Posts Tagged ‘mozilla’

Tab Candy: Firefox Invents a Better Way to Manage Tabs [VIDEO]

Mozilla Creative Lead Aza Raskin has released Tab Candy, an experimental feature for Firefox that reimagines tabbed browsing through tab groups and reorganization. In a post on his blog, Raskin introduced the new tab management system.


Should Facebook Add a Dislike Button?

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told ABC’s Diane Sawyer this week that Facebook would “definitely think about” adding a Dislike button to the site, allowing users to express distaste for updates or pages on Facebook. A Facebook group for the concept has nearly 3.2 million fans, while there are at least two unofficial “dislike button” extensions for the Firefox browser.


Firefox Gets an Update Thanks to “FarmVille”

Mozilla has issued a new update to its web browser Firefox because of errors caused by FarmVille , the wildly popular Facebook game. Last week, Mozilla released Firefox 3.6.4 . It included dozens of bug fixes, but it also added one new feature: plugin browser crash protection.


British Columbia’s Capital City Officially Names June 30 Social Media Day

Victoria, the capital city of British Columbia, has officially designated June 30 Social Media Day . Mayor Dean Fortin signed the proclamation after local Social Media Day meetup organizer Paul Holmes petitioned the Victoria City Council.


Mozilla Explains Why Firefox 4 Has Tabs on Top [VIDEO]

Firefox 4 is coming soon, and it’ll carry with it a lot of design and UI changes. One of the biggest ones is that the default setting will be to place tabs on top, a design Google Chrome popularized. For years, there’s been heated debate in the Firefox community over whether the tabs should be on top or below the address bar.


View From the Line: The iPhone 4 Is Bigger Than Elvis

The iPhone 4 is finally in stores and the lines are truly massive . With pre-orders of more than 600,000 units , the crowds showed up early and were prepared to wait in long lines. I know, because I was one of those customers


Still Using Firefox 3.0.x? Time to Move On

After many months of testing, five beta versions and two release candidates, Firefox 3.0 was released in June 2008 . The 3.0.x branch was the major stable branch of Mozilla’s web browser for a long time, and it’s been updated to version 3.0.18 so far.


Firefox Account Manager Aims to Make Your Social Life Easier

What do you do when you first fire up your browser? Most probably, you log into various sites that require a username and password – Facebook, Gmail, Twitter and the like.


Firefox for Mobile Makes Its Debut

Want the power and add-ons of the Firefox browser in the palm of your hands? That dream is quickly becoming a reality, starting with the Maemo OS and owners of the Nokia N900


Mozilla Drops Firefox 3.7, Switches to More Frequent Feature Updates

If you’ve been following the development of Firefox, you know that Mozilla separates security updates, which usually happen every couple of weeks, from feature updates, which are usually separated by months. Now, they’ve decided to change all that, drop the already-announced Firefox 3.7 from the update schedule, and simply push minor feature updates together with the security updates. What does this mean for the users