Yesterday, Mozilla Foundations has released one more beta of Firefox 3.6 web browser. Sometime later, “Beta 2 Revision 2” appeared as well.Since the very first Beta, they managed to squash over 190 bugs, resulting various improvements for users, web and add-on developers. Also, this update includes a “mechanism” which prevents incompatible software from crashing Firefox.
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Nowadays, according to Mozilla Firefox official website, Mozilla developers have launched a new online tool that tells Firefox users whether popular add-on components such as Java or QuickTime are up to date, which is designed to heighten the security of Firefox browser.
The tool is called Plugin Check. It detects all plug-ins [...]
Nowadays, you may meet such a confused situation: you might have noticed a notification that the Windows Presentation Foundation plugin was disabled to protect the user and the web browser when you open your Firefox browser.
Yes, many users who received the message were a bit puzzled as they did not install [...]
More and more friends tend to hold the idea that Chrome will be a winer in the future and it is a wise choice to swtich to Chrome from Firefox. But in my opinion, if you have accustomed to using Firefox, it is difficult to switch to Chrome. Here are 5 reasons why [...]
The latest project by Mozilla Labs is designed to help users of social networking sites make sense of the flood of messages generated by services such as Twitter, Facebook, and others, giving them an integrated place to read messages that are personal and important while editing out much of the noise that clogs [...]
Latest Firefox 3.5 nightly releases now include Mibbit, a web IRC client. Once irc:// link is opened, user will be redirected to Mibbit for further steps.
In order to make it work, you will have to select Mibbit from Applications settings page in the Options menu
Written by Vygantas Lipskas on March 17, 2009
From TheRegister:
“eBay scammers have been exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities in the Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers to deliver counterfeit pages that try to dupe people surfing the online auction house to bid on fraudulent listings.”
Continue reading at The Register
Written by Vygantas Lipskas on March 10, 2009
Here is a great post on how can you expand your Firefox reading experience.
Plain text to link: turn any highlighted text into a link
Browse pages tagged with this word / phrase on StumbleUpon
Count the highlighted words: word count plus
Search the highlighted word in any search engine you select in your search plugins
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If you are running a Wordpress blog or any other one, this Firefox add-ons list might be able to save your time and help you to increase your blogging experience.
25 Must Have Firefox Plugins for Bloggers
These 25 Firefox plugins will increase your productivity, and make you a better blogger
Turn FireFox 3 Into A Blogging Toolbox
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Anyone who has a little knowledge of how things stand in the browser world is aware that Microsoft and Internet Explorer holds the lions share of the browser market and that Mozilla and Firefox is second in line. In Antarctica and Europe at least, Firefox managed to best Internet Explorer – but overall, IE is [...]