Mozilla is continuing their beta testing of their new Thunderbird 3 email program, which is expected to go final towards the end of November, 2009. I have been trying the latest beta, T-bird 3 beta 4 this past week and I like what I am seeing thus far. First of all the new email version [...]
Who could have ever imagined that Mozilla would have been chasing down the pride of Microsoft and its Internet Explorer browser? Well it seems that the mighty are falling and that Firefox is continuing to gain market share. But to pick up some 30 million more users in just 8 weeks is truly amazing. Amazing [...]
Firefox 3.5 is only 3 months old, but it appears that the folks at Mozilla may be ready to replace it. The reasoning is that the newest version is based on a new Gecko engine that may improve performance. If you would like to try the beta [test] version you will be able to download [...]
I stumbled onto a web site that was recommending a add-on for Firefox which added colors to the browser tabs. I decided to give it a try and I liked it, so I thought I would share this with you. The add-on is called ColorfulTabs 3.9.4 and the author describes his program [...]
A friend of mine sent me a link to Speedy Fox and asked me to take a look at it. Speedy Fox claims to optimize your profile data and speed up how fast Firefox opens. I gave Speedy Fox a try and I did notice a minor speed increase when the browser opened. So I [...]
Reader Gina sent me a link over to Dot Net Perls with the latest browser tests for memory usage including IE 8. I took at look at the results and Firefox 3 was the winner.
You can read more about the testing at this link.
Comments as always are welcome.
Browser name
Ending private set in MB
Safari
636.9
Firefox 3
111.8
Flock (Firefox [...]
The browser wars are of no concern to me since I couldn’t care less how much market share any of them command. What is important is that this newest browser war is going to benefit all of us. This new crop of browsers are faster and hopefully more secure.
During the past week I have been [...]
Trend Micro is reporting that a rogue extension is attacking Firefox and is intercepting search information. The rogue extension triggers a server to also send back advertisements to the browser. The articles goes on to state the following:
We have seen a lot of malware target Internet Explorer in the past. This is probably one of [...]
Hillary Clinton was asked by a State Department employee why the agency couldn’t use the browser Firefox, which is used by other government agencies. The employee stated that Firefox was a safer browser and that employees at the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency enjoyed using the alternative browser.
The article also stated the following:
You don’t have to [...]
In what turned out to be an unusual reason not to upgrade Firefox to the latest version, it is being reported that privacy was an issue. It seems that users had buried their bookmarks deep down into secret files in order to keep their secret lurking private. For those who had hidden their porn sites [...]
For those of us who have been using the web for awhile, we are familiar with the browser Netscape. Netscape was the vehicle that many of us used to first venture onto the World Wide Web. We also know the story on how Microsoft killed off Netscape, not by having a superior product, but by [...]
In a filing with the SEC Microsoft has listed the dangers it faces from other companies and in particular cites Linux as a threat. This seems contrary to what Microsoft publicly states in which the company says that Linux is not a real threat. But in the SEC filing the company confirms the following:
Client faces [...]
The vultures are circling as the EU may require Microsoft to make other browsers available in the upcoming Windows 7. There seems to be an element around us that has the opinion that once Microsoft loses the browser market, the company is finished. In one opinion I read it all revolves around how Google is [...]
Here we go again. The DOJ is looking at Google as a monopoly, just like they did once before when they looked at Microsoft. But is Google really a monopoly if people like their stuff better than the competitions? This is what really needs to be looked at. Not just a dictionary term of what [...]
This is a great way to record your screen and voice at the click of a button. This simple to use software works with all major operating systems and popular browsers. It is also optimized to work with your Twitter account which is a nice touch. But here is the best part. It is 100% [...]
How times have changed. About a decade or so ago, when Netscape folded, Microsoft was basically the only browser left. But today we have a wide assortment of choices and people are seem to be taking advantage of those choices. Since March Microsoft has lost over 11% more market share to Firefox, Safari and Chrome. [...]
Last week I had mentioned that the folks at Mozilla were getting ready to release Firefox 3.5 final on today’s date. True to form it did in fact hit the Internet today and I have already downloaded and installed the latest release. Now I could waste your time and mine telling you about how wonderful [...]
The folks over at Mozilla have been working hard and furious for the next upcoming release of Firefox 3.5. I have been using Firefox 3.5 from the beta’s through the RC releases which is now RC 3. The new Firefox works very well but there is one plug in I use that still fails to [...]
My MVP lead sent me an email this morning saying that MSE was available for download. Since I am running the 64 bit Windows 7 RC on my test system, I downloaded MSE to try it. MSE comes in both 32 bit and 64 bit for Vista and Windows 7, plus there was a version [...]
During my roaming around the Internet, I stumbled upon Dot Net Perls site that had an interesting profile on the memory usage for several browsers. The browser tests included Firefox 3.5RC, Chrome 3.0, Safari 4 and Opera 10b. The testing is described as follows:
Here we note that the previous study of browser memory usage on dotnetperls.com [...]
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