The download manager was dramatically improved for Firefox 3: a progress indicator in the status bar, automatic antivirus scans, a streamlined interface with filtering capabilities, and most notably, download resuming across sessions. As usual, you can use all these enhancements without touching anything, or go the customization way and tweak a preference or two. You

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Right-click on a link -> Open Link in New Tab, or simply middle-clicking, are pretty common tasks in a world of tabbed browsers, that allow us to differ some web content for a few minutes or even seconds. Unless you happen to forget where the tab actually opened or what was the page about and

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The latest Opera 9.5 development build has added support for animated PNG images, an extension to the popular PNG format that allows better animations with partial transparency and a much larger color palette. APNG originally was proposed a few years ago by Mozilla’s Vladimir Vukicevik and Stuart Parmenter, and implemented for Firefox 3 by Andrew

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A new article posted to the Mozilla Wiki outlines a 12 steps plan to improve Firefox retention rate. According to the introduction, just about 50% of people who downloads Firefox gets to actually try it. And 50% of those who try it keep using it actively. The plan aims to improve this download to user

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A public preview version of Miro, an open source video player and aggregator is now available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux platform thanks in part to it being based on Mozilla technologies. Formerly known as Democracy Player, Miro is partially funded through a Mozilla Foundation grant and developed by the Participatory Culture Foundation.

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Mozilla Japan is asking for suggestions to name its new mascot (shown below). Everybody can participate. Go here before September 14 and enter your name suggestion, your email address and press Send. You could win a cell phone strap and recognition for your idea.

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Thanks to Handome Puppy of the Taiwanese Mozilla community, here are some additional details about Foxmosa, Taiwan’s cute Firefox mascot that debuted a few years ago promoting Firefox 2. Since then she’s also been used to promote last year’s Firefox Download Day and Firefox 3 parties, along with a Foxmosa tour in Taiwan where it

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Continuing with its new quick beta turnaround strategy, Mozilla has released a third beta just a week after Beta 2 Nothing too dramatic among the 90+ bug fixes this release introduces, but a few worth noting: A new API will now allow add-on developers access Firefox’s geolocation features. (See Doug Turner’s post) As expected,^A  tab

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One of several new privacy improvements and features Firefox 3.5 will bring is the ability to forget about a particular web site we have visited. In the Library, we will be able to right click on a history item, select Forget About This Site and Firefox will remove all entries related to that site from

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Mozilla has announced several important changes to the search plugins set shipped with Firefox. Most noticeable is the addition of Bing to the US English version, as part of a commercial agreement with Microsoft: Like with Google, Microsoft and Mozilla will share revenue coming from traffic sent by Firefox. According to Mozilla, behind the decision

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Popular file hosting service, MediaFire, has asked Mozilla to take down the SkipScreen Firefox extension. Like other file sharing systems, MediaFire download links take you to a web page where the download link is displayed along several ads which generate its revenue. For an ad free experience, users can upgrade to a Pro account for

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Extensions are great but I love customizing Firefox without them. One of my favorite extensions is Stop/Reload, a simple extension that merges both buttons into a single one that toggles between stop and reload intelligently. You can replicate this functionality with a simple edit of userChrome.css file. In Windows, you can find it at: C:\Documents

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Firefox Add-ons Manager has finally got extended to feature complete integration with Mozilla Add-ons (AMO) site through a new page added to the Add-ons Manager. The Get Add-ons page features a search box, a browse all add-ons link that takes you to Mozilla Add-ons, and a list of recommended extensions and themes by default. Enter

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In preparation for Firefox 3, Mozilla Add-ons recently underwent a number of important updates to support the new Add-ons Manager which tightly integrates with it to provide recommendations, search and install from a new Get Add-ons page. With the necessary interfaces now in place, the Mozilla Add-ons team is working in visual updates to the

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  Today Firefox reached an important milestone on its way to provide an alternative for millions of web users: 500 million downloads* served from Mozilla servers since the initial Firefox 1.0 release back on November 9, 2004. To celebrate this achievement, Mozilla invites to visit FreeRice.com, a web site that donates 20 grains of rice

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As The Simpsons Movie premiere approaches, 20th Century Fox has just released a Firefox theme to bring Springfield’s yellow and donut infested glory to your beloved browser. The theme is pretty extensive and complete as you can see in the Options window screenshot. And fortunately the very few text pieces in German don’t reduce the

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Firefox 4 integrates better with some Windows 7 features, including taskbar tab previews, download progress bar in the taskbar icon, and jumplists. Here are some way to enable, disable or customize the different options. 1. Enable taskbar previews. In the Firefox menu, select the Options item to open the Options dialog. Change to the Tabs

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Mozilla’s Dave Townsend has made available the very first testing builds of Firefox for the Palm Pre, code named PreFox. A one man effort at this point, PreFox is not an official Mozilla project but since it is based on Fennec (Firefox for mobile devices code name), it brings and immediately better experience with better

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Great news for a large number of Firefox users. The most recent Firefox 3 nightly (a.k.a