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Firefox 13 is now available in Nightly. What we can expect from it?

2012-02-02T11:36:00.002+05:30

Firefox 10 moved to stable version 2 days ago and now Firefox 13 is available in nightly build. Following are the features expected in this release, although they are not guaranteed! Silent Update: This is the most important feature expected in Firefox 13. In fact they...

Firefox 10 for enterprise is available now

2012-02-01T10:23:00.000+05:30

Firefox 10 for enterprise is available now. This enterprise release is targeted for users who don't like frequent updates and didn't expect new cutting edge features. A brief history: Mozilla team switched to Chrome like rapid release schedule (a new version every 6 weeks) from...

Firefox 12 now starts to download when you paste url to the download window

2012-01-31T11:21:00.000+05:30

Firefox 12 now starts to download when you paste url to the download window. Copy the link you want to download and press CTRL+V in your Firefox 12 download window. Firefox 12 automatically starts to download it. Safari has this feature and this is now available in Firefox...

Firefox 12 now shows a large play button for HTML5 video when auto play is not enabled

2012-01-31T11:03:00.001+05:30

HTML5 video now shows a large button in Firefox 12 when auto play is not enabled. Firefox up to version 11 doesn't show any button. To try this yourself upgrade your nightly today or download it from here and try this sample code. <video width="460" height="240"...

What is new in Firefox 10

2012-01-31T10:27:00.000+05:30

Firefox 10 like its predecessors have more updates for the end users and web developers. Dynamic forward button: Firefox 10 comes with a dynamic forward button, which automatically hides when there is no page to forward too! This increases more space in browser giving you a minimalist...

Firefox 12 now comes with new tab page

2012-01-27T10:53:00.001+05:30

New tab page, the most awaited feature of Firefox, lands in Firefox 12. New tab page in short, helps you to access your favorite sites easily when you open a new tab. All the browsers, except Firefox offered this feature since a long time ago and Firefox just joined this...

How to access the webcam using HTML5 getUserMedia

2012-01-23T10:44:00.000+05:30

HTML5 getUserMedia helps in accessing the camera or microphone through browsers without the use of plugins. Following tutorial helps you in creating an HTML page, that access the camera without the use of plugins. Before getting started, make sure to download Opera labs camera build and...

How to disable autocomplete urls in Firefox 12

2012-01-21T21:48:00.000+05:30

Firefox 12, now autocompletes url as you type thereby reducing some of your browsing time. Though this is useful for some people. Not all people will prefer this. As Steven said in a comment,this will be problematic for many people. If you are one of them, here is the...

Firefox 12 now autocomplete urls as you type in the awesomebar

2012-01-21T11:47:00.000+05:30

Firefox 12 now autocomplete url smartly as you type, saving your time while browsing. Till Firefox 11 awesomebar suggests urls as you type without completing it. Firefox 12 now autosuggest url based upon your browsing history, reducing much of your browsing time. Check this...

Google Chrome 18 PDF plugin now adds rotate options to context menu

2012-01-18T11:08:00.000+05:30

Google Chrome 18(developer channel) PDF plugin, now adds rotate options to context menu. Not all the PDF documents can be viewed directly as it is, so it will be helpful if there is an option to rotate files. Adobe PDF plugin already have this option. Take a look at the screenshot...

Firefox 12 now supports CSS3 text-align-last property

2012-01-14T23:11:00.000+05:30

CSS3 text-align-last tells the browser how the last line of the paragraph should be rendered in the browser and is available in Firefox 12 latest builds. This is used along with text-align property. While the text-align property tells how the paragraph is rendered, text-align-last...

An improved Command Line Interface for Web console lands in Firefox 12

2012-01-14T14:36:00.000+05:30

Firefox 12 comes today with a much improved command line interface. When you are about to type something in Command Line Interface, you will be greeted by help texts, telling what you can do with it. Following are the options possible in the new command line...

