Firefox 3.1 beta 1 is out

23 Oct, 2008  |  Posted by Danesh  |  in Mozilla, Open Source, Software
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Firefox 3.1 beta 1 is out.

What’s new?

  • Web standards improvements in the Gecko layout engine
  • Added support for CSS 2.1 and CSS 3 properties
  • A new tab-switching shortcut that shows previews of the tab you’re switching to
  • Improved control over the Smart Location Bar using special characters to restrict your search
  • Support for new web technologies such as the and elements, the W3C Geolocation API, JavaScript query selectors, web worker threads, SVG transforms and offline applications.

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Google Chrome

3 Sep, 2008  |  Posted by Danesh  |  in Internet, Open Source, Software, google
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Google released it’s own web browser “Google Chrome” yesterday. 

Why the need for a new browser? Google felt that the browser has not evolved too much since the old days and to support today’s web applications browsers will need to be re-engineered.

Google decided to wipe the slate clean and start over with Google Chrome though it’s open source project “Chromium”.

To start, It’s open source under a permissive BSD license. Developers will get the best from the project and vice versa.

Unlike other browsers, Chrome is multi-processed. Each tab runs in it’s own memory space. While one tab is processing other tabs no longer need to wait. If java scripts get too heavy you only need to kill the tab in question. Also, there is a task manager built in to show you the processes running in each tab, allowing you to kill them if needed.

The user interface has also been slimmed down tremendously. No more clutter and no unnecessary information is is visible. The smart address bar does it all.

Currently Google Chrome is only available for Windows. A Linux version is on its way.

Take it for a spin

Source: Chromium || LifeHacker ||

Firefox 3.0.1 released

17 Jul, 2008  |  Posted by Danesh  |  in Mozilla, Open Source, Software
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Firefox 3.0.1 is out. This is the first update for Firefox 3 which was released not too long ago. It  covers security, stability and bug fixes.

  • Fixed several security issues.
  • Fixed several stability issues.
  • Fixed an issue where the phishing and malware database did not update on first launch.
  • Under certain circumstances, Firefox 3.0 did not properly save the SSL certificate exceptions list.
  • Updated the internal Public Suffix list.
  • In certain cases, installing Firefox 2 in the same directory in which Firefox 3 has been installed resulted in Firefox 2 being unstable. This issue was fixed as part of Firefox 2.0.0.15.
  • Fixed an issue where, when printing a selected region of content from the middle of a page, some of the output was missing (bug 433373).
  • Fixed a Linux issues where, for users on a PPP connection (dialup or DSL) Firefox always started in “Offline” mode (bug 424626).

Download Firefox 3.0.1 now. Remember, Firefox 2 will only be available till December 2008.

Firefox 3 world record is official

3 Jul, 2008  |  Posted by Danesh  |  in Internet, Open Source, Software
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Firefox 3 Download day 2008 was a success!! 8,002,530 people downloaded Firefox 3!

Guinness World Records officially awarded Firefox 3 a new Guinness World Record yesterday for the largest number of software downloads in 24 hours.

Source: Mozzila

25 most popular Firefox search engine plugins

18 Jun, 2008  |  Posted by Danesh  |  in Internet, Mozilla, Open Source, Software
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How many search engines plugine do you have added to your Firefox? I have the defaults as Google seems to be the only one I need.

However, if you need more then what Firefox offers out of the box, there are many other search engine plugins available for Firefox. Wikipedia, YouTube, Torrentz, just to name a few.

Currently YouTube is on top with the most downloads. Followed by Dictionary.com, isoHunt and The Pirate Bay.

The Mycroft project has a list of the top 25 most popular search engine plugins. Browse the list.

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