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Make Your Extensions Work with Firefox 3.6 [Firefox]

Lifehacker (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

Firefox only: If you've already started using the Firefox 3.6 Beta release , you're going to need more than the old checkCompatibility trick to get your extensions working again. To stop everyone from simply ignoring the compatibility checks and using problematic add-ons that haven't been updated in a while, Mozilla removed the ability to turn off extension compatibility checking entirely and now...

Firefox is going to beat Microsoft's IE9 at its own game

Download Squad (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

Filed under: Internet , Microsoft , Mozilla , Browsers Hot on the heels of the announcement that IE9 would use Direct2D to improve its rendering performance, Firefox have stated their intent to do the same -- and sooner! In a a tweet, Chris Blizzard, an employee of Mozilla, said that Firefox would include Direct2D support -- and he bet it would be shipped sooner than IE9! Direct2D is a technology...

Three Methods To Force Add-On Compatibility In Firefox

gHacks (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

You might have read in our announcement post about the latest Firefox 3.6 beta that the Mozilla developer’s have changed the add-on compatibility parameter in the Firefox web browser. This article will therefor describe three different ways to force add-on compatibility in the upcoming Firefox 3.6 browser. It has to be noted that forcing compatibility [...]

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Firefox Image Host Downloader

gHacks (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

Imagehosts like Imagefap, Fapomatic or Photobucket are popular places to host photos and images on. Many blogs, forums and other websites make use of these image hosts to avoid huge bandwidth and server costs as the majority of traffic is shouldered by these services. Users on the other hand do not like image hosts that [...]

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Firefox's Plan to Kick the Login's Butt

ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | yesterday

Firefox gets distributed social networking and identity management. The good people who work on the revolutionary, open-sourced, and occasionally maligned browser have been hard at work on making cross-site navigation and portable IDs a solvable problem. A discrete button to the left of the URL that can tell users whether or not they are logged in to a particular site and allow them to log in without...

How To Force Extension Compatibility with Firefox 3.6+

the How-To Geek (Free subscription) | yesterday

If you’ve already upgraded to Firefox 3.6, you might have noticed that many of your extensions no longer work, and the old checkCompatibility trick doesn’t work anymore. Or does it? Thanks to my good buddy Daniel for pointing out this trick to me. His personal blog is so nerdy it will make your head explode. Force Extension Compatibility with Firefox 3.6+ This is the error you get when...

Why to embrace Firefox 3.6's new-tab ethos

Cnet (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

A change to how the new browser positions new tabs is subtle but good, especially as browsers rise in importance. But more work is needed in tab switching.

Firefox 3.5 plug-ins

Download Firefox (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago

Firefox has become most popular open-source browser from all round the world. Everyone is amazed by looking its new fixes, clever tools and features that makes every new release exciting. Previous version was Firefox launched Taskfox along with Ubiquity. However, it is still in experimental phase. Day by day it is shifting to robust, cross-platform [...]

New Screenshots of Firefox for AmigaOS 4

OS News (Free subscription) | yesterday

An effort is currently under way to port the Firefox web browser to the Amiga operating system. This effort goes by the name Project Timberworlf, and is the latest in a long line of efforts to port Firefox to alternative operating systems. This raises the question: is Firefox really suited for these small platforms?

Locationbar² adds breadcrumbs, domain emphasis to your Firefox address bar

Download Squad (Free subscription) | yesterday

Filed under: Mozilla , Browsers Firefox's Awesome Bar is definitely a more powerful tool than it used to be. It's still got room for improvement and tweaking, though - and fortunately there are plenty of nifty add-ons available to do just that. One worth checking out is Locationbar² . You can see one of the add-on's features in my screenshot. Hold down your control, shift, or alt key and...

SearchGeek for Firefox 20090701

Softpedia - Latest Mac software (Free subscription) | yesterday

A Firefox add-on that installs the SearchGeek SE in your search drop-down list

Searchalot for Firefox 20090701

Softpedia - Latest Mac software (Free subscription) | yesterday

A Firefox add-on that enables you to quickly search a keyword on more SE simultaneously

Firefox hopes to one-up IE with fast graphics

ZDNet (Free subscription) | yesterday

Microsoft showed off some browser technology that could help Internet Explorer leapfrog the competition. But Mozilla could be one step ahead. Last week, Microsoft showed off some browser technology that could help Internet Explorer leapfrog the competition. But if Mozilla succeeds in its hope, Microsoft could be playing catch-up...

• Firefox hopes to one-up IE with fast graphics  - chiks
• Firefox hopes to one-up IE with fast graphics - Cnet
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Porn Facebook hack hits Firefox

Computerworld UK (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

The mechanism behind a click-jacking attack that was spread by luring in Facebook users with a link to a porn site that has the potential to do more damage than just embarrassing those who fall for it.

Christian Anti-PrOn 1.0.5 | Firefox Add-On

MoPo | Geek News (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago

Flee sexual immorality (1Co 6:18). Christian Anti-Porn will filter links and alert the user if any porn websites are clicked. This will not block but warn every Christian that he is going to crucify Jesus Christ again if he proceeds to such websites.Ceiling Cat Disapproves.

Firefox hopes to one-up IE with fast graphics

chiks | yesterday

Last week, Microsoft showed off some browser technology that could help Internet Explorer leapfrog the competition. But if Mozilla succeeds in its hope, Microsoft could be playing catch-up instead. The technology in question is hardware-accelerated graphics and text using interfaces called Direct2D and DirectWrite that provide an easy way to use graphics cards' computing power. They're built into Windows...

FIREFOX turned into a contextual browser

bigreddog | 11/16/2009

A new comer in the world of News readers: Firefox powered by Red Panda's add-on. Red Panda turns Firefox into a contextual browser. To each page is associated a series of News from Google News, Blogs, Diggs and even Twitter, Red Panda analyzes each page on-the-fly and displays related news. Pretty cool. A powerful way to fight against overloaded pages offered by iGoogle and other NetVibes.

Mozilla Released Firefox 3.5.4 with Improved Security Updates

lavanya10 | 10/30/2009

Mozilla has released an update for Firefox , version 3.5.4 , that includes some important security updates. Other than security and stability issues fixes there are not much notable changes