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Save web pages as PDF with Firefox 3
2007-10-18 18:46:00 It?s not clear at this point whether Firefox 3 will include an option to save web pages as PDF files. It is in the PRD (product requirement document) but it could get cut for time constraint reasons. Fortunately, the backend necessary to make this happen is already in place and Firefox 3 will be able to ... More About: Save , Pages , Ages
Meebo for Firefox
2007-10-18 08:31:00 You know meebo, right? If you don?t you?ve been missing a lot of the Web 2.0 buzz actually is. Meebo allows you to connect to Yahoo!, Google Talk, MSN, AIM, Jabber and ICQ instant messaging networks at the same time through an Ajax-intensive interface that effectively mimics a desktop IM application. meeboThe meebo extension, developed by meebo, ... More About: Firefox
Meebo for Firefox
2007-10-18 08:31:00 You know meebo, right? If you don?t you?ve been missing a lot of the Web 2.0 buzz actually is. Meebo allows you to connect to Yahoo!, Google Talk, MSN, AIM, Jabber and ICQ instant messaging networks at the same time through an Ajax-intensive interface that effectively mimics a desktop IM application. meeboThe meebo extension, developed by meebo, ... More About: Firefox
Five must-have security/privacy extensions for Firefox
2007-10-17 18:11:00 Do you consider yourself to be a privacy aware Internet user? Are you concerned about your security online? You’ve installed antivirus and spyware software, which you also keep updated. You regularly update your operating system for any security patches. You have a firewall on your home computer and have locked down your home wireless network with ... More About: Security , Firefox , Extensions , Privacy
Five must-have security/privacy extensions for Firefox
2007-10-17 18:11:00 Do you consider yourself to be a privacy aware Internet user? Are you concerned about your security online? You’ve installed antivirus and spyware software, which you also keep updated. You regularly update your operating system for any security patches. You have a firewall on your home computer and have locked down your home wireless network with ... More About: Security , Firefox , Extensions , Privacy
Mozilla working on Firefox 3 visual refresh for Linux
2007-10-17 15:37:00 Mozilla user interface design specialist Alex Faaborg wrote a lengthy blog entry last week about plans for the Firefox 3 visual refresh. Faaborg explained the importance of creating applications that visually integrate with the rest of the operating system and displays screenshots of the new default Firefox 3 themes for Mac OS X and Vista. “I ... More About: Linux , Mozilla , Visual
Mozilla working on Firefox 3 visual refresh for Linux
2007-10-17 15:37:00 Mozilla user interface design specialist Alex Faaborg wrote a lengthy blog entry last week about plans for the Firefox 3 visual refresh. Faaborg explained the importance of creating applications that visually integrate with the rest of the operating system and displays screenshots of the new default Firefox 3 themes for Mac OS X and Vista. “I ... More About: Linux , Mozilla , Visual
Firefox Extensions for Getting the Most Out of Google
2007-10-16 17:35:00 If you?re a Firefox user and you spend any significant time using Google , a couple of free, easy-to-install Firefox extensions can help you get much more out of your search sessions. Google Preview and Googlepedia are extensions that I use in conjunction with each other to take me to what I?m searching for faster, and ... More About: Extensions
List of sites that actively block or are not compatible with Firefox
2007-10-15 20:28:00 The year is 2007 yet some websites act like we are living in the dark ages of the late 90s. Back in those dark ages, it was common practice to pretend that the only browser in existence was Internet Explorer but here in 2007, developers really no longer have that option and still some ... More About: Firefox , Sites , List , Block , Compatible
Mobile Firefox likely to work on Symbian
2007-10-15 18:29:00 Mozilla’s mobile Firefox browser, which the company said earlier this week is in the works, will likely be available for phones running Symbian , Windows Mobile and Linux operating systems, a developer working on the project said. Windows Mobile and Linux phones are likely initial candidates for the browser, in part because those operating systems share code ... More About: Work , Bile
