If you have poor quality internet you might run into trouble when you attempt to download large files. Almost any time I download a file larger than 50 MB the download will get cut off and tell me the connection to the server has failed. If I click retry it tries to download the entire file again.
I thought everyone knew how to resume a broken download but it amazed my friend when he saw me do it so now I’m sharing this with everyone here.
I find myself using this really simple add-on for Firefox all the time. Basically what it does is when you highlight text in a passage/title/link/whatever, then drag and drop it anywhere, it will search Google in a new tab for the highlighted text. It also works with unlinked URLs – just highlight an unlinked URL such as google.com, drag & drop it and it will automatically go to the URL – and photos – just drag & drop to download the image (you can disable that if you like).
You’ll find yourself using it a lot if you’re a Firefox user, so head over to the QuickDrag add-on page now to download it.
There have been several betas and release candidates, but Firefox 3.6 is now finally ready for the general public to update to. For current users you will be happy to know that 3.6 is 20% faster than 3.5 thanks to better JavaScript performance, start-up times and responsiveness. A new feature called Personas has also been included, which is simple browser theming with a single click and no restart.
To download/upgrade to the latest version of Firefox, head over to the Mozilla website to grab it. The full list of updates can be found below:
Today it appears as if Mozilla has decided to completely change the way they release new versions of Firefox. They have removed Firefox 3.7 from the development schedule and added a completely new process in its place. Updates will be released more frequently which add new features and security; these updates will be released every “four to six weeks” rather than with the bigger updates. Major releases, such as Firefox 4.0 due for release at the end of the year, will be rarer.
Director of Firefox, Mike Beltzner, thought that the old way of releasing updates was too slow and when many features were released at the same time, show-stopping bugs were more likely to appear. With the new process bugs will be less likely and we will get new features much faster, such as the new updated “Lorentz” which will put add-ons in a separate process to reduce the chance of a crash.
If you’re wondering where the next Firefox disappeared to, Firefox 3.7 will become just another normal update in the new 4-6 week update schedule. Firefox 3.6 is on-schedule and will be released sometime in the next week or so.
We’ve seen a few mockups for the Firefox 4.0 user interface re-vamp before in July, and now we’re getting some more. These latest shots come from Mozilla dev Stephen Horlander’s personal blog where he shares heaps of info regarding the latest changes to the Firefox UI. He does mention, though, that these changes will likely be present in Firefox 4.0 and that no UI re-vamp will occur in Firefox 3.7.
It appears as though Mozilla is taking cues from both the Ribbon interface we see in Windows applications such as Wordpad, Paint and Office 2007/2010 as well as Google’s Chrome browser. One thing does stand out in the new screenshots is the application button, which is said to replace the menu toolbar that fills up space on older Firefox versions. This application button is being tested in many locations (below).
Ah, it’s so nice to see Internet Explorer finally de-crowned as the world’s most popular browser. In the latest statistics provided by StatCounter Global Statistics we are seeing a very slight margin to Firefox 3.5 over Internet Explorer 7, a great milestone for Mozilla. Of course, these stats count each version of the browser separately and when you add all the Microsoft browsers together IE still comes out on top, but hey, it’s still a milestone for Firefox.
It was five years ago today that Mozilla launched version 1.0 of their browser: Mozilla Firefox. More than 1 million people flooded to download the new browser and escape the grasps that Internet Explorer had over the internet browsing realms. Little did they know that five years later, Firefox would grow to a user base of 330 million and a 24% market share.
To celebrate the 5th year that Firefox has been around for, Mozilla has been hosting parties around the world thanks to the “Light the World with Firefox” campaign. Anyone can join the fun and you can win some cool Firefox stuff. Head over now SpreadFirefox to get involved, or to just wish Firefox a happy 5th birthday.
We all remember the fuss that the European Union made about web browsers in Windows, first making Windows 7 go without a browser altogether (Windows 7 E), and then making Microsoft propose the “browser ballot screen.” Microsoft originally proposed the order of the browsers on the screen to go by market share, placing IE first. The EU rejected this idea, so Microsoft and the EU agreed on alphabetical order (see above image).
As you may have realised, Firefox isn’t in the second spot it used to be. Mozilla user experience designer Jenny Boriss, doesn’t like this layout at all, claiming there’s an unfair advantage towards Safari:
Only two months after Firefox 3.5, Mozilla has released an alpha of the next version, 3.6, codenamed Namoroka after a national park in Madagascar. Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1 uses a new version of the Gecko rendering engine, 1.9.2, to deliver faster javascript actions as well as greater browser responsiveness. Lifehacker reports that tab previews, a feature removed from 3.5, make a return in this version.
This version is an alpha release, which means it probably is full of bugs and the like. Mozilla is warning people that only developers and testers should download this copy of Firefox, but if you want to anyway, head over to the Mozilla Dev Blog to get the links. The final version of Firefox 3.6 is expected to be finished later this year
Today (or more accurately, 2009-07-31 15:00 UTC) Firefox has reached a new milestone: one billion downloads. It’s come quite a long way since November 9, 2004 when Firefox 1.0 was released. Now, almost 5 years later, Firefox has a browser market share of around 30 percent, looking at statcounter, and one of the largest add-on communities I’ve seen.
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