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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, Linux, Mac: Upcoming Adobe Flash Player 10.1, still a beta 2 pre-release, will introduce many new features like the Windows-only H.264 video hardware acceleration support. In this new version flash will accept without objection your wish to browse in the private mode, it will automatically clean-up your flash history once you terminate the session. More»
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For Windows, and Linux: Opera Mini, the mobile version of the Opera web browser is certainly one of the best mobile browsers out there. Unlike Mozilla’s Mobile browser, Fennec, Opera Mini does not have builds for your computer, so you can’t get to test it before loading it into your smartphone, unless you use a walk-around like this one below; 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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