Sicore called on all developers for their input. "If you disagree with a blocking call, say so loudly. Do not be timid. This is your product, we need you to own it," he wrote.
Developers should not disable Flash, Silverlight, or other major plug-ins because Mozilla needs as many people as possible testing on these programs, Sicore said. Windows users also need to report instances of hardware acceleration causing crashes or other issues. "Don't just assume that someone else has filed a bug already," he said.
"Firefox 4 is gonna kick ass, and you should be fiercely proud of it," Sicore concluded.
Mozilla released Beta 8 of Firefox 4 in late December. It sported a trimmed-down user interface (as has been the trend started with Google Chrome and followed by Opera and IE9 beta), and made some significant internal changes, with a new add-in system, a faster JavaScript engine, and lots more HTML5 compatibility.
Mozilla is almost ready to ship Firefox 4 and is working toward a late February release, Damon Sicore, Mozilla's senior director of platform engineering, said in a Tuesday note.
"We've worked tremendously hard on Firefox 4, and it's time to ship it," Sicore wrote to the developer mailing list. "We have to reach Release Candidate status as quickly as possible, ideally finishing the hard blockers by the beginning of February and shipping final before the end of February."
At this point, Mozilla has about 160 hard blockers - or bugs - to address. "Historically it has taken us six weeks to reach RC once we have 100 blockers left," Sicore wrote. "We must press hard now."
Those bug counts "demand another beta," he continued. "We'll drive the beta bugs to zero and ship another beta. If we can't get them to zero in reasonable time, we'll repeat, deliberately."
Addressing these bugs is priority number one, he said, "since it pushes the rest of our schedule." (story: PCMag)
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Jul 17, 2009
How to Choose the Best Web Browser
Today's Web browsers are faster and more feature-rich than ever before. If you're not sure which one you should use, our look at the most popular options will help prep you for prime surfing.
The recent launch of Firefox 3.5 was just the latest in a crescendo of activity on the browser front over the past few months. We've seen Google tout speed with its bare-bones Chrome 2. We've seen Apple's Safari 4 bring on both the speed and all the interface eye candy we've come to expect. Opera has come in with not only a beta of its feature-packed version 10, but also an alpha of an app called Opera Unite that makes the browser a server as well as a consumer. Starting it all was that juggernaut Microsoft, coming out with Internet Explorer 8, which the company claimed was more compliant with open Web standards.
But it turns out that standards are a far murkier issue than they may first seem. Firefox's promoters will brand IE as a completely behind-the-times, non-standards-supporting browser, but the standards Firefox supports haven't yet been ratified by the organization that's been the official keeper of the standards, the W3C. Firefox's support for the <video> tag is a good example: Though the tag itself is adopted by the W3C, the Ogg Theora video codec Firefox supports with the tag is anything but.
Rendering speed is another issue to consider when choosing a browser. Though all browsers today are much faster than they were a few years ago, the clear winner—at least as far as JavaScript rendering—is Chrome. JavaScript rendering is important for modern sites, which are behaving increasingly like applications rather than static pages. Chrome performed best in my tests using the SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark, finishing in just 1,503 ms. But Safari isn't far behind, at 1,707 ms, and Firefox is right in the mix, at 2,413 ms. The once-snappiest Opera trails at 7,974 ms, and IE8 is left in the dust with a 10,281-ms time.
In terms of features and customizability, Firefox, IE, Opera, and Safari all outshine the stripped-down Chrome. But no browser can come close to Firefox in both its extensions and theming capabilities. Mozilla's "Fashion My Firefox" and "Personas" tools make it simple for novice users to customize the browser to their hearts' content. IE also has an add-on capability, but there's nowhere near the ecosystem for it as there is for Firefox. True, only IE offers WebSlices and Accelerators, which deliver up-to-date data to you with little fuss, right inside the browser, but few sites currently support WebSlices. (full Story)
Mar 9, 2009
Why Can't I Add Bookmarks in Firefox?
Q: I cannot add new bookmarks in my Firefox browser. This just started a few weeks ago. Any suggestions? —Harry I.
A: There are a number of reasons this might happen. First, before anything else, make sure you're running the very latest version of Firefox. You can download it from www.getfirefox.com. According to the Firefox knowledge base, an add-on called Bookmark Duplicate Detector can cause this problem. So if you have that installed, remove it.
Still not fixed? You may need to reset the local store. Close all Firefox windows, then click Start, click Run, and enter firefox-safe-mode. In the box that pops up, check the option Reset toolbars and controls and click the button Make Changes and Restart. You can accomplish the same thing by deleting the file Localstore.rdf from the same folder where you found the bookmarks file.
