Mozilla, the company behind my favorite web browser Firefox, is quickly gaining in the browser market (especially here in the U.S.) and reportedly, doing very well in recession:
Mozilla has published its audited financial statements from 2008, reporting $78.6 million in revenue for the fiscal year—a five percent increase from 2007. Aside from a weakened investment portfolio, the browser maker has not been hit hard by the economic recession.
I don
For those of you who can’t wait until Google comes out with automated installation ISO, you might want to try building one yourself by following these instructions here.
You will need a linux-based computer to generate the images though. (or the compiler equivalent in Windows or Mac)
I will try installing Google Chrome OS on my netbook later this week, perhaps have a DIY post on that soon so…
For now, there’s instruction
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QRO3gKj3qw
Google has shed some new light on their Google Chrome operating system, which we have been hearing about for months now. Currently the Chrome OS supports netbooks, especifically an EEE PC. (you can download the source here)
According to TechCrunch:
We’re not going to go into too much detail about going to market today. We’re working on the software right now, but we are al
Did you know you can download the autoHideStatusbar Firefox experimental extension to auto hide the annoying status bar once its done loading a website?
Well, now you do!
I have recently noticed that some plugins in my Firefox keeps updating by itself and it’s annoying because I didn’t allow this to happen as a user.
To easily fix these updates from automatically updating you (or bugging you), go to Tools->Options->Update then unclick all the boxes so your Firefox browser never wastes any bandwidth to check for updates.
I think updates are great but I don’t want my Firefox to keep checking for them every time I start my browser, it also takes a lot more time to load your browser when you are checking for updates. And y
I know installing browsers with flash support in Ubuntu sometimes can simply be a pain in the rear, especially if you are running on non-standard CPUs. Well, here’s how to install Opera web browser for Ubuntu, with support for flash and java. The new Opera browser has proved to be super-fast btw, from what I hear.
sudo dpkg -i opera_10.00.4585.gcc4.qt3_i386.deb
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
sudo apt-get install sun-java6
Most people who have used Firefox for the last couple years probably know this hack but let me do a step-by-step instructions on this for the simplest and best way to make your Firefox browser run faster.
Faster Firefox!First, go to your Firefox URL address bar and type, “about:config”.
You will see a warning sign but just click on “I’ll be careful, I promise!”.
Next, enter “network” in the Filter input like this: (Then you should be able to scroll down to network.http.pipelining.
By default
For those of you looking for a solution to download all your files off the web and shut down your computer automatically when they are finished, you are in luck as there’s Firefox Autoshutdown plug-in that works on all types of computers including Windows, Mac, and linux. (Of course, linux, you could probably script something instead or just leave it on as linux is a lot more secure than everything else out there.)
For detailed instructions on how to use this plug-in,
For some reason you lost your master password to Firefox? Do not worry as there’s a new tool called Firemaster that will recover your Firefox master password through brute-force hacks. Really, though, you can also simply erase all your personal preferences by “uninstalling” your Firefox and re-installing it.
Firemaster really is for those who need to hack another’s computer…
Once you have lost master password, there is no way to recover it as it is not stored at all. When
TriGem from South Korea launches a new Kid’s PC LLUON, featuring a children-specific browser. I think this is a really untapped market, someone should make a universal browser for kids.
SEOUL, Korea (AVING) — <Visual News> TG Sambo(www. www.trigem.co.kr) announced the launch of its ‘LLUON Kidscom(mode: K1/U1)’ PCs dedicated to children in Korea market. Adopting a touch screen LCD monitor, the LLUON Kidscom PCs support digital education contents through ‘TG Kids Browser’, the company’s exclusive browser.
