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I started using OpenDNS a few weeks ago. One thing I immediately noticed was that OpenDNS was hijacking my address-bar-initiated google searches. You know that feature in FireFox that, if the words entered in the address bar don’t match a website, it takes you to the google search for those keywords? Seems [...]

After upgrading to FireFox 3, I noticed that ThunderBird was no longer opening links in FireFox. Unfortunately, there are no Preference entries to modify how ThunderBird opens links, which means going into the Advanced Config Editor (the ThunderBird version of about:config). Just Another Tech Blog (among others) details how to configure ThunderBird to [...]

I’ve been using the latest version of FireFox 2 (version 2.0.0.14) since it hit the Ubuntu repos. On June 27, I decided to upgrade to 3.0 final. I didn’t want to, really, until certain addons (not to mention my absolute favorite FF2 theme) had been upgraded with 3.0 compatibility. But FF2 was [...]

This has been a point of frustration for me since I first wanted to add “Create new .doc file” to Konqueror’s context menu. To the best of my knowledge, there is no GUI method of adding filetypes to Konqueror’s “Create new” menu, and there is little or no online documentation that details how to [...]

I’m an avid user of FireFox. I’ve set my installation up to sync across dual-boot, mainly as part of the Widows-to-Ubuntu crossover process. I can’t pinpoint the exact date I started using FireFox, but it’s been years…and in those years, I’ve certainly gathered a fair bit of junk.
Most of that junk is leftover [...]