Firefox, an open source application that needs no introduction. A browser that has succesfully been eating away it it’s competitors market share since the early parts of the decade. Firefox with it’s theming and extenibility is an incredibly adaptible and customizable browser. As of version 3 a lot of work has gone into a set of new features, mainly for HTML 5 and CSS 3. read more… »
46 Firefox Features You Might Not Know About
The Inevitable Firefox vs Chrome debate
With the Chrome browser gaining market share, with it’s innovative feature set and interface, it is heating up competition for the open source giant, Firefox. Firefox, initially paved the way for an alternative browser lifestyle that many internet surfers enjoy today. It’s quite easily filled a need that Internet Explorer couldn’t, mainly being security and innovative ergonomics. read more… »
5 Years of Firefox, A Testement To Open Source Potential
With the recent passing of Firefox’s fifth birthday, it got me thinking of the magnitude of good this innovative browser has done to promote the open source software movement. I clearly recall back in 2005 when I first stumbled on this browser in my search to rid myself of the virus prone Internet Explorer 6.
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Firefox 3.6 Beta 2 Now Avalaible
Firefox 3.6 beta 2 is now avalaible for download. Note that although beta’s are reasonably stable there are still bugs and therefore are not intended for production usage. The new 3.6 version brings along with it many new improvements and features that were meant for 3.5. Along with about 190 bug fixes.
Firefox, Gmail Love – 5 Gmail Firefox Extensions
Gmail, a product that broke convention and literally changed the webmail field forever. Gmail continues to be the leading webmail service, despite competitor’s efforts. However with all of Gmail’s greatness, it sometimes wouldn’t hurt to pimp it up slightly with some extra useful features. This is where Firefox and its extensibility comes to the rescue.
Firefox 4 Proposals
While the open source community is still working on Firefox 3.7, the community hasn’t hesitated to begin proposals for the next major milestone of Firefox’s evolution, Firefox 4.0. According to these screen shots, the developers appear to be struggling with the decision of placing the tabs above, like Google Chrome, or leaving them in their current position. Another welcome change illustrated in these screen shots show the duel function stop/reload button which is a much welcomed addition as it reduces tool bar clutter and possibly increases usability.
Thunderbird 3 Edges Closer
For those who don’t know about Thunderbird, Thunderbird is Firefox’s sister application, a powerful email client that shares Firefox’s incredible might for extensibility and usability.
“Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. The project strategy is modeled after Mozilla Firefox, a project aimed at creating a web browser. On December 7, 2004, version 1.0 was released, and received over 500,000 downloads in its first three days of release, and 1,000,000 in 10 days” – Wikipedia
