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Posts Tagged ‘firefox’

Mozilla Ubiquity

Saturday, 30th August 2008 by Musaul Karim

Mozilla Ubiquity is another little project in progress over at Mozilla Labs. It provides a command line interface to the web… well a very small part of it anyway. They released an early alpha version a couple of days ago so I thought I’ll give it a go.

It comes as a Firefox extension that currently works in Windows, OSX (requiring another software download) and partially in Linux. Once you’ve installed the extension you can press ctrl+space to call up a little console. Read the rest of this article »

Mozilla have a new project brewing in their labs called Snowl. It is supposed to be An Experiment with Messaging in the Browser

They call it a conversing tool. Its purpose is to help us follow and participate online discussions by helping us keep track of all our conversations.
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With 8,002,530 Firefox enters the Guiness Book of World Records for “largest number of
software downloads in 24 hours.” Read the rest of this article »

Trying out Firefox 3 rc1

Sunday, 18th May 2008 by Musaul Karim

On my almost green 1.5GHz VIA computer running linux you can immediately tell that firefox 3 rc1 is a lot more responsive than Firefox 2. The problem is though it doesn’t have support for some of the my Web Development plugins, namely Firbug, HTML Validator and Web Developer. I know beta versions of these are available for firefox 3, but I’m feeling a little lazy now to hunt them down and install them. It’ll take more clicks than I’m willing to spare right now! :-)
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