Mobile Firefox out to break industry hold on device apps
2007-10-15 13:19:00 By developing a version of its open source desktop Firefox Web browser to run on mobile devices, Mozilla hopes to break the hold some handset makers and carriers have on what mobile applications consumers can use, an executive of the company says. “People don’t want restrictions or differences between what their mobile device can do and ... More About: Mobile , Industry , Break , Device
A Mobile Firefox in Mozilla?s future
2007-10-10 20:50:00 Mozilla vice-president of engineering, Mike Schroepfer, provided yesterday details about Mozilla plans for the mobile web, and they happen to be quiet serious and already in progress. Starting with currently in development Mozilla2, the next major update to the core Mozilla platform (think Firefox 4), mobile devices will be involved in making architectural and design decisions ... More About: Mobile , Future , Mozilla , Bile
3 Firefox extensions for college students
2007-10-08 12:06:00 If you?re like more than 50 percent of our readers, you?re visiting this blog using Firefox . Good for you! For those of you who are still using Safari or Internet Explorer, there?s never been a better time to switch. Mozilla, Firefox?s parent group, has released Firefox Campus Edition, a copy of Firefox bundled with add-ons ... More About: College , Extensions , Students , Coll
A Firefox theme for Bungie/Halo fans
2007-10-06 07:58:00 Bungie, Halo fans rejoice because and even bigger fan has created a Bungie theme for Firefox for your to celebrate the recent Halo 3 release (or Bungie/Microsoft break up, whatever makes you happier). Bungie is pretty much another dark theme inspired by the bungie.net web site which I believe looks much better (on Windows XP at ... More About: Fans , Bungie , Theme
Webkit vs. Mozilla: Should Firefox jump on the Webkit bandwagon?
2007-10-06 07:57:00 As the Mozilla folks start making plans to plan for the Mozilla 2 codebase, Matt Gertner over at the AllPeers blog has a radical suggestion: Dump the Gecko rendering engine and embrace WebKit. According to Gertner, innovation in the area of “desktop-enabled web applications” would be accelerated “considerably if the open source world were to adopt ... More About: Firefox , Jump
YouPlayer: a YouTube player for Firefox
2007-10-03 20:18:00 YouTube fans have a new great way to watch their favorite video snacks, directly fromFirefox sidebar. YouPlayer is a Firefox extension developed by Wojciech Walewski, that a adds a sidebar where you can drop YouTube links to create and organize a YouTube videos playlist, and a small area to display the videos and play controls making ... More About: Youtube , Layer
Firefox Running Slow? Make It Fast Again Without Re-Installation
2007-09-29 08:27:00 Problem: You cannot imagine life without Firefox but over time, your favorite browser keeps getting slower and slower. Not only is it slow, Firefox sometimes hangs for no reason, consumes a large amount of memory and CPU usage can climb to 90% or more when you have multiple tabs open simultaneously. You have uninstalled most of the ... More About: Running , Make , Fast , Slow
Firefox: The problems ahead
2007-09-28 15:12:00 Considering that it only launched its web browser officially back in November 2004, the Mozilla Foundation has every reason to pat itself on the back over the news that Firefox has now been downloaded for the 400 millionth time. Whichever way you spin it, that’s some number. A tangible, deserving champion of the open source movement, ... More About: Problems , Ahead
Web applications, Mozilla style
2007-09-27 09:35:00 Mark Finkle released today version 0.7 of WebRunner, a XULRunner based application that allows to run single web applications in an isolated environment without all the navigation, configuration and much other user interface browsers typically feature. If it sounds like just a crippled browser, well to some degree it is but it provides some benefits full ... More About: Applications , Mozilla , Style , Zilla , Web Application
Next Firefox will tell Google all about you
2007-09-27 09:34:00 THE FORTHCOMING version of the Firefox browser, Gran Paradiso, will ship with a function that will tell Googl e all about your browsing habits. The feature is supposed to be designed to allow the browser to check the URL against a list of phishing sites which is stored at Google. The downside is that while the punter gets ...
