Firefox Disable full screen warnings

To get rid of annoying full screen warnings in Firefox

1. About:config
2. Set Full-screen-api.approval-required to false.
3. Restart Firefox

Firefox text thin and weird.

Don’t know why it happened but I had 2 minutes to look at the issue now and found a ok solution.

Solution:

Activate Clear Type Text in Windows.

Search Charm>Clear Type (Settings) activate

Do some calibration and everything looks sharp again.

Cause:

Probable the hardware acceleration feature in Firefox that messed something up.

References:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/make-text-easier-to-read-using-cleartype

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/943918

Passwordprompts when opening documents

The passwordsprompts on a sharepointserver might be considered very secure. Since you often always have to give username and passwords. This might however prevent useradoptionrate. These passwordsprompt usually make users (and admins) annoyed. I’ve authenticated already, why do this every time?

So to get rid of passwordsprompts in sharepoint verify these common configuration issues.

• The site isn’t present in Internet Options Intranetzone. If you access server by internal name like http://myserver its their by default, but if you’re using a public address like http://myserver.mydomain.com then you need to add it manually.
• Credentials isn’t saved. Check the Credentials manager to see if the saved passwords are stored there. If they aint there, add them.
• Autodiscover Proxy is activated in LAN-settings in Internet Options. This might delay authenticationprocess if proxy is misconfigured internally.
• Security level is higher than necessary in Intranet Zone. Lower it. These sites are usually pretty tightly secured anyway.
• Wrong password in saved in credentials manager. Ok, if you save the wrong password the first time or you’ve changed the password since, you’re better of removing youre previous accounts from the credential manager and make a fresh start to sure.
• Using Firefox you can add the sharepointserver to trusted sites in
• about:config
• network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris = myserver (more than one is separated by “,”

References:

http://tech.kateva.org/2009/01/how-to-use-firefox-with-sharepoint.html

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/smb-technologist/prevent-unwanted-credentials-prompts-with-sharepoint-document-libraries/

http://social.education.purdue.edu/edit/2011/03/sharepoint-pw-prompts/

http://www.alpineinteractive.co.uk/blog/2013/3/4/sharepoint-online-slow-opening-documents-in-windows-explorer

Can’t update or uninstall Firefox

While trying to install Firefox 19 over previous Firefox 17 installation the following issue occurred.

Symptoms:

• When trying to run installationpackage for Firefox 19 message appears showing “Your computer must be restarted to complete a previous upgrade of Firefox. Do you want to reboot now?”
• When trying to uninstall Firefox 17 same message occurs.

 

Restarting didn’t make any difference. Same message after 5 restarts.

Solution:

• Delete all files in Mozilla Firefox folder ending with –delete
• Delete file firefox-exe.moz-upgrade in Mozilla Firefox installation folder.
• Run uninstall again, and then install Firefox 19.

References:

http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/757325