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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Firefox for India - Epic Browser

Written on July 20th, 2010 at 02:06 am by shredder12

We have a National anthem, a National Song, a National Animal, but for the first time India has a national browser - Epic web browser. Yup! built on Firefox, modified and tweaked by the developers of Hiddden Reflex, an India based startup, Epic Browser aims to meet the needs of the ever growing number of Indian web users.

Firefox 4 has its first Beta Release

Written on July 7th, 2010 at 05:08 am by shredder12

Its Firefox time people, after all this wait, the first Beta of Firefox 4 is available now . Firefox 4 aims to bring more for both end users and web developers and its clearly visible with this beta release. Hardware acceleration for HD quality HTML5 videos, the plugin protective feature is now supported on all platforms, web sockets, new addon manager and a lot more. So, while you are downloading it, let me show you some of its features.

Firefox coming on iPhone as Firefox Home

Written on July 2nd, 2010 at 01:50 am by shredder12

So, if you have been wishing for a long time to run Firefox on your iPhone, then there is a chance that your wish may come true, not completely, sort of. Thats because the application submitted by Mozilla, Firefox Home, is not another version of Firefox for Mobile, Fennec, its rather a window to access your Firefox world, making sure that you don't miss any of your bookmarks, open tabs on other firefox etc

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.

Firefox 4 beta shows Twice better JS performance than 3.6 but still lags behind others

Written on July 8th, 2010 at 02:39 am by shredder12

With Firefox 4 first beta release, comparisons have already started to see which browser is better in both speed and performance. Simon Mackie of WebWorkerDaily used the Mozilla's Dromaeo testing suite to get the stats and although this beta scores twice more than the Firefox 3.6, it continues to walk in the slow lane, relatively.

A Tribute to Firefox on its Second Billionth Addon Download

Written on July 5th, 2010 at 20:05 pm by shredder12

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was one of the great leaders who played a prominent role in the Independence of India. One of the many famous things about him is this quotation, "Give me blood and I will give you freedom", basically fight with me and I will assure your freedom. Talking about a freedom fighter at the beginning of a firefox article doesn't seem to be the expected start but if you think about it, Firefox has always been like a leader, fighting for the Internet Freedom, with a similar motto, "Surf with me and I will show you Freedom".

Speed, Responsiveness and Stability to get a boost in the next Firefox for Mobile, Fennec 2.0

Written on July 1st, 2010 at 17:44 pm by shredder12

Firefox developers are planning to bring some very productive changes in the next version of their mobile browser, Fennec 2.0. This upcoming browser will support Hardware accelerated rendering and out of process web content. Mark Finkle wrote in a post about the inclusion of Project Layers and Project Electrolysis which will enable these two powerful features in the next Firefox for Mobile.

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.

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