Firefox vs. Internet Explorer, Ahead of IE8 and Firefox 3.1
For the past couple of years Internet Explorer has been on a downward spiral, albeit slow, but inching down with every passing month, with only Firefox to blame.
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2.12.2008 Memory test - Firefox 2.0.0.9 vs Firefox 3.0 b 1
Does Firefox 3.0 beta 1 do a better job of handling memory than earlier versions? In a test put Firefox 3.0 beta up against Firefox 2.0.0.9 in a series of tests.
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21.11.2007 Windows 7 Milestone 2 M2 available on Torrent Websites
Windows 7 Milestone 2 is the next stage in the evolution of Windows Vista's successor.
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14.7.2008 Windows 7 Build 7201 Available on Torrent Rapidshare
Hype of the RC2 leak is increasing rapidly the time i m writing 503 peoples were active on a single thread over sevenforums.
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3.6.2009 Windows 7 M1 build shows up on various torrent sites
It was only a matter of time..
Not too long after Microsoft had released a developer build of the Windows 7 Milestone 1 release to a select few, review and opinion pieces started to leak onto Windows enthusiast sites by OEM employees or their beneficiaries.
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26.1.2008 Australia to test blocking all P2P and Bit Torrent traffic
Australia has been known to have high levels of censorship. It should come as no surprise to those in the land down under that the government is planning to filter P2P and Bit Torrent traffic in live pilot tests.
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23.12.2008 Microsoft: Don't Download Windows 7 Interim Builds from Torrent Trackers
Leaked builds of Windows 7 available for download via torrent trackers have been accompanying the development of the next iteration of Windows since the operating system was in Milestone 1 stage.
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16.4.2009 Windows XP SP3 RC2 Leaked and Available for Download on Torrent Websites
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 has been leaked and is available for download on torrent websites. Three days after releasing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 to manufacturing, Microsoft launched another development milestone of XP SP3.
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13.2.2008 Download Windows 7 Build 6956 VHD Image via BT Torrent
Windows 7 beta (or beta 1) is possibly been released in January or February 2009 which Keith Comb has even mentioned in a comment on his TechNet blog (has since been removed) that “we (Microsoft) are targeting to have the DVD’s in the materials from 1/13/2009 on”.
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5.12.2008 New Windows XP SP3 Beta Build 3205 Leaked to Torrent Trackers
The latest build of Windows XP SP3 Beta has been leaked to Peer-to-Peer file sharing networks. Following the availability of Release Candidate 0 for Windows Server 2008, formerly codenamed Longhorn as well as the first fully-fledged beta for Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Microsoft also dropped another beta version of the third and final Service Pack for Windows XP.
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11.10.2007 Convert your firefox favorites and feeds into IE7 with "Firefox To IE7"
My friend blake, who runs windowscoding.com, has just posted this really useful application to his blog..
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30.7.2006 Windows 7 Beta 1 Build 7000 DVD ISO Image Torrent and NamiPan Download
f indeed the Windows 7 initial first beta release will have the build version number of 7000, the DVD ISO image of the 32-bit (x86) Windows 7 6.1.7000.0, 7000.0.081212-1400_client_en-us_Ultimate-GB1CULFRE_EN_DVD.iso, has been leaked to Internet.
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26.12.2008 Vista SP1 RTM Slipstream (Integrated ) DVD ISO Image - Leaked to Torrent Websites
hile Microsoft continues at a slow pace toward the general availability of Windows Vista SP1 RTM, the service pack has already slipped through the company's fingers, so to speak.
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4.3.2008 Download 64-bit Windows 7 6801 Pre-Beta ISO Microsoft.Windows.7 64Bit.Build.6801.DVD-WinBeta Torrent
Other than 32-bit edition of Windows 7 Pre-Beta build version 6801 that has been leaked to the Web for free download via torrent, the 64-bit edition of Windows 7 Pre-Beta with build tag 6801, which is also been distributed to attendees during the PDC 2008, has been leaked to Internet, and can be downloaded via fully seeded torrent.
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30.10.2008 Firefox 1.0.7 Released
Firefox 1.0.7 was just released today. It's said that the only updates for this minor version change are security related.
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Download Firefox 1.0.7
Firefox 1.0.7 was just released today. It's said that the only updates for this minor version change are security related.
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Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 Out Now
Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 is now available for download. This is the second Beta release of our next generation Firefox browser, to be released later this year, and it is being made available to our developer and testing community for compatibility testing and to solicit feedback.
