Mozilla rolled out new version of its web browser Firefox 10 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, with some additional features, UI changes and bug fixes. New Features:The forward button is now hidden until you navigate back Anti-Aliasing for WebGL is now implemented Full Screen APIs allow you to build a web application that runs full screen CSS3 3D support IndexedDB APIs added for developersYou can check out known issues, release notes and more detail information about Firefox 10 at source. Download Firefox 10 for Windows Download Firefox 10 for Mac

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Facebook engineer Blake Ross has led the creation a web tool which allows users to by-pass Google’s controversial Search Plus Your World feature. The ‘focus on the user’ project which is compatible with Chrome, IE and Firefox replaces the Google+ inspired results with more prominent results from the social web. The fix is made possible by a piece of code, or bookmarklet, called “don’t be evil” written by Ross and a team of engineers over the weekend. Now, by dragging the bookmarklet into your bookmarks bar, you can update the Google+ social search results with [...]

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Mozilla has pushed final Firefox 9 through its servers which is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. Despite of some minor changes as compare to Firefox 8, one major new change of Firefox 9 is 20–30% improved JavaScript performance which assures faster loading of intensive websites. Now, just grab the latest Firefox according to your requirement through links below, try it and write your experience in comments section, if you find something else new in Firefox 9. Download Firefox 9 for Windows Download Firefox 9 Final for Mac Download Firefox 9 Final for Linux

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Microsoft has released final version of Silverlight 5, its web browser plug-in for multimedia programs. Silverlight 5 supports for four web browsers including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome and Safari over Windows and Mac. According to official blog: “New features in Silverlight 5 include Hardware Decode of H.264 media, which provides a significant performance improvement with decoding of unprotected content using the GPU; Postscript Vector Printing to improve output quality and file size; and an improved graphics stack with 3D support that uses the XNA API on the Windows platform to gain [...]

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After years of promises, Adobe has finally delivered a Flash Player that offers full support for 64-bit browsers. Flash Player 11 also includes a wide range of performance, reliability, and security improvements. Is this enough to rehabilitate Flash’s tattered reputation?Adobe has finally released a Flash Player that includes full native 64-bit support for 64-bit browsers on Windows, Mac, and Linux. The official announcement of the availability of Flash Player 11 is here, and the download itself is here. It’s been a long time coming. Back in July 2008, more than three years ago, I noted that [...]

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A snippet of code posted on Google’s Chromium Code website reveals that Google’s Chrome browser is to be ported to its Android smartphone operating system. It may seem like an obvious move for the two Google-operated products, but they’ve been run as completely separate entities – until now. The Chromium website hosts Google’s open-source features for the browser, and generally everything that appears there will later be integrated into the browser itself. The Chrome Android code currently lacks the tabbed browsing and plug-ins that adorn its desktop counterpart. Get [...]

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Just after few days of Firefox 7 release, now Mozilla has rolled out Firefox 8 beta 1 to public for testing and according to Mozilla wiki the final Firefox 8 will reach in November 2011. Firefox 8 Beta New FeaturesTwitter integration into new default search option Improved control of add-ons Restore tabs on demand WebSockets updates Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) for WebGL textures Supports HTML5 media elements Added support for insertAdjacentHTML Improved CSS hyphen support for many languagesYou can download Firefox 8 beta 1 for your required operating system via links below. Download [...]

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Mozilla has released Firefox 7 with performance improvements, and bug Fixes. One of the major improvement included in Firefox 7 is the reduced memory usage which is maximum up to 50%. Firefox 7 New FeaturesIncludes support for the Web Timing specification Enhanced support for MathML WebSocket protocol is upgraded to version 8 Ellipsis: Support for text-overflow Addresses stability and security issues Includes opt-in system that allows users to send performance feed back to Mozilla which will help out to improve future versions of browser With a new usage functionality Mozilla collects usage [...]

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If one has complained of Mozilla for the delay in performing new releases, now need to revise their opinions. Mozilla has released the new version Firefox 7 in very less span of time. Couple of weeks ago we reported on Firefox 6 and now Mozilla released another version. Firefox 7 enhance your browsing experience by improving one of its major drawback, i.e. high memory consumption. The latest and new Firefox 7.0 drastically improves the usage of memory (RAM) and is said to consume 20-30% less memory than former builds of Firefox browser. The new Firefox has also improved image rendering on [...]

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Top 50 best Linux apps 2011 For everyone at Linux Format magazine and most of its readers, computers and Linux are a passion. Linux is perfect: its open source nature and excellent shell make it the ultimate hobbyist’s operating system. Fortunately, there’s a huge number of top-class applications available as well: market leading packages for professional and consumer level media creation, tools for developers, systems administrators and students – as well as great games to help you procrastinate on a Friday. Here we introduce you to the 50 best apps for Linux. We didn’t [...]

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