Mozilla developers have pushed WebM, VP8 codec into Firefox 4, the next major Firefox update. Up till now Google’s open source VP8 codec was present only in a special Firefox development build that you can still download here at Firefox WebM Builds. More»
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DownThemAll! a Mozilla recommended add-on, an advanced download manager built inside Firefox has released a preview of its next major version, DownThemAll! 2.0 beta 1 for testing. DownThemAll! is a capable of increasing download speed up to 400%, whilst allowing you to pause and resume downloads at any time. More»
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Firefox 3.6.4 with Crash Protection for ‘out of process plug-ins’ gets closer to the final release and leaves beta. The first release candidate of Firefox 3.6.4 is now available to download and public testing. This version fixes 202 bugs found in previous beta builds of Firefox 3.6.4 – 23 are marked as critical. If no issues are found during testing this build will be officially released as Firefox 3.6.4 final in the coming weeks. More»
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Firefox Sync (formerly known as Weave Sync) that will sooner become a feature of Firefox, in an upcoming major release, is officially out of Mozilla Labs. You can now download Firefox Sync v1.3 add-on at Mozilla Add-ons. In Mozilla rebrands Weave Sync as Firefox Sync I mentioned some of the features included in the then Firefox Sync 1.3b5 such as the rebranding of Weave Sync as Firefox Sync, a completely new and intuitive graphical user interface (a simpler sign-up and setup process), an improved sync-response-time. More»
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They are many wallpaper switchers out there and several have been presented on this blog, such as Wally, my preferred desktop wallpaper rotator for Ubuntu but what makes this one particular is that its a nifty Firefox extension, an easy to configure “no-install” that lets you change your desktop wallpaper periodically. More»
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