Category: Firefox
Facebook: Find Who Removed You from the Friends List (Unfriended) and Ignored
Here is a quick and painless way to find out, who deleted you from the friends list, ignored your friend request, etc. You may also remove your friend sending request. The best part: no seamless Facebook app installation is required.
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Dec, 2010 – Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari Share Up; Internet Explorer – Down
All right, it’s time to check the browsers market share stats for the last month of 2011 that is December.
Internet Explorer continues to fall and is now approaching 50% level, dropping from 58.44% to 57.08% (1.36 point decrease).
Firefox the first time in 3 months, Firefox has increased its market share by 0.05 point, from 22.76% to 22.81%.
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Skip Hotfile.com and Depostifiles.com Wait Time and Download Limit, Download Instantly
Awesome extension is awesome.
In case you’ve been downloading files from sites like Megaupload.com, Hotfile.com, Depositfiles.com, 4Shared.com, Mediafire.com, Rapidshare.com, etc., here is a fun little extension for you, Firefox and Opera users.
What does it do? It will either, start downloading file automatically or skip the wait time.
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Mozilla Leaks 44,000 User Passwords
Oops
It looks like the database of 44,000 inactive addons.mozilla.org accounts has been mistakenly left on a public Mozilla server.
According to the official blog post, it affects accounts created prior to April 9th, 2009 that use older, md5-based password hashes. As of today, all the data is secured with SHA-512 password hash.
Impacted users were notified on December 27th and potential treat has been already removed.
WebGL: Flight of the Navigator
Here is an interesting take on WebGL + Audio API that was developed by Mozilla volunteers.
The whole demo world has been completed by using canvas element with a WebGL context while models, animations and 3D structures were created with Lightwave.
Visit demo page.
Weekly Browsers Recap, December 27th
FavBrowser.com
• Internet Explorer is the Best Browser
A picture.
• Now Open This With…
A picture.
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Download Firefox 4 Beta 8
Just in time for holidays.
The eight beta of Firefox 4 has been just released and can be downloaded here.
According to release notes, Beta 8 continues performance and stability improvements (with over 1,300 bug fixes), WebGL enhancements, improves Firefox Synch setup experience and more.
Firefox 4.0 Final is planned for early 2011 release.
Weekly Browsers Recap, December 20th
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• Free Xbox Slim
We are giving away Microsoft’s new Xbox 360 console…
• Internet Explorer 9 RC
Latest build is 9.0.8048.6000 (101209-2300).
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Firefox to Include “Do Not Track” Feature
Follows Internet Explorer.
Mozilla’s chief executive, Gary Kovacs while talking about Firefox 4 in Mountain View, California addressed user privacy issues and promised to deliver “Do Not Track” button in the first part of next year.
“The idea of ‘Do Not Track’ is interesting, but there doesn’t seem to be consensus on what ‘tracking’ really means, nor how new proposals could be implemented in a way that respects people’s current privacy controls,” said Google.
The Federal Trade Commission has also suggested adding such mechanism back in December.
