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Firefox: 400 million downloads
2007-09-07 22:28:00 Today Firefox crossed the 400 million downloads mark as tracked by SpreadFirefox.com. It has been 1001 days since Firefox 1.0 was released back in November 9, 2004 which results in an average 400K downloads per day, although in the last months it?s really been more like 500K downloads per day. It?s also a nice improvement compared to ... More About: Downloads , Million
Reduce Firefox?s memory usage when minimized
2007-09-07 14:45:00 Everybody knows that Firefox has problem with the memory usage. Sometimes it can reach to hundreds of megabytes. But here is a trick on how to reduce the memory usage when you minimize your Firefox. Share This More About: Memory , Reduce , Usage
Firefox 3 to resume downloads across sessions
2007-09-07 14:43:00 The latest Firefox 3 (code name Gran Paradiso) development release (nightly) includes the very important and expected ability to pause downloads and resume them across sessions, that is even after restarting Firefox. The addition happened just before the code freeze that started this morning in preparation for the upcoming milestone 8 (M8) expected for mid ... More About: Downloads , Firefox 3 , Resume , Sessions
Mozilla debuts new Firefox first run page
2007-09-06 07:36:00 You know that web page you see when you start Firefox for the first time? If you are a long time Firefox user, maybe you don?t remember it and haven?t seen it in a long while. But it happens to be very important for Mozilla ?s goal to increase user retention, so a team was formed ... More About: Page , Zilla
Firefox 3: A look at its new security features
2007-09-06 07:34:00 Mozilla Firefox is one of the most popular web browsers around today. But what does the Mozilla team have in store for us along security lines? To find out, let?s take a look at the pre-release version of Firefox 3 (code-named Gran Paradiso 1.9 Alpha 7). Now equipped with breakpads! Firefox 3 will replace the Talkback crash ... More About: Security , Features , Feat
Slim Firefox?s Memory Use By Disabling Problematic Add-ons
2007-09-05 17:54:00 While add-ons are the primary reason many people love Firefox , not all add-ons are perfect, in fact, many have well known memory leaks that could be slowing down your web browsing experience. RAM hog is a charge frequently leveled at Firefox, and not without some merit, but some of the worst culprits of memory abuse are ... More About: Memory , Slim
Firefox still vulnerable to attacks from protocol-handling bugs
2007-09-05 11:27:00 Firefox remains vulnerable to attacks exploiting protocol-handling bugs, even though it was patched twice in July, a pair of security researchers said this weekend. Billy Rios and Nate McFeters, who spelled out design and functionality vulnerabilities in Windows’ Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) protocol handling as recently as mid-August, said Saturday that they have uncovered another way ... More About: Firefox , Bugs , Attacks , Protocol , Toco
Pingdom flirts with Firefox, makes IE users convert in exchange for free Pi
2007-09-05 11:20:00 Whomever said that advertising won’t make people change their habits was wrong and we all know it. Pingdom set out to prove it. Pingdom is a site monitoring service and they are Firefox fans, they even built a Firefox extension called Mr Uptime released around the same time as this campaign. The idea is simple, all ... More About: Free , Exchange , Convert , Users
Three Ways to Get Much More Out of Firefox
2007-09-04 07:55:00 Market researchers generally peg the market share of the Mozilla Firefox browser at around 10 to 15 percent, but among web workers, I?m positive that the share is much higher. The more you know about how the web works, the more you appreciate the security?and more benefits?that Firefox provides. If you, as I do, work ...
Firefox?s password manager gets smarter
2007-09-02 09:24:00 You enter the user name and password to log on a web service. Firefox asks you if you want to save your credential and you accept. Then you realize you mistyped your username or password but now Firefox has saved it and you will have to either select the correct one from a list every ... More About: Manager , Password Manager , Password , Ager
Drag and drop to upload files in Firefox
2007-09-02 07:07:00 In Firefox , when you need to upload a file to a web service such as an online photo lab or attach a document to your web mail compose page, you know you have to press the Browse? button and look for the file. If it?s more than one, you repeat. Not any more with Drag Drop Upload , a ... More About: Files
Firefox used by 30% of WordPress visitors
2007-08-30 07:52:00 In a post to his PhotoMatt blog, Matthew Mullenweg, creator of WordPress blogging software and WordPress.com, has announced interesting statistics about browser usage in WordPress.com, one of the most important blogging services available: the 69th most visited web site on the WWW according to Alexa and about 11 million page views a day according to ... More About: Wordpress , Firefox , Visitors
The Most Time Saving Firefox Features That We Often Overlook
2007-08-29 08:32:00 We share the two most useful and time saving features in Firefox that will help you access (and search) your favorite sites quickly using abbreviations. There’s a short video at the end of the article that demonstrates some more Firefox shortcuts. Share This More About: Time , Features , Saving , Feat
Mozilla Aims At Cross-Site Scripting With FF3
2007-08-23 08:52:00 Web 2.0 has enabled a broad array of Websites to be more engaging for users. It has also enabled a new and now very common attack, namely cross site scripting, commonly referred to as XSS attacks (define). Mozilla is aiming to put an end to XSS attacks in its upcoming Firefox 3 browser. The Alpha 7 ... More About: Site , Cross , Zilla , Scripting
Shareaholic extension
2007-08-20 22:15:00 Socialize this, socialize that. Yep, its all about letting others know what you like and snooping on what others like. If that works for you, Bzzster has released Shareaholic, a Firefox extension, that lets you share the current visited web page through some of the most notable link sharing sites: digg, reddit, Facebook, StumbleUpon and Google ... More About: Extension
At least one person hates Firefox
