox 3? [more inside]
posted on Jun 20, 2008 - 2 answers

How can I set up autocomplete to work on Firefox 3 like it did on previous versions? [more inside]
posted on Jun 19, 2008 - 13 answers

Yippee - Firefox 3.0 has landed. Will this solve the most glaring problem with Firefox 2.x - unlike native Mac app Safari, Firefox can't load pdf's inline. [more inside]
posted on Jun 17, 2008 - 6 answers

Help a computer light-weight make the most of Firefox and gmail. [more inside]
posted on Jun 16, 2008 - 10 answers

Is there a Firefox (3) extension that will copy to the clipboard a HTML formatted link of the page I am currently on? The Copy Link Text will copy a link to another page, but not for the page itself. I would like to be on the website I want to link to, and have a link copied to the clipboard in the format <a href="PAGE URL" title="PAGE TITLE">Link</a>. Thanks.
posted on Jun 15, 2008 - 11 answers

I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.14 on a second-generation Macbook on which I just installed Leopard. When I was using Tiger, I could simply go to a URL by typing "apple" or "metafilter" into the address bar. Now I have to enter the .com/.org/etc. at the end, or I get taken to Embarq's annoying search page. How can I fix this?
posted on Jun 14, 2008 - 11 answers

In Firefox, I use the middle button of my mouse to open links in a new tab. I really wish I could do that with gmail (i.e., middle click on several emails and have them open each in a new tab, or middle click on "compose mail" so that would open in a new tab). Is there any way to do that? [more inside]
posted on Jun 12, 2008 - 7 answers

Why doesn't Firefox open links that I click? I've noticed over the last several days that when I click on some links the status bar will start going through the motions to connect, but then it will stop dead (it actually says "Stopped" as if I had pushed the stop button before the page had a chance to load). Nothing really happens after that, its as if the click command was lost in transit. [more inside]
posted on Jun 10, 2008 - 3 answers

I have Firefox 3 color options set so that visited links turn a dark Grey when clicked, every site seems to work with this but the sender and subject lines in Gmail.. What's strange is the links on the left hand side of the Gmail page (Inbox, starred, sent mail, drafts, etc ) go dark when clicked on. Does anyone know if Google uses some special CSS or something on the right hand side, can this be overridden so the visited links will turn the Grey I have checked?
posted on Jun 6, 2008 - 6 answers

Firefox fails me. I can't figure out why I can hear audio on YouTube, but not see the videos. I just get a big white, empty space where the video should be. What gives? It looks like Flash is installed. Do I need something else?
posted on Jun 2, 2008 - 11 answers

In Windows Vista, is there a combination of software and settings that will let my Dad play all the media files he wants without further difficulty? I want to set up my Dad's new computer, which runs Vista Home Premium, so that it runs media embedded in web pages, runs standalone files too, and doesn't break Vista's Aero interface. He's not a computer expert, so I want media of all common types to Just Work^TM. [more inside]
posted on Jun 2, 2008 - 6 answers

Google reader started acting funny this morning [more inside]
posted on May 29, 2008 - 5 answers

Google search problems here. I've asked around the local tech circle and no one can think up an explanation for this one. Google will load in FF and IE7 - but - I can only execute a search from IE. [more inside]
posted on May 27, 2008 - 8 answers

Search Marker is no longer maintained. Does anybody know if a similar extension that is still alive? [more inside]
posted on May 21, 2008 - 5 answers

My Dell Win XP laptop caught some kind of infection via Limewire which blocks Firefox from loading and produces contast popup ads via IE. I never use IE. I've removed Firefox and redownloaded it. Still doesn't load. I've run Ad-Aware, RegScrub, and every other spyware program I know about. What happened, and how do I fix it?
posted on May 18, 2008 - 12 answers

I'm running Firefox 3 RC1 on Windows Vista. How can I use userchrome.css to hide the "list all tabs" button until Tab Mix Plus is updated? [more inside]
posted on May 17, 2008 - 3 answers

Why is my Firefox Tools menu horizontal instead of vertical? [more inside]
posted on May 17, 2008 - 5 answers

