Category: Firefox
Weekly Browsers Recap, March 30th
- 10 IE Browser Settings for Safer Surfing
- 5 ways to power up Internet Explorer 8
- Microsoft Crawling All Over IE 8 Bugs
- Internet Explorer 8: Why make the leap?
- eBay launches bespoke version of IE8
- Find the right Firefox add-ons
- Safari hacker talks security
- The genius behind Google’s web browser
- Google showcases Javascript engine with Chrome Experiments website
- Opera seeks dominance in world of widgets
- Opera Still Cooking With CSS3 On the Way
Firefox 3.0.8 Released
Although Firefox 3.0.8 was planned for release next week, Mozilla managed to rush it and has already fixed 2 critical security issues.
This is a recommended security update for all Firefox 3 users.
Firefox 3.0.8 – Next Week
Mozilla will be releasing Firefox 3.0.8 next week which should fix exploitable crash in bug (marked as critical) discovered earlier this week.
The current release date is set to March 30 – April 1.
Web Browsers Protection against Socially Engineered Malware
Now this is something new. According to NSSLabs, over 50% of malware infections occur via internet download. In the recent study they have tested 6 most popular web browsers to see how well they protect surfer against web based malware.
Effectiveness results (more is better)
Internet Explorer 8 (RC1) – 69%
Firefox 3.07 – 30% Continue Reading
The Future of Firefox: Interview with Mozilla’s Chief Innovation Officer
In the recent ReadWriteWeb interview, Richard MacManus spoke with Mozilla’s Chris Beard on Firefox vision, its mobile web browser Fennec and Google Chrome.
You may read the article here.
Chromium Linux – It’s Really Fast
A pre-alpha, Linux web browser called Chromium (which Google Chrome is based on) in the recent SunSpider benchmark revealed that it’s actually 4x faster than the latest stable Firefox release.
However, Chrome Wndows build was 2x faster than Chromium pre-alpha for Linux. Continue Reading
Convert YouTube Videos to MP3
In case you want to convert YouTube videos to MP3, here is a simple Firefox add-on to do that.
Basically, it adds a “Convert & Download as MP3” link in video page. Just click on it and download starts.
Vist YouTube 2 MP3 page (addons.mozilla.org).
Mozilla Plays with Firefox New Tab Page
From MozillaLabs:
We’ve been iterating quickly over the last couple of weeks to define a potential new tab screen for Firefox.
We believe that the new tab screen should have two main functions: (A) To show you the sites you are most likely to be interested in going to, and (B) to not distract you. That’s the paradox: by design success is when the pages we show are maximally interesting/distracting, but an explicit goal is to not interrupt your flow. Continue Reading
5 Best Web Browsers
LifeHacker has published a nice sum up of 5 most popular web browsers: Chrome, Opera, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari. Feel free to check it.
Thanks to Daniel for sending this.
