I happen to use four instances of Firefox- One each on my personal laptop, office laptop, remote desktop and solaris desktop and find it very tedious to have all the same stuff synced across the browsers. When Xmarks came, it solved part of the problem by syncing Firefox and Chrome bookmarks. But I was still looking for a solution that could sync my settings, addons. Mozilla Weave partly solved bunch of it by providing Read further »

It’s time for industry to move on from Internet Explorer after the high profile attack on Google [Aurora Details]. At the right time comes the Mozilla’s next version to rediscover the Web with Firefox 3.6. With over 6,000+ addons, 35,000 themes, it’s world’s most extensible browser. Update: Now Official The word is not official, but the Read further »

Firefox may be slow but Addons is what keeps it all alive and kicking. Most of use lots of them, still hungry for gettings handson new ones. Here are 5 Awesome FirefoxAddons you shouldn’t miss. 1. AutoPager: Tired of browsing through pages while you are looking for something? Paginate no longer with this addon you can get  AJAX like page loads while you scroll. The plugin is compatible with most websites [atleast all Read further »

Mozilla had been working hard to catchup with Google Chome. Multiprocess is still on the plan and we now see one achievement, multi-process plugins. The feature is now available in latest nightly trunk. It’s the same power which prevents Google Chrome from eating entire CPU when a single plugin goes bad. It is said that this is nothing but a copy of the code from Chromium builds. Though this doesn’t break any Open Source license, but for some this might Read further »

It had been long predicted, that this day would come when Browsers will learn to leverage GPU for rendering webpages. After Microsoft’s announcement of GPU acceleration in it’s upcoming browser IE9, Firefox also started to get into it seriously.  Microsoft had published new API with Windows 7 called Direct2D. Direct2D is designed to be  replacement for GDI and takes the task of vector graphics rendering engine, using Read further »

Addons is something that makes Firefox so rich. Playing around with the available ones often brings out the best of Firefox. So here we bring 5 Interesting Firefox addons that you can add to change your experience, again. 1. Easy YouTube Downloader (HD) Read further »

Thanks to Firefox’s killer features, it is 2nd most popular browser on the planet. But the Trend and adoption is growing. As per the October stats, Firefox has already overtaken IE and has grabbed first place and trend will continue. Despite its intuitive accessibility and powerfully customizable interface, the performance of this browser has been problematic. Often, we indulge in opening  several tabs, Firefox becomes notorious and uses bulk amount of memory and processor.  I’ve seen Firefox eating up a 750MB of RAM with 30 Tabs opened, eating 2GHz+ of CPU. With 20+ tabs Firefox becomes slow and unusable on PCs having low-end config. And if Read further »

Firefox 4 brings state of the art user interface. Surely, it’s inspired from chrome but  goes a step further by making it a sweet eye candy. Have a look at Firefox 4 – Screenshots Of course, it isn’t released but confirmed that work is being done on it.  But we will assist you in getting the same Look and feel on your existing Firefox 3.x. Follow the Steps Below: Form the menu View Read further »

Ever wanted to hate/dislike a post or share having rubbish text, images, URLs by friends on Facebook? Why is this partiality of ability to only like it? Don’t worry we got a quick solution for you. All you need is Firefox and a plugin Download Plugin What’s ridiculous is just this morning there were at least two new pages requesting the addition of a “Dislike Button” ( Read further »

Here comes the Mozilla’s first Beta for release of Firefox 3.6. As we benchmarked Firefox 3.6 earlier, it’s 25 percent faster than Firefox 3.5. What makes Firefox 3.6 more interesting is the Windows 7 integration — It integrates with the new taskbar in Windows 7. Read further »