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”.
Apr 9th, 2007 | General | No Comments
This bus is plastered with the Firefox Logo.
Apr 8th, 2007 | General | No Comments
Spread Firefox is an international initiative of Firefox marketing, a way to spread the word on Firefox in the community. It is a very successful initiative and we would like to do something in India in a smaller scale. That is how the idea of a “Firefox for India” was born.
Firefox is currently in version 2.x (the latest at the time of this article being v2.0.0.3) and they are available for all variants of downloads. You can also read the latest Release Notes for Firefox 2.0.0.3. You can also learn more details about the Firefox 2 Project.
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Apr 1st, 2007 | General | No Comments
Firefox for India is an initiative to make the Internet users in India aware of the good things about Firefox browsers and the security enhancements it gives over other browsers.
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