ZoneAlarm ForceField strengthens Firefox security
2007-09-26 20:22:00 Check Point recently released a beta version of ForceField, a security utility that provides additional layers of protection to Firefox and Internet Explorer. ForceField comes under the strong ZoneAlarm brand, famous for its popular ZoneAlarm firewall product. To enable ForceField protection it must be launched before starting Firefox. ForceField detects you want to launch Firefox and ... More About: Security , Then
OpenOffice.org documents within Firefox
2007-09-23 16:51:00 If you are running OpenOffice.org and Firefox at the same time you can view OpenDocument and other OpenOffice.org supported file formats using the provided Mozilla plug-in. First you need to activate the plugin. To do so, in OpenOffice.org, select Options? in the Tools menu. Expand the Internet item, select Mozilla Plug-in and check Enable. You?re ready. OpenOffice.org ... More About: Documents
Gran Paradiso Alpha 8 available for download
2007-09-20 19:51:00 Gran Paradiso Alpha 8 is an early developer milestone for Firefox 3 and the next generation of Mozilla?s layout engine, Gecko 1.9. Gran Paradiso Alpha 8 is being made available for testing purposes only, and is intended for web application developers and our testing community. Current users of Mozilla Firefox should not use alpha releases. ... More About: Download , Gran Paradiso , Available , Diso
Firefox 2.0.0.7 update fixes QuickTime vulnerability
2007-09-19 10:01:00 Mozilla has released a critical security update for Firefox that patches a vulnerability involving Apple?s QuickTime plugin reported last week due to a number of design flaws including interpreting command files (.qtl) named as media files (i.e. .mp3), not using OS level interfaces to call the default browser and allowing the use of insecure web ... More About: Firefox 2 , Vulnerability , Update , Quicktime
Want to do More With Firefox? Get The New HyperWords
2007-09-14 19:38:00 Say you are reading a blog or website inside Firefox and encounter some name (or an unknown term) that you would like to explore deeper. You will probably visit Wikipedia to read more about that person and search Flickr or Google Images for some photos. And if the text on the webpage is not in your ... More About: To Do , Hyper
New SEO Extension For Firefox
2007-09-14 19:29:00 The guys over at 97th floor have been testing and now released to the public a Firefox extension that adds a status bar to the bottom of Firefox and lists Digg, Reddit, Stumbleupon and del.icio.us numbers for the current page you are on. The Social Media for Firefox extension is quick and easy way to ... More About: Extension
3 More Ways to Improve Firefox
2007-09-13 21:33:00 As far as I?m concerned, there?s not just one reason for the continued rise of Firefox as a popular browser in the web worker world: there are thousands. Of course I?m talking about Firefox Add-ons, which let you tweak and customize and extend the browser in many ways. Recently I?ve added three more to my ... More About: Improve , Improv , Prove
Let Firefox Turn Off The Computer When All Files Have Downloaded
2007-09-13 15:36:00 Say it’s midnight and you want to call it a day. But the issue is that you are downloading some huge files from the Internet via Firefox (see screenshot) and at your current internet speed, the download will take another two hours to finish. You could either cancel the downloads, or leave the computer in running ... More About: Computer , Files , Turn , Loaded
Love and usability drive Firefox success
2007-09-13 15:34:00 The Firefox browser succeeds because it’s designed for everyone to use and is a labour of love, the founder and president of Mozilla told attendees of a Westminster eForum on open source software in London yesterday. The browser, which saw its 400 millionth download earlier this week, has 110 million active users and 18 per cent ... More About: Love , Drive , Success , Usability
Severe QuickTime vulnerability in Firefox disclosed
More articles from this author:2007-09-12 18:39:00 GNUCITIZEN, a ?creative hacker organization?, has disclosed details on a severe security vulnerability affecting Firefox users that have installed the QuickTime plugin on Windows or Mac OS X, which at a minimum includes all iTunes users. The vulnerability is based on QuickTime Media Link files (.qtl), simple XML files that include details about the media file ... More About: Vulnerability , Quicktime , Disc , Closed 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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