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Web Browsers

Firefox 4 feature list finalized; Chrome turns 2 with version 6 released

September 3, 2010

It’s not much of a happy news for Firefox fans that Mozilla has decided to remove atleast one (or more) of the promised features from the final version of Firefox 4 scheduled to be released by the end of this year. Mozilla developers said that in order to meet the deadline, some features planned for [...]

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Firefox 4 Beta 4 out now: Features ‘Panorama’ and ‘Sync’ [VIDEO]

August 26, 2010

Firefox 4 is slowly making its presence more accountable with the latest beta release: Firefox 4 Beta 4. The new iteration has some performance boosts in addition to new features like ‘Panorama’ (formerly known as TabCandy) and native support to ‘Sync’. We have two videos showing each of the these main features. Firefox 4 Native [...]

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Somewhere in Russia: Internet Explorer 9 interface leaked

August 26, 2010

As of now, Microsoft has released 4 ‘platform previews’ of the upcoming browser Internet Explorer 9 that showcased some of the highly anticipated features backed up by super efficient Javascript engine named ‘Chakra’ and latest standards like HTML5 and CSS3. But, until now, major UI elements in those builds were mostly missing. We can suspect [...]

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Quick weather report in Opera Speed Dial

August 22, 2010

Opera was probably the first to embrace (and innovate) the ‘speed dial’ feature that we now see in Google Chrome and Safari, giving you 1-click access to your favorite/most-visited sites. Now there are plenty of ways in which your can spice up Opera ‘Speed Dial’. One such is to add a quick local weather report [...]

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Google Alarm – A Firefox / Chrome add-on that notifies you when Google’s watching you

July 31, 2010

Google and privacy issues go hand in hand. Even Google admits it. And people like you and me are getting increasingly cautious about our privacies online. And we should be. Internet privacy tools have become the talk of the day and if you are using Firefox or Google Chrome, here’s something new to keep you [...]

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App tabs in Firefox 4 Beta 2 [VIDEO]

July 29, 2010

Yesterday we put a status update on our Facebook Fanpage about the official availability of Firefox 4 Beta 2. [That’s why you should join us on Facebook, because we keep it updated with the latest of the trends]. Apart from lots of under-the-hood improvements over Beta 1, the Firefox 4 Beta 2 also features App [...]

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Introducing Firefox Tab Candy; manage large number of tabs easily

July 26, 2010

Developments related to tab management in Firefox was going on since several months and now Aza Raskin has finally unveiled Tab Candy, a much needed tab management solution in Firefox. Organising tabs can become a tedious task especially when you regularly deal with 10+ tabs. Owing to the large number of people facing the issue [...]

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How to: Remove title bar and trim down Firefox 4 even more

July 8, 2010

Mozilla has done a brilliant job with Firefox 4, removing all the clutter and making the UI sleek and trendy. You notice that the UI designers have thoughtfully utilized the screen real estate by providing more space for the actual web content. But there’s always a scope for improvement, or so they say. With a [...]

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How to: Enable ‘All Tabs Preview’ in Firefox 4

July 8, 2010

Mozilla has implemented a very nice, useful and pleasant looking feature in Firefox 4 called the ‘All tabs preview’. Although it looks more like the task-bar preview, albeit on top, it’s slightly more handy and according to what I feel, ergonomically better. In order, to enable the ‘All tabs preview’ in Firefox 4, this is [...]

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Firefox 4 Beta 1–Revamped User Interface [VIDEO]

July 7, 2010

We have been talking about Firefox 4 a lot these days because, well, it’s worth it. A week ago we mentioned about the pre-release nightly build of Firefox 4 Beta 1. Now Mozilla has officially released the Beta 1 (apparently the first ever Firefox 4 “public” beta) which you can now download from here. The [...]

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