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Entries Tagged ‘Firefox’

How-To Fix: Firefox 3 - Image cannot be displayed, because it contains errors

A number of people have reported problems viewing some images in Firefox 3, where they get the error:
<image> cannot be displayed, because it contains errors
Amazingly enough, there is a very simple fix to this problem - disable the Skype Add-On for Firefox.  This can cause this problem to occur, so disabling it often fixes the [...]

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How-To: Download Flash Video from Webpage to Your Harddrive

I often want to capture a flash video and store it on my harddrive for later access.  This can be rather fiddly to get working, so I’ve enlisted the help of a handy Firefox plugin called Download Helper.  This great little plugin finds all the flash movies on a webpage and provides a right-click menu [...]

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Firefox 3 Beta 5 Released

The team working on Firefox 3 have released Beta 5 today for download.  From their release, “This milestone is focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 3.”
I’ve been using Firefox 3 (Beta 4) for a few weeks now and have been very impressed, [...]

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Best Free Mac OS X Applications

Recently I upgraded to a new Mac. I like to install applications from scratch when I upgrade, as it allows me to clean out all the garbage that I didn’t need in the first place. So I’ve compiled a list of all the best free applications I like to have installed on my [...]

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Firefox 3 Beta 4 Released

The great people at the Mozilla Foundation have just released the Beta 4 of Firefox 3 for download.  This is the latest incarnation of the now hugely popular Firefox browser and is a major milestone as this release is likely to be very close to the final version of Firefox 3.  It contains a heap [...]

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