Archive for the ‘firefox’ Category

Certificate authentication not working with correos.es and Firefox 3.0?

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Well, check that SSLv2 is enabled in Firefox´s about:config page first.

It seems that http://correos.es hasn´t realized that SSLv2 is a bit unsecure and they still force you to use that one. So to enable SSLv2 follow this instructions. I did, and now I can login.

Better memory management in Firefox 3

Friday, June 29th, 2007

It seems that the Mozilla groups is making advances in the memory management of Firefox 3. They are adding a XPCOM cycle collector, that it seems is a form of garbage collector. Hope it helps in reducing the firefox memory comsumption and slowness.

Via: gemal.dk

8 Awesome Firefox Plugins for Twitter

Friday, May 11th, 2007

Twitter.com I’m starting to use Twitter right now and found this list of firefox plugins for twitter

8 Awesome Firefox Plugins for Twitter

Firefox and file:// Windows UNC paths

Friday, April 20th, 2007

The correct way to write a link to a Windows UNC path in HTML is to use this syntax:

file://///servername/share/file.txt

But if you try this using Firefox you will quickly find that this type of link only works when using a local html file. If you put the html file in a web server an click on the link there, firefox will silently refuse to load the link. If you open the JavaScript Console (Tools->Error Console) you will find an entry like

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Security Error: Content at http://... may not load or link to file://...

As stated here and here, firefox will silently refuse to load file:// links from html pages (loaded via http://) as it is considered a security flaw to do so. Currently, firefox users must right-click the link and select “Copy Link Location” and then paste it to the Location Bar.

Scrolling fast with the mousewheel triggers history back and forth

Friday, April 20th, 2007

Get FirefoxI’m observing an strange firefox behavior when I scroll the page using the mouse wheel. It goes back and forth through search history. So I googled a little bit and found that the KVM switch that I’m using it’s producing bogus key press event that firefox misinterprets. If you are running Linux the solution is simple as you can modify the X server configuration to ignore those events. But I cannot find a suitable solution for Windows.

Disabling history scroll in firefox (Usually triggered with Shift-<Wheel>) in about:config seems to have no effect in stopping this weird mouse wheel behavior.

Theorically changing the value of all mousewheel.horizscroll.with∗.action and mousewheel.with∗.action entries to 0 disables moving back/forward in history using the mouse wheel. Check this to know more about the meaning and purpose of mousewheel.∗ entries. But as I said It seems that doesn’t make any difference.

If you know the solution for this problem post it in the bug report

Add Bookmark Here 2 firefox extension

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

Very useful extension that add an “Add Bookmark Here” item to every bookmark folder so you can place your bookmark more easily.

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Download it here