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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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Private Browsing Window is a Firefox extension that permits you to start a private browsing session in a completely new incognito window alongside your existing session – like you do in Chrome. This extension greatly improves Firefox’s behavior as far as “private browsing” is concerned – before Firefox would automatically close all windows and tabs in a working session when you switch to the private browsing mode, all except one – the launched private browsing window, to get back a closed working session you had to leave the private browsing mode. With this extension private browsing and non-private walk side-by-side. More»
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Windows, Mac, Linux: No more bush-hunting, it is there, where its supposed to be, on Mozilla’s home page, I’m mean Firefox 3.6. Stop thinking and go get the worlds safest browser, not the IE sort of thing.
The release notes;
– Its Available in more than 70 languages – yours is certainly included,
– Changes to how third-party software can integrate with Firefox in order to prevent crashes. – Flash stops crushing my browser. More»
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As announced yesterday Firefox 3.6 Final has punctually been released. You can now download this new version of Firefox for your Mac, Linux or Windows platforms. The release notes are not yet available, but hey who needs it after closely following its development from the very first alpha.
Linux users (x86) can use this line of code to download and extract it into their Home folder:
wget -O - http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.6/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-3.6.tar.bz2 | tar xj -C ~ | tar xj -C ~
Others;
Download Firefox 3.6 for Windows
Download Firefox 3.6 for Mac OS X
[Update] Windows download link updated.
Whats new in Firefox 3.6 – Watch this video by Mike Beltzner director of Firefox Development.
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