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Get Firefox 3.5 Final Right Now [Firefox 3.5]
Firefox 3.5 is worlds better than 3.0 with powers like geo-location and serious speed to compete with Chrome and Safari 4, so grab it nownownow. Update: It's official! [Firefox, Softpedia via DS]
June 30 2009, 2:27pm | Comments
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Firefox 3.5 RC Available: Stable & Fast
Written by Simon Mackie. Firefox 3.5 is a superb browser — the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine’s performance and memory management mean that it’s great for working with resource-heavy web apps. The Mozilla team has now released the first…
June 18 2009, 2:15pm | Comments
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Demo: FireFox 3.5 Treats Videos Like Web Pages. Why Can’t Flash Do That?
Mike Beltzner, the director of Firefox, was in New York City today and dropped by my office to talk about Firefox 3.5, which is now officially being rolled out as a “preview” version (a very stable beta) to…
June 10 2009, 12:54am | Comments
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Latest Google Chrome Release Is a Speed Demon
Written by Samuel Dean. The Google Chrome team has announced a new version of the open-source browser, touting up to 30 percent performance increases on JavaScript-heavy tasks. I’ve taken it for a spin, comparing it to Firefox 3.5…
May 22 2009, 2:00pm | Comments
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Prism single-site browser goes 1.0 beta
Filed under: Cool tools, Internet Tools, Open Source, Beta BeatThe concept of a single-site browser or site-specific browser (SSB, either way) is simple: give me a window with one website in it, preferably a desktop application replacement like…
May 10 2009, 5:00pm | Comments
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Google Continues To Center On Location. Adds It To Its Toolbar.
Location-based services haven’t yet caught fire, but location itself is increasingly finding its way to web services as a complimentary feature. The latest to use it is the Google Toolbar. If you have it installed, and open Google…
April 24 2009, 1:33am | Comments
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11 plug-ins and scripts that will change the way you use Twitter. No technical ability required.
I wrote a few weeks ago about how anyone can easily change the Twitter web interface with Firefox and the GreaseMonkey plug-in (here). The great news is that this process is so easy that there’s little reason not…
February 22 2009, 4:01am | Comments
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Livin' on the edge with optimized, beta Firefox builds
Filed under: Internet Tools, Open Source, Beta BeatDo you feel the need... the need for speed? With more and more of our computing lives taking place via our web browsers, eking out even a slight performance improvement for…
February 8 2009, 4:30pm | Comments
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Beta Beat: Firefox 3 betas add support for multitouch
Filed under: Software, Internet, Internet Tools, Beta BeatDo you own one of those fanciful new MacBooks? You know, the ones with the cool multitouch trackpads? Do you envy Safari users that can take advantage of multi-finger scrolling, pinching…
December 11 2008, 4:10pm | Comments
