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Tag: Firefox

  • Outlook Web Access freezing Firefox

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    Had a curious thing with an Outlook Web Access site since a couple of weeks. Everything was working fine and snappy, except when opening a popup editor for an e-mail message or an appointment the entire browser (all tabs) would freeze for a couple of minutes. After that, (if I had the patience to wait…

  • Silverlight not working in Firefox

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    Another long-running issue on my dev machine solved today. I never got the Silverlight plugin to work in Firefox. With every upgrade of either Firefox or Silverlight I hoped that the issue was solved, but no. Today, I finally found the solution here. Yes, it really was that simple. When going to the Microsoft Silverlight…

  • Downloading a video from any website

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    As an aside, completely unrelated to software development, last night I browsed the web and found a video on a blog that I really wanted to save to my harddrive (because you never know if the blogger might take it down later). I tried really hard (yet unsuccesful) to remember what tool I used last…

  • Firefox 4 released

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    The Mozilla team released the final version 4 of Firefox (after 10+ betas or so). I like the fact it checks in advance if your plugins will be compatible, which would be the major reason for me to not upgrade if they weren’t. Looks like I’m alright for all plugins that really matter to me,…