In a last effort for me to milk the Firefox add-on issue from over this weekend, and to at least let people who may find the page know what’s up, Firefox release 66.0.4 was made available yesterday and contains in its release notes: “Repaired certificate chain to re-enable web extensions that had been disable” The […]
Last night was a pretty big mess for Firefox users (like myself) as the add-on functionality of the browser was, effectively, completely broken, due to an issue involving a security certificate expiring, rendering every add-on for the browser invalid. To put it really simply, a while back Mozilla began validating add-ons themselves, giving them a […]
I was preparing for another late night of getting articles out for you when, while chatting with a friend on Facebook I got an alert that one of the plugins I use on the site was no longer active. I was surprised, but thought little of it until I noticed I was seeing ads on […]
Considering how many old computers I’ve been messing with recently (only a very few of which I’ve gotten around to writing about) it’s only natural that as part of my trying them out I’d take them for a spin on the web. Yeah yeah, dangerous to do and all that jazz, but when you only […]
Been a good long while since I really wrote anything about computer tech or software on the modern front, but then again there hasn’t been too much going on that’s really received more than an “oh, okay” reaction from me. In this case, though, I’ve got a bit more of a reaction to Firefox 57 […]
The popular web browser Firefox appears to finally be ending support for Windows XP and Vista based systems “sometime in 2017” based on this article from Computerworld. Firefox looks to be the last holdout on the major web browser side of things to still support the, in all honesty, ancient operating system. Microsoft ended support […]