Posts Tagged ‘Firefox’
Google Pushes Chrome With Arcade Fire Experiment
Monday, August 30, 2010 22:34 No CommentsMusic lovers and sentimental types who have been hesitant to try out Chrome now have a somewhat compelling reason to do so. Google, Arcade Fire, and director Chris Milk have teamed up to create an experience that combines one of the band’s new songs with images of the viewer’s childhood home and bits of video. [...]
Firefox 4 Gets Panorama and Sync
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 4:29 No CommentsAbout a month ago, Firefox Creative Lead Aza Raskin revealed "Tab Candy", a Firefox feature designed to make managing tabs easier. It shows an overview of all tabs so they can be quickly located. It also includes other organizational features like tab groups. It has only been available in alpha form, but Raskin announced today [...]
New Tweet Button Temporarily Hoses the Internet
Saturday, August 14, 2010 1:02 No CommentsApologies if our homepage looked like the above momentarily, but it wasn’t our fault, we swear! The new official “tweet button,” which was rolled out yesterday, had a malfunction that rendered an error message in Firefox and… Read more
Internet Explorer Gains Share in Worldwide Browser Usage
Sunday, August 1, 2010 20:59 No CommentsAccording to data from NetMarketShare, Internet Explorer extended its usage share gains by another .42% in July, gaining about 1% global share since May. The firm says, "This is the second month in a row of global gains for Internet Explorer and the third straight month of gains for Internet Explorer 8 in the United [...]
Personal Facebook Info Reportedly Leaked, Gawker Invades Zuckerberg’s Privacy
Thursday, July 29, 2010 4:00 No CommentsThinQ.co.uk reports that a directory containing personal details of over 100 million Facebook users has surfaced on a file-sharing site. That’s about a fifth of Facebook’s total user base. Gawker’s Valleywag has posted numerous paparazzi-style photos of Mark Zuckerberg, after photographer Nick Stern followed him around. The piece is framed as a way of "turning [...]
Google Adds Page Load Time Metrics to Chrome
Thursday, July 29, 2010 3:59 No CommentsAs you probably know by now, Google considers page speed as one of its many signals for search engine rankings. With that in mind, you may also be interested in knowing that in Chrome 6, developers can access web timing metrics for measuring web page load time across browsers. "Measuring web page load time is [...]
Firefox 4 Beta 2 Adds More Languages and App Tabs
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 3:36 No CommentsFirefox 4 beta 1 was released earlier this month, and today the next version has become available — this time with support for 23 more languages.The latest Firefox 4 beta also features tabs on top for Mac… Read more
Tab Candy: Firefox Invents a Better Way to Manage Tabs [VIDEO]
Saturday, July 24, 2010 2:02 No CommentsMozilla Creative Lead Aza Raskin has released Tab Candy, an experimental feature for Firefox that reimagines tabbed browsing through tab groups and reorganization.In a post on his blog, Raskin introduced the new tab management system. Tab Candy… Read more
Firefox Will Let You Get More Organized with “Tab Candy” Feature
Saturday, July 24, 2010 2:00 No CommentsMozilla is working on a new Firefox feature called "Tab Candy", which might make you more productive, or at least less irritated by the number of tabs you have open. "The power of the browser has grown substantially in the last ten years," writes Aza Raskin, Firefox Creative Lead. "We now use the Web to [...]
Google Increases Bounty On Chrome Bugs
Wednesday, July 21, 2010 17:30 No CommentsDon’t be surprised if any security researchers you know start canceling meetings and spending more lunches at their computers. Google’s set out to attract their attention by increasing the maximum reward for finding a Chrome bug to $3,113.70. The maximum reward used to be $1,337.00, meaning the change works out to a 233 percent increase. [...]




