In the market for a lightweight, fast, browser with a genuine MacOS look and feel?
You need Camino.
This open-source, Gecko-based browser is totally free and is dedicated to its core mission — offering a speedy, simple, standards-compliant browser with a 100 percent MacOS X look and feel.
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Google Talk integration inside Gmail is a superb idea, and it is slowly adding features such as voice and video talk. You are then able to have a full text/audio/video conference directly from into your inbox, with no need to install a standalone software.
Today’s news is that Google has announced that it’ll be adding to its browser-based chat client the ability to send files to contacts: file transfer transfers will work for photos, documents and maybe for small video files at the moment of its release.
We still do not know when the update will be released, but it’s certainly something we need to look forward to trying.
Would you like to know how the new browser from Microsoft behaves when compared with Mozilla’s latest version? Well, here are some the test tables I found on Taranfx‘s web site that show a comparison chart between all major browsers with Javascript and GPU usage.
Here the results:
If you are on Facebook and want to follow us, here’s another way to subscribe to our latest news feeds: we used to have RSS, email newsletter and Twitter only, but now you can also choose to use Facebook and get our latest updates directly in your Home Page.
To do this, simply use the widget in the sidebar or use the link below, and become a fan!
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Today’s news is not about web browsers or web based service, but it is a humanitarian call out to the world, and it is certainly something that you can watch and share through you favorite browser!
After 25 years from it’s first publication, a new version of We Are The World is out, called We Are The World 25 for Haiti, and this time it aims to help Haiti people come out of the disaster that has caused the loss of thousands of people. Led and produced (again) by the legendary Quincy Jones, in collaboration with Lionel Richie, it involves all of the major modern music personalities, starting from Celine Dion, The Black Eyed Peas, LL Cool J, Snoop Dog, Mary J Blige, Usher, Pink, Wyclef Jean, Akon, and much more.
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Did you ever come across a website called Alltop.com? Do you know what it is all about?
Alltop is a news aggregation site that imports stories from top news websites and blogs for any given topic, and displays the headlines of the five most recent stories from each one of them. Its main purpose is to allow visitors to have a unique place where they can find the best news about everything they want: divided by category, you can find sections that space from tech, gossip, sport, health and more.
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A few days ago, UniverseFirefox.com has suddenly closed without any notice, but now we are back under the name Browserland, with more content and news to come.
The reason why we had to close is that Mozilla claimed a trademark violation for the domain name, so we had to close immediately because we did not ask for permission when we opened Universe Firefox back in 2007.
We used to have almost 1000 visitors per day, and it’ll take a while to regain our traffic and PageRank, but we have tried to work out something in the Google index and maybe they will do something about it…or maybe not!
If you can, spread the word about this domain change, as we continue to work on optimizing the site again.
Thank you all, and sorry for the inconvenience!
Photo Credit: Dez Pain
Are you a Firefox add-on developer and you wish to see your product reviewed on this site? Do you have a question that you cannot answer about something regarding Firefox, or any web browser?
If yes, this may be the time to speak up!
If you want to submit content for news or extensions reviews, make all of the questions that you never see answered on the web about Firefox or any web browser, point out your favorite extensions or themes, or share your tips and tricks with the whole world, just leave a comment to this post or fill the form below!
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Mozilla’s mobile browser has been voiced around for a while now under the codename Fennec, also availble in Alpha and Beta versions for Windows Mobile and Maemo. You can also try it on your desktop platform if you do not own any of the supported mobile OSs, downloading it from here.
But what is this project really all about? Let’s just find out with the people behind it, the Mozilla Mobile Team:
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The Firefox project began as an experimental branch of the Mozilla project by Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross. They believed the commercial requirements of Netscape’s sponsorship and developer-driven feature creep compromised the utility of the Mozilla browser. To combat what they saw as the Mozilla Suite’s software bloat, they created a stand-alone browser, with which they intended to replace the Mozilla Suite. On April 3, 2003, the Mozilla Organization announced that they planned to change their focus from the Mozilla Suite to Firefox (and Thunderbird).
Originally titled Phoenix, it was renamed because of trademark issues with Phoenix Technologies. The replacement name, Firebird, provoked an intense response from the Firebird free database software project. In response, the Mozilla Foundation stated that the browser should always bear the name Mozilla Firebird to avoid confusion with the database software. Continuing pressure from the database server’s development community forced another change; on February 9, 2004, Mozilla Firebird became Mozilla Firefox, often referred to as simply Firefox.
Source: Wikipedia
Currently at version 3.5, and with a version 3.6 just around the corner, the Mozilla foundation has completely redesigned the standard of web browser for a faster, more secure and reliable way of surfing the net.
Here is a short video, posted by the SpreadFirefox Community that briefly tells the browser’s history through these five years, from 2004 until today:
