Mozilla launched the Firefox 3.5.2 and is more concerned about the security updates that is it is recommended that you all upgrade your Firefox to 3.5.2 as it is a security update fixing several issues. Currently it is not available everywhere. You can check out the release notes here.
Installing the Firefox 3.5 will overwrite your existing installation of Firefox. You won’t lose any of your bookmarks or browsing history, but some of your extensions and other add-ons might not work until updates for them are made available. You can reinstall an older version later if you wish to downgrade. For more information you can click that above link(”here”).
Pushkar
Google Chrome just released just 30 minutes back i guess( while i was writing). Actually I was holly shit when Google announced that they where making there own open source browse, considering Google has been supporting Firefox for quite a while now.
Google Chrome is based on the WebKit engine and by the initial 5 minutes with the browser, its pretty awesome considering it just a beta. Good thing is that the browser runs separate processes per TAB to ensure security and stability. This way if one of the tab crashes accidentally, it won’t influence your work in other tabs. While running multiple tabs each tab was consuming about 6 to 10mb depending on the website content, flashier websites tend to consume more ram.
Pranjal
YouTube is the best online video service I have ever come across. Thousands of videos uploaded everyday, its also the best way to promote yourself online. Now with YouPlayer you can watch those videos media player style from your sidebar on the Mozilla Firefox.
YouPlayer is one of the best firefox addons I have ever come across. As I said, it works like a media player. Simply drag and drop the video URLs to the playlist on the sidebar and start watching videos instantly. You can also download those videos, right click the video link and click download. Magnifique!
Pushkar
For those of you who don’t know what Drop.io is, it is a service that allows sharing of documents and files. With its simple interface and image-scaled uploads, its become popular with heavy file sharers. Now the company has decided to offer drag & drop uploads on Mozilla Firefox that will make things easier and faster.
How do you do that?
Create a ‘drop’ area at drop.io. Select the file from your desktop or any webpage and drag it to an existing drop.io drop area. The file will get uploaded or if it is small, it will get converted for an easy one click access.
Pushkar
I previously have show many tips to reduce the memory usage of Firefox. Even show a application that forces Firefox to use virtual memory and cpu to reduce physical memory usage. Most of them reduced the memory usage to a great extent, still i would love Firefox memory usage to around 90 to 120 MB. Below are few tweaks in the about:config that does some tough things.
1. Reduce memory usage when minimize
Do you know Firefox keeps sucking memory each time you minimize your Firefox. This tip will reduce the memory usage when each time you minimize your Firefox.
Pranjal
Tab browsing for Firefox is almost perfect for most average to intermediate users. But for a geek everything has to be picture perfect. Here are few Tab extensions that extracts more out of the already lean and mean Firefox browser.
Tab Mix Plus
Tab Mix is probably the most used tab extension. Most of the cool features came with Firefox 2. It includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more. Also the session manager gives it total control over crashes.
Fancy Numbered Tabs
Pranjal
Firefox maybe the best web browser out in the internet but it isn’t bulletproof when it comes to the memory leakage usage. More the windows, tabs, extension it sucks more memory. Fortunately there is a small fix that will minimize the memory leakage to some extend. Don’t bet it will fix it forever, still better to have something rather then a zero.
Heres what you do:
1. Open Firefox and go to the Address Bar. Type in about:config and then press Enter.
2. Right Click in the page and select New -> Boolean.
3. In the box that pops up enter config.trim_on_minimize. Press Enter.
Pranjal
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