Firefox
Just as you can rotate your desktop wallpapers periodically with tools like Wally, Personas skins can be periodically swapped with Personas Rotator, a firefox extension that automatically rotates and loads your Personas skins. Loaded skins are chosen from within collection of your choose, you can log into GetPersonas.com and select your own favorites, the add-on will try to rotate your My Favorites personas. If you have no My Favorites personas the rotation is completely random through different collections. More»
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Mozilla hasdecided to rebrand Weave Sync as Firefox Sync – but what’s is in a name? Easy to guess, Firefox Sync delivers the message, it sounds like synchronization is an in-built feature in Firefox, though it remains a plug-in. More»
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Yesterday the WebM open web media project was announced at Google I/O. Opera, Chromium and Firefox already have builds that support WebM. Over 1.2 million YouTube video clips are already available in WebM, and Google has announced it will sooner transcode all YouTube video to WebM. To test/play YouTube WebM video clips in Firefox, download Firefox WebM builds available for Mac, Windows and Linux platforms. Launch the newly installed Firefox nightly, go to www.youtube.com/html5 and join the HTML5 beta experiment, you need a Google account to enroll. More»
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The next major Firefox update, Firefox 4 (Firefox 3.7 is out of bounds) will feature an in-built web developers tool called Web Inspector. Though in its early stages this utility can help you to closely inspect elements that are being displayed on the current web page. Analogous to DOM inspector or Firebug inspector, in-built Inspector will support rulers & guides, palettes, layers, a graphical highlighter, it will be fast and pretty but its certainly not a return of DOMi into Firefox says Rob Cambell, the Mozilla developer leading the Inspector development. More»
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Mozilla, Google, Opera and forty other publishers such as Adobe have announced WebM, a “project dedicated to developing a high-quality, open video format for the web that is freely available to everyone.” This projects aims at setting the web free with an open alternative to the h2.64 format championed by Apple and Microsoft.
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