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    In The Coming HTML5 Browser Wars, The Markup Should Remain The Same

    Submitted by admin on Thu, 09/02/2010 - 17:39
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    On Monday, Google made a big splash with a customized Arcade Fire video page that showed off all the cool things HTML5 can do, from video, animations and 3D rendering to gorgeous fonts and choreographed windows. It’s all cutting edge stuff as far as what is possible with a Web browser goes, but there is one very big problem. It doesn’t work so great in all browsers, even browsers that supposedly support HTML5. If you go to the landing page that launches the video in Firefox or even the forthcoming IE9 (which isn’t out yet, but is very HTML5-friendly), it detects your browser and suggests you use Chrome instead. I received the following message on Firefox:

    This site was designed with Google Chrome in mind and is unable to render properly in your browser. For the best viewing experience, we recommend downloading Google Chrome and trying this site again.

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    Snippet: How to Disable Firefox 4 Tab Preview in Windows 7

    Submitted by admin on Thu, 09/02/2010 - 14:00
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    firefox4-preview-mainWe all know that Firefox 4 comes with plenty of interesting and useful features. However, there is one feature that really annoy me out of hell – the tab preview feature (only available for Windows 7).

    Here’s what happen: Let’s assume that your Firefox browser is opened with plenty of tabs, but it is not currently your active application (you might be doing some work in Ms. Office). When you hover your mouse above the Firefox icon in the taskbar, it will show a preview of all the opened tabs. This is good and fine as I can now pick the tab that I want to go to. The bad part is, I don’t want to manually select the tab everytime. When I click on the Firefox icon, I would expect it to switch to the browser immediately and load my last active tab, not to make me select the tab. /> id="more-20681"> /> firefox4-tab-preview

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    Google Chrome Version 6 Arrives on Browser’s Second Birthday

    Submitted by admin on Thu, 09/02/2010 - 12:44
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    Check out some awesome HTML5 audio demos with Firefox 4 (video)

    Submitted by admin on Wed, 09/01/2010 - 12:00
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    Filed under: Audio, Mozilla, Browsers

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    Firefox 4 Review: App Tab, Panorama and Sync

    Submitted by admin on Mon, 08/30/2010 - 16:00
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    firefox4-mainMozilla has recently released the fourth beta of the Firefox 4 browser. I have been testing it since the first beta and I am happy to see the progress and the addition of new features with each beta. I have held on the review of Firefox 4 because most of the features are still unstable or not in place. With the release of beta 4, things are becoming more stable and plenty of new (and revolutionary) features are added to it, so it would be a great time to do up a review. There will probably be another one or two more beta before we see the release candidate and the final version. /> id="more-20478">

    New Interface

    Firefox 4 has gone through a big design change. The first thing that you will notice is the replacement of the menu bar with a menu button (currently only available in WIndows and Mac version). The new big orange menu button is located on the very top left corner of the browser, and when clicked, will open up a compact menu window. While I don’t really like the orange color and the location that it is situated, I do welcome the idea of replacing the menu bar with the button. It makes the browser more clean and compact.

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    How to Perform Site Specific Search With Google, Yahoo and Bing

    Submitted by admin on Thu, 08/26/2010 - 16:00
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    Site Specific SearchPreviously we have discussed how to perform a country specific search using any search engine. This involves filtering search results from a specific country which can be useful in certain situations. We have also seen how to perform language specific search on the web. In this tutorial we are going to learn how to use different search engines to perform a site specific search.

    By site specific search I mean that you can use a search engine to find content from a specific blog, website or forum. Sometimes you may want to search a popular blog for some tutorial and it’s not always very comfortable to open blogs in different tabs and use their search box to find the content you are looking for.

    Instead, you can search any website from Google, Yahoo or Bing. The advantage is that you can filter all the posts that match with specific keywords directly from a search engine. /> id="more-20055">

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    Is Mozilla making a huge mistake by breaking add-ons so badly on Firefox 4?

    Submitted by admin on Wed, 08/25/2010 - 18:00
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    Filed under: Mozilla, Browsers, Op-Ed

    firefox

    I'm stoked about Firefox 4; I think many of us are. It's a beautiful browser, and with the addition of Tab Candy (now "Panorama") it's even cooler.

    Whenever Mozilla release a new version of Firefox, add-ons break. It's routine, nobody's overly worked up about it by now. The Mozilla add-ons site is littered with yesteryear's great extensions, including such crowd pleasers as Hit-a-Hint which has not been updated since 2007.

