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The beta version of Mozilla’s popular browser “Firefox” is now released and available for download from the Mozilla FTP server. Now like all any beta version software expect some bugs and unexpected crashes.

So what is new in this beta release you may ask. Well, to sum it up in a paragraph better JavaScript retendering performance, improvement to Gecko 1.9.2, tab preview (Yay!) and some function to do with accelerometer, which I will write up in another post.

Like I have previously said, expect bugs and unexpected crashes. So don’t use it as your main browser!

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  3. Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1 (Namoroka) – Tab preview is back!!

LastPass is a free password management program. It has been available as a extension to many browsers like Firefox and Internet Explorer for a while now. However it was not supported on Google Chrome until today.

LastPass manages all your passwords and you can simply fill in login forms with just one simple click. LastPass also comes with a password generator which will produce some strong password which are harder to brute-hack.

LastPass for Google Chrome is available right now on the latest Dev build. To install LastPass point your Chrome browser to https://lastpass.com/lpchrome.crx. Once you have installed LastPass you can disable Chrome’s inbuilt password manager from options.

LastPass for Chrome is still on the first version, there may still be bugs. But its working great on my Chrome installed on Windows XP SP3, if you do try it out let me know how your experience was.

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The image above says it all, with a proper browser you can save precious battery life on your laptop. The best performer Internet Explorer 8 outlasted 34minute longer than the worst performer Safari 4.

Big surprise was that IE8 came in better than Firefox with adblock installed by 7 minute. However if your doing some intensive browsing on your laptop Firefox would still come out on top as you might find due to its superior page loading speed over IE8 which might save you a good 10-15 minute.

Source [Gizmodo]

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  3. Firefox Extensions I have Installed (Part 1)

Firefox Extensions I have Installed (Part 1)

12 September 2009

Some of my friends always ask me what extensions I have installed on my installation of firefox that make its look so different and unique. So I thought hey why not make a post about it.
What makes me choose Firefox over all the other browser is that additional features can be easily installed. The robustness [...]

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Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1 (Namoroka) – Tab preview is back!!

11 August 2009

Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1 codenamed (Namoroka) is an early build of the next version of Firefox. Its alpha version so its build for developers and testers. The news in this release is that tab preview is back. Tab preview is not stranger to Firefox testers. Having being added, removed before version 3.5 was launched and [...]

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Vertical Tab for Firefox to Save Your Screen Estate

5 August 2009

Do you feel that most websites on the internet are not using the entire computer monitor? Especially when you have a widescreen monitor or laptop with widescreen display.  So how do you utilise this extra space you have on either side of your screen?

Well the answer is simple, by using a vertical tab display. Have [...]

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Firefox surpasses one billion downloads

3 August 2009

Big news this week was that Firefox has just passed a major milestone in its quest to have the largest market share for browsers. As of now from the Firefox twitter counter, we see that the download is now 1,002,578,410.
The exact twit was
1,002,578,410 downloads at 17.7 per second on 2009-08-02 13:21 UTC
I cant believe I [...]

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