Latest Opera labs build adds privacy setting UI for the camera

2012-01-11T11:06:00.000+05:30

Latest Opera labs build adds privacy setting UI for the camera support. Camera support which is added in the earlier release has a privacy setting, which can be set directly in the UI. This privacy setting was not added in earlier release and is added in this release to provide more...

HTML5 version of Cut The Rope game is now available

2012-01-10T11:00:00.000+05:30

Cut the rope, the most popular game of iphone and Android phones is now available in HTML5. IE team announced this in their blog today. Cut the Rope game is basically about how you feed candy to the monster by technically cutting the rope. This is completely based on HTML5 and...

Firefox 12 now has "Undo Add to Dictionary" context menu option

2012-01-06T11:10:00.002+05:30

Firefox 12 now undoes a word you have added to its dictionary. Firefox 12 now adds a new context menu 'Undo add to Dictionary' right after you add a new word to dictionary. (Thanks echoecho for the sample text area). Upto Firefox 11 there is no option to delete a word added...

Google Chrome's latest beta is now improved in speed and security

2012-01-06T10:46:00.000+05:30

Google is well-known for its obsession with speed. This latest Chrome beta update is no different from that. When you are going to select a page through auto complete option, Chrome now detects it and automatically start to render the page in background. This results in rendering...

Firefox 12 now sports with good looking customize toolbar window

2012-01-06T10:04:00.000+05:30

As a part of the ongoing UI improvement in Firefox, Firefox 12 now sports with an improved customize Toolbar window. Take a look at the toolbar window for Firefox 8 If you take a closer look at the scroll bar at the right, you will find that it did not sync well and make the...

Dolphin browser HD for Android is now updated to 7.3 with more features

2012-01-06T09:14:00.000+05:30

Dolphin browser for Android and ios is now improved with enhanced webzine and more Key Features: Dolphin Connect now has email auto complete for sign up process and syncs bookmarks quickly without verification. Dolphin Companion , a battery saver add on for Dolphin browser, now saves...

IE6 usage in US is dropped below 1%

2012-01-04T10:29:00.000+05:30

IE6, the headache among the web developers and a joke among techies is dropped below 1% in U.S IE6 accounts to 7.7% in the total browser usage share as per IE6 countdown. Among that China records highest 25.2% and Norway records lowest 0.2%. U.S records 0.9%, while India at...

CSS3 multi columns - How to use it

2011-12-31T23:50:00.001+05:30

CSS3 multi column layout brings the news paper layout to your web page without the use of tables. By removing the tables for the layout you are getting a better design and rendering in mobiles is also made easier. You can set the following in the style sheet for getting a multicolumn...

Firefox 12 source viewer upgraded with Line numbers

2011-12-31T12:17:00.002+05:30

In the series of web development efforts from Mozilla, Firefox 12 source code viewer is upgraded with line numbers. You can view this by hitting the CTRL+U button on any page in your latest nightly. Just upgrade your nightly build or download it from here. This source page...

Firefox 11 Aurora is now available for both Desktop and Mobile

2011-12-24T07:23:00.002+05:30

Firefox 11 Aurora is now available for both Desktop and Mobile. While Desktop version comes with more developer tools and more features, mobile version comes with native UI, faster start-up times, improved start page and much more. You can download Firefox Aurora for Android here and you can...

Opera 11.61 development build is now available for download

2011-12-23T23:14:00.000+05:30

Opera 11.6.1 the latest development build is now available for download. This development build includes some fixes, which can be found here. Unluckily this development build wont update your Opera Next version, instead it updates the latest stable version. So think twice before...

Latest Firefox Nightly builds displays standalone images in neutral background

2011-12-23T11:41:00.000+05:30

Latest Firefox Nightly builds displays standalone images in dark background. Firefox up to version 11 displays image in white background. This however gets changed in the latest version (Firefox 12). Check out this bug for more details. Standalone image display in...

Latest Opera Wahoo fixes Hardware acceleration related crashes and others

2011-12-20T08:33:00.001+05:30

Latest Opera Wahoo (12) fixes Hardware acceleration related crashes and others. In addition to this themes now work better in Linux with Hardware acceleration enabled. Check this post to know more.