Switching To Feedly from Google Reader: How To
Google Reader is dying. No matter how hard Google Reader fans try, Google is probably not going to change its mind on the project. The good news is there are decent Google Reader alternatives...
View ArticleCCleaner
Clean up junk files and invalid Registry entries. (479,764 downloads) Summary: By selecting the appropriate check boxes, we were able to clean our temporary Internet files, cookies, history, and cache...
View ArticleGoogle Analytics Part 2: Standard Reports & Key Metrics
Back in February, I started a series of blog posts that detail different aspects of Google Analytics. Part 1 focused on the basic setup of Google Analytics. Part 2 is going to look at the standard...
View ArticleThis Week In Web Browsers: 2/25 – 3/3
Here’s our roundup of a busy week that was highlighted by Microsoft’s release of IE10 for Windows 7… Opera Overhaul: WebKit-Based Android Browser Due Q2 (CNET) Euro Watchdog Bares Teeth … Read Full...
View Article2013 RCA: Vote For Best Major Desktop Browser
Usually one of our most hotly contested races, voting in the Best Major Desktop Browser category is off to a roaring start. Firefox is the early leader after one … Read Full Post Summary: Usually one...
View ArticleOpenShot could round out open source media production suite
OpenShot, a very popular video editor for Linux, has launched a Kickstarter campaign to hasten its next phase of development, which will include a Macintosh and Windows port of the program. read more...
View ArticleWindows 8 App Store images leaked?
Windows 8 images continue to leak onto the Internet, despite Microsoft’s wallpaper-based pleas to those with access to the early releases. Today’s installment courtesy CNBeta shows the upcoming Windows...
View ArticleMetro Firefox lands on mozilla-central
On Tuesday, our preliminary Metro Firefox development work arrived at mozilla-central, the source code repository that feeds the Firefox Nightly channel. This means that if you are on the Firefox...
View ArticleFirefox Develops Some New Social Skills
For the last six months or so, we’ve been doing the heavy lifting to build a new social capability into Firefox. Rather than force this integration, a set of features that might not be interesting to...
View ArticleSome Tips for new Surface RT Users
Photo by Leo Newball, Jr., and used under a CC license. I wish the first tip on my list was how to install Firefox on your Surface RT. Unfortunately, Microsoft has denied browser vendors (except...
View ArticleFirefox 4 Beta 3 Released
Mozilla has released the third beta for Firefox 4.0 on August 11, 2010. This release is being made a Summary: Mozilla has released the third beta for Firefox 4.0 on August 11, 2010. …Firefox 4 Beta 3...
View ArticleFirefox 4 to Support ‘Silent’ Updates
One of the new features coming to Firefox 4 is going to be ‘silent’ updates. That is upd Summary: Google Chrome (which Mozilla seems to be the bases for quite a bit of the new features of Firefox 4)...
View ArticleBeware of Fake Update Page
Recently there has been a fake Firefox update page (see below) has been floating around the web. Thi Summary: This page not only tells the user they are running an out-dated version of Firefox, but...
View Articlesnappy #53: Faster: Startup, Image Decoding, Touchpad Input. Smoother Animations
Responsiveness Joe Drew taught Firefox to decode images on multiple threads. It took a mere 29 patches in bug 716140. This should speed up page-load and improve tab-switch times. This task was...
View ArticleChrome and Firefox: Desktop Notifications
Just a short article this time, since I’m kind of swamped with work and the start of a new book on Three.js I’m writing for Packt. In this article we’ll very quickly look at the state of desktop...
View ArticleCreate your own browser extensions, Part 2: Extend your reach into Firefox
Every browser has its fans, detractors, advantages, and disadvantages. One thing they all have in common is that people increasingly spend more time in them. This series examines how to build the same...
View ArticleHow to install packaged apps in Firefox OS – options and tools
I thought this would be a good time to show the options for developers how to install packaged apps, and as an extension to that, installing them on an actual Firefox OS device (more on Open Web apps,...
View ArticleMozilla and Epic Games Port Unreal Engine 3 to the Web
Mozilla touts the gaming potential of its JavaScript-based answer to Google’s NaCL at GDC Browser makers are notorious for taking disproportionately great pride in even the slightest of improvements in...
View ArticleUpdate – Freeware – FastestFox v5.1.3
FastestFox (formerly SmarterFox) is a browser add-on for Firefox that offers a variety of search related browser enhancements that are available from the right-click menu or integrated into the pages…....
View ArticleXSS Is Still Tricky
This works in Safari, Firefox, Chrome, and Opera. <!DOCTYPE html> <head> <title>Oh no!</title> <script type=”text/javascript”> var xss =...
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