“… If you work on a PC throughout the day, you may not have time to look at your phone all the time. Or, you may not be allowed to use your phone at all while you are working.“Desktop Notifications is an application for Android that you use in conjunction with a Mozilla Firefox add-on or Google Chrome extension. It uses the browser’s desktop notification feature to display all notifications that you receive on your phone on the desktop.“While you cannot react to it in any way, it at least lets you know about notifications so that you either know…
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Again, we aren’t going to be seeing these or the possible Firefox OS (aka Boot to Gecko or B2G) tablet in the US anytime soon. One phone, ZTE Open was released in Europe today ..the ZTE Open will hit the Spanish market on July 2 and will be priced at €69 with a €30 pre-pay balance thrown in for good measure. The device boasts a 3.5‐inch, HVGA TFT touchscreen display and has 256MB RAM and 512MB ROM combined with a 3.2MP camera and a 4GB microSD card. via Tom’s Hardware
I have used the NoSquint one for a long time. I like the ability to change the colors on individual pages. For instance, pages that I spend a lot of time on that have a huge expanse of glaring white I change to gray. “Starting with Firefox 22 the web browser is now respecting the display scaling of the operating system which may have changed how the browser UI and websites are displayed on user systems. The linked article highlights how you can change the size of fonts in the browser so that they appear larger or smaller on the…
Mozilla has released the next updates for Mozilla Thunderbird with versions 17.0.7 and 17.0.7esr (Thunderbird for Organizations) on June 25th, 2013. Fixes in this version include Various security fixes. Depending on the operating system and update settings (Tools > Options… > Advanced > Update Tab), users will be prompted to update within in the next 48-hours. Windows users can also go to Help > About Thunderbird and click the Check for Updates button. Users can choose to manually download and install Thunderbird via getthunderbird.com. The next scheduled release will be Thunderbird 17.0.8 and 17.0.8esr on August 6th, 2013.
Most of you are likely thinking along the lines of “Duh, of course Firefox is free. What kind of idiotic post is this?” Truth be told there are scammers and hackers who have put up sites which make you to pay to download Firefox. Some people may not know any better and just assume like so many other applications, Firefox is no longer free. Firefox has and always will be free. Not only are they scamming you out of your money, but chances are the copy of Firefox they have you download is infected with malware, spyware, scareware, viruses and/or other nasty…
Mozilla Released Firefox 22 for desktop and mobile on Tuesday, June 25th. Several new features and updates are included in this release. Take a look at the Release Notes for more information. Also released was an update for Firefox 17esr (Firefox for Organization) with 17.0.7esr. The Firefox esr update only contains bug fixes and security/stability updates. Depending on the operating system and update settings (Tools > Options… > Advanced > Update Tab), users will be prompted to update within in the next 48-hours. Windows users can also go to Help > About Firefox and click the Check for Updates button. Users may…
“What many Firefox users do not know is that Firefox saves two files with Session Restore information to the user profile: sessionstore.js contains information about the current session. If you monitor the file you will notice that its size increases and decreases during a browsing session. sessionstore.bak which contains session information from the previous session. Source: Ghacks Technology Newsletter Details How to restore Firefox sessions if Session Restore is not working correctly
” We’ve heard quite a bit about Mozilla’s Firefox OS in the context of smartphones, but rumors about the possibility of a Firefox tablet are also starting to heat up. The latest scuttlebutt says that the Mozilla Foundation has teamed up with multinational electronics manufacturer Foxconn for the production of a tablet device running Firefox OS. Focus Taiwan cites Mozilla as saying it will announce a product running Firefox OS on June 3. This information was apparently relayed via a press invitation summoning members of the media to the unveiling of the aforementioned product. While Mozilla’s invite reportedly said that…
” … I have been using NoScript for a long time and most websites work out of the box when the extension is enabled in the browser. You can get most sites to work by allowing scripts to run on the domain the website is hosted on. Only rarely is it required to enable other scripts for sites to work in the browser. … “ Source: Ghacks Technology Newsletter Details NoScript features that you may not know about
” … If you have upgraded your Firefox browser to Firefox 21, the version that got released yesterday, you may have noticed that plugins or extensions that were formerly usable in the browser were not anymore after the upgrade.“While you may not even mind that, depending on the plugins or extensions that disappeared, some of you may have noticed that they could not make use of functionality on specific websites or the browser anymore due to the change.“So what happened during the update that caused this? …” Source: Ghacks Technology Newsletter Details Why you may have lost access to plugins…