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.
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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 intact [...]

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.
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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 [...]

This week there has been a lot of big news – from Apple’s iPad launch and subsequent trademark disputes to Google officially ending support of the Internet Explorer 6. Here we have compiled together the top news of the week in case you have missed any.
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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.
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From now on, the Firefox Browser that is shipped with Ubuntu Linux will have Yahoo! Search as the default search engine in the Firefox Search bar.

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 !
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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:
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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:

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Firefox browser has a quick Bookmark bar just below the address bar where you can drap and drop tabs (in which websites are open) to bookmark them. Now in order to browse the bookmarked website from this Bookmarks bar, you just have to click on any of the bookmarks. You will see the website opens [...]

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 [...]

A lot has been said regarding the upcoming release of Ubuntu, that is Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala, – its new looks, new features etc. However, understandably, its KDE counterpart, Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala, has been largely ignored and not a great deal of noise has been made about it. Here, in this article, we look [...]

Firefox is by far one of the best browsers available for Linux and is the prefered web browser of millions. However, if you use Firefox in KDE, you will notice that it sticks out from the rest of the KDE applications and look rather ugly. In this article, we show you how to make a [...]

Learn how to fix the gwProxy / jsProxy code insert problem while using the Wordpress blog editor in Firefox browser.

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 [...]

The Bing Development team has released a Bing add-on for the Firefox Web Browser which lets you add Bing to the list of search engines in the Firefox Search bar. The description about the add-on in the Firefox add-on directory says that this add-on is the only officially supported Bing add-on, provided by Bing team [...]

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.
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Mozilla Labs has launced Persona, a new extension that adds dynamic theming to the browser. Persona allows the user to change the header and the footer of the browser. It is different from the Firefox theme because Persona does not change the buttons, menu etc. It is more of an extention to change the basic [...]