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Best Firefox extensions
When you ask most people what Web browser they use, the answer often will be Internet Explorer. After all, it comes preloaded on Windows PCs, so most people just use it by default.
But while IE maintains a stranglehold on the majority of computer systems, Mozilla's open-source solution, called Firefox, has made significant inroads into the browser market. Handy extra features are part of the reason for its growing success, as is the continual supply of third-party add-ons.
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22.12.2005 Just how buggy is Firefox?
Security researchers that carried out a code analysis of popular open source browser Firefox using automated tools, have discovered scores of potential defects and security vulnerabilities despite coming to the conclusion that the software was generally well written.
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12.9.2006 Firefox 2.0 RC2 available
The dev team over at mozilla.org have quietly released RC2 to the FTP.
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6.10.2006 A First Look at Mozilla Firefox 3.0
ArsTechnica have posted an in-depth look at Mozilla's new project, Firefox 3.0. The significant jump from 2.0, released a mere 2 months ago is mainly due to Mozilla's use of the new Gecko rendering engine.
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13.12.2006 Portable Firefox 2.0.0.1
Portable Firefox is a fully functional solution of Firefox optimized for use on a USB key drive. And by
this poll is Firefox your favorite browser.
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15.2.2007 Dumping Firefox for IE
Office 2007 works so well with Internet Explorer 7 and does not mesh with Firefox. With that in mind I dropped Firefox in favor of IE.
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16.4.2007 First look at Firefox 3.0 Beta 1
I noticed that the Beta 1 for Firefox 3.0 was made available sometime yesterday. I’ve been curious as to whether the Firefox dev team would do a serious revamp for this release or just concentrate on bug fixes and performance improvements.
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20.11.2007 Firefox 3 Beta 3
Firefox 3, Beta 3 has just been released. Over 350 memory leaks have been fixed and reductions have been made in the memory footprint.
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13.2.2008 Firefox 3 vs IE 7 vs Safari 3.1
A few short years ago the browser war seemed dead and buried. After Microsoft’s Internet Explorer usurped Netscape’s Navigator in the late 1990s, it’s domination of the Internet seemed complete, over 95 percent of us using a version of IE.
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24.5.2008 Firefox 3.1 Beta 2
The second Beta development milestone of Firefox 3.1, codenamed Shiretoko, is now available for download.
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9.12.2008 Firefox 1.5 RC2 released!
Mozilla has just released Firefox 1.5 RC2 (Release Candidate). This release contains many bugs (about 36 fixes) over the previous RC. If no critical issues are found, then this is 1.5 final, otherwise there will be some more fixes before final, with possibly another RC release.
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Firefox 1.5 Final Released
Firefox hit its second major milestone Tuesday with the release of version 1.5, arriving just over a year after the alternative browser debuted at 1.0. The update sports Mozilla's new Gecko 1.8 rendering engine to speed up Web surfing, along with a myriad of other fixes and improvements.
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29.11.2005 New Default Theme for Firefox 2
There's a discussion going on in mozilla.dev.apps.firefox about "Changes
to Fx2 Chrome" which is about proposed changes to the main browser
window structure (buttons, layout, functions) that is exposed to users
by default in Firefox 2.
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13.3.2006Trojan, distributed over torrent, blocks torrent sites
A trojan named Troj/Qhost-AC, has been spotted on torrent sites labeled as a keygen for popular software. But in a strange surprise, the trojan would
modify the users host file, rather than generating a key, changing popular torrent web sites like, The Pirate Bay, Suprbay (The Pirate Bay forum) and
Mininova, the two most popular torrent sites on the internet to 127.0.0.1, making it impossible to visit these sites. The Trojan caused pop-ups on
users screens and played a sound file saying "downloading is wrong". The Trojan didn't install any other spyware or malware onto the victims
PC, other than blocking the three web sites, something that many users thought was strange.
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06.01.2009Office 2010 Has Leaked!
The Technical Preview of Office 2010 has officially leaked! WZor.net uploaded a torrent a few hours ago for both the x86 and x64 versions of the
new Office suite.
Without further ado, I present:
Microsoft Office 2010 (x86)
AND
Microsoft Office 2010 (x64)
The x64
torrent doesn't seem to be very active at the moment, but over time, as it gains more seeders, hopefully it will pick up. We were achieving speeds of
up to 1000kbps during our download of the x86 version, so the torrent is going strong... That is, until the rest of the world picks up on it...
Download quickly!
