” Mozilla’s Firefox OS (also known as Boot to Gecko), a mobile operating system that focuses on web technologies like HTML, CSS and JavaScript, is quickly moving through its development stages. While it’s already possible to install Firefox OS on many phones, the Firefox OS team today launched its Firefox OS Simulator. The simulator, which is still considered “experimental,” is basically a Firefox add-on that should run on Windows, Mac and Linux (though there are currently some known issues with Linux and Windows XP).“Once installed, the simulator will automatically keep itself updated with the latest snapshots from the Boot to…
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“Users of the popular IncrediMail may have noticed that the service has modified the default search engine and homepage of the Firefox web browser after installation. The free version of IncrediMail will make those changes to the Internet browser unless you select the custom installation option during program installation and uncheck the “Make MyStart by IncrediMail my default search engine” and “Make MyStart by IncrediMail my homepage”.“If you do not, you end up with a new home page that opens up in the browser and a new default search engine. Let me show you how you can reverse the changes…
Nov 6th 2012 ““ Source: Engadget Amazon brings Send to Kindle to Firefox, for all of that reading you’re gonna get to later
“About this Add-on Site to Phone lets you send links, text, images and more to your smart phone. Phones supported:– All iPhones, iPads and iPod Touchs– All Android phones– All Web OS phones– Blackberry phones running version 6+– All Windows Phone 7+ phones Features include:– Send any link or text to your phone– Youtube, Mail, Phone and Maps links open directly in the corresponding apps on iOS– Send any page, link or image via the right click menu– Send text via right click menu– Setup with multiple installs of Chrome– Setup with multiple phones– Optionally save history of items sent…
” … The update is rated ‘Critical’ by Adobe, and was given the highest deployment priority rating for Windows users. Adobe is not aware of any exploits targeting the vulnerabilities, which impact Adobe Flash Player 11.4.402.278 and earlier for Windows, version 11.4.402.265 and earlier for Macs and version 11.2.202.238 and earlier for Linux. The update also impacts Flash Player 11.1.115.17 and earlier on Android 4.x versions and 11.1.111.16 and earlier on Android 3.x and 2.x. …” Source: eweek.com/security More Adobe Patches Flash Player in Massive Security Update
” …Firefox 16 for Android features a new Reader Mode which works a lot like Reader mode in Apple’s Safari web browser. Once a web page is loaded, you should see a little book icon in the location bar. Tap it and Firefox will reload the web page with black text, a white background, and not much else…” Source: Liliputing More Firefox 16 brings Reader mode to mobile, web apps to desktop Go get it.
“…Additional Chat Protocols for Thunderbird [link] is a new extension for the email client by Florian Queze, one of the developers of Instantbird, that adds several new chat protocols to the email client. The extension adds support for the following instant messaging protocols on top of what Thunderbird is supporting by default: AIM, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, GroupWise, ICQ, MSN, MySpaceIM, Netsoul, SIMPLE, Sametime and Yahoo. The add-on uses the Pidgin library for the functionality…“Select the account that you want to add to the email client, click on next and follow the wizard guiding you through the configuration of the chat account….”…
“…Additional Chat Protocols for Thunderbird … is a new extension for the email client by Florian Queze, one of the developers of Instantbird, that adds several new chat protocols to the email client. The extension adds support for the following instant messaging protocols on top of what Thunderbird is supporting by default: AIM, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, GroupWise, ICQ, MSN, MySpaceIM, Netsoul, SIMPLE, Sametime and Yahoo. The add-on uses the Pidgin library for the functionality…“Select the account that you want to add to the email client, click on next and follow the wizard guiding you through the configuration of the chat account….”…
“The Mozilla Foundation would like to see its Firefox browser running on more mobile phones. But since almost no handsets ship with Firefox pre-installed, that means getting the software onto more of the phones that are already out there – even if they use older hardware.“Up until this Monday, the mobile version of Firefox has required Android 2.2 and hardware that includes an ARMv7 processor. But now, however, beta versions of Firefox now include experimental support for a limited selection of ARMv6 devices. … “ 11th September 2012 Source: The Register More Firefox support extended to older Android mobiles
” Mozilla recently rolled out Firefox 15, the latest version of the browser in their new rapid-release schedule. With this new release there are quite a few new features, which have been outlined in the above linked post. One interesting feature that bears a little more attention and some explanation is the new built-in PDF reader… “ Source: Ghacks.net Enable the Built-in PDF Reader in Firefox 15