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
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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
Mozilla releases version 3 of Thunderbird e-mail client
If you’re an e-mail client user, then you should consider Mozilla’s latest version of Thunderbird (version 3) released this week. New features include tabs a la Firefox (and other web browsers), better integration with Gmail, a new archiving feature, and more. Open-source Thunderbird 3 is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
Mozilla Labs’ Raindrop project aims to cut through e-mail clutter
Do you get too much e-mail, whose volume has grown significantly in recent times due to social networking notifications from the likes of Facebook & Twitter? How do you sort it out and quickly? Filters? Folders? Those methods may be doing the trick right now, but Mozilla Labs is working on a different approach –… Continue reading Mozilla Labs’ Raindrop project aims to cut through e-mail clutter
Firefox 3.1 Beta is out
New features include even better Web standards improvements, location awareness, a new tab-switching preview that some folks are raving about. Read more about it and/or download it now.