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Weave Sync 1.0 for Firefox and Fennec

By • Jan 29th, 2010 • Filed under: Browsers, Firefox, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

image from the Mozilla Blog

Firefox for Maemo 1.0 RC 3 Drops Flash Support [Firefox Mobile]

By • Jan 28th, 2010 • Filed under: Firefox, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

Another step towards a full-fledged Firefox Mobile browser was made yesterday when Mozilla announced a third release candidate for Maemo. Also known as Fennec, and often called Fennec ‘Maemo’, Firefox 1.0 for Nokia’s Maemo platform supports N900 and N810. If you’ve got RC2 installed on one of these, you’ll soon be receiving an update. An […]

Ubuntu 10.04 to Switch the Default Search Provider in Firefox to Yahoo!

By • Jan 27th, 2010 • Filed under: Firefox, Open-Source, Ubuntu

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 […]

Use About:Support to Locate and Backup your Firefox Profile [Firefox 3.6]

By • Jan 25th, 2010 • Filed under: Firefox, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

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; […]

‘Private Browsing Window’ for Firefox 3.6 and Higher

By • Jan 25th, 2010 • Filed under: Firefox, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

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 […]