Firefox offers many ways to perform searches. It displays a search bar on the top right by default, provides access to keywords that can be used to search and has lots of third party add-ons that add search to the right-click context menu. The Drag & DropZones extension for Firefox is different and at the [...]

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Mozilla released the first public alpha version of the upcoming Firefox Mobile version which is currently only available for OS2008 (“Maemo”) software platforms that run on Nokia N810 Internet Tablets and desktop PCs running Windows, Linux or Macintosh. Since the distribution rate of Nokia N810 Internet Tablets is surely slim most users will experience the [...]

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Users can practically set one or multiple websites as their start pages in Firefox (and any other web browser as well). Another option are Speed Dial extensions which copy a feature from Opera to Firefox that provide access to a handful of links on one page. Autohome puts that concept to the next level by [...]

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What a surprise. Only two days after releasing Firefox 3.02 the Mozilla firefox team released the new version Firefox 3.03 which is usually a sign of a serious bug in the previous version. Firefox 3.03 fixes only one bug that affected some users of the previous version. The bug made it impossible for some users [...]

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Just a day after updating both Firefox version 3 and 2 the Mozilla Thunderbird development team released a update for Thunderbird which raises the version of the email client to 2.0.0.17. The update is a security update and it is therefor recommended to update immediately if Thunderbird is installed and in use on a computer [...]

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Mozilla started distributing the final version of Firefox 3.02 to various major and minor mirror sites. This is the usual process before they release the notification on the homepage about the new version. The Check for Updates feature will show the new version usually 0-24 hours later. Firefox users who cannot wait can head straight [...]

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Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 introduced several exciting new features to the Microsoft browser which hit the Internet by surprise. No one would have thought that Microsoft would add that much value to the second beta of Internet Explorer. The Internet Explorer 8 development team did a good job at introducing new features and also [...]

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The time would eventually come that Firefox 2 users would be reminded (nicely at first) that a new version of Firefox was available. The new version is Firefox 3.0.1. and it could be quite a shock for those guys who decided to stick with Firefox 2 because they did not want the features that Firefox [...]

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NoScript is a highly acclaimed Firefox security add-on that protects the user from scripts that are executed on websites. The approach is to block all scripts on a website unless the website gets whitelisted by the user. While that is certainly the best security approach it does require lots of manual whitelisting in the beginning [...]

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