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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About:me Firefox addon - View a visual pattern of your Internet activities

Written on April 13th, 2011 at 01:01 am by shredder12

So, after the about:memory url, I started looking for more about: URI scheme options in Firefox and came across an addon which adds an “about:me” URL. This addon, "about:me", makes use of the browsing and downloading history data to give our browser usage pattern a visual representation through graphs and pie charts. Its actually pretty good. You can see a list of most visited websites, your hourly browsing pattern, kind of files you have downloaded and daily download pattern too.

Firefox 4 Beta 12 - The final member of the herd has been released

Written on February 27th, 2011 at 04:14 am by shredder12

Fighthing with the roadmap and nasty bugs, the 12th beta of Firefox 4 is finally available now. Probably this is the last one of the long beta streak. Over this period, beginning right from the first beta, developers have fixed nearly 7000 bugs. With Firefox4 getting into its final shape, this release brings overall stability and performance improvements to the browser in addition to some usability changes.

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 precisely find the amount of memory or RAM being used by Firefox

Written on April 10th, 2011 at 20:26 pm by shredder12

Until today, I relied on system monitor & top to find out the amount of memory being used by firefox. This works fine but there is an even better way to find out the exact amount used by the browser. Visit about:memory page to find it out.

Next release of Firefox - beta 9, will have tabs on Title Bar

Written on January 4th, 2011 at 08:09 am by shredder12

Well, the time has come. For the first time probably, we can see firefox with tabs on the title bar. This is not available in the current beta 8 release but this feature will most probably be added and supported in the upcoming 9th beta.

This "tabs on title bar" feature is only supported on windows systems as of now and that too when its maximized. Here is a screenshot of how it would look like.

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.

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