Posts Tagged with ‘firefox’

Exactly one month ago Google launched a browser of its own - Chrome. Blogosphere was abuzz for a couple of weeks and the interest still seems to be here to a certain extent (though much less than initially) so I wanted to share with you some results from the first month of operation of Google’s very own browser.
Given the entire buzz that surrounded Google’s browser launch, it is no wonder that everyone was immediately excited about the browser and its [...]

Normally people use social bookmarking services like Delicious or Ma.gnolia to bookmark pages that they find interesting and to demonstrate their support to website owners by acknowledging that they find their content useful.
People also import their bookmarks from browsers to social bookmarking sites to keep them as a backup which can be useful if something unexpected happens to your browser. But there are some pages bookmarked that are simply beyond my understanding. Like when you want to do a search [...]

Since everyone seems to be determined to cover Google’s newly-launched Chrome browser on every side, I have decided to join in after I’ve been playing with the browser for a few days and reading literally hundreds of posts about it everywhere. This post is intended to demystify Google’s browser a little and show that some of the hype around it is merely about Google actually launching a browser instead of the innovative approaches implemented in the browser itself - no [...]

A few hours ago (at 6.10 p.m. PST) all the online users of the latest version of Firefox 2 started to receive prompts to upgrade to Firefox 3 finally. All the Firefox 2.0.0.17 users will be invited to upgrade within the next couple of days. This time Firefox will not upgrade itself automatically (as it constantly did for upgrades between various versions of Firefox 2) but instead will show an offer for the users to make their comprehensive decisions:

There is [...]

Firefox team has announced the winners in the Extend Firefox 3 contest for Firefox extensions and add-ons. Let’s take a look at the winners and see what the experts recruited think are the tools we are supposed to benefit the most of using with our dearest Firefox browsers.
Over 100 various extensions have been submitted by the developers since the contest was launched in March. 3 add-ons were named winners in the best new add-on category with 6 more runners-up. Additionally [...]

It was only yesterday that we discussed Mozilla’s idea to crowdsource definition of the future of the web, internet browser in particular, by calling for concepts of what internet users want the perfect browser of the future to be. Now it seems that Mozilla already has some plans of their own - and these plans seem to include Firefox domination in every possible field.
Mozilla has announced plans to develop Snowl, a Firefox extension that is intended to combine all your [...]

The blogosphere is abuzz around the latest initiative named concept series by Mozilla to find out what internet users actually want the internet future to be like. Sure, for Mozilla as the creator of Firefox the most important thing is how what we expect of our browsers - they really seem to want to make our browsing experience a perfect one (and I do hope they will succeed since even on their own every new version of Firefox [...]

I don't use Firefox.  Say what you like about me personally, but I'm a dedicated Mac user.  I get what I need from Safari, and Camino makes for a nice alternative when necessary.  If I was using a PC, Firefox would be top dog, but thankfully, I am not. 
With that said, Firefox 3 came out, and I wasn't about to throw a party.  I downloaded it and gave it a shot, but it didn't woo me.  However, when [...]

Every so often, one of these “not an app, but a feature” products surprises me. SurfCanyon is one of those feature products. Originally designed as a web site, they have relaunched as a browser plug-in designed to make your search results better.
SurfCanyon runs on top of Google, Yahoo, and Live searches (not Ask.com, though, or any of the search aggregators like Dogpile), unobtrusively. All you see is a small target icon next to a link in search results. If you [...]