… you can as well sit down and wait for every download to be completed before turning-off your computer and walking-away. A download is capable of leaving your computer on for several hours even after the download has been completed — it would’ve been just great to download while your computer is turned off, that not being possible, you can at least make sure your computer shuts down at the end of the last active download to save energy and conserve batteries — if you’re a Firefox user you can get that done. More»
Mozilla’s intention to revamp the Firefox design starting with Firefox 3.7 is by now a public affair. Firefox 3.7 for Windows Vista and Windows 7 will be the first to get this new visual appearance, Mac and Linux will follow suit. Firefox 3.7, scheduled for release in March 2010 will systematically drop the Menu Bar for a more “organized” two buttons “Page” and “Tools” that will give Firefox 3.7 a Chrome look. Mozilla puts it this way: “Hclassing the Menu Bar by default on Vista and Windows 7 allows us to use Glass, free up vertical space and retain platform consistency. Combining Stop and Reload into one button reduces visual “clutter” and combines two buttons that have mutually exclusive functionality.” The Home Button in the default toolbar will also be moved to a new unsuspected position: the tab area. More»
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Why use another Twitter application when the Twitter teams keeps rolling out design tweaks for its web version? I no longer find it necessary to get a “”full fleshed” and often bulky Twitter application with all the new features the web browser version offers.
Twitter fans who use the web browsers for tweeting like Firefox can further boost up their Twitter experience with Greasemonkey and user-scripts (Opera users can try Emulate Greasemonkey Functions to boost Twitter). If Twitter for you means using a Twitter-focused application to update your status and view those of your Twitter friends (and not integrating MySpace, or updating to Facebook) then you can also pick-up an add-on, a Firefox extension called Echofon (formerly known as TwitterFox ) to bring some of those features you might miss in “full fleshed” Twitter clients like dedicated columns for tweets from “All Friends”, “Replies” and “Direct messages”.
When installed it puts a tiny icon on Firefox status bar that notifies you when your Twitter contacts post tweets, replies, mentions -- if the “Show pop-up” feature is activated.
-- You can easily update your Twitter status with a drag n’ drop. Select the text and drop it into the Echofon interface.
-- All clicked links open-up in new tabs. Echofon also manages multiple Twitter accounts. More»
FacePAD a.k.a Facebook Photo Album Downloader is a Firefox extension that makes it very easy for you to download your Facebook photo albums, albums of friends, events and groups on your computer. When installed, it adds to your right-click menu a “Download Album with FacePAD” option. To download an album from Facebook Events or Groups, right-click on the “See All” link on the main page of the Facebook group or event, whilst to download a friend’s photo album, right-click on the name of the album and click the “Download Album with FacePAD” option.
FacePad currently supports German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, and French (Canada) and default English language. Setup your preferred language in Tools > Add-ons -> FacePAD Preferences. FacePAD is a free download for all platforms with Firefox.
WebGL is an open framework initiative for web sites to use rich 3D graphics via OpenGL and JavaScript, that is without using any plug-in. This is now has a place in Firefox 3.7 nightly trunk builds. The video is a preview of WebGL and what its all about. WebGL obviously presents a new scene as it can be applied in many different ways. Imagine using Google Earth or playing full-fledged 3d video games right from within your browser.
