Jun 18th, 2008 | General | No Comments
Mozilla’s attempt to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours is a success. In fact, it exceeded 1 million downloads in under four hours. Firefox 3 is being download as much as 5,000 to 14,000 per minute on this release day of June 18, 2008.
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At the time of writing this article, the Firefox 3.0 download counter was 5,713,774 out of which India contributed about 52,772. The highest number of downloads is coming from the United States, followed by Germany and Spain.
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Jun 13th, 2008 | General | No Comments
Deb Richardson has written an extensive field guide to Firefox 3 features. Features of the upcoming Firefox 3 (to be released on June 17, 2008) was frozen long time back.
In anticipation of this long-awaited event, the folks in the Mozilla community have been writing extensively about the new and improved features you’ll see in the browser. The new features cover the full range from huge and game-changing to ones so subtle you may not notice them until you realize that using Firefox is just somehow easier and better. The range of improved features is similar — whole back-end systems have been rebuilt from scratch, while other features have been tweaked slightly or redesigned in small ways. Overall the result is the fastest, safest, slimmest, and easiest to use version of Firefox yet.
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Jun 5th, 2008 | General | No Comments
Firefox 3 is days away from its final release and the recently released RC2 version may be the the last Release Candidate just before it hits the final Release.
Firefox 3 will be released simultaneously for Windows and the Mac’s OS X operating system, as well as for Linux. While each of the three editions will have the visual style of the operating system on which it runs, all three will have the same features.
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Sep 8th, 2007 | General | No Comments
After their initiative on November 9th, 2004, Spread Firefox was able to garner a whooping record of over 25 million Firefox downloads in just 99 days. In less than 6 months, the record was doubled to 50 million downloads and within a year it hit the 100 million mark.
Today, the initiative has paid off, with over 400 million downloads. Firefox is a better, safer and faster browser and can give you a much better web experience.
Jul 6th, 2007 | General | No Comments
On Tuesday, Mozilla released the final alpha for its new Firefox 3, codenamed Gran Paradiso. Alpha 6 doesn’t add much to Firefox in terms of new features.
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May 25th, 2007 | General, Mac | No Comments
I just read about this useful Shortcut at OS X Daily. If you’ve closed a tab in Firefox by mistake, you can retrieve that back by pressing “Command + Shift + T”.
May 20th, 2007 | Mac | No Comments
A preview build of Firefox has been released by Mozilla. This new experimental build is equipped with native Mac OS X form controls, that should help in making it look and feel more like an OS X program. Currently, the build is only available for the latest Intel-based Macs, though a PowerPC version has been promised. At the very latest, PowerPC users will see this update when Firefox is released as version 3.0 which will undoubtedly be a universal binary.
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May 10th, 2007 | Mobile | No Comments
Opera has Opera Mini for the Mobile phones. It is one of the very famous paidware for the mobile phones. Mozilla Foundation is working on a Mobile version of the very popular open source browser - Firefox.
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Apr 22nd, 2007 | Mac | 2 Comments
If you use firefox on a Mac, you know that is it not that good, slow and you prefer to use Safari over Firefox. Colin Barrett is asking all those Firefox Mac users to send him an email, macfirefox (at) iamthewalr (d0t) us, with your complaints.
To start you off, here are some things people want:
- Native Form Widgets (currently scheduled for Firefox 3)
- Keychain Integration
- Firefox should have a Unified toolbar (not completely hopeless, it turns out)
- Performance could be better (as always)
If there are features in Camino/Safari/OmniWeb/iCab that you absolutely can’t live without, include them.
Apr 15th, 2007 | Add-ons, Security | No Comments
Firebug is a powerful Free and Open Source Add-on for Firefox and is very famous among web developers. With FireBug, you can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.
It has tones of useful features like a dynamic console, DOM tree explorer, CSS viewer/editor, script explorer and network monitor where you can see all Flash, XMLHttpRequest, JS and Image requests. Firebug is mainly used by web developers to trace bugs in their code but it can also be used to find and explore various browser and remote site vulnerabilities.
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