Category Archives: Internet

Firefox 3.5 RC2 available

Firefox 3.5 RC2 is available for download from Mozilla’s Blog. There are big improvements in memory management which has always haunted Firefox. According to this site it is now a non-issue, even out performing the other big free browsers. Continue reading

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Mozilla Moving Away From Tabs

Mozilla the company behind Firefox thinks that the tabbed interface it’s so famous for is reaching the end of it’s lifespan. So they’re launching a design competition to come up with the next big thing in browsers. Tabs worked well … Continue reading

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Multi-Process Firefox

Mozilla is taking a hint from Google’s Chrome, by splitting tabs into multiple processes that are independent of each other. So if one tabs crashes it won’t crash the whole browser. The development of this project is in the beginning stages and could be up to a year to see a workable release but. Continue reading

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Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 is ready for download

New features being introduced in Firefox 3.1, new support for web worker threads, new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, improvements to the Gecko layout engine. Continue reading

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