Can Firefox menus use different fonts to display items in different languages? [more inside]
posted on May 15, 2008 - 3 answers

Firefox refuses to show the heart symbol (♥) correctly. It shows up as a straight, vertical line instead. Is there anything I can do to fix it? [more inside]
posted on May 13, 2008 - 17 answers

When checking out a gchat link from a friend to nbc.com, my firefox froze as "jew.wmv" tried to run (unsuccessfully) and a screaming chorus of "I'm looking at gay porno" came out of my computer. Does anybody know what the hell this is? [more inside]
posted on May 11, 2008 - 10 answers

How can I get Firefox to stop opening new windows maximized? [more inside]
posted on May 7, 2008 - 8 answers

Why are my Firefox privacy settings getting changed every time I exit and restart Firefox? [more inside]
posted on Apr 29, 2008 - 4 answers

How can I make Firefox open a link in a background tab, when I press and hold Ctrl, and then click on the link? [more inside]
posted on Apr 28, 2008 - 3 answers

What is the FireFox add-on Media Agent plugin? It is taking a lot of memory, and I don't recall installing it. What do I need this for?
posted on Apr 26, 2008 - 2 answers

CSSfilter: How do I fix a FireFox z-index bug? [more inside]
posted on Apr 23, 2008 - 7 answers

This page (a website for public domain scores) tells me that my daily allotment of download page visits (2 per day per IP, I imagine) has been exceeded the first time I go to one of those pages. [more inside]
posted on Apr 21, 2008 - 3 answers

What's your best advice for reading multi-column and other large-minimum-width websites on a 480x800 screen? [more inside]
posted on Apr 20, 2008 - 3 answers

Can I make this work in IE the same as it does in Firefox? Here is the example i need some CSS help with. This works properly in Firefox, but needs some help in IE. Any suggestions?
posted on Apr 17, 2008 - 2 answers

FirefoxFilter: How can I use keyboard shortcuts in rich text boxes? [more inside]
posted on Apr 15, 2008 - 3 answers

If throw an address like c:\my documents into an IE address bar, it opens up the folder in windows explorer. If I put the same thing in a firefox address bar, I get an html page that displays the folder/files as a series of links down the page. Anyway to get firefox to replicate the IE behavior on this type of address?
posted on Apr 11, 2008 - 7 answers

Why doesn't Flash work properly in Firefox (WinXP)? When flash is embedded in a webpage Firefox handles it with no difficulty. But when I just want to view the applet itself, without it being embedded I get a message from the program asking me what I want to do with the file and then I get into a loop because it opens another instance of Firefox to handle it! [more inside]
posted on Apr 6, 2008 - 4 answers

I suddenly can't access any Google sites from my computer. Any ideas how to fix? [more inside]
posted on Apr 5, 2008 - 33 answers

The navigation buttons are disappearing from my Firefox. What's going on? [more inside]
posted on Apr 4, 2008 - 4 answers

Can anyone help me figure out why Firefox is freezing/lagging on me and help me to fix it? [more inside]
posted on Apr 3, 2008 - 11 answers

Firefox won't tab-switch out of Gmail/Compose [more inside]
posted on Mar 27, 2008 - 3 answers

Is there a Firefox extension — preferably a Firefox 2 extension — that will alter Firefox's copying behavior so that, when you copy something, it is copied to the clipboard (or pasted from the clipboard) as its HTML, instead of plain text? [more inside]
posted on Mar 27, 2008 - 4 answers

How can I disable favicon animation in Firefox 3? [more inside]
posted on Mar 25, 2008 - 4 answers

Help! For a few days now, Fox.com keeps loading a tab in Firefox automatically every so often. How do I get it to stop? I tried clearing cookies and stuff, and scanned for malware and found nothing. I also tried reinstalling Firefox since I wanted to upgrade to the latest beta of Firefox 3 anyway. I'm behind a corporate firewall here, so this kinda thing never happens typically. Any ideas?
posted on Mar 20, 2008 - 4 answers