Video: How to Disable Firefox 3 Extensions Compatibility Check

If you’re like me, you probably lost a few extensions during the upgrade to Firefox 3 because the original author simply disappeared and never updated his extensions, or perhaps you came up against a problem and all the solutions seem to point towards an extension incompatible with Firefox 3.

In either case, it’s very annoying not to be able to install or use the extensions that you want/need. This is when disabling the add-on compatibility check comes in handy. All it takes is adding one entry into your about:config, which I’ll show you in the video/steps below. Read more

Weekly Browsers Recap, January 4th

• Make “Add-ons” for Google Chrome Using Bookmarklets
• Power Twitter: Inline Media, Integrated Search And A Lot More
• New Firefox themes for a new year
• An Easier Way to Go Back in Opera Mobile
• Adobe’s Flash and Apple’s Safari Fail a Privacy Test

Web Browsers Security Handbook

Now here is something quite informative. Browser Security Handbook published by Google.

As Google explains, the document is meant to provide web application developers, browser engineers, and information security researchers with a one-stop reference to key security properties of contemporary web browsers.

The following browsers are included: Read more

Google Using Gmail to Convert IE Users to Firefox, Chrome

Beyond pushing Chrome on google.com and planning to roll it out with OEMs, Google has found a new way to tell users about its browser. This time, the search giant is targeting IE users who use Gmail. With a simple “Get faster Gmail” message (which only appears in IE), Google is luring users of its e-mail service to a support page which explains that IE is slow at running Gmail.

The solution, according to Google, is to switch browsers. After offering download links to both Firefox and Chrome, Google notes that IE8 (which is faster at Javascript than previous IE versions) is now in development.

Story continues on ArsTechnica

Firefox Addons - 6 Things You Can Do With Plain Text

Here is a great post on how can you expand your Firefox reading experience.

Plain text to link: turn any highlighted text into a link
Browse pages tagged with this word / phrase on StumbleUpon
Count the highlighted words: word count plus
Search the highlighted word in any search engine you select in your search plugins
Search the highlighted word using multiple search engines: KallOut
Search the highlighted word using Google advanced operators - advanced dork

Weekly Browsers Recap, December 21th

Sorry for not posting last few days. Had no internet (provider problems) connection since Thursday. Time to catch up.

• Google Chrome To Become Default Internet Web Browser
• Recent Updates Flood in for Google Chrome
• Test Finds Google Chrome, Apple Safari Weakest in Browser Password Management
• Analysis: Is Microsoft’s IE Flaw The Last Nail In Its Desktop Coffin?
• Microsoft releases patch for critical IE security flaw
• Firefox 2.0.0.20 now available for download
• Mozilla Officially Ends Support for Firefox 2
• Camino 1.6.6 Released
• Amaya 11 Released

Firefox 3.0.5 Released - No Eula

Mozilla team has released an update for its Firefox 3.0 branch web browser. The following release fixes 8 security vulnerabilities, adds more languages (Bengali, Esperanto, Galicia, Hindi, and Latvian) and no longer includes eula during installation.

Download Firefox 3.0.5

Browsers Test: Midori vs. Firefox 3.0 vs. Opera 10 Alpha vs. Konqueror vs. Arora

It’s time to test some other web browsers this time. Who is the fastest browser among those in V8 Benchmark Suite and who scores most in Acid 3 test? Let’s find out.

Note: This article was written by one of our readers: Dainius. You may check the original post here (non English).

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Weekly Browsers Recap, December 14th

• Google dumps Firefox from download bundle, swaps in Chrome
• Fennec/Mobile Firefox coming to Symbian S60 in 2009
• Firefox, Chrome virtually tied for JavaScript speed
• Time for Mac Antivirus? Apple Safari Users Targeted on Facebook
• Microsoft Gets More Detailed About IE Vulnerability and Workarounds
• Skyfire rolls out UK mobile browser
• Net Applications again: Opera vs. Chrome - actual numbers vs. claimed market share

Internet Explorer 8 Is the Safest Web Browser

Internet Explorer 8 — Microsoft’s latest release, currently at the Beta 2 stage — was declared to be the safest (aka more secure than Firefox 3.1 Beta and Chrome Beta) but the least popular browser, according to a browser security survey.

On Wednesday, Utest, a social-networking and software testing company, announced the results of its Bug Battle browser contest. The event included participation from 1,330 security pros, hobbyists and tech enthusiasts, who found an alarming 672 bugs in the world’s top three Web browsers. Read more

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