I hope one of these techniques solved the problem. If you're still in a bind, though, Firefox's own support site has a page devoted specifically to troubleshooting bookmark problems. (story Link)
Mar 8, 2009
Battle for Best High-End Mac OS X netBook
I’ve been busy installing OS X on the Dell Mini 9 (CNet review) and fellow podcaster Rob Parker prefers the Acer Aspire One (review) but guest blogger Bob DeGrande thinks that the Asus 901 (review) and MSI Wind
I think there is a better deal on a Linux netbook at the moment. The Asus 901is a high end netbook. It normally sells in the $360-380 range, but there is a $100 rebate going on through early March, bringing it into the same price range as the Aspire.
It has excellent features - a 1.3MP webcam, Bluetooth, 6-cell battery, 20GB of SSD in the Linux version, and a Synaptic touchpad which supports two finger scrolling like a MacBook. The Asus 901 network card identifies itself internally as a gigabit card (even though the specs say 10/100) and it also has 802.11n wireless (most others only have b/g).
I have some experience running OS X on a netbook (I have a legal license). I use the MSI Wind. I have upgraded to 2GB RAM, a 7200 RPM 320GB hard drive, and a 9 cell battery. It’s still under 3 lbs., and this machine runs OS X well - I load up Spaces with Tweetdeck, Firefox, Mail, and iTunes, and I have no problem running additional applications without slowing down.
Time Machine works, including using Migration Assistant to move apps from an existing Time Machine backup by USB. There are some minor issues, I have to run a program to switch between speaker and headphones and there is a program that runs at startup to connect to Wi-Fi, but that is automatic. I am also dual booting XP, as I have a digital TV USB stick that only works with Windows.
BoingBoing has recently updated their compatibility chart for netbooks running OS X. What’s your favorite netbook for running Mac OS X? (story Link)
Firefox 3.0.7 fixes 47 bugs, 17 critical
The latest update to Firefox pushed out to users last night via automatic update addresses 47 bugs and enhancements, according to Mozilla. 17 bugs were marked as “critical” or higher.
Five potential security vulnerabilities were patched including these 3 that were marked as “critical”:
- MFSA 2009-10 Upgrade PNG library to fix memory safety hazards
- MFSA 2009-08 Mozilla Firefox XUL Linked Clones Double Free Vulnerability
- MFSA 2009-07 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.0.7)
Glenn Randers-Pehrson, Martijn Wargers, Jesse Ruderman, Josh Soref, Gary Kwong, and Timothee Groleau were credited with identifying and reporting the problems.
Most of the issues involve common C/C++ memory management bugs such as freeing uninitialized memory or memory that has already been freed. If Firefox were written in Java or C# or any language with automatic garbage collection they wouldn’t have these problems, I’m just saying…
Mozilla has been updating Firefox 3 approximately once a month since its release in June of last year. Here’s a list of all the updates so far:
Mar 1, 2009
Apple's New Safari 4 Beta
Like every new browser released of late, the Safari 4 beta, released Tuesday, claims faster HTML and JavaScript performance, powered by a new JavaScript engine called Nitro. Safari, however, claims to be the world's fastest browser. It's not, but in real-world service it's close enough not to matter.
One instance of these is the incorporation of Cover Flow in the browser's history list. Sure, it's little more than eye candy, but it's both stylish and useful at the same time. Another highlight of the new Safari include its Smart Address Field, which jumps on the smart-address-bar bandwagon pioneered by Firefox 3 and has been emulated by every browser release since—Internet Explorer 8, Chrome, and Opera. Add to this its revamped Smart Search Field, greater support for emerging Web standards, full-page zoom, and new tools for developers, and you can see that the Safari team has had their hands full.
I had a minor temporary issue when installing the browser on my Vista test machine, with a dialog box asking me to uninstall or repair the installation; clicking the latter got the browser up and running in short order. The download is bulkier than Chrome's, at 26MB versus just half a megabyte; then again, Safari offers more features. Mac users should note that the installer requires OS X 10.5.6—10.5.5 won't do. When you first run Safari 4, you'll see a new animated splash screen featuring the Apple logo, complete with inspirational music.