    Okay ... so with every iteration, some add-ons get left behind, and some are updated by their creators and live on. That's just how the system works, right?

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    HOW TO: Change the Google Logo to Your Favorite Google Doodle

    Submitted by admin on Fri, 08/20/2010 - 14:14
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  • Firefox Friday Five - "We miss Sebastian" edition

    Submitted by admin on Fri, 07/30/2010 - 11:00
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    Filed under: Features, Mozilla, Browsers

    firefoxfridayfive

    As Sebastian is still in Montenegro, I will be presenting you with today's Firefox Friday Five. I know you guys miss him, but fret not - he's due back around Tuesday, so next week's installment shall indubitably be British in style and flavour. For now, though, you're stuck with me -- so buckle up and enjoy the ride!

    This week we've seen two pretty exciting releases from Mozilla, plus one aimed at developers, as well as a great add-on and a Greasemonkey script to round it all off. Read on for the details!

    1. Firefox 4 Beta 2 hits the interwebs:

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    Dear Firefox, please fix the crappy Find UI already

    Submitted by admin on Tue, 07/13/2010 - 16:33
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    firefox

    Firefox is doing a lot of usability-related work recently. And really, it now sports a fairly usable UI. It's kind of sluggish at times, but it is my browser of choice, mainly for political reasons.

    But one thing never fails to piss me off ... why does the Find function have to be so bad?

    Many people use large monitors these days (and often, more than one). This means that we often have a large mass of text all over the screen, but we want to find just a single word. This is a common function, and both Opera and Chrome have taken major strides in order to make it usable.

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    Add Safari Reader-Like Powers to Firefox and Chrome [Add-ons]

    Submitted by admin on Mon, 06/21/2010 - 09:45
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    <!-- div style="background-color: #B3B3B3; width: 160px; padding: 1px;">#addons

    Click here to read Add Safari Reader-Like Powers to Firefox and Chrome

    The Safari 5 feature that's caught the web's attention is the Reader button, which strips down articles and blog posts into an ad-free, highly readable format.

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    Firefox Downloads are 2.5 Times Greater than Google Chrome

    Submitted by admin on Sat, 06/19/2010 - 22:30
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    A Mozilla Firefox employee, Asa Dotzler, in his blog,  has estimated from the recent download stats of both Google Chrome and Firefox that, for every one new user of Google Chrome there will be 2.5 new users of Firefox. He has also created a graph in which you can see the download rates of both the browsers. Here is the graph:

    firefox_chrome_graph

    It is difficult to say which is good. Firefox has been ruling the browser industry for a long time, while the new baby, Google Chrome has also made a tremendous growth in a short span of time.

    However, I personally feel that, one factor for the exponential growth of the Chrome browser is advertising. Google has been advertising its browser everywhere. Starting from its homepage, Chrome ads are on, almost every page of Youtube. They also have promoted it offline by creating banners all over Europe.

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    Firefox tip: Make location bar font larger, no add-on needed

    Submitted by admin on Wed, 04/21/2010 - 14:00
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    AwesomeBar

    Firefox's AwesomeBar is great, but there is no easy way to make the text (and the bar itself) larger from within Firefox. So this little trick might come in handy to those of you who use large monitors which are located somewhat far away.

    1) Go to your chrome folder (not the browser Chrome, but Firefox's chrome configuration folder):

     C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[something random].default\chrome

    2) Using Notepad or another text editor, edit userChrome.css.

    3) Add the following lines:

      #urlbar { font-size:25px !important; height:42px !important; }

    4) Now restart Firefox.

    That's it! You should now get nice, large text in the AwesomeBar. What's cool about this method is that it seems compatible with many themes and add-ons.

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    Weekly Browsers Recap, April 19th

    Submitted by admin on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 16:09
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    Weekly Browsers Recap, April 19th

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    March, 2010 – Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari Share Goes Up; IE – Down

    Submitted by admin on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 15:50
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    March, 2010 – Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari Share Goes Up; IE – DownInternet Explorer slowly nears 60% market share mark. This time it went down from 61.58 to 60.65, 0.93 point decrease.

    In March, Firefox managed to increase its market share by 0.29 point, moving up from 24.23% to 24.52%.

    Google Chrome continues to grow steadily; 0.52 point increase this time, up from 5.61% to 6.13%.

    Safari has also increased its market share by 0.2 point, from 4.45% to 4.65%.

