Tag Archives: browser

FoxTab turns your browser tabs into a spectacle

By Prithvi Mandava | Published: September 17, 2008
One of my buddies just tipped me off to a must-have tab management add-on for Firefox. It’s called FoxTab, and it’s a cross between Mac OS X’s Expose, Windows Vista’s Flip 3D, and the thumbnail view in Google Chrome. When you’ve got a lot of tabs open in Firefox, this offers a quick way to jump [...]
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Flash 10 beta update means you should, too

By Prithvi Mandava | Published: September 14, 2008
The ongoing problems with Flash freezing in Firefox 3 after two seconds of playback resemble nothing less than a game of hot potato. Or perhaps watching two parents have a screaming match, with us regular ol’ users playing the part of the sobbing kid that cries, “Why can’t you two just get along?”
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Firefox 3.1 to gain modicum of privacy

By Prithvi Mandava | Published: September 14, 2008
Of the two big browsing features of 2008, one seems to run counter to where developers are driving their browsers. The melding of the location bar to the search bar was expected in Firefox and Opera, thanks to beta versions. Chrome has it, too, calling it the Omnibar. What seems to have caught developers off-guard [...]
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High expectations from Google Chrome

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: September 3, 2008
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Guinness bestows download record on Firefox

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: July 2, 2008
The de facto registrar of superlative achievements has credited Mozilla for officially setting a record for downloads in a 24-hour period: 8,002,530 copies of Firefox.
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Stock Ticker within your Firefox browser

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: June 27, 2008
Here is how you can get a stick ticker in your Firefox browser (works with 1.0 – 2.0.0.* versions):
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