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How to install Firefox-3.5 with Firefox-3.0 in Ubuntu

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

Firefox is a great browser when it comes to usability, innovations and features. But there is a huge problem in most GNU/Linux Operating systems, which dont have the latest Firefox 3.5 on its repositories replacing Firefox 3.0. So one has to test by downloading from Mozilla website and some times it might not work (that was my case) so how do we use both Firefox 3.0 and 3.5 side by side? Here is how to do it ubuntu’s way.

Go to Applications –> Add and Remove –> and type in Shiretoka Web Browser (which is a beta test available in ubuntu repository) and install it.

Now you can test both Firefox 3.0 and Firefox 3.5 side by side and njoy browsing.

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Some useful security related Firefox add-ons

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

Firefox, a famous Web Browser from Mozilla Foundation, which provides a great web experience for its users. It has a great past since its first public release in 2004 and hope it will continue. One attractive feature of this browser is it Add-ons. There are numerous add-ons available for Mozilla Firefox and most of them are developed by its users and some by Mozilla Foundation itself. Among them some addons are really useful for tweaking our web experience. Here are some add-ons which I feel really useful,

  • WOT (Web Of Trust), warns you about risky websites that try to scam visitors, deliver malware or send spam. This add-on shows you various colors to indicate how risky it is to visit that website. You can also vote against a particular website. Click here to visit add-on website.
  • No Script: Allow active content to run only from sites you trust, and protect yourself against XSS and Clickjacking attacks. This addon is very very useful, it will not allow any scripts to be executed in the background unless you mark particular website as trusted, which leads to much safer internet. Also blocks many flashy ads thus leads website to load faster, a noticable change in speed can be experienced on http://www.computerworld.com. Click here to visit add-on website.
  • Adblock Plus: This Firefox add-on comes to great use when blocking ads and banners which can be annoying sometimes. Though ads are the source of revenue of most websites (exception: wikipedia), it is advisable to use this add-on on sites which has too many flashy ads and takes lot of bandwidth to load. Click here to visit add-on website.
  • CryptFire: This is a super cool add-on used to encrypt and decrypt the text using strong AES algorithm. To test this, you can go to cryptfire.com website, type in some secret content and add a password to it. Now the message is encrypted and a tiny url link is provided in the middle of the page which can be sent to your friend who knows the password. He can decrypt and view message using cryptfire. Click here to visit add-on website

These are only few useful ones I am aware of. You are always welcome to explore more add-ons on mozilla add-ons website.

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Firefox exceeded billionth mark

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

Firefox, an open-source web browser, has created wonders by pulling down Microsoft’s IE market share by a noticable amount. Now it has crossed billion downloads in just 5 years that to without dominant Windows XP operating system support, on this eve mozilla has launched website http://www.onebillionplusyou.com/. Since Firefox launch in end 2004, it has captured nearing 30% of market share pulling down IE from 90%+ to around 60%.

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Mozilla releases Firefox 4.0 Interface Mockups

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Mozilla released Firefox/4.0 Windows Theme Mockups, most of them look nice. In this mockup there are 2 versions, one with tabs on top (which resembles Google Chrome web browser) another with tabs on bottom. Mozilla released Firefox/3.7 Windows theme mockup few days earlier. These changes certainly encourage more UI lovers to use Firefox, which laged behind some browsers in UI design.

Chick here for Firefox/4.0 Windows Mockups

Chick here for Firefox/3.7 Windows Mockups

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How to create web applications using prism in Linux

Friday, July 17th, 2009

Here are the steps follow

1) Install firefox addon prism
2) Restart firefox
3) Go to Tools –> Convert Website to Application
4) A popup will be displayed, fill in the details as you want.
5) Go the newly created web application right click —> properties —>edit command —> replace “/usr/lib/firefox-3.0.11/firefox” with “/usr/bin/xulrunner”

Thats it.

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