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    Firefox 4.0 Beta 4 has been released with support for Panorama (formerly Tab Candy) and Sync.


    It was originally scheduled to be released last Friday, but got delayed due to last-minute quality assurance check. Nonetheless, the second beta of Firefox 4.0 is now here. It is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, although the features are not uniform throughout (more on that later).


    After the proof-of-concept extension for Google Chrome that steals user’s login details, it is time for Firefox to feel the heat from something similar. Mozilla has announced the a malicious add-on, called Mozilla Sniffer has been discovered. The add-on grabs the the login details and sends it to a remote location. Upon discovery, the plugin [...]


    When I reviewed Firefox 4 Beta in Linux last week, I noted that the new tabs on top interface is not yet there for Linux. Well actually it is not there is in Mac too. Only the Windows have the new interface right now.



    Firefox 4 is perhaps the most eagerly awaited version of Firefox till date. We have already given you the links from where you can download and install Firefox 4.0 Beta 1 for Linux, Windows and Mac. We took it for a spin in Ubuntu and here is our review of the first beta of Firefox [...]


    Download and try out the all new Mozilla Firefox 3.7 before it is officially released worldwide!


    Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10 Maverick Meerkat may have Chromium as the default browser which naturally means that the existing default browser Mozilla Firefox may be dropped!


    In an earlier post we have told that Google will be replaced by Yahoo! as the default search in Firefox in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. Now, the Ubuntu community has come up with the design for what the Firefox Start Page with Yahoo! is going to be like.


    Mozilla has decided to drop the support of Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) in future Firefox releases. This change will be introduced later this year when Firefox changes its rendering engine from Gecko 1.9.2 to Gecko 1.9.3. Mozilla had already stop supporting Tiger in mozilla-central in September 2009. However, most of the code was left [...]


    This week was a week of security issues. First of all there was the hack of Tata Consultancy Services’ website and there was also the revelation from Mozilla that malwares were found in Firefox add-ons. Another big news was that OpenOffice may be dropped from Ubuntu Netbook Edition. Read on to find out more.


    In a blog post today, Mozilla said that two malicious Firefox Add-ons – Version 4.0 of Sothink Web Video Downloader and all versions of Master Filer were found to contain Trojan code aimed at Windows users. These Add-ons were however rated as “Expimental Add-ons” and fortunately did not make it to the main Add-ons section [...]


    Mozilla announced in their blog that the final build of their Firefox web browser is now available for Nokia’s Maemo platform. Maemo is a linux based smart phone OS which currently powers the Nokia N900. Firefox for Maemo brings many features that is part of the desktop Firefox on the mobile platform. Firefox for Maemo [...]


    Mozilla has released  version 1.0 of its bookmark syncing tool for Firefox, Weave Sync. Although other syncing tool addons are available for Firefox, Weave Sync is officially designed by Firefox. Weave Sync supports not only bookmarks buat also supports syncing history, open tabs, passwords, preferences, and Firefox 3′s advanced Location Bar data.


    You might have already heard about YouTube and Vimeo rolling out support for the new HTML5 video. What many does not know is that the video codec that they are using now is a proprietary one called H.264. You would think that if Google is supporting a format, it would become the standard. Not quite [...]


    Mozilla released Firefox 3.6 today for Linux, Windows and Mac. It will take some time for Firefox 3.6 to come to the Ubuntu repository. So, in this post we will show you how to install Firefox 3.6 in Ubuntu 9.10. The method we are going to outline will still keep your previous version of Firefox [...]


    In this article we will tell you how to permanently get rid of this share-location permission prompt in Mozilla firefox browser.


    Yes, our very favourite Firefox is now 5 years older. Launched way back in 2004, Firefox has definitely revolutionized the way we used to browse the World Wide Web. It added new wings to the browser’s capabilities by introducing the ‘ add-ons ’. Thank you Firefox for everything !


    Firefox 4 is not due for release for more than a year but Mozilla has released a mockup of what it will look like. Here is the preview:


    This halloween celebrate it with your Firefox web browser. Mozzilla just launched 40 persona designs just for this halloween. If you do not have Persona installed, follow the steps given here to install it. Here are a few of of the halloween designs:


    Many modern Macbooks and Thinkpads contain the accelerometer that detects when they are being dropped using the sensors inside them. They can then quickly secure the hard drive read/write head so as not to damage the disc. Well Firefox 3.6 has a new API that now lets you use the accelerometer. So now when you [...]


    Learn how to increase the viewable area in your Firefox browser with the help of simple add-ons.


    You may have noticed that, the Firefox versions that ship for Linux, don`t have the ability to select the url in the address bar on single-click of a mouse, whereas this is set by default in Windows versions of Firefox. If, you feel this feature should be there in the linux version of firefox too, [...]


    Often you stumble over websites that have a very nice or stunning background images. And that very moment, thoughts run down your mind – “Wish I could have this image as my Desktop Background”. Well, doing this is not a very big deal. All you need to do is open the page source of the [...]


    It may be possible that after you make a clean install of the Firefox 3, the flash plugin will not work even after the browser notifies about the successful install of the flash plugin. In this case follow these simple steps.