If you've upgraded from an earlier version, you'll next see the new Top Sites page consisting of a curved 3D grid of images of your most frequently visited websites. An Edit button lets you remove any of these thumbnails, and you can drag any of the minipages to a spot of your choice, and "pin" it so that it always appears in that spot. If a site in your Top Sites group has new content, a blue page dog-ear with a star will show up in its top right corner. In some ways I prefer Opera's handling of this: It only adds sites you specify to the speed dial thumbnails, but I can see Chrome and Safari's rationale that people are more likely to use the feature if it's automatically populated.
Unlike the bare-bones Chrome, Safari does bring a very handy sidebar, which you can show by clicking the book icon a the top left of the window. You can switch the sidebar's function between History, Bookmarks, Bonjour networking, and an RSS reader. Any of these sidebar choices take advantage of the scrolling Cover Flow view in the top half of the main center panel, while the bottom half offers a simple list of the links. You can adjust the relative height of these two panels with a grab bar in the center of their divider – for example, you could have either one take up the whole area. The mouse wheel scrolls back and forth through the Cover Flow images, or you can use a slider beneath the images. (story Link)
Feb 28, 2009
Firefox Trojan Steals Passwords
A new Trojan horse program identified by anti-malware company BitDefender as Trojan.PWS.ChromeInject.B works as a Firefox plug-in.
Two files, one Javascript and one Windows executable, conspire to steal user logon credentials whenever you log on to one of 103 domains, largely belonging to banks (see the BitDefender link for the complete list). The sites are largely out of the US.
BitDefender identifies ChromeInject as "...the first malware that targets Firefox." It's the first we've heard of as well. The writeup has no information on how the file is being distributed or if it's mislabeled as something else, but they give it a spreading factor of "very low".
Take this as a warning, in case you thought otherwise, that Firefox is vulnerable to all the usual forms of attack. Use common sense when surfing even in Firefox, and especially when installing plug-ins. (story Link)
Opera 10 Alpha
Today Opera Software made available a preview of its next major browser version, Opera 10. The pre-release alpha version showcases a new rendering engine, Presto 2.2, which the company states will improve browsing performance over the previous version by 30 percent. The company also claims that the reengineered browser and rendering engine will lead in standards support, saying that it manages 100 out of 100 on the Web Standards Project's Acid3 browser test. The previous best among major browsers was Google's Chrome, scoring 79 out of 100. In my testing, I confirmed the rare 100 score, as you can see from the accompanying slideshow.
The very lightweight installer is a mere 6MB download. Firefox is just a bit bigger, at 7.2MB. Internet Explorer 7 dwarfs both, at 14MB. Installation itself is straightforward and quick. When you launch the browser, it loads in less than 2 seconds. On the same machine, Firefox 3 and Google Chrome take slightly over 2 seconds. But startup speed for all of the browsers is good on a reasonably up-to-date machine.
For speed, Opera 10 won't set any records, but it's fast—and it's still an alpha. Chrome's performance on the Sunspider JavaScript benchmark, however, vastly exceeded what the new Opera engine managed. The test runs a balanced variety of JavaScript operations—such as string manipulation, graphics operations, and decompressions—multiple times. Opera took 8,088ms (a lower score is better), far faster than Internet Explorer 7's 256,116, and slightly lower than Firefox 3's 6,535, but still substantially trailing Chrome's 2,763 on the same Vista machine.
Of course, according to Microsoft, JavaScript performance accounts for just a small fraction—under 4 percent—of actual Web-page loading time. And anecdotally, a PCMag.com page that took 4 seconds to load in Chrome took only 2 in Opera 10. But in a test called Lots of Text, which evaluates a different aspect of performance, Opera took only 92ms compared with IE's 128ms. Chrome blew both of them away, clocking a mere 12ms Firefox posted a respectable 64ms. I should note, though, that the developers may not have optimized Opera's memory usage yet in this alpha build. I loaded the same ten popular media-rich sites into Opera 10 and Firefox, and Opera required 156MB of RAM, and FireFox only 111.
In real Web site testing, the Opera 10 alpha works well with Facebook, though it didn't seem any faster than Firefox, despite the Opera team's claims. And Yahoo mail (in its newest form) still presents an error page stating that the browser isn't supported. Opera had no trouble with Citibank's site, but the Fidelity Investments financial site claimed that the browser didn't support 128-bit encryption, and it wouldn't display in my account.
