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While the official release of Firefox 8 happens on 8th November 2011, you can already download the final version from Mozilla’s FTP servers. Do note that though you can download the final version, a release is very different as it involves many checks and processes, including documentation and also ensuring that the network operations ...

In an earlier article related around Firesheep and HTTP Session Hijacking, we discussed about HTTPS Everywhere as a plugin which can help you surf specific websites over HTTPS. The Firefox plugin has now graduated from beta to a major release version. HTTPS Everywhere is an open source project, created by the joint efforts of The [...]

With Firefox 5 now released, if you are looking at a way to tell websites to not track your moves (by the way, most of the websites which serve ads – do that) you can do that by selecting a checkbox in Firefox 5. Do Not Track allows users to decide when and how websites [...]

While Firefox 5 final version was available on Mozilla’s FTP Servers a few days back, the official release has happened today (on June 21st). With Firefox 5, you can create what Mozilla calls “App Tab”. App Tabs basically allow you to keep your favorite and most browsed web applications like Facebook, Twitter, Gmail etc open [...]

Mozilla has released the final version of Mozilla Firefox 5 a few days before the actual scheduled release date of 21st Jun 2011. Some of the key Firefox 5 features are Supports for CSS animations. Supports for Firefox channel switcher. Improved JavaScript, memory and networking performance. Improved standards support for HTML5, XHR, MathML, ...

Internet Explorer 9 from Microsoft features an interesting Do Not Track feature which can be turned on or off based on one’s preference. By turning the feature ON, users can opt-out of the web tracking mechanisms put up by third-party companies which also include tracking for behavioral advertising. Technically, when Do Not Track feature ...

Not sure if you are aware of this, but Firefox does have a feature which allows you to synchronize the settings you enjoy on your Firefox installation to other Firefox instances running on other computers. I have personally found this feature useful – as it allows me to access my bookmarks, surfing history, recently closed [...]