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Tag Archive for ‘firefox - Rick Tech’

Troubleshooting: Facebook constantly logs out in Safari

A recent problem has cropped up with the latest version of Safari, 3.2.1 and Leopard 10.5.6. When using Facebook (and possibly other websites such as Last.fm, Gmail, and Twitter, that require authentication to login,) users are finding that they constantly have to re-login again. Of course this gets annoying, and makes accessing those sites nearly [...]

Color Profiles in Firefox 3

FireFox 3 has been a significant upgrade as far as Web Browsers go. One of the significant upgrades for Photographers and Web designers is the ability to accurately read RGB color profile files. Unlike Safari, Firefox did not support this the past and would render colors as accurately as possible. Unluckily the colors could easily [...]

Microsoft IE 8 released, Firefox 3 still better says blog comments

The Wall Street Journal blog is an interesting place sometimes. Their latest article “Microsoft Pulls on Firefox’s Tail” is one such examples. The article itself is pretty tame, and includes the usual variety of not very useful information coupled with needing some thing real to review. But the comments are worth reading. Commenters go back [...]

How To: Speed up Web Surfing

We would all like to surf the Internet a little faster. Unluckily Web Browsers, Network speed, and computer speed all conspire to make surfing the web as slow as possible. Luckily each browser has a couple of tweaks that can be used to make things go faster. Firefox Firefox actually has the most options to [...]

5 Things I hate about Leopard

1.) Software update takes over the entire machine. While this isn’t that big of a deal, a large update on a slow connection could render the machine useless for several hours while it downloads the files. You could also manually pull down the update and run it. But one of my favorite tricks was to [...]