October 25, 2012
Facebook has gone places. It is going to a few places more. Mozilla and Facebook have come together to bring a Facebook Messenger for Firefox to the future releases of the browser. The newly created Social API which will connect Firefox users to Facebook via a social sidebar and receive all their updates without opening up a dedicated tab.
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October 23, 2012
The Marketplace is a showcase and a precursor for the full development of the Firefox OS which is the planned platform for low-end smartphones that will run on web technologies and not full-fledged mobile apps as we know them. The Firefox Marketplace is positioned as a breeding ground for apps that will run on web technologies like HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, and tap into the Web APIs of online services.
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October 11, 2012
Firefox 16 just hit the market a couple of days ago, and Mozilla has been forced to pull down the latest version due to a vulnerability. This security threat not only caused Mozilla to take down the latest version, but they are actually encouraging users who have already upgraded to download Firefox 15 and install it on their computer until further notice.
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October 9, 2012
Microsoft no longer calls it Metro, but Firefox is sticking to the name as it prepares its browser for Windows 8. Now, you can test it out with a preview version and see if there’s actually nothing in a name. If you are trying out a 64-bit RTM release of Windows 8, you can download a nightly build of Mozilla Firefox and see if the user experience is good for you.
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September 16, 2012
I remember the very first time that I actually discovered the usefulness of Firefox’s search bar. Up until just before that point, all of my web-searching antics started with navigating to Google, by URL, and then beginning my search. Being able to cut a step out of the process really has its perks, and especially [...]
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September 3, 2012
Multiple tabs are a common reality to modern web browsing. It doesn't take long at all before you have a good number of tabs open, and that's natural. However, despite the great convenience that tabs bring us, it's not always easy to sift through them, especially when we start reaching 20 tabs or more. Therefore, there are tons of extensions which can help you tackle those tabs with ease.
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August 29, 2012
Firefox fans can now download the latest official release. Firefox 15 builds upon earlier enhancements to the browser’s treatment of online games by including native support for compressed textures via WebGL. This will feature will help 3D games running under Firefox provide better texture quality without destroying performance. There’s also new API support for more precise application timing, which is helpful for developers who want to make fast-paced games run in a browser.
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August 20, 2012
Firefox’s interface is completely customizable, including its orange Firefox menu button. You can change its name or color to anything you want – you can even set a custom background image or add your own logo. After you’ve tweaked the look of the button itself, you can easily customize the options that appear when you click the Firefox menu button. To make most of these changes, we’ll be editing Firefox’s userChrome.css file.
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July 27, 2012
As you’ve probably experienced yourself, when you get used to a browser, no matter the annoyances, there are certain features that really grow on you. Features you feel you cannot do without, and are keeping you from switching to a different browser. For me, after a year of using only Chrome, there were several such features that I sorely missed when I finally went back to Firefox. Luckily, there are some awesome add-ons.
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June 27, 2012
If you were one of the users frustrated by the problems with the Firefox app on Android when it first launched, then you are in luck. Mozilla just issued a massive update that overhauls every nearly every single detail of the mobile browser and makes it better overall. The update takes an app that had potential and actually realizes much of it.
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June 6, 2012
It seems like Firefox gets minor updates at least once a month, but this time it really has released the full version of Firefox 13, which has been in beta since April of this year. The upgrade features numerous new UI features and improvements, which will help keep it among the top three web browsers.
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May 22, 2012
Ever since Pinterest came around, I started re-discovering the power of bookmarklets. Recently, Erez told you all about why you should use more bookmarklets and less browser extensions, and while I definitely still use several extensions, there are some websites that work better with bookmarklets. Custom Buttons allows you to turn simple bookmarklets into nice Firefox toolbar buttons.
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May 22, 2012
With an immediate first glance, the title (or the need) sounds a bit stupid. The simple answer you would say – open Chrome and copy-paste the link of the webpage you have opened in Firefox. Absolutely possible… but to me that’s bit of a productivity killer especially when I might need to open more than a single page from Firefox to Chrome.
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April 29, 2012
Firefox 12 is now in the wild, which means it’s time for a new beta. Firefox 13 beta is available for download now and adds a few new features that fans should enjoy. Mozilla has finally jumped on the speed dial bandwagon by redesigning the “New Tab” and “Home Page” areas to look more like [...]
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April 18, 2012
Firefox stores your browser data – bookmarks, history, preferences, extensions, and everything else – in a directory known as a profile. Each user account has a single profile by default, but you don’t have to restrict yourself to just one -- you can create multiple profiles and even run multiple Firefox instances with different profiles as the same time. Set up separate profiles for anything you like.
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