On 16th June 2008 @ 09:16 am by Arul N S
Finally the word is out… The Download day or the day IE get its a$$ kicked is 17th June 2008. It is celebration time at Mozilla Community as the market share is steadily growing for Firefox and every other news service is covering this huge event. My Google News alerts for Firefox is flooding with the release news. Also another reason for the Mozilla Foundation to open the cork would be the 10th anniversary of its launch. On March 31st 1998, the first Mozilla Code became publicly available under the Open Source License and Mozilla Foundation took shape.
So for the people who are joining this party late… Please download your copy of Firefox on June 17th from here
On 10th June 2008 @ 12:07 am by Arul N S
With the entire netizen community going ga-ga over announcements of Firefox 3 release and checking out the release candidates, everybody seemed to have missed out the news from Micro$oft last week about their next disaster in the line. It seems Ballmer and his gang will burden us with next beta release of Internet Explorer 8 this August. For now IE 8 looks very much similar to IE 7 and the major changes or additions would be that Micro$oft would be trying to adhere to standards more than what it has been doing all this time. This would also make IE 8 incompatible with the pages which were specifically coded for non-standard versions of previous IE. IE 8 also would introduce us to Web Slices which is somewhat similar to Active Desktop. We can also expect Micro$oft to plug many vulnerabilities and introduce many in this upcoming release.
I am certainly not very anxious for this release. For now Firefox seems to take care of my browsing requirements.
On 9th June 2008 @ 11:19 pm by Arul N S
One of the features that got attention was the bookmarks management in Firefox 3. Lately I have had the need to bookmark many of the links in my bookmarks toolbar. With the favicon displayed next to the side, it was pleasing and eye-catching. But the space was restricted and the links started to overflow the given width. So little googling to increase the height of my bookmarks toolbar brought me to MozillaZine (which I should have done before going to Google). This is how you go about it….
- Go to Firefox’s Profile directory ( Press [Win]+[R], and type “%APPDATA%” to go to your apps directory and you will find a directory called Mozilla and then navigate to your profile directory inside)
- In chrome folder, there might be a file called “userChrome.css“. If not you might have a example file and even if that is not there then create one using notepad.
- Inside type the following based on which version of Firefox you are running. Please change the height variable according to your needs. 54px worked out for me. Then save the file and restart Firefox to have as much bookmarks as you want in your toolbar.
For Firefox 2
/* Multi-row bookmarks toolbar */
#bookmarks-ptf {display:block !important;}
#bookmarks-ptf toolbarseparator {display:inline !important;}
and sometimes you might need to add this also
/* Sometimes you may need this */
#PersonalToolbar {max-height: none !important;}
For Firefox 3 (this worked out for me)
/* Multi-row bookmarks toolbar for Fx3b5pre*/
#bookmarksBarContent
{display:block !important;}
.places-toolbar-items
{display:block !important;
height: 54px !important;
overflow-y:auto !important;}
#bookmarksBarContent toolbarseparator
{display:inline !important;}
#bookmarksBarContent .bookmark-item
{visibility: visible !important;}
.chevron {height: 0px !important;}
On 7th June 2008 @ 03:58 pm by Arul N S
After I switched over to Firefox 3, I noticed that my Firefox used to freeze whenever I was downloading or to be more precise whenever a huge download finished. After few spending some time with the task manager and Google, I came to find that the culprit was the built-in feature of Firefox which scanned the downloads using the already installed anti-virus application in my system. Even though this feature is a good one, in my humble opinion its a drag for somebody who downloads in and out daily. It could be useful feature for a novice or my grandma if she ever wanted to use a computer but not certainly to me. I believe any person who spends more than an hour over the Internet daily would be sensible enough to have a anti-virus application running and update it frequently. Your own anti-virus application should be able to take care of it instead of the browser taking the load.
So after spending some time with Google, I got lead to gHacks who had a detailed article on it. So here is how you disable this feature, type “about:config” in your Firefox’s address bar and run a search filter for browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone and change the parameter value to false which will disable the automatic scanning.
via [gHacks]
On 7th June 2008 @ 03:12 pm by Arul N S
Yesterday Opera annonced that its upcoming Opera 9.5 version would have built-in malware protection in response to the built in feature of the much expected Mozilla’s Firefox 3. According to the press release, Opera is typing up with Haute Secure to protect its users from the next generation web based threats. Presently Firefox uses data from Google for its malware protection.
We have to watch how good is the Opera’s protection compared to Firefox 3 or IE 8 in the days to come. But for now, according to CNET it has to improve a lot to compete with Google.
Source: [Opera via CNET ]
On 6th June 2008 @ 03:42 am by Arul N S
For those who didn’t jump the bandwagon with RC1 release of Firefox 3, now is the time to check it out the all new faster, safer Fox… This is the final release candidate of the new broswer with latest Gecko 1.9 Engine and the public release can be expected any time in June. Watch out for the day since it is called as the “Download Day” and Mozilla Foundation is aiming for a record number of downloads within 24 hours of the release. You can help the cause by downloading FF3 at your home, work and help spread the word.
On 1st June 2008 @ 04:49 pm by Arul N S
It’s high time we digged a grave for Internet Explorer… Now that Firefox 3 is here, I am sure that IE can be finally put to rest… I had downloaded the release candidate a week back and was amazed at the speed… esp the Google applications like Gmail, G Reader, G Calendar… Eventhough most of my Firefox 2 add-ons are disabled, I didn’t have the heart to go back to 2.o…
We can expect the final release sometime in June and according to Spread Firefox.com, the launch is going to be celebrated as the download day where a new world record (not that some previous record exists)for the most software downloads in 24 hours.. So please download the software within 24 hours of its release… You can also pledge your support…
Go Firefox…
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