Posts Tagged ‘firefox’
Monday, April 16th, 2012
Here’s an interesting Firefox add-on, that basically appears to make Firefox behave more like Google Chrome and Internet Explorer …
If maxing out the screen estate for websites visited in the Firefox web browser is important to you, you have probably experimented with various interface customizations to find the best possible solution for you personally. From merging toolbars to installing add-ons that merge or modify the browser’s functionality, the Firefox browser has a lot to offer in terms of customizations. In fact, this is one of the things that sets the browser apart from its main competitors Google Chrome and Microsoft Internet Explorer, as the latter two are both less flexible when it comes to interface customizations.
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Tags: add-ons, extensions, firefox, mozilla, Url-addon-bar
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Thursday, April 12th, 2012
Firefox seems to be doing a good job at addressing its former reputation as a memory hog …
When you ask computer users about memory intensive browsers, you likely hear Firefox being mentioned more often than Google’s browser, Opera or even Internet Explorer. It is rather interesting that much of this comes from a time when Firefox’s memory usage was indeed not the best. When you look at more recent memory tests, you will notice that Firefox more often than not beats the competition in this field.
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Tags: firefox, Mem Chaser, Memory Restart, Memory Usage, mozilla
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Friday, April 6th, 2012
Here are some extremely helpful tricks that can be used to improve both the security and privacy of the Firefox browser …
Firefox is awesome! No, seriously, it is. Why? Countless add-ons, its open source, has many tweaks and most of all: the browser respects your privacy and dedicates a lot of effort to keeping the browser secure. In this post, we will be talking about both the security and privacy side of the Firefox browser. First we will discuss general Firefox settings, then go “under the hood” and finally, recommend some extensions. The current version of Firefox is 11.0. I cannot guarantee all these tweaks will work in future versions.
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Tags: firefox, mozilla, privacy, security
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
I’m so old, that I remember a time when Netscape Navigator used to be the hottest browser around …
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols questioned whether the Mozilla Firefox web browser has a future in the web browsing market in a new commentary on ZDnet yesterday. Lets take a look at the points that he makes to better understand the argument.
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Tags: chrome, firefox, google, internet explorer, mozilla, Web browsers
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Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
Here’s a useful summary of the new Firefox Silent Updates feature …
By now you must have heard about the silent update feature that Mozilla is currently working on for the Firefox web browser. I first covered silent updates back in October of 2010 when Mozilla started to announce plans to integrate a better updating mechanism into the browser.
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Tags: controlling updates, firefox, mozilla, silent updates
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Friday, March 23rd, 2012
I sure hope that Firefox’s built-in PDF reader turns out better than Chrome’s built-in PDF reader; in my book, Chrome’s PDF reader leaves a bit to be desired when compared to Adobe Reader.
Browser plugins may soon become a dying form of adding functionality to web browsers. We are already seeing first signs of that, for instance with Chrome’s built-in pdf reader, or the drive towards HTML5 video and media in general. The biggest issue with plugins, besides compatibility, is security, and here the need to keep plugins up to date to avoid attacks that exploit known vulnerabilities that have already been fixed in the latest plugin versions.
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Tags: adobe, chrome, firefox, mozilla, pdf reader
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Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
Is this just more “change for the sake of change,” or does it actually improve the interface?
Mozilla plans to make a bunch of changes in the next two versions of the Firefox web browser, and users who are running either the beta or aurora version of the browser right now get a taste of those changes already.
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Tags: aurora, firefox, home page, mozilla
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Thursday, March 15th, 2012
Dang, do the engineers and coders at Mozilla ever take a break?
Even though Mozilla would prefer users not to look at Firefox versions anymore, it is something that I like to keep track of to see what’s changing in the browser. It is easier to compare Firefox 12 to Firefox 13, than it is to compare Firefox released in February, with Firefox released in March. Why? Because you might end up comparing the same browser versions, and come up with zero changes or feature additions otherwise.
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Tags: blank tab page, firefox, Firefox Reset, mozilla, silent background updates
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Monday, March 12th, 2012
I wonder why it took Firefox so long to catch up on this feature? Given all the recent Firefox updates, it seems like they would have addressed it sooner.
One of the things that has always annoyed me in regards to Firefox’s private browsing mode was the fact that the browser did close the active session before switching to that mode. And while Firefox offers to save the active session, that is the open tabs and other session related information, it is nowhere near as comfortable as a solution that would spawn a new private browsing window without affecting the active session.
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Tags: firefox, Google Chrome, mozilla, opera, private browsing
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Thursday, March 8th, 2012
Here’s an interesting Firefox add-on for those of us who are concerned with privacy …
With Google consolidating many of the company’s privacy policies into one came the fear that the companies primary motivation for the move was to generate even more revenue through their advertising programs than before.
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Tags: add-on, DuckDuckGo, firefox, google, mozilla, privacy, Protected Search
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