While the awesome bar, download pause and resume, malware protection, the new themes, and serious performance improvements are perhaps the most representative features introduced with Firefox 3, here are some other useful ones you may not be aware:
Duplicate tabs. Press Ctrl (Cmd on Mac) while dragging a tab to create a duplicate of the dragged [...]
Adobe launched its second beta of Flash Player 10, codenamed “Astro,” last Wednesday. Astro adds a bunch of helpful new features including Linux support, 3D animation and embedded photo editing tools (called Pixel Bender).
New features in beta 2 include sound APIs and advanced layering of DOM elements (JavaScript pull-down menus appear on top of Flash [...]
Mozilla’s chairman explains why mobile devices need an open-source browser.
There’s no doubt that it’s getting easier to access the Web on a mobile device. Thanks to the iPhone and Apple’s Web browser, Safari, millions of people feel as though they finally have the Internet in their pocket. But there’s still a lot of work that [...]
With Firefox 3, you can easily select multiple and non-consecutive pieces of text from a web page as shown in this GIF screencast.
The secret is the Ctrl key. Select a line in Firefox with your mouse and then press the Ctrl key before selecting the second line.
Unlike other browsers like IE or Opera, Firefox will [...]
As for me, I really like the new feature that address bar has to offer, but others may not and even get frustrated. If you like to stop Firefox 3 from displaying bookmarks in the address bar alongside search history, here are the possible options:
Option A: Disable autocomplete drop-down entirely
Use this if you don’t want [...]
“Mozilla, which makes the Web browser, served up more than 8.3 million downloads in 24 hours, according to CEO John Lilly’s blog. At the height of the Firefox frenzy, Mozilla logged 17,000 downloads per minute, or 283 per second, and people in over 200 countries acquired the new software. The launch, planned for 10 a.m. [...]
“OpenSUSE is powerful, and improvements in usability, performance and stability should attract and win back users from other Linux distributions.”
“OpenSUSE has always been an odd sort of Linux distribution. It’s always been reasonably user friendly, very stable, and quite nicely pulled off the not-so-easy task of being good for new users while offering advanced and [...]
Mozilla Mac developer Josh Aas has written a weblog post discussing some of the under-the-hood improvements specific to the Mac OS X version of Mozilla Firefox 3.
Josh describes how Firefox 3 has largely switched from Apple’s legacy Carbon API (initially created to make it easier for developers to migrate OS 9 applications to OS X) [...]
If you were waiting for Firefox 3.0, be glad, as the wait is now over! The final release is available for download, and you probably want to help Mozilla set that world record, so start downloading!
Review: Firefox 3 Versus Internet Explorer
Firefox 3.0 final - First thoughts
First Look at Firefox 3.0 for Linux
Firefox 3 launches today; [...]
Just few hours left before 4.0 is officially announced. In the mean time check out the following links:
Will Linux Users Miss Out on Firefox 3?
Mozilla prepares for Firefox 3 release and plans for 3.1
Google to Nix Browser Sync Firefox Extension
Firefox extensions to bring back the dead
Polishing the Firefox 3.0 Download Pledge
Firefox 3 Tip: How To [...]
Aza Raskin, one of the human interface experts hired last year by Mozilla, has released a five minutes video of a very early prototype of what Firefox Mobile’s interface may look like.
As you can see in the video below, the design aims to overcome two of the most common limitations in mobile devices: a small [...]
Mozilla Wednesday set next Tuesday, June 17, as the release date for Firefox 3.0, the first major upgrade of the open-source browser in nearly 20 months.
“We’re proud to announce that we’re ready,” said Mike Beltzner, Mozilla’s product lead. “It is our expectation to ship Firefox 3 this upcoming Tuesday, June 17,” he said in a [...]
Screencast of the new features that Firefox 3 is bringing to us. If you are still hanging out with Firefox 2, or even worse, still using the buggy and unsecure IE7, then do go through the following video to get acquainted with:
The second Firefox 3 Release Candidate is now available for download. Ongoing planning for Firefox 3 can be followed at the Firefox 3 Planning Center.
You can find out more about the new Features of Firefox 3 in the “What’s New” section of the release notes.
Testers can download the second Firefox 3 Release Candidate builds for [...]
Mozilla’s community-driven Spread Firefox web site announced earlier this year that the total number of Firefox downloads had exceeded 500 million, and counter continues to climb and will likely get a big boost following the Firefox 3 release.
Mozilla is aiming to create what may be the geekiest world record ever with its upcoming Firefox 3 [...]
If you’ve been holding your breath waiting for Mozilla to release the final build of Firefox 3, you might want to take a break before you pass out. It looks like we’re going to have at least one more release candidate before Firefox 3 final is released. Firefox 3 RC2 will likely be released sometime [...]
Often, the web browser that comes with an operating system is not set up in a secure default configuration. Not securing your web browser can lead quickly to a variety of computer problems caused by anything from spyware being installed without your knowledge to intruders taking control of your computer.
A drive-by download is a program [...]
Hyperwords is a great plugin for firefox. You can do with it many stuff. But what I liked most about it was the translate feature that translates pages on the fly - without opening a new window, right there on the same page.
For example, below is a news page in Russian. I have selected the [...]
A year and a half after the last major Firefox release, Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 is here with a very long list of new features and improvements.
For those who have been following Firefox 3 development you may want to jump to What’s new in Release Candidate 1. For the whole scoop, make yourself comfortable [...]
The release notes cover the following products:
Adobe AIR for Linux alpha
Adobe AIR SDK
Table of Content:
System Requirements
Installing Adobe AIR
Application Installation / Uninstallation Details
Tips and Tricks
Features Available
Features Not Available
Known Issues for AIR on Linux
Adobe AIR SDK
Related: First look: Adobe AIR alpha unleashed for Linux
With the release of Firefox 3 imminent, the rest of the Firefox team is cooking up some crazy ideas for Firefox 4.
While Firefox 3 pushes the boundaries of a browser, delivering a cleaner graphical interface, numerous security upgrades, and a variety of new features, it still is far from the “perfect browser”. Of course no [...]
Firefox 3 is in testing, with the latest build, beta 4, released Monday. Mozilla is aiming for a final release of its flagship product before the end of the first quarter of 2008. Let’s take a look at the changes coming down the pike.
You can grab a copy of the latest Firefox 3 beta from [...]
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