Firefox
Mozilla enters directly into the mobile browser market with the release of its first ever mobile browser. Fennec ‘Maemo’ 1.0 is now available for Nokia N900.
Opera Mini the leader in this sector should watch-out as Firefox intends to bring all its desktop experience to mobile devices – for example Mozilla rolled out Weave Sync on Frclassay for Firefox and Firefox mobile, so users could completely synchronize their bookmarks, saved passwords, preferences, browsing history, and open browser tabs.
Flash was dis-activated by default in Firefox for Maemo 1.0 RC 3 as it greatly compromised its permanence, but no Flash also means Firefox mobile users wouldn’t be able to adequately view Flash dependent web sites or watch YouTube video clips – Mozilla now has temporary Flash substitute add-on called YouTube enabler for Firefox mobile, but it might still affect the overall performance and interactivity of the browser. More»
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Another step towards a full-fledged Firefox Mobile browser was made yesterday when Mozilla announced a third release candidate for Maemo. Also known as Fennec, and often called Fennec ‘Maemo’, Firefox 1.0 for Nokia’s Maemo platform supports N900 and N810. If you’ve got RC2 installed on one of these, you’ll soon be receiving an update.
An update that fixes several crash bugs, improves page load times and responsiveness but that disables plug-in. “Adobe Flash plug-in used on many sites degraded the performance of the browser to the point where itdidn’t meet our standards”. But Mozilla points out that testers can still manually turn on experimental plug-in support using about:config. Mozilla says its “working on an add-on that will allow the user to have control of which sites to enable plug-ins for”.
Firefox for Maemo Release Candidate 3 Release Notes
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Firefox in Ubuntu 10.04 ‘Lucid’ will soon undergo two important changes; The default search provider for new installations of Ubuntu 10.04 ‘Lucid’ and upgrades will no longer be Google but Yahoo!. Yahoo! and Canonical have reached a “revenue sharing deal” that will generate revenue for the latter – revenue that will help “Canonical to provide developers and resources to continue the open development of Ubuntu and the Ubuntu Platform”. In any case the user has the last say, you are free to switch back to Google provider if you prefer it. More»
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Windows, Linux, Mac: There is a time to reap and a time to sow – there is a time to back-up your personal Firefox settings such as bookmarks, extensions, passwords. Mozilla Firefox stores them in a profile folder on your computer, in a separate location from the Firefox program. Backing up your profile is easy; just locate your profile folder, close Firefox if it is open and then copy the profile folder to another location. That’s all it takes, but the problem is “how to locate easily your profile folder” in different platforms. It’s default location depends on your system – Windows 7 and Windows XP for example have the profile folder in two different locations.
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