Inside Firefox 3 review
Reviews Firefox 3 offers faster rendering, a vastly reduced use of system resources and clever new data-mining tools for your bookmarks and browser history. The new Firefox interface has gone native, so buttons and icons will look and feel like they are a...
[June 18, 2008, 9:02]
Apple releases public beta of Safari 4
News Safari 4 will also deliver better JavaScript and HTML page-loading than Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 or Mozilla's Firefox 3, Apple added. Safari 4 has passed the Acid3 test developed by the Web Standards Project, while Firefox 3 and Internet...
[February 24, 2009, 16:32]
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS review
Reviews Canonical decided that the beta is close enough to release that having Firefox 3 (FF 3) from the outset made more sense than imposing a major upgrade so close to the launch of the operating system itself.
[April 25, 2008, 10:53]
An Impressive Week with Ubuntu
Blog Ubuntu came with Firefox 2.0.0.14 installed, but I decided to upgrade that to Firefox 3 RC1. After a couple of false starts, because I was trying to make it much more complicated than it needed to be, I discovered the System/Administration/Network...
[May 30, 2008, 13:59]
IE7 gives green light to trusted websites
News We are including support for EV certificates in Firefox 3, but we are still investigating how we will communicate the additional information to the user," said Window Snyder, security chief at Mozilla, which co-ordinates development of Firefox...
[February 5, 2007, 7:35]
Firefox 2 (Bon Echo) Beta 1 review
Reviews Firefox 2 captures all open windows and tabs, the size of each window, and the scroll position, should you happen to be midway down a long document. After a slight pause in an ambitious schedule, the Mozilla Organization has released Firefox 2 beta...
[July 13, 2006, 8:45]
Firefox 'private browsing' mode released to testers
News Users expect to see privacy mode making its way into Firefox 3.1, which will feature privacy and performance tweaks, along with improvements to the built-in tagging system. The feature has been on Firefox's road map for some time now — Mozilla's...
[November 5, 2008, 9:25]
Skype 2 (beta) review
Reviews The browser toolbar works with Internet Explorer and Firefox: Skype recognises phone numbers and Skype names on search results pages, allowing one-click calling from the results page via Skype. The first time you launch the program -- which pops up...
[December 14, 2005, 8:00]
Safari 4: a first look review
Reviews Chrome and Firefox remain the only browsers to default to Google's 'feeling lucky' style of searching from the location bar. On an Intel Core Duo T400 ThinkPad, with 3GB of RAM and a 2.53GHz processor, we ran both Webkit's Sunspider JavaScript test...
[June 15, 2009, 16:16]
Nubuntu? Schmubuntu!
Blog Comment I'm not sure about the concern with Firefox 3. Unlike Vista, it actually works in 64 bit (no driver hell) and uses half of the memory, all while doing window effects, including a 3D desktop if you desire.
[May 6, 2008, 9:34]
Swimming with the Microsoft Fishies
Blog Anything that has been installed using Windows Installer or a Java installation (OpenOffice & Firefox 3) comes up on the menu that opens. I don't like the Explorer window any better in Win 7 but its not as cluttered as the Visaster's version.
[February 2, 2009, 15:07]
Mozilla updates fix critical Firefox flaws
News On Wednesday, Mozilla released Firefox 2.0.017 and Firefox 3.0.2, updated versions of its browser, to address numerous security vulnerabilities. Firefox 3 is not affected by this issue. About half do not apply to Firefox 3.
[September 25, 2008, 10:39]
Ubuntu 9.04 Snaps Desktop Visaster
Blog FireFox of any version is far superior to Internet Exploder 6, 7 and especially version 8 for access to the crappy commercial wiki I've described before. The desktop space actually is twice as wide, the setting for the video controller becomes a...
[July 18, 2009, 22:31]
Bizarre Windows 7 Downgrade/Upgrade Policies Coming
Blog Comment FireFox 3 and OpenOffice 3 both of which run very nicely on WIn7 Beta or the RC. I couldn't tell the real from the "virtual" on the desktop or in the freaking Exploder window. What was especially annoying was that in both instances I booted off the...
[June 22, 2009, 9:44]
Ten of the best Linux file managers
Comment You can use Konqueror as your file manager and use another browser, such as Firefox. It offers a twin-view, graphical interface with an added command-line entry area at the bottom of the window. It enjoys a universal viewer, which enables you to...
[September 25, 2009, 14:28]
