If you’re looking for a browser that is built on innovation and is based on the cloud striving hard to remove your dependency on devices and platforms. If you’re looking for a more private, secure and a faster browsing and in turn, Internet experience in a manner that your bandwidth is effectively utilized yielding efficiency and consistency in responses, Maxthon is the solution for you. You might not want to shift your usage from the popular Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or even the latest Internet Explorer but Maxthon is surely different. Yes it’s cloud based, meaning that it synchronizes and channelizes your browsing experience in a seamless or unified manner by supporting devices like Tablets, smart phones (Android, iOS), etc. and operating systems like Mac OS X and Windows. It backs up your data on the cloud making it accessible wherever you go whenever needed. The Cloud Sync feature automatically synchronizes user data, history and tabs across the platforms and supported devices depending on your needs and requirements. Similarly, Cloud Push, Cloud Download, Cloud Share are also some other features that distinguish this browser from many others out there and an online information retrieval system speeds up the fetching and loading times providing near-to-instant web surfing and response times.
Firefox 1.1 Beta also known as Fennec or Firefox mobile project is powered by the same engine as the latest Firefox 3.6 for Desktop but optimized to run smooth on a mobile device. Mozilla has released the first ever (Beta) version of it’s mobile browser but it’s initially available for Nokia N900 handsets.
Mozilla Firefox 3.7 pre-alpha dubbed “Minefield” is out with some really great UI enhancements and an extensive use of Windows Vista/7 glass. In fact it seems like they’ve turned every portion of the UI into glass and this is really awesome. It’s still pre-alpha release but it gives you an idea of how Firefox 3.7 will look like.
The Aero effects in Windows 7 are really cool to start with but sometimes you can do not want so m
any thumbnails of your open tabs in Firefox to pop up every time you hover cursor over the Firefox tab in the taskbar. Or conversely, you may want the thumbnails to show up. Either way, here’s the simplest way to enable or disable thumbnail preview of your open tabs of Firefox in your Windows 7 taskbar.
Firefox for mobile has been announced and the first phone on which you can use it is Nokia N900. For the very first time in browsing history, you can enhance your Firefox mobile’s functionality by installing add-ons. There are 40 of them available at the moment. There is one add-on that you are going to love: The YouTube enabler.
If you have Nokia N900 running Nokia’s Maemo5 platform then you are one of those lucky guys able to experience the first ever Firefox for Mobile browser. Mozilla announced earlier today the release of its first mobile candidate browser for Nokia N900 which is equipped - unlike any other mobile browsers - with Add-Ons like the ones you now enjoy on your desktops and laptops. Add-Ons are a major attraction for using Firefox besides it’s seamless design and robustness and security. Welcome the world’s favorite web browser now on mobiles!
With a whole new series of new Android based smart phones to be announced this y
ear, Mozilla has finally decided that it releases the web’s most beloved web browser for the Android phones. ProgrammerFish has learned that Mozilla is all set to release Firefox for the Android phones codenamed Mozilla Fennec, the mobile web browser is set to hit the market in February 2010, just a few days wait more.
Mozilla has just released the all new Firefox 3.6 Release Candidate 1. There have been some significant improvements for both developers and users and the good ne
ws is that 75% of the add-ons have been updated to be compatible with the new release. Now you can flip the UI of your Firefox with just one click using Personas. Firefox 3.6 Beta users will be automatically intimidated for updating their Beta to RC1 but if you don’t have the notification as yet or you are not a Firefox 3.6 Beta user then you can always try this and I bet you won’t be disappointed.
With over a 100 bug fixes and updates from the previous Firefox 3.6 Beta release, Mozi
lla has released Firefox 3.6 beta (revision 5) with an amazing addition of features, better compatibility and almost 70% of the Add-ons being upgraded by their respective authors for compatibility with the Firefox. The new update is more compatible with HTML5 which is sweeping across the industry.
Mozilla is edging closer to releasing a new version of Firefox that could increase the use of open source video software.
Firefox 3.1, the next major release due by early next year, will likely include support for a new HTML tag specifically for embedding video in Web pages. Firefox 3.1 will also support royalty-free video codec Ogg Theora.
Firefox developers at a summit this week in Whistler, British Columbia, said they've started working on native Theora support, and test builds of the browser incorporating the new feature are available.
The code committed so far is a work in progress, wrote Chris Double, a Mozilla engineer who has been handling the project, "but it's a start towards using a common codec across all platforms and will improve as we get towards the 3.1 release."
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