2007-08-20 18:19:00 The Firefox browser might be the darling of anti-Microsoft Internet users, but that hasn?t stopped it making an enemy of a previously unknown campaigner who wants websites to block it. The self-styled anti-Firefox campaigner, writing under the name Jack Lewis, claims the browser?s ability to block ads using the Adblock Plus browser plug-in undermines the legitimate ... More About: Person
Firefox 3 gets smooth tab scrolling
2007-08-16 08:41:00 A quick note to share a nice little improvement that just landed to Firefox 3 development code (a.k.a the trunk): Tab scrolling has got smoother. Instead of the rough tab by tab stepping, tabs now slide in a continuous soft movement whenever you scroll them with the mouse wheel, add a new one or change to ... More About: Firefox 3 , Smooth
Firefox 3 Takes Web Animation to the Bleeding Edge
2007-08-15 09:46:00 The Firefox team is showing great dedication in its quest to fix the little things broken on the web. Animated GIFs are something of an eyesore. Not to mention so very 1998. That’s why it’s refreshing to learn that the next Mozilla Firefox — version 3 is due to arrive in late September or early October ... More About: Animation , Firefox 3 , Edge , Imation
Mozilla Labs reveals animated PNG editor for Firefox
2007-08-14 07:08:00 Support for animated PNG (APNG) images is one of many compelling new features in Firefox 3. Although the feature has been supported since March, it hasn’t been widely tested yet due to the lack of APNG images. That could soon change, because Justin Dolske of Mozilla Labs has created an APNG editor for Firefox 3. ... More About: Animated , Editor
Firefox devs aim for 30% market share next year
2007-08-14 07:06:00 In the face of competition from Internet Explorer 7 and now Apple’s Safari, the Mozilla Corporation intends to re-think its marketing strategy in order to further boost the market share of its Firefox web browser. According to a report by VNUnet, Mozilla hopes that Firefox will reach a 30% market share by June 2008. To reach ... More About: Market , Share , Year
Mozilla to extend security in major Firefox update
2007-08-13 06:59:00 The next major release of the popular Firefox browser will include a number of significant security upgrades designed to protect users from both attackers and from themselves. Share This More About: Security , Mozilla , Update , Major
First look to Firefox 3?s new download manager
2007-08-12 08:22:00 The revamped download manager, one of the expected features defined in the Firefox 3 product requirement document has been added to the development code today and will be available in tomorrow?s nightly (development release). At first glance the main change is that downloads are now organized in active and inactive (completed or canceled) so it is ... More About: Download , Manager , Firefox 3 , Download Manager
Easy plugin management for Firefox 3
2007-08-11 09:01:00 The latest Gran Paradiso nightly brings an important improvement to the Add-ons Manager. Along with themes and extensions, now it?s possible to see, enable and disable the installed plugins, those small applications that allow Firefox to show special content embedded in many web pages including Flash animations, video and audio in a variety of formats ... More About: Management , Firefox 3 , Plugin , Easy
Snap Shots Add-On for Firefox
2007-08-10 23:18:00 Snap Technologies, Inc. today announced the immediate availability of the Snap Shots Add-On for web browsers, allowing users to take the Snap Shots? service and experience with them as they browse the web. Snap Shots is an open platform that intelligently delivers related content such as stock quotes, streaming audio or video, product information and ... More About: Firefox , Snap
Firefox is a Public Asset
2007-08-10 07:08:00 Recently a Mozilla observer and contributor asked why Firefox isn?t treated as a typical for-profit, commercial effort, and why we are giving up the chance to get rich. This is a great topic for discussion, I?m glad it was raised. I?ve got a very strong opinion on this, and am quite interested in what others ... More About: Public , Asset
Web Designers: Ignore Firefox at Your Peril!
2007-08-10 07:02:00 I was browsing through StepForth’s Google Analytics statistics for The StepForth SEO Blog when I came across the browser share report and discovered something wonderful… Internet Explorer has lost lots of market share! Share This More About: Firefox , Designers , Web Designer , Peri
New Mozilla working group aims to simplify enterprise Firefox deployment
2007-08-09 13:58:00 Mozilla’s newly formed Enterprise Working Group (EWG) aims to improve the potential for Firefox adoption in businesses. Like Mozilla’s user retention plan and ongoing documentation project, the EWG will serve an important function in Mozilla’s effort to increase Firefox uptake rates and improve the browser’s usability. Specifically, the EWG will attempt to find practical solutions ... More About: Mozilla
75% of the people who download Firefox don?t become active users
2007-08-08 22:08:00 According to the Mozilla wiki: “In order for Firefox to reach our market share goals, we need to improve our ability to retain users. Currently, approximately 50% of the people who download Firefox actually try it and about 50% of those people continue to use it actively.” Firefox’s claims to success have been supported by clocking ... More About: People , Download , The People , Users
Mozilla Gets Fuzzy: New Tools Help Hackers Test Firefox Security
2007-08-08 20:32:00 Mozilla recently announced at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas that it would release a series of security tools, known as fuzzers, which have previously only been used internally, to the internet at large. The move is designed to give outside hackers easier ways to test for security flaws in Firefox and other web ... More About: Security , Tools , Mozilla , Hackers
Firefox 3 gets a toolbar resizer and native Vista menus
More articles from this author:2007-08-08 17:35:00 Latest Firefox 3 development release (August 8 nightly) got a couple of small but significant improvements among the usual couple of dozens bug fixes. First, the addition of a resizer to the Customize Toolbar dialog you can add to the toolbar to easily resize the search bar and the location bar, a much requested feature. Currently ... More About: Vista , Firefox 3 , Native 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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