Firefox 4 Releasing on March 22

by Haris on March 17, 2011
in Browsers, Firefox

After ages of beta testing, Firefox 4 is finally releasing on March 22, according to Mozilla’s Senior Director of Platform Engineering Damon Sicore.

Firefox 4 is currently in its release candidate stage and will most likely be available for download on Tuesday, next week.

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Metro Theme for Firefox

by Haris on March 15, 2011
in Firefox

Metro UI was first introduced in Windows Phone 7 by Microsoft, and ever since a number of themes have been developed using that design. Metro brings the same design and concept to your Firefox with the Metro UI theme for Firefox.

Metro theme is a very clean and simple theme for Firefox and I’m sure people who love simple themes are going to love this.

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Firefox 4 for Android Beta 5 Now Available

by Haris on February 24, 2011
in Android, Browsers

Firefox 4 for Android and Maemo just got an update and a new beta version is now available for download.

The mobile web browser is now much more stable and there has been huge improvements in the overall performance of the app.

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Get Old Facebook Photo Viewer in Firefox, Chrome

by Haris on February 21, 2011
in Facebook, Tips and Tricks

I just wrote on how to get the old Facebook photo viewer back, but that was not a permanent solution to fix it. You would have to do it every time you open a new photo album.

Like I mentioned, it wouldn’t take long for a developer to come out with an add-on or script for Greasemonkey that fixes this – permanently for now. A little Googling helped me find the perfect, permanent solution.

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Firefox 4 for Android Review & Screenshots

by Haris on October 8, 2010
in Android, Firefox, Mobile Apps

Download Firefox 4 Beta for Android and Maemo now by pointing your mobile browser to www.mozilla.com/m/beta. It’s free! The Mozilla Blog just announced the availability of the first beta release of Firefox 4 Mobile for Android and Maemo platforms.

Firefox 4 for mobile is built on the same technology as the Firefox 4 for desktop and has been optimized for a mobile-browsing experience. It features some of our favourite desktop Firefox 4 features in the mobile app i.e. Firefox Sync, Add-ons and the Awesome Bar.

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Firefox 4 for Android, Beta 1 Download Now!

by Haris on October 8, 2010
in Android, Firefox, Mobile Apps

Firefox 4 Beta for Android was just released and announced by the Firefox team! The beta 1 of Firefox for Android is now available for download from the website.

It is built on the same technology as the Firefox 4 for desktop and has been optimized for a mobile-browsing experience.

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How to Enable D2D in Firefox 4

by Haris on August 19, 2010
in Firefox, Tips and Tricks

Firefox 4 will be bringing hardware-accelerated graphics with Direct2D support in Firefox 4, but that will not be enabled by default. The Firefox team believes that feature is not quite ready to be rolled out for everyone.

Even though it’s not enabled by default, you can still enable it manually with the help of the instructions given at the Firefox Wiki.

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Firefox 4 Beta 4 Releasing on Monday

by Haris on August 19, 2010
in Browsers, Firefox

Mozilla will be releasing Firefox 4 beta 4 for download on Monday, just days after beta 3 was released, Neowin reports.

Firefox 4 beta 4 will be released with two new features: hardware-accelerated graphics for Windows users and tab sets.

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Zoom Facebook Photos in your Browser with Facebook Photo Zoom

by Hammad on August 7, 2010
in Browsers, Facebook

Facebook is today’s one of the most popular social networking website. Millions of people interact with their friends and family members and share their thoughts, pictures and videos with each other. The photo viewing aspect of Facebook is one of the most loved features by its users. This is why Facebook is constantly making improvements in this section.

However, with all the improvements, there remain some flaws which need to be solved by the Facebook team like the inability to view more than one picture at a time and the photo zoo feature. Thankfully, add-ons are now available for Chrome and Firefox which add useful feature to the Facebook Photos.

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