While you eagerly await the end of your download, check out a screenshot gallery from WZor as well (the version pictured
in the screenshots is the x64 version).
The links in this article were obtained from WZor's homepage, http://wzor.net/indexx.html
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16.05.2009Australia to test blocking all P2P and Bit Torrent traffic
Australia has been known to have high levels of censorship. It should come as no surprise to those in the land down under that the government is
planning to filter P2P and Bit Torrent traffic in live pilot tests. Senator Conroy went on the record saying "technology that filters peer-to-peer
and Bit Torrent traffic does exist and it is anticipated that the effectiveness of this will be tested in the live pilot trial". It is a drastic
step to filter out all P2P and Bit Torrent traffic as it assumes that those channels are only used for piracy. One example of legitimate use is the
popular online game World of Warcraft.
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23.12.2008"txtor" tool circumvents basic torrent blockers
To the frustration of many students and other avid torrent downloaders, some universities and ISPs have been known to block the download of .torrent
files in an effort to curb illegal file sharing. This quick and dirty method of filtering Internet content is usually done through the use of a proxy
server that will look for a torrent mime-type in the file or, even simpler, the file extension itself. Although this method seems almost too simple to
take seriously, enough admins have found it effective enough to justify its use.
That's why a group of developers launched
txtor today, a site that makes it possible to download .torrent files as if they were text
files. As the site explains, from the user perspective, the service functions very simply. Plug in the URL of a torrent file, and it's translated to
a text file for you to download. For a moderately more technical explanation, the site merely takes the file and changes the mimetype and extension,
then spits it back out at you as a text file in order to bypass proxy-level torrent file blocks. Then, all you need to do is change the file extension
back from .txt to .torrent and open it up in your favorite torrent client. Based on our testing of txtor, we can say that the tool works exactly as
advertised.
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28.09.2007Controversy over new Pirate Bay Facebook feature
The Pirate Bay has added a small, but significant feature to their website which will almost certainly prove to be controversial. The new feature is a
link provided on each torrent page which allows users to post the link to the particular torrent onto their Facebook profile. Friends can then begin
to download the particular torrent straight from their Facebook page, assuming a torrent client is installed. Many websites allow their users to do
the very same thing – even Neowin allows its users to submit news articles to Facebook; however the controversy lies in just what users will be
sharing, with the use of this.
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30.03.2009Popular Torrent Site Suprnova Set to Return
Popular torrent site The
Pirate Bay says it will
relaunch Suprnova.org, one of
the most popular BitTorrent
sites on the Internet and
target of the ire of the MPAA...
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03.08.2007Steal This Film 2 hits File Sharing Networks
Steal This Film 1, which was downloaded nearly 3 million times, has now been succeeded officially (as the sequel premiered and was ironically leaked
last month) by none other than Steal This Film 2. By producing this video, the League of Noble Peers, which features many prominent individuals from
the BitTorrent community, has the goal of “ bringing new people into the leagues of those now prepared to think 'after intellectual
property', think creatively about the future of distribution, production and creativity .” For those still confused, Steal This Film is a
series documenting the movement against intellectual property. The films discuss piracy culture as well as raids against file sharing websites. In the
spirit of piracy, the movie is completely free for download.
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30.12.2007Firefox 3.5 benchmarked, not as fast as Chrome
The results are in from benchmarks of Firefox 3.5, performed by ZDNet. The benchmarks test all the main browsers from Google Chrome 2.0.172.33,
Safari 4, Firefox 3.5, Firefox 3.0.5, Opera 10 Alpha and Internet Explorer 8. Each browser was put through three tests including SunSpider
javascript benchmark, V8 Benchmark Suite and finally the ACID 3 test. Firefox 3.5 was built for speed and performance, compared to previous
versions of Firefox. Firefox 3.5 performed better than Firefox 3.0.5 and Internet Explorer 8 in all three categories. From the graphs, it is clear
to see that Google Chrome performed the best overall, followed shortly by Safari 4 and then Firefox 3.5.
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01.07.2009Windows 7 leaks to Web, pirates downloading
Leaked copies of Windows 7 hit the Internet only hours after Microsoft Corp. handed out a preview build to developers last week, according to searches
at several BitTorrent-tracking sites. The notorious Pirate Bay site, for example, first noted the 32-bit version of the upcoming operating system on
Oct. 29, just one day after Microsoft unveiled Windows 7 to attendees at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. A 64-bit edition was
posted the following day.
