Opera Theme For Firefox
Love the Opera look but not a fan of the overall browsing experience? Worry no more, FXOpera comes to the rescue. As you might guessed from the title, it allows you to enjoy both worlds with little to no compromises.
Sounds interesting? Visit the FXOpera page for installation details.
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Firefox 20 To Fix Private Browsing
Better late than never.
A long time ago, with the release of Firefox 3.1 Beta 2, Mozilla has introduced a private browsing mode, you know, the one you use to buy Christmas gifts for your beloved ones.
However, it was pretty worthless as you had to close down an entire non private session in case you decided to have some fun.
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November, 2012 Mobile Market Share: Android Browser, Safari, Chrome – Up; Opera – Down
Yep, it’s that time of the month again.
First on the list is Apple’s Safari web browser, which regained some of its lost market share, up from 60.31% to 61.50% (1.19 point increase).
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November, 2012 Desktop Market Share: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera – Up; Google Chrome – Down
It’s the last month of the year as we check the market share results for November. Were there any surprises? Let’s find out.
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Download Firefox 18 Beta
Now here is something for the Friday evening. Recently, Mozilla has released the 18th beta version of its Firefox web browser, which does have some neat improvements, especially when it comes to performance.
So what’s new?
According to the changelog, Firefox 18 includes a new JavaScript JIT compiler (codenamed IonMonkey), which was introduced earlier this year. As seen in the benchmarks below, it’s a significant improvement over previous versions.
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Microsoft: You Mad? Yeah, You Mad (Video)
Introduces Karaoke Web Standard as well.
As if we haven’t seen enough ads already, Microsoft has decided to make another one and this time it’s all about the haters. Check it out.
In before same comments are posted below.
Mozilla Invests In Everything.me
Everything.me, a company that specializes in the HTML5 app platform development, has raised a total of $25 million from the likes of Telefonica Digital, Singtel and Mozilla.
Already available on both iOS and Android platforms, “Everything” allows users to enjoy games and applications without having to download them (except for the e.me app itself, obviously). In addition to that, the company claims that its biggest selling point is an ability to dynamically match its users needs with specific content and applications.
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Tip: How To Disable Android In-App Ads
Good news for consumers and bad for Android developers.
If you’ve been annoyed by a boatload of ads on your applications and a possible battery drain, then your life is about to get easier. Thanks to the recently released Adblock Plus application for Android, it will block both web site and in-app ads.
The best part? Adblock Plus is free and requires no rooting.
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E4X To Be Completely Removed In Firefox 18
ECMAScript for XML (or simply E4X), a programming language extension that adds the native XML to JavaScript, is about to be phased out.
According to Mozilla’s Dave Mandelin, E4X is deprecated and “will be disabled by default for content in Firefox 16, disabled by default for chrome in Firefox 17, and removed in Firefox 18”.
As an alternative, Mozilla suggests using DOMParser / DOMSerializer or a non-native JXON algorithm instead.
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Firefox For Android Update Brings Security Improvements
And few other features.
As the never ending release cycle continues, Mozilla has released a new beta version of its Firefox web browser for Android.
Thanks to a list of bad sites provided by Google, the following build will now warn users about the potentially harmful websites. In addition to that, you will get search suggestions (over a secure HTTPS connection) when typing.
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