Interesting, useful and funny Firefox news.
Proposals accidentally leaked on Google’s website reveal the firm is thinking about providing online disk space in a service dubbed GDrive.
Reuters reported that a presentation file produced by Google executives was accidentally posted on the site. It reveals that the GDrive would allow users to store their all of their files within the space.
Executive Eric Schmidt wrote that the company would aim to store ‘100 per cent …
An attempt to bring Firefox-style tabbed browsing of e-mail messages to the upcoming version 2.0 of Mozila’s Thunderbird e-mail client has come to a standstill.ZDNet Australia revealed in December last year that tabbed browsing — one of the most popular features of the Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer 7 Web browsers — had been developed for Thunderbird by software developer Myk Melez.
But work on that …
The world we live in today is becoming increasingly dependent upon digital technologies and the internet, not only to do business but also to help us get through our everyday lives.
For many people, simply browsing the internet has become an absolute necessity and it is actually reaching the stage where your regular internet browser just doesn’t cut it in terms of security and functionality. This is where the Mozilla Foundation has proven itself as a serious competitor among the top …
First publicly available beta also includes tabbed browsing and other features.
A new preview version of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, with tabbed browsing, an integrated search box, and RSS support–all features long taken for granted by Firefox users–is now available.
The Beta 2 preview of version 7 also sports a much more compact and streamlined interface than that of the current IE, with a strong emphasis on dedicating as much of the window as possible to the displayed Web site.
If you …
Times Online has the story. A UK Trading Standards officer contacted the Mozilla Foundation to report catching a business selling copies of Mozilla Firefox. The organization confiscated the CDs with the intent to prosecute said business. When informed that such distribution was authorized, the officer first expressed disbelief that Free Software could be sold then said ‘If Mozila permit the sale of copied versions of its software, it makes it virtually impossible for us, from a practical point of view, …
Mozilla has been hard at work with Firefox browser version 2.0 Firefox version 2 should be out by the 3rd quarter this year, and the Mozilla Foundation has been hard at work with their upcoming installment. Firefox 2 will key in on several milestones while improving and developing the already exceptional browser out of sight. If you’re not already using Firefox, what are you waiting for? Firefox is growing in web surfing stats, and the GameSHOUT web team …
If it sounds too good to be true, the caveat goes, it probably is. Internet Explorer (IE), the browser from Bill Gates’ Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ), once lived up to its name: the gateway to cyberspace.
But then Web pages bore far denser codes. And IE was suddenly too horse-and-carriage slow for light-speed e-communications.
Enter the Mozilla Foundation and its Firefox browser. Its pages open faster and it summons up, seemingly with psychic prescience, URL addresses from mere …
WHETHER you’re running on Windows of Mac OS, Firefox is an easy way to improve your Web browsing.On a Windows PC, this is a no-brainer. Firefox trumps Internet Explorer in security and tabbed browsing. Period.
It’s a bit different on a Mac, however. I suspect many long-time …
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