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New Version Of Firefox For Android Available For Testing

Frank McPherson — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:16:48 +0000

A version of Firefox has been available for Android since March, and since then a few updates have been released that have made them more stable. I have Firefox installed on my HTC Flyer and I am using it as the primary browser on that device because I like how it renders pages on the tablet.
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Reddit, Tumblr and Firefox vs Stop Online Privacy Act

Kenna McHugh — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:50:01 +0000

Reddit, Tumblr and Firefox took a stand against a proposed U.S. law by drawing broad black lines on their websites. The proposed law is being described as “censorship” by Internet companies and “piracy protection” by entertainment companies.
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New Extension Adds Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter Feeds to Google+

Kenna McHugh — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:40:29 +0000

A new extension has arrived for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. The extension combines Facebook, Linkedin, and Twitter feeds with your Google Plus streams. That means you don’t have to manage or browse multiple pages and feeds at once.
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Firefox 5.0 for Android: Includes Integrated Twitter Search & Do Not Track

Todd Ogasawara — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:20:08 +0000

Mozilla released Firefox 5.0 today. And, in the mobile world, this includes Android.

Mozilla Delivers New Version of Firefox – First Web Browser to Support Do Not Track on Multiple Platforms

I’ve been quite critical of the off and, more recently, on Firefox mobile browser development efforts. I’ve tested every release that didn’t crash immediately and uninstalled it right after testing because there was not advantage to using Firefox instead of the device’s mobile browser. Firefox 5 for Android, however, may stay on my Nexus One a bit longer than usual. It seems to run as fast as Android Gingerbread’s native browser and has a few bells and whistles that are worth taking a longer look at. The integrated Twitter search (see screenshot below) is one of them.

The ability to install add-on modules is an attraction although I run very few on the desktop because of performance issues. Mozilla makes a big deal out of the Do Not Track privacy feature. But, this is not a feature that especially interests me.

One feature I found very useful is the unheralded “next text box” up-down arrow that shows up when filling out forms. This is especially useful when entering a username and password for a web site.

Firefox for Android weighs in at a hefty 14MB. I received a low memory warning immediately after it installed. Fortunately, it can be relocated to flash storage.

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HootSuite Acquires Firefox Add-On TwitterBar

Neil Glassman — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 08:00:26 +0000

Keeping social media management efficient and fun usually means keeping an eye out for ways to save clicks and keystrokes.

HootSuite today announced its acquisition of TwitterBar. Rebranded HootBar and available for immediate download, this add-on for the Firefox 4 browser allows users to post to social profiles directly from the web address bar. It functions with Firefox 4 on both web and Android mobile platforms

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Firefox 4 Launches With 'Do Not Track' Option

Katie Kindelan — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:17:42 +0000

Mozilla, the maker of the world’s most popular Internet browser, has released the latest version of its Firefox 4 Beta browser, including the much-promised “Do Not Track” feature designed to protect consumers against targeted advertising and amidst strong privacy concerns.

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Andreessen-backed "RockMelt" Browser Hits the Web

Kenneth Musante — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 10:37:29 +0000

RockMelt, the new socially-focused web browser backed by Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, was released (by beta invite request only) Monday. The browser aims to transform web browsing into a true social experience by closely integrating with Facebook, Twitter and other social networks.

The browser has been in development for two years, and uses the Chromium engine pioneered by Google’s Chrome browser. RockMelt founders Eric Vishria and Tim Howes recently sat down with PCMag.com to talk about their new toy and how it stands out from Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, Flock, and all the rest of them.

“All the browsers available today, although they’ve gotten a lot faster, are still just about navigating web pages. We built features into the browser to address people’s three top browsing behaviors: interacting with friends, consume news and information, and searching,” said Howes.

With all the competition, RockMelt faces an uphill battle. Even the critically-acclaimed Flock social browser, which aims for basically the same target, has yet to capture a mainstream audience. But RockMelt has a couple of aces up its sleeve. continued…

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Facebook Admits it Can't Yet Protect Users from Firesheep

Katie Kindelan — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 10:45:31 +0000

Facebook has quietly admitted it can’t protect users from the Firefox add-on that makes it easy for anyone from your neighbor to the guy next to you at Starbucks to hack your Facebook account.

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ALERT: "Firesheep" Lets Hackers Steal Your Identity On Open WiFi Networks

Katie Kindelan — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:34:05 +0000

A new Firefox add-on gives the person next to you at your local Starbucks the power to hack your Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and Google accounts. Does this really work? Can you protect yourself?

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5 Social Sharing Extensions For Firefox

Guest Blogger — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:03:55 +0000

While the largest social platform today is arguably Facebook, browsers have increasingly become a host for numerous social applications. Today we look at world’s number two browser Firefox and some of its add-ons which are very handy for sharing on the internet. Firefox continues to be extremely popular and flexible because of these easy-to-use extensions. The social-sharing add-ons enable you to share links, news and even what you are browsing at a particular instance of time.
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Firefox 3.5 is World’s Most Popular Browser Entering 2010

marisdagis — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:54:26 +0000

According to the StatCounter latest data FireFox 3.5 currently is the most popular browser overtaking it’s largest competitor Internet Explorer 7.0 and showing largest growth as IE 8.0. As I’m very excited about Chrome browser, for me the most interesting thing next year will be how large share of the market will take this Google product.

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7 Useful Firefox Addons for Twitter

marisdagis — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:31:14 +0000

There was a point when my Firefox was full of different addons – I had an addon for almost every purpose you can imagine. It was so annoying to just browse that I decided to uninstall almost all of them and left only few. But you know, my old bad habits is chasing me again! Just look at these amazing Twitter addons – how can you resist not to press that “Add to Firefox” button?

Tweecious

This addon is great for those users who also use Delicious to organize their bookmarks. Tweecious will look for resources you shared on twitter and automatically add them to your Delicious bookmarks.

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Drop.io Adds Firefox Plugin for Fast Facebook-Sharing

kristennicole — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:00:47 +0000

Drop.io has a new Firefox browser plugin that makes i even easier to share files with friends and, more specifically, with friends on Facebook. With the new plugin, you can create new drops from items you find from across the web.

It’s got a convenient drag’n'drop option for text, links, files and HTML that you’d like to share, as well as drag’n'drop tabs to the drop.io logo for creating a link to that particular tab in that drop. You can even continually drag’n'drop files to the same drop or different drops, even while other files are uploading. Drop.io has also added some keyboard shortcuts to make the sharing process even simpler: hit control + shift + D in order to create a drop.io link to the tab you’re currently viewing.
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Mozilla Lets You Accesorize your Firefox Easily With Add-Ons

arnoldzafra — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:51:29 +0000

Mozilla’s web browser Firefox is a browser – we all know this fact. And we have known this a long time ago that’s why Firefox has steadily grown through the years. Part of Mozilla’s success was mainly due to the available extensions which third-party developers and Mozilla folks themselves have made available to use together with the Firefox browser. If you’re clamoring for some more Firefox goodness, how about this? Mozilla has released a new web application dubbed Fashion Your Firefox. Read on to know what it’s all about. continued…

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Post to Twitter Directly From FireFox

marisdagis — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 11:12:28 +0000

Nice extension dedicated to help users to post to Twitter directly from FireFox by hitting the small icon in address bar. All you need to do to post to Twitter is enter your message and hit “Post to Twitter” icon. You can also submit URL only tweets and “Currently Browsing: ” text will be added to the front of the URL.

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