Bing is my default search engine for a number of reasons. I really do not want to rehash why that’s the case. Sometimes I cannot find what I’m looking for using Bing, and my next step then is to open Google and run the very same search on Google’s search engine. And if I cannot [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Sync Broken In Firefox 7.0.1 Release
Life over at Mozilla is surely not as easy-peasy anymore than it was a year or two ago. With Chrome breathing down the browser’s neck and Microsoft getting their act together it has become a tough playing field. The rapid release process should have changed it all, and for the better. Bad news however seem [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Privacy Extension for Firefox, Priv3
All Internet users were recently made aware of the fact that social networking sites like Facebook, Google+ or Twitter had the power to track a user’s movement over the web. This is done with the help of scripts such as Facebook Like or Twitter buttons that webmasters add to their websites and pages. While it [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Mozilla Talks Silent Updates, Plans Firefox Service
One of the issues that I hear over and over again when I talk with other Firefox users about the rapid release process is that users are tired of updating the browser every six weeks, and especially so if the update turns out to be another “under-the-hood” update where no changes can be spotted right [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Firefox 3.6 Update To 7.0
Firefox users who are still running a 3.6 version of the web browser should prepare themselves for receiving an advertised update on Thursday. Users will receive a prompt with the option to update the browser from their version to the very latest. Mozilla is quick to note that this has “no bearing on support levels”, [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 14
Firefox 9 Features, Changes
With the release of the stable version of Firefox 7, or more precisely Firefox 7.0.1, came also updates to the beta, aurora and nightly channels of the browser. Each channel has been bumped up a version. Firefox Beta to 8, Firefox Aurora to 9 and Firefox Nightly to 10. Whenever Firefox Aurora gets a bump, [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Mozilla Rushes Out Firefox 7.0.1 Update
If you follow this tech blog closely you know already that the latest release of Firefox, which would be Firefox 7.0, contained a bug that hid away some or even all add-ons of a user who updated a version of the browser to the latest stable iteration. Mozilla after noticing the problem stopped the distribution [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 3
SurfControl, Time Track Web Usage In Firefox
If you had to write down how much time you spend on the Internet in the past week, could you do that? And would you also be able to list the top 5 sites that you’d consider productive, and the top 5 time wasters in that time? To top that, would you be able to [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Context Peek, Display Information In Popups
Sometimes when you surf around the Internet you may feel the need to look up additional information. This can be a definition of a word that you are not sure about, information about a phrase at an online encyclopedia or a location on Google Maps. Whatever it is, it usually leads to opening a new [...]