As of midday Sunday, with several copies of Windows 7 available, downloading was brisk. One 32-bit torrent listed
on Pirate Bay showed more than 1,400 "seeders," the term for a computer that has a complete copy of the torrent file, and close to 5,300
"leechers," or computers that have downloaded only part of the complete torrent. The 32-bit torrent installs a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate, according
to users commenting on the site.
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03.11.2008Evidence tabs will get more attention in future Firefox releases
Google's Chrome developers -- some of whom have worked, and are still working, on Firefox -- acknowledged their debt of gratitude for Firefox's
inspiration. But today's latest development in Firefox 3.1 suggests it's now playing catch-up...
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09.09.2008Mozilla Launches Firefox TV Ad
Contest
Mozilla on Thursday asked
Firefox users to create a
30-second broadcast quality
television ad for a contest
called "Firefox
Flicks." The company said
that winning ads could
possibly be used in global
marketing campaigns for
Firefox 1.5, the newest
version of the open source
browser...
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22.12.2005Firefox 3 Beta 4 review
Percy Cabello: Firefox 3 Beta 4 is about to be released (later today or tomorrow), as the twelfth milestone, in what already is the longest
development time for a Firefox version since the initial Firefox 1.0 back in 2004.
Fortunately, Mozilla has not been shy to set
as many milestones as needed, and given the many new features and tweaks Firefox 3 introduces, it seems anything but sensible, specially considering
its not only about Firefox but Gecko, the web page rendering engine and the Mozilla platform as a whole which affects the many products based on
it.
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10.03.2008Firefox 3 ultimate feature: Performance
Percy Cabello: Along with the long list of new features and improvements we can find in Firefox 3 betas so far, there is a series of performance
improvements coming to Firefox 3 Beta 4.
Ive finally managed to run a set of tests to see how Firefox 3 performance compares to
Firefox 2s.
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29.02.2008Firefox Director Talks Firefox 3.6, Tasks, and Competing with Chrome
Lifehacker: We were eager to know what's happening for Firefox. Mike Beltzner, the open-source browser's director, was glad to tell us. Here's what
he had to say about future features, competition with Chrome, and keeping thousands of Firefox contributors in sync.
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06.08.2009Tab Mix Plus for Firefox 3 stacks up a new version
For those of us who not only need to keep dozens of Firefox tabs open at once but need to see them to remember they exist, Tab Mix Plus' upgrade to
Firefox 3 compatibility is some of the week's best news...
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25.10.2008Mozilla Admits Firefox Exploit Caused by Firefox Bug, Not IE
On July 10, engineers at
Secunia issued a security
advisory, rated "Highly
Critical," warning Firefox
users that their browser could
be tricked into executing
arbitrary JavaScript code.
While Internet Explorer was
originally blamed for the
ability to trick Firefox, as
it turns out, Mozilla admitted
today its own browser is to
blame, even after a patch was
released...
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25.07.2007Image Processing Flaw Found in
Firefox
Firefox users may be
vulnerable to a denial of
service attack after
researchers looked into
reports of a new vulnerability
within Firefox 1.5.0.3. The
SANS Internet Storm Center
first wrote off the problem,
but continued research has
shown that the flaw could be
used maliciously...
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18.05.2006Vista SP1 x86 appears on Torrent Sites
In the last few days, certain Neowin forum members have reported that an image of Vista SP1 x86 Final has leaked to torrent sites. This file is
supposedly a slipstreamed image of the final Service Pack 1 for Vista x86. It is allegedly available in various languages, including English. Since
many believe that this is indeed the download that Microsoft will provide in the upcoming weeks, I would like to emphasize that this is not the case.
This release is not official, nor is it genuine. I repeat: Vista SP1 has not gone final.
Neowin members are reporting that the file in
question may be SP1 Refresh 2 slipstreamed or simply a malware-filled release. I would like to remind our members not to post links to any Vista SP1
build, unless it comes directly from Microsoft’s servers.
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28.01.2008Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 Unleashed
Mozilla has released the first
beta of the long-awaited
Firefox 1.5, the first major
milestone since Firefox 1.0
debuted last November. The new
release, code-named Deer Park,
brings to the table a number
of performance and usability
improvements, along with new
Web standards support...
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09.09.2005Firefox Tops 200 Million
Downloads
The Mozilla Corporation on
Monday celebrated the 200
millionth download of its open
source Firefox Web browser,
with the community planning
parties to commemorate the
event. The milestone was hit
one year and nine months after
the debut of Firefox 1.0...
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