    Opera’s market share also went up by 0.02 point, from 2.35% to 2.37%.

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    Maxthon 3.0 Receives GPU Rendering Support

    Submitted by admin on Thu, 04/15/2010 - 15:15
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    Maxthon team has released a technical preview of Maxthon 3.0 web browser, which now includes a GPU rendering support for smoother text on Web pages.

    Here’s an example:

    Maxthon 3.0 Receives GPU Rendering Support

    “The current implementation of GPU rendering is merely an initial step. The final version will be more powerful and will support more features”, Jeff Chen, CEO of Maxthon said.

    As of today, Firefox 3.7 and Maxthon 3.0 are the only browsers to include GPU accelerator support, with Internet Explorer 9 soon to follow.

    Download Maxthon 3.0.

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    Helvetireader 2 Strips Down and Simplifies Google Reader [User Scripts]

    Submitted by admin on Mon, 03/29/2010 - 06:40
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    Helvetireader 2 Strips Down and Simplifies Google ReaderFirefox/Chrome/Opera/Safari (with user script support): The original Helvetireader gave Google Reader a facelift, with a singular font and emphasis on keyboard shortcuts. Helvetireader 2, unofficially released, provides even fewer graphical controls, and the author admits it's not everyone's cup of tea.

    Helvetireader's developer has toyed with the idea of releasing Helvetireader 2 as a separate entity, since not everybody might want even more functionality stripped out of Google Reader, with a resulting stronger emphasis on learning all the keyboard shortcuts (visible at any time by entering a "?" key). So before changing everything around, Helvetireader 2 is getting a soft release through Helvetireader's Twitter feed, where you can click to install the mostly finished release as a user script or extension, depending on your browser.

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    How to Stop iTunes Preview Links from Automatically Opening iTunes [Annoyances]

    Submitted by admin on Fri, 03/26/2010 - 09:00
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    How to Stop iTunes Preview Links from Automatically Opening iTunesApple's offered browser-based iTunes previews for a couple of months now, so is there any good reason my browser should show the preview and open iTunes every time I click an iTunes link? We think not; here's how to fix that.

    Apple-focused site The Apple Blog details how to stop the iTunes web previews from automatically opening iTunes along with the web preview. (You can always choose to click through to iTunes after you've seen the web-based preview.) The post explains how the pages open iTunes (JavaScript), then the author sets out solutions for various browsers (and they should work whether you're on Windows or OS X), including Firefox, Chrome, and Safari. In Firefox, for example:

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    Which Browser Should I Use: Firefox or Chrome? [Ask Lifehacker]

    Submitted by admin on Tue, 03/23/2010 - 11:00
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    Which Browser Should I Use: Firefox or Chrome?Dear Lifehacker,

    I've been a huge fan of Firefox for years (prompted in great part by Lifehacker's recommendation), but it seems like Google Chrome has made huge strides lately. My question: Which is better, Chrome or Firefox? Which should I use?

    Signed,

    Uncertain About My Browser

    Dear Uncertain,

    Yours is a question we've been hearing more and more lately, and with good reason. The fact is, Google Chrome has fixed a lot of problems with Firefox that most Firefox users didn't even know they had, and Firefox is still working to catch up. (Restart-free extension installation, isolated processes that keep one bad tab from crashing the entire browser, etc.) As a result, Chrome's smart feature set has been winning over a lot of Firefox die-hards.

    The answer to your question depends a lot on what operating system you're using, so we'll separate our answers for Windows and Mac users.

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    Etacts Adds Contact Info, Social Networking, and Handy Statistics to Your Gmail Sidebar [Downloads]

    Submitted by admin on Tue, 03/16/2010 - 12:30
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    Etacts Adds Contact Info, Social Networking, and Handy Statistics to Your Gmail SidebarIf you ever thought previously mentioned Xobni looked cool, but you prefer Gmail to Outlook, free Gmail plug-in Etacts adds many of the same features. You get social information, conversation history, and advanced sending preferences right in your Gmail sidebars.

    The Etacts plug-in automatically adds detailed contact information to the sidebar of messages, as shown above, similar to previously mentioned Rapportive, but Etacts takes it one step further. Not only do you get links to any social networks that contact is a part of, and some of the information contained therein (such as their occupation and location), but you also get a detailed summary of your mailing history with them, complete with nice little graphs and charts. All this information is also available in compose mode as well, so you know exactly who you're sending it to.

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