The new version keeps all of the former's helpful and unique browsing helpers, such as tab previews, mouse gestures, and its trademark speed-dial page. With speed-dial, whenever you create a new tab, it opens and shows nine favorite sites of your choice, any of which you can visit with a single click. Of course, you still get a predictive address bar, much like what you'll find in Firefox, Chrome, and Internet Explorer 8. And Opera still boasts one of the best implementations of tabs in any browser. The "new tab" button is the clearest of that in any browser, and you can drag tabs out to a new window or to the trash can. This version adds spellchecking and a streamlined feature for updating the browser. (story Link)
10 Bugs Fixed in New Mozilla Apps
The final version of the Firefox 2 generation made it's debut with a series of updates from Mozilla to address 10 vulnerabilities in their products. New versions of Firefox 3, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey are also out now for the same reason. Firefox 2.0.0.19 has no phishing protection anymore.
[Update: Well, turns out Firefox 2.0.0.19 will not be the last. A "clerical error" caused the omission of one of the updates for this version from the release. Sometime in the next few days Firefox 2.0.0.20 will be released to address this one vulnerability, which we are told is not an especially serious one.]
8 of the 10 vulnerabilities affect Firefox 3 which is now up to version 3.0.5, and 3 of them are rated Critical:
- MFSA2008-69: XSS vulnerabilities in SessionStore—Content could be injected into the session restore data, causing the browser to violate policies. This one also affects Firefox 2. Sounds difficult to exploit to me, but there aren't any details provided.
- MFSA2008-68: XSS and JavaScript privilege escalation—It's possible to attach commands to an unloaded document that will cause the browser to run Javascript with Chrome privileges. Serious. Affects all 4 apps, although by default Javascript is disabled in Thunderbird.
- MFSA2008-60: Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.0.5/1.8.1.19)—A common scenario in Mozilla disclosures: As the title says, there is memory corruption and they are reporting the worst-case outcome from them, which is entirely plausible. All four products affected.
Another vulnerability, rated High for severity, is interesting to read. MFSA2008-65: Cross-domain data theft via script redirect error message—. In this bug a special error condition is deliberately caused, exposing potentially sensitive data from the first domain session through the DOM.
The remaining errors in Firefox 3 are of either Moderate or Low severity.
There is one more Critical vulnerability, although it affects only Firefox 2: MFSA2008-62: Additional XSS attack vectors in feed preview—A previous bug fix in Firefox 2 turns out to be incomplete, and this fills the gap.
And we should add that actually, a new version of Thunderbird (version 2.0.0.19) may have been announced in the security bulletins but, as is usually the case, the software is not yet available. As of Wednesday morning 2.0.0.18 is still the version available for download.
Finally, and to repeat, Firefox 2.0.0.19 is the last of that generation of product. The official policy is that there will be no more updates, even for security issues. It's time to move on to Firefox 3. (story Link)
Feb 4, 2009
Favorite Add-Ons for InternetExplorer8
When you think of browser extensions, you probably think of Firefox, and Firefox fans have long touted the browser's ever-expanding catalog of extensions as a reason to switch from Internet Explorer. Handy Firefox add-ons like Morning Coffee and AdBlock Plus make for a more pleasant browsing experience.
Of course, Internet Explorer has a catalog of third-party add-ons as well, and one of the most visible changes in Internet Explorer 8 is the browser's new approach to extensions and add-ons. IE8 users will be exposed to new terms like "Web slice" and "accelerator" and will notice a further shift away from the Firefox extension model.
In fact, you may have to shift the way you think about browsing altogether. The new IE8 add-ons put an incredible amount of resources within one or two clicks of the Web page you're on. For instance, instead of opening a new tab to look up an unfamiliar term on Wikipedia or Google, just highlight the term and click on the Wikipedia or Google accelerator for a quick definition. And as an alternative to visiting Digg five times a day, bring Digg updates to your Favorites bar with the Digg Web slice. IE8 makes these one-click actions easy to set up and use.
There's simply a difference in strategy for the different browsers, according to Joshua Allen, Microsoft's Internet Explorer "evangelist." Allen said that the emphasis for Internet Explorer is to offer a seamless Web experience for Windows, since IE is essentially a Windows feature. Obviously, it isn't the overarching goal of Firefox to make the Windows experience better, and Allen says Microsoft's different approach to add-ons reflects that difference in philosophy.
"From our point of view, it's simple: People spend much of their day visiting their favorite sites and searching, and we want to make those activities kick ass on Windows," said Allen in an e-mail. "These are two of the most common activities people do on Windows. We make 'favorite sites' better via accelerators and Web slices, and we make search better through visual search…."
