Firefox 3 Release Candidate 2 has been uploaded to the official Mozilla ftp site and is currently transferred to all mirror sites before the announcement is made on the official Mozilla Firefox 3 website that a new version is available.
As usual information is rather scarce before the official release notes have been posted at [...]

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Firefox 3 is making use of built in virus scanners to scan downloads automatically after they have been fully downloaded to the system. This feature is only available on Windows and if an anti-virus application is installed on the user’s system. While this feature might be a good way to avoid downloading malicious files it [...]

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I’m getting some very good tips from readers of my blog lately, it’s really appreciated. This time it was Dark Kosmos who tipped me of on a new Firefox 3 extension called Awesome Search which adds search to the Awesome Bar in Firefox 3. In case you did not know the Location Bar of Firefox [...]

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Most of you are probably aware of Flock, the social networking browser.
I first read about Flock in a PC magazine a few years ago, and didn’t really comprehend what the whole thing was about. The words web 2.0 came up, as did visionary and I really had no idea what it meant. Web 2.0 was [...]

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Firekeeper is an intrusion detection and prevention add-on for Firefox that is adding another layer of security. The basic purpose of the Firefox add-on is to identify browser vulnerabilities and exploits that have not yet been patched in Firefox by scanning the data that is transferred between the client computer and the website. Both http [...]

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