Category: Firefox
Yahoo Inquisitor Add-On for Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari
Here’s a great toy for your web browser: Inquisitor, which was accrued by Yahoo Inc. some time ago.
Touch Your Firefox on Mac OS
Here’s something for you. An experimental Firefox 3.1 build was released earlier today with multitouch support which will work on any latest MacBook.
The following gestures are:
Swipe Left: Go back in history [bonus! hold Cmd to open it in a tab]
Swipe Right: Go forwards in history Continue Reading
Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer
If you use Firefox on more than one computer, you’ll want Foxmarks.
Install Foxmarks on each computer, and it works silently in the background to keep your bookmarks and (optionally) passwords synchronized. Foxmarks also keeps your data backed up and safe from computer failures. If you’re away from your computer, Foxmarks allows you to access your bookmarks online by logging into my.foxmarks.com.
Firefox 3.1 Beta Hits the Streets
Mozilla has officially released the very first Beta of its upcoming Firefox 3.1 web browser. Basically 3.1 features (but not all of them) are something what was originally planned for Firefox 3. The following release also received some nice performance improvements and various enhancements.
Key New Features
Web standards improvements in the Gecko layout engine Continue Reading
Tweak Your Firefox 3 Download Manager
The download manager was dramatically improved for Firefox 3: a progress indicator in the status bar, automatic antivirus scans, a streamlined interface with filtering capabilities, and most notably, download resuming across sessions.
As usual, you can use all these enhancements without touching anything, or go the customization way and tweak a preference or two.
Firefox Mobile Screenshots
Here you go, first Firefox Mobile (Fennec) screenshots for Windows Mobile. This is how it will probably look like after the alpha release.
Acid3 88/100, sweet.
Enjoy. Continue Reading
25 Resources for Learning How to Customize Your Browser
Using Internet Explorer? Maybe Firefox, Safari, Opera or Chrome? Here’s a resource list for you by Doriano.
No matter which browser you prefer, there’s a plethora of ways to customize the way you surf the Web. There are countless plugins, extensions, toolbars and more. Some of these are easy to install while others require a little more effort.
We’ve put together a list of some of the best instructional resources for the most popular browsers today, including Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Opera and even the still wet behind the ears rookie, Google Chrome.
Firefox 3 – 8 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do
This one sounds good. Logan Kugler posted about 8 things which you probably didn’t knew about Firefox 3, such as:
Duplicate tabs with drag-and-drop.
Minimize the toolbar.
Use smart bookmarks.
Send e-mail via Yahoo! Mail or Gmail by default.
Change the behavior of the Awesome Bar.
And bit more…
Mozilla Tries to Increase Firefox Retention Rate with a New Contest
Mozilla team launched a new contest for everyone who is interested in helping increase Firefox retention rate which is 25% so far (number of people who’ve downloaded Firefox and continue using it).
The contest will roll out in two phases. For the first one, due on October 24, participants must provide a 2-page executive summary of their project that should stay within a $10,000 budget. Mozilla will choose which proposals advance to the next phase, and participants will have until December 5 to submit detailed descriptions that will be presented to the community for final voting. Continue Reading