As Allen explained, IE8 add-ons come in several flavors:
Accelerators perform actions on highlighted text and URLs. For instance, highlight a word to look it up in an acronym dictionary or Wikipedia; highlight a URL for a pop-up preview of the Web page; highlight a movie to find it in the Netflix catalog.
Visual Search presents you with visual search suggestions from different Web services, using the search bar. Search for "iPod" and the Amazon Search Suggestions tool will present you with images of different iPods for sale on Amazon, while the Wikipedia Visual Search offers previews of Wikipedia entries.
In addition to these new types of add-ons, there's still the classic Firefox-type extension, though it isn't as much of a priority for Microsoft, according to Allen. (full Story)
Feb 2, 2009
Can Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 Beat FireFox
Times are tough for Microsoft, with job cuts, the European Union breathing down its neck again, and Firefox slowly but steadily encroaching on Internet Explorer. More than ever, Microsoft needs IE8 to succeed if it wants to maintain its dominant position. Fortunately, the beta looked good. And while this first release candidate is little changed from the beta, the few adjustments made definitely improve the product. The most significant differences come from InPrivate browsing, the Compatibility view, and improved performance. The browser has also been made more secure, and it gives users convenient new ways to use Web resources. IE8's color-coded tab system, improved address bar, and enhanced privacy protections are noteworthy. Based on this code, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend that any IE7 user upgrade to IE8. PCMag.com got early access to RC1, allowing us to bring you this full review. You can get the code at www.microsoft.com/ie8.
Installation of the 13.5MB (16.5 for 64-bit) download requires a reboot. Versions are available for both 32-bit and 64-bit Vista and Windows Server 2003, though only for the 32-bit version of XP. Note that if you do take the plunge, IE8 becomes your only version of IE. You can't run 7 and 8 side by side. Also, don't try installing this version if you're running Windows 7—you'll just get a message that says "Internet Explorer 8 is not supported on this operating system." This makes sense, because although IE8 will be the browser that comes with Windows 7, the RC1 installers are for Vista (in both 32- and 64-bit flavors) and XP. It does, however leaves us in the unusual position of running a newer version of the browser software on the older OSes.
Terrific Tabs
Internet Explorer 8 makes some unique and welcome strides in tab handling. When you have several tabs open and launch a new one from within one of the open tabs, the color of the just-created tab will match that of its parent. All like-colored tabs are grouped together, so your new tab may not appear all the way to the right the way you're used to. Once you've gotten used to the change, it's a helpful visual cue not found in competing products. A Firefox extension allows tabs to have different colors, but without the logical grouping. When you close the tab of the page you're viewing, the new focus will be a related tab, not just the one to the right or left. (full Story)
Jan 27, 2009
How Private Are Private Browser Modes?
One of the latest trends in browser security is a private browsing mode. Browsers leave evidence in many forms of where you've been browsing, such as your history, cache and cookies, and these can be used to compromise your privacy. Private browsing is supposed to clean up all these identity droppings, or even prevent them from being stored altogether. The pioneer in this feature was Apple with Safari; there is also such a mode in Google's Chrome, and private modes will be in the next versions of IE and Firefox. Most browsers also include a poor-man's version of this function that allows the user statically to remove any private data; in Firefox, for example, you can do this by pressing Ctrl-Shift-Del.
Now the security consulting firm iSEC Partners has released a study of private browsing features in popular browsers and other Internet software, specifically Adobe Flash. The results are pretty disappointing. iSEC Partners wrote a tool to test the efficacy of these features and released it with the study.
In fact, all of the existing private browsing modes have some form of data which is not cleared when users enter or leave private browsing modes. Although Chrome cleared the only tested type of data it stored, it was surprising to find that [Google] Gears data was not cleared, since Gears is included in the browser. However, this behavior is consistent across all browsers tested...
Both IE8 and Firefox 3.1 left significant data uncleared, but both of the tested products were beta and neither has yet been released. Let's hope this study will press the browser authors to clear this up before the programs go final… (full Story)
Jan 21, 2009
What this Firefox User Misses about Chrome
Call me fickle, but I switched my default browser back to Firefox for the time being. In doing so, I discovered the features I really miss about Chrome.
Why did I switch back so soon after lavishing praise on Google's open-source Web browser? Well, when Google added the option to use a cutting-edge "developer preview" version, I signed up, and guess what--it's not as stable. Specifically, both 2.0.156.1 and the newer 2.0.157.2 that I now have installed inexplicably become unresponsive for long periods of time--at least 10 seconds, which is about 9.5 seconds longer than my tolerance limit.
