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While actively developing Firefox 3, and beta updates are knocking on our doors, the Mozilla team released some alpha UI concepts. As noted on the 3.0 Windows Default Theme Issues Wikipage, Firefox feels dated and behind on Windows. Especially Vista and Windows 7. These issues include absence of Glass, anemic purple toolbar color on Vista, [...]
I found an interesting comparison between the market-leading browsers. Here it is.
The next big release from Mozilla – Firefox 3.1 is getting a little bit closer to release. According to the latest update from Mozilla, a code freeze for Firefox 3.1 is now set for Nov 4-6 with release builds expected to be available on November 11th. I’m looking forward to it as the Beta 1 [...]
Fennec (Mobile Firefox) has reached milestone 9, which is also our first alpha! We’re calling this release the User Experience alpha. The last eight milestones were building up to getting a stable browser with an easy to use interface. We really want to get Fennec in front of as many people as possible and get [...]
I’ve heard that Mozilla is trying to break a record with the Firefox 3 downloads. I read that they had over 8,000,000 downloads in 24 hours! That’s great as Firefox is my favourite web browser. It’s faster than Firefox 2, and now it supports one of my favourite extensions, the Page Saver. This tool is [...]
NoDoFollow is a simple firefox extension that highlights the links on the page, color coded according to their follow status. The extension installs into your tools and right click menu and highlights the links pinkish red for nofollow, and light blue for dofollow. NoDoFollow – A Firefox extension
The holy grail of all us people who work in Firefox day in, day out (and, unfortunately, often endure slowdowns and lockups) – Firefox version 3 – seems to be near completion. As of today, Firefox 3 beta 2 is available for download and testing purposes; however, don’t get your hopes up just yet. As [...]
Firefox 3 Beta is now USB-Ready! After it has been publicly released about a month ago, it is now available for download from PortableApps.com. I like it, the interface seems fresh (not many changes), and it seems to work faster. Or it’s maybe just my enthusiasm. ou like However, I noticed some problems – it’s [...]
Firefox 3 Beta 1 is a developer preview release of Mozilla’s next generation Firefox browser and is being made available for testing purposes only. Firefox 3 Beta 1 is based on the new Gecko 1.9 Web rendering platform, which has been under development for the past 27 months and includes nearly 2 million lines of [...]
The game has changed. Could this be the future of web-based (browser-based) games? Vladamir has detailed Canvas 3D in Firefox and has created an add-on that we can install: There are two contexts provided by the extension. “moz-gles11″ follows the OpenGL ES 1.1 spec very closely, providing an almost identical API and feature set, and [...]
