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Firefox Portable: Circumvent IE6 in corporations

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 is the extremely antiquated web browser that up till today still manages to ascertain a significant chunk of browser usage share. Even though this browser is incompatible with a plethora of modern-day web applications and is … Continue reading

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Mozilla whines about browser ballot screen, iPhone outsold Windows Mobile, Snow Leopard’s here & more

Tech news roundup for August 24, 2009: Mozilla keeps whining about browser ballot screen, Microsoft warns of chaos if Word sales are halted, iPhone Outsold Windows Mobile Phones, Snow Leopard now available from Apple Store, & more Continue reading

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Mozilla cries over browser ballot, full copy of TPB online, Windows 7 120-day grace & more

News roundup for August 20, 2009: Mozilla makes much ado about nothing over browser ballot,Xmarks extension alpha for Chrome arrives, Irish ISP to block The Pirate Bay, Microsoft offers cloud database previews and more. Continue reading

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Firefox 3 and 3.1 Coming Soon

Firefox is all over the news with its upcoming release of Firefox 3. According to reports, Mozilla is already in the planning stage for the next major update to the FF franchise, i.e. Firefox 3.1. It will incorporate features that were cut from the RC1 build that was pushed out a few days ago. Continue reading

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Acid3 test kills all

The [recently released] Acid3 test, like its predecessor, allows for subjecting modern browsers to advanced testing of its standards compliance. Acid2, which most current browsers pass (including IE8 Beta 1), was mainly focused on CSS rendering. WaSP Press Release Take … Continue reading

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Firefox Addon: TinyUrl Creator

TinyUrl.com is a website that takes long URLs and transforms them into cute little buggers like http://tinyurl.com/2uhxg4. It’s useful when one would like to send on, um, long links or when one is interested in social networking sites like Twitter … Continue reading

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Security Issues in FF and IE

Mozilla is seemingly addressing security patches a lot faster than its competitor Microsoft. In 2005, it took Microsoft at least 38 days to address a publicly known and actively used exploit. Unused exploits took MS 256 days to patch. Firefox, … Continue reading

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Firefox 2 Unleashed

Mozilla finally released its next-generation web browser Firefox 2. I’ve been playing around with the RCs the last few weeks, but never got to in-depth testing, neither did I use it full-time due to incompatibility issues with my add-ons. Now … Continue reading

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