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HD DVD Addon is for Movies Only

You may have heard recent rumors regarding Microsoft publishing Xbox 360 games on HD DVD discs (and in turn meaning that you would need the upcoming HD DVD add on to play them). Microsoft has officially responded.
microsoft - comments - 16.8.2006

New tool enables loading of unsigned drivers in Vista

A new software tool has been released by Linchpin Labs that allows the loading of unsigned and legacy drivers on Windows XP, 2003, and most importantly Vista.
windows - comments - 31.7.2007

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.
common - comments - 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.
common - comments - 21.11.2007

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..
download - comments - 30.7.2006

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.
common - comments - 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.
common - comments - 12.9.2006

Firefox 2.0 RC2 available

The dev team over at mozilla.org have quietly released RC2 to the FTP.
download - comments - 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.
download - comments - 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.
download - comments - 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.
common - comments - 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.
download - comments - 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.
download - comments - 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.
common - comments - 24.5.2008

Firefox 3.1 Beta 2

The second Beta development milestone of Firefox 3.1, codenamed Shiretoko, is now available for download.
download - comments - 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.
common - comments - 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.
common - comments - 13.3.2006

Firefox 3.0 Alpha released!

Today Firefox 3.0 Alpha was released to the public even before Firefox 2.0 has been released.
common - comments - 9.4.2006

Firefox 2.0 Beta Delayed

The open source Mozilla Foundation has delayed the release of Firefox 2.0 Beta 2 by a week because of bugs yet to be ironed out in the browser software.
common - comments - 10.8.2006

Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Beta 2

Beta 2 of Mozilla Firefox 2.0 has just appeared on the Mozilla FTP in the release folder, it's safe to say that this is Beta 2 and not a pre-beta.
download - comments - 31.8.2006

Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Download Available

The Mozilla Corporation have today uploaded the follow-up to their hugely popular web browser, Firefox.
download - comments - 23.10.2006

Firefox 2 Tweak Guide

The release of Mozilla Firefox 2 further expands the capabilities and features of this highly regarded Internet browser, proving that just because you are popular doesn't mean you should slack off.
common - comments - 17.2.2007

Firefox 3.0 Release Candidate 1

Many of you will know that I’ve been following the progress of the Firefox 3.0 browser carefully over the past few months.
download - comments - 18.5.2008

Mozilla Firefox 3.0 RC2

This second Firefox 3 Release Candidate is a preview release of Mozilla's next generation Firefox browser and is being made available for testing purposes only.
download - comments - 6.6.2008

Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 Available for Download

With Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 delivered in the first half of September 2008 and the feedback incorporated in the development process, Mozilla is gearing up for the next stage of Shiretoko.
common - comments - 1.10.2008

Download Firefox 3.5 RC2

Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate 2 is live and is available for download. This is the development milestone of the open source browser that will be made available to the general public.
download - comments - 19.6.2009

Live Search autosuggestions come to Firefox

The Live Search team today announced that they have officially integrated Live Search into Firefox by popular demand. Microsoft has released a Firefox addon to get to your results faster via Microsoft Live Search auto suggestions. The addon is available for download here. The addon is based on the Open Search standard and uses the JSON interface supported by Firefox to retrieve autosuggestions. Microsoft has been integrating Open Search into their products recently - the most recent one being the Federated Search in Windows 7. Open Search has also been implemented in Internet Explorer 7(& above) and SharePoint Search.

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neowin.net - 30.01.2009

Verisign plugin brings green address bars to Firefox

Verisign has brought a new technology used to identify trusted Web sites to the Firefox browser.

The Internet services vendor has released a Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en- US/firefox/addon/4828>plugin that will show the same type of green address bar that is displayed by Internet Explorer 7 when it lands on certain highly trusted Web sites that use EV SSL (Extended Validation Secure Sockets Layer) certificates.

Companies like Verisign, Entrust, and Network Solutions have been issuing these certificates since late 2006, but browser makers have been slower to adopt them. They were adopted by Internet Explorer 7 in late January, and Firefox is expected to support the certificates in Firefox 3.0, expected late this year...
winbeta.org - 19.05.2007

50+ Google Reader Extensions and Scripts For Firefox

Via Mashable!:



Dont get us wrong, Google Reader is our favorite feedreader. But sometimes, we just wish it was a little¦better. Here are 50 Firefox extensions and scripts to make Google Reader your own.



