Firefox

Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. A Net Applications survey put Firefox at 25% of the recorded usage share of web browsers as of November 2009, making it the second most popular browser in terms of current use worldwide after Microsoft's Internet Explorer, and the most used browser independent of any one operating system.

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How to update Firefox to 3.6.6 on Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx

Written on June 28th, 2010 at 23:18 pm by shredder12

Firefox 3.6.6 is a quick update to fix the hanging timeout issue in the crash protective Firefox 3.6.4. There seems to be a trouble with either old computer or people trying to play Farmville because of the loading time. So, if you are facing similar trouble on your Ubuntu system, its time to update.

How to update your Firefox to 3.6.4 on Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx

Written on June 25th, 2010 at 00:30 am by shredder12

Firefox recently released a major update of the browser, Firefox 3.6.4. Major is not in the sense of version numbers, its the integration of Out of Process Plugins which isolates Third Party plugins and prevents Firefox crashes and freezes because of them. In this howto, I will tell you how to update your Firefox to the latest release on Lucid.

EFF and Tor project bring HTTPS Everywhere Firefox Addon

Written on June 19th, 2010 at 15:31 pm by shredder12

We use web for our day to day activites, most of which we want to be secret - Financial transactions, private conversations, emails etc. HTTPS makes sure that nobody is able to steal your personal data, by encrypting it. Even though most of the websites are shifting to HTTPS, they still have some holes which rebound you to unencryption.

Use Google Image Help addon to view Full size Images directly

Written on June 7th, 2010 at 19:28 pm by shredder12

I use Google Image search pretty often and most of the times all I care about is the full image and not the web page where it was featured. So, its pretty annoying to get past that one hurdle all the time I want to visit a full image.

Chrome v/s Firefox - Are we witnessing a declining reign of Firefox?

Written on May 28th, 2010 at 01:16 am by shredder12

Many of us started our IT life through Windows and Cyber life through IE and so we are probably the only one who can understand what it felt when we shifted and explored this web using Firefox - Freedom . This Browser is one of the most popular open source products of all time. It has a vast fan following but now its not the only option available to users.

Firefox 3.6.6, an update to crash protective 3.6.4, is released now

Written on June 28th, 2010 at 15:14 pm by shredder12

Firefox has released an updated to the recently released crash-free Firefox 3.6.4. The crash protection feature successfully prevented the crashing of third party plugins - Microsoft Silverlight, Adobe's Flash etc to affect the browsers. In case of freezes though, it used to wait for 10 second as a default timeout before terminating the plugin. Firefox 3.6.6 is released to address this timeout.

TinEye Reverse Image Search Addon for Firefox

Written on June 22nd, 2010 at 18:38 pm by shredder12

Have you ever looked at an Image and asked, "so, whats ur story?", really liked it and wished if you could find a larger resolution or wondered if the hot girl in the picture resembling your neighbour, is really her ? Well, either never ask and die with it, ask the girl and die(you never know) or stop thinking too much and just use the TinEye reverse Image search to find out all the places where the image appeared, better resolutions, a story maybe, who knows where you might end up.

With World cup on its way Firefox brings Team Personas and FootieFox to help you enjoy the action

Written on June 10th, 2010 at 16:45 pm by shredder12

With only 11 hours left in the beginning of the most awaited event of the year, 2010 FIFA World Cup, to make sure that you don't miss the action while you are browing on your Firefox, FootieFox is an addon for you. It will give you live scores almost instantly, ensuring that you are updated every moment.

Firefox 4 goes for Incontent UI, Bye-Bye to Dialog Boxes

Written on June 5th, 2010 at 16:10 pm by shredder12

So, the changes in the next generation browser, Firefox 4, have already started taking place. Currently, the top priority of the developers is to show all the secondary UI as inline content i.e. no more dialog boxes. Mozilla designer Stephen Horlander posted some mockups on his blog.

Weave 1.3 to be rebranded as Firefox Sync

Written on May 27th, 2010 at 13:11 pm by shredder12

Weave sync addon provides Firefox users the ability to keep their browser info in sync across all their devices running Firefox. With the release of version 1.3, in addition to new features it will be rebranded to Firefox Sync.

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