Posts Tagged ‘ Firefox

Magic Actions for YouTube: A New and Convenient Way to Watch Videos

Magic Actions for YouTube Magic Actions for YouTube: A New and Convenient Way to Watch Videos

Magic Actions is an extension for Chrome and Firefox which lets you watch YouTube videos as if you are in the cinema. Basically, the extension adds a dark background on the page to highlight the video you’re watching, while creating an environment similar to a cinema hall and free of distractions.

Unlike most extensions, Magic Actions does not add a button in the toolbar of your browser, but it adds four new buttons on YouTube interface, above the video player, to turn… Read More

Mozilla Firefox 12 Released

Mozilla Firefox 12 Mozilla Firefox 12 Released

Mozilla developers have completed work on a new Internet browser Firefox 12, making it available for download. The main feature of the new browser is the ability to automatically update to the latest version of the browser without any user interaction, same like Google Chrome. Firefox 12 also brought with it an updated JavaScript editor, HTML Viewer, and many other enhancements for developers.

What’s New In Firefox 12?

  • Windows: Firefox is now easier to update with one less prompt (User Account Control)

SpeedyFox: Speed Up Your Firefox, Chrome, Thunderbird and Skype

SpeedyFox SpeedyFox: Speed Up Your Firefox, Chrome, Thunderbird and Skype

Like Windows, some programs tend to become slower as time passes and generally more you use these programs, longer they take to load.

SpeedyFox is a small portable program that allows you to optimize your Firefox profiles, Google Chrome, ThunderBird and Skype to accelerate the loading of programs and let them faster. SpeedyFox is very easy to use. It automatically detects the compatible programs that are installed on your computer. All you need to do is select the profiles of programs you want to optimize, click on… Read More

Mozilla Firefox 5.0

Mozilla Firefox 5 Mozilla Firefox 5.0

It is not easy to conquer a large number of loyal users as Mozilla captivated with the Mozilla Firefox browser. Released to the public in 2004, the browser has become one of the main alternatives, gaining ground and becoming the second most used browser in the world.

Throughout its various versions, the browser went through several changes. In a rife market as the browsers, the innovations take place with every new update and final versions often dictate trends and add many concepts that later will… Read More

Mozilla Firefox 4.0

Mozilla Firefox 4 Mozilla Firefox 4.0

After several months in development and several postponements, Mozilla has finally released the final version of their browser Firefox 4 for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

What’s New?

Among the main innovations of Firefox 4, is the browser’s performance. Compared to earlier versions, the initialization and loading web pages became much faster after inclusion of JägerMonkey JIT compiler. Another novelty is the support for WebGL, a great graphics playback platform on the internet. Graphics acceleration was only available for Windows, but now also works… Read More

20-line patch to Firefox 4 that makes startup on Windows up to 2x as fast

Mozilla Firefox 20 line patch to Firefox 4 that makes startup on Windows up to 2x as fast

In the world of browser wars, speed is everything. All the top vendors love to show off how fast their browser is and why it is better than the competition. So, when a user comes up with a way to increase the cold boot time of a browser, it generally grabs the attention of many people.

Taras Glek, from bugzilla.mozilla.org, found a way to trick Windows into loading Firefox faster by using a simple patch. From the bugzilla.mozilla.org page via Reddit:
Basic… Read More