But I like some of Chrome's new features, so I didn't want to downgrade to better-tested stable or beta versions. Instead, I thought perhaps I'd see what my second-favorite browser felt like again while waiting for the newer Chrome features to settle down.
I was a little surprised. What got me to switch to Chrome two months ago was performance, but what I missed most upon heading back to Firefox was Chrome's user interface.
More than once, I found that even after a few weeks of Chrome, my muscle memory had been reprogrammed to expect different behavior. Switching back to Firefox wasn't just different, though--I wanted the old features. Here's a list of what I didn't even know that I'd come to like.
The location of new tabs
When you open a link in a new tab with Chrome (I often middle-click to do so), the new page shows up in tab immediately to the right of the current tab. This naturally groups related tabs, and for me at least, eases the process of switching among many.
When you open a new tab in Firefox, it appears to the far right of the list, and it's harder to get to it. It takes just that little extra bit of time to locate and navigate to the tab.
Good news, though: Mozilla evangelist Chris Blizzard pointed me to a blog post by programmer Mike Beltzner, which says the same behavior is coming to Firefox:
• tabs that are opened from links will open to the immediate right of the current tab
• new tabs created by the New Tab button or keyboard shortcut will open at the end of the tab strip
• if multiple tabs are opened (in the background) from links, they will open sequentially to the right of each other; as soon as focus changes, this sequential opening behavior will stop, and tabs will go back to opening immediately to the right or at the end of the tab strip as per the above
I think Firefox's awesome bar does a better job digging previously visited links out of my history, but searching directly from Google's Omnibox, which adds online search into the mix, is more useful. I search dozens of times a day, and now I have to remember either to visit a search page or head over to Firefox's special search box (to do the latter faster, I hit Ctrl-L, then Tab).
Some folks are concerned about sending lots of juicy personal data to Google's servers, which monitors what you type so it can supply suggested search results. But except for typing in Web sites, it's the same stuff I'd type into a search page anyway.
One less keystroke
When typing addresses into the address bar, both Chrome and Firefox offer a list of suggestions in a drop-down box. But Chrome highlights its top pick, while Firefox puts it one entry below the box.
That means if the pick is right, I just have to hit Enter with Chrome, but the down arrow, then Enter with Firefox. It's a tiny thing, but I do this hundreds of times a day. (full Story)
Jan 6, 2009
MORE THAN A BROWSER: 19 Alternative Ways to Use Firefox
Browsing? That’s so 90s. With the myriad of available Firefox plugins, you can do pretty much anything with your favorite browser, and many of these don’t have anything to do with browsing the web. From managing your groceries with Firefox to playing classic arcade games offline, we present 19 browser extensions that have nothing to do with, well, browsing.
Time Killers
Cards - A collection of solitaire card games including such games as Aces Up, Double Klondike, Double Solitaire, and many more.
Clines - An addictive game in which you must build colored lines to win.
Froggr - Relive the classic arcade game, Frogger, from the comfort of your favorite browser.
Mines - Another classic game - Minesweeper - in your browser window.
Mozteroids - A variant of the classic arcade game Asteroids you can play in your browser.
Pag-Man - A Pac-Man clone with a two-player mode.
PingPong - For those people who find playing Pong against other people too difficult, you can just play against the computer.
PONG! Multiplayer - Play a game of the classic game Pong while chatting with people online.
Snake - A clone of the popular game Snake and Worm.
Xoom - A top-down car racing game.
Xultris - Bringing the love of the colored block game Tetris to your browser.
Utility Tools
A Contacts Manager - Import your contacts and manage them from your browser.
Calculator-Bar - Adds a calculator above your status bar.
Converter - Turn your Firefox browser into a handy metric/Imperial distance converter. It can also do temperatures and time zones.
cYMStatus - Change your status on Yahoo Messenger without changing programs, or even add the site you are currently visiting to your status.
eQuake Alert - Feed your earthquake phobia with this handy earthquake alerter.
FoxSaver - Turn your idle Firefox into a screen saver with daily updated pictures.
Grocery List Generator - Store grocery lists by recipe, or other items you need
ReminderFox - Lets you add date-based reminders and to-do’s directly into Firefox. (story Link)
Dec 30, 2008
50+ Google Reader Extensions and Scripts For Firefox
Don’t get us wrong, Google Reader is our favorite feedreader. But sometimes, we just wish it was a little…better. Here are 50 Firefox extensions and scripts to make Google Reader your own.
Note: some of these require the Greasemonkey or Stylish extensions. Also see Google Reader on the iPhone.
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