Looks like there is another OS coming into town for tablets and mobile devices, and this time its not by Microsoft or Apple, or Google, its by Mozilla. The organization behind Firefox has plans to develop its own operating system for mobile devices — a clear shot across the bow at Google’s browser-based Chrome OS. In a [...]
Mozilla has released the Firefox 3.6.14 for Mac, Windows and Linux. This minor update fixes several security and stability issues to let you experience the web fast and securely. Just hit the update button or download the latest version from the link below. Download Firefox 3.6.14
Mozilla has released the 5th beta of its popular browser Firefox 4 (Fennec) for Android. The new build is mostly focused on stability, usability, and performance. Firefox 4 beta 5 brings faster startup, fast page loading, smooth scrolling and more. You can get the beta 5 by simply visiting firefox.com/m/beta from your Android. New and improved [...]
File Hosting providers such as MegaUpload and Rapidshare have time limits for non-premium users which is pretty much annoying. You have to wait for 30 seconds to 50 seconds sometimes before you can actually start downloading a file. MUBundle is a free add-on for Firefox that removes the time limit from MegaUpload by auto skipping [...]
Youtube is surfed by millions of users these days, and almost everyone also wants to download the videos, so how can you do that using Google chrome, firefox and opera. It can be done using a user-script. The required user-script is called YouTube Video Download and it is available here. Visit the page and click on install. The [...]
Mozilla has just released the Firefox 4 beta 11. The new beta brings support for Do Not Track (DNT) header and a refreshed default homepage. Do Not Track feature allows you to set a browser preference that will broadcast your desire to opt-out of third party, advertising-based tracking. You can enable DNT feature under Tools>Options>Advanced, [...]
If you’ve got a solid-state drive (SSD), you’ll definitely want to create a RAM disk—a section of system memory that’s used like a small hard drive, just faster—rather than your SSD to reduce wear. Hack a Day points to Esperance DV (CNET link, as the original seems down) for creating a System Preference on a Mac to [...]
We all know how to improve the web browsing speed on windows OS by moving cache to your hard drive from RAM. In Linux systems (specifically Fedora and Ubuntu systems), this can be achieved for Chrome and Firefox by creating a larger ramdisk, mounting the ramdisk after boot, and then setting the browser of choice [...]
The new Firefox mobile betas is good, but Mozilla continues to improve it, this time fixing up a few features like add-on discovery, keyboard support, Firefox Sync, and adding a feature to save a page as a PDF. This release doesn’t add a ton of new features, but does offer a few nice improvements on [...]
Windows/Mac/Linux: Firefox 4 is out with another beta, and this one has mostly bug fixes—more than 1,000 of them, actually. But Mozilla has simplified and improved the process for setting up syncing between desktop and mobile browsers. Mozilla’s servers offer up downloads of Firefox 4 beta 8 (for Windows and Mac, and other languages/OS on the FTP server), [...]