Tag: firefox

Download Firefox to Treat Red Pandas

Mozilla has introduced a new campaign aimed to promote Firefox 4. The campaign streams cuteness from the Knoxville Zoo in the form of two female baby red pandas which are also called firefox (as pictured in this article) and by downloading Firefox 4 Beta you help earn “treats” for the red pandas including jungle gyms,… Continue reading Download Firefox to Treat Red Pandas

Web Browsers Benchmarked

Ars Technica performed a battery of tests with modern browsers. All tests were run on the latest stable and the recent nightly build of each browser. The tests included SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark to measure JavaScript performance, V8 Benchmark Suite which is developed by Google, Nontroppo General Browser Load-Time Test and the Peacekeeper: The Browser Benchmark.… Continue reading Web Browsers Benchmarked

Mozilla Plugin Check – are your plugins up-to-date?

Mozilla Firefox plug-ins extend the Firefox browser to power videos, animation, read PDFs and play games. While these plug-ins empower Firefox to do more, plug-ins are typically targeted and exploited by hackers to gain access to your system (usually to install bots). Users must keep plug-ins up-to-date, but unfortunately most people do not perform upgrades.… Continue reading Mozilla Plugin Check – are your plugins up-to-date?

Review: Mozilla Weave keeps your Firefox installations in sync

Mozilla Labs has just released Weave 1.0 and (so far) it rocks for sync’ing up my Firefox installs on different computers. Weave is actually a lot more than just a synchronization tool, but that’s the first service to come out of the project. So what’s the point of it? Let me paint you a picture:… Continue reading Review: Mozilla Weave keeps your Firefox installations in sync

Latest version of Firefox, 3.6, is faster, has new theme feature, Personas

Mozilla has released the latest version of Firefox, 3.6, and it claims a 20% speed improvement over v3.5. I just installed and startup certainly seems a lot faster. I’ve also noticed an improvement in memory usage. New features include improved security features like anti-phishing and anti-malware detection and warning, improved JavaScript performance, support for new… Continue reading Latest version of Firefox, 3.6, is faster, has new theme feature, Personas

Google’s Chrome 2 Web Browser – faster?

Google recently released version 2 of Chrome, their Web browser. Although not a major release, it incorporates new versions of WebKit, the browser engine, and V8, the JavaScript engine. Two new features include Fullscreen mode (F11) and Auto-Fill for web forms. As much as we like Chrome from a pure Web browser perspective, we’re not… Continue reading Google’s Chrome 2 Web Browser – faster?

The Read it Later Firefox extension

Sometimes I just want to turn Gizmos for Geeks into a cool productivity tools blog. Fear not readers, we won’t be doing that, but there really are so many cool software & Web tools being introduced or improved all the time. Take for example, the Read it Later Firefox extension which helps out you news… Continue reading The Read it Later Firefox extension

Google enters Web browser market with Chrome

Google sure knows how to light up the news sites and blogosphere – release a brand new Web browser! Called Chrome, it’s Google’s foray into a once-crowded market that is now dominated by just 2 players (at least on Windows) – Microsoft and Mozilla. Everyone else has reported on and given their opinion, so why… Continue reading Google enters Web browser market with Chrome