November 8, 2008

Review: Tracer

One feature I really like with Chrome is when opening a new tab, you are provided with Thumbnails of your recently/most visited sites to select from as seen in this Chrome screenshot. This is something that is still in development with Firefox and the developer as experimenting several ways to accomplish this. In the meantime there is Trace, an add-on which replicates the behaviour of Chrome’s new tab interface plus some other enhancements (choose from Stickies, Most Visited or Recently Visited as well as a list of recently closed tabs). The thumbnails are served by ShrinkTheWeb.com. A couple issues have…

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Fx 3.1 Private Browsing

One of the more popular new features in Firefox 3.1 is the Private Browsing feature. Private Browsing means the sites you visit (while in Private Browsing mode) will not appear in the browser history or search history, and won’t leave other traces, like cookies. This is already a feature (Incognito) with Google Chrome browser, however unlike Chrome, Firefox’s Private Browsing works a little lot (at least when it comes to activating). Claus (Grand Stream Dreams) pointed me to the Mozilla Links article: Meet Firefox private mode… “Once confirmed, Firefox will save and close your current session and restart in Private…

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Release Recap: November Week 1

Just Released No New Releases during this week. Schedule this Coming Week Firefox 2.0.0.18 – November 12th Firefox 3.0.4 – November 12th Future Release MU Firefox 2.0.0.18 >> Firefox 3.0.4 – No Earlier than November 24th Firefox 2.0.0.19 – December 16th Firefox 3.0.5 –  December 16th Firefox 3.1b2 – November 21st Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 – November 19th Shredder (Thunderbird) 3b1 – TBD

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