Note: some of these require the Greasemonkey or Stylish extensions. Also see Google Reader on the iPhone.




winbeta.org - 24.08.2007

AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft released

AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft is now available for free download, an open-source development tool aimed to bring the Visual Studio experience to building World of Warcraft add-ons. This WoW development environment uses the new free Visual Studio 2008 Shell isolated runtime and does not require any version of Visual Studio to be installed or licensed to download, install, and use it. Stay tuned to the blogs of Dan Fernandez and James Lau for upcoming blog posts about this project. Key features of AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft include:

• Visual Design Surface
  
• Lua Code Editor
  
• FrameXML IntelliSense
  
• Auto-Generate Table of Contents
  
• Auto-Generate Lua Events
  
• Many other goodies

Update: Here is a video clip demo of Dan Fernandez showing a demo of AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft in the TechEd keynote last month.




winbeta.org - 15.12.2007

Opera Releases Firebug Alternative: Dragonfly

For web developers, and especially front-end coders, the Firefox extension Firebug by Facebook's Joe Hewitt is a killer app and major time saver. It lets you deconstruct the webpage currently loaded into Firefox to get a better idea of how HTML, CSS, and JavaScript needs to be modified to work properly (and it can even make changes to CSS on the fly).



Opera has just released a competing set of developer tools called Dragonfly. They will be automatically included in Opera 9.5 beta 2 and newer versions of the browser, and you will be able to enable them by going to "Tools> Advanced> Developer Tools".




winbeta.org - 07.05.2008

WebChunks Now Available On Firefox Add-ons Web Site

Webchunks is a Firefox3 implementation of Microsoft Webslices (feature appeared with IE8). It allows you to "follow" an area of a web page through a dedicated feed bookmarked in a new toolbar. Clicking on the toolbar entry shows the information related to your choice in a popup, without the need to open a complete web page.



Should you follow information that can expire like eBay auctions, the style (bold or italic) of the toolbar's entry will reflect the status of your entry: new, expired, about to expire.
With the help of an extra extension, Greasemonkey, you can insert webchunks/webslices markup into any web page so the Webchunks extension handles it. This is something the Microsoft implementation cannot do, it entirely relies on the server's markup.




winbeta.org - 15.08.2008

New tool enables loading of unsigned drivers in Vista

A new software tool has been released by Linchpin Labs that allows the loading of unsigned and legacy drivers on Windows XP, 2003, and most importantly Vista.


One of the system management and control methods that Microsoft implemented with Windows Vista is requiring system drivers to be digitally signed before they will load properly within the system. If a user or administrator wishes to load an unsigned or legacy driver, they will either need to reboot into a limited functionality mode or just do without the functions that the driver would have provided.


As others have pointed out, this step will do nothing to prevent malware authors from being able to load their drivers into the system. Either they will exploit the lax jurisdiction and corporate oversight of various countries to establish a corporate shell and gain legitimate digitally signed driver certification, or they will just exploit weaknesses in already-signed drivers.



winbeta.org - 30.07.2007

Firefox 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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neowin.net - 01.07.2009

Evidence 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...
betanews.com - 09.09.2008

Mozilla 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...
betanews.com - 22.12.2005

Firefox 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.




winbeta.org - 10.03.2008

Firefox 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.




winbeta.org - 29.02.2008

Firefox 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.




winbeta.org - 06.08.2009

Tab 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...
betanews.com - 25.10.2008

Mozilla 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...
betanews.com - 25.07.2007

Image 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...
betanews.com - 18.05.2006

Firefox 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...
betanews.com - 09.09.2005

Firefox 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...
betanews.com - 01.08.2006

Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 Released

The Mozilla Corporation launched the first official beta of Firefox 2.0 early Wednesday, signaling that its major upgrade to the popular alternative browser is inching ever closer to release. New features in Firefox 2.0 include enhancements in security, tabbed browsing, performance, and extensions...
betanews.com - 12.07.2006

Firefox 2.0 Alpha, MacTel Version Soon

Mozilla plans to have an early alpha version of Firefox 2.0 in users hands by February, with builds of Firefox, Camino and Thunderbird for Macs running on Intel processors available the following month, recent statements from company developers indicate...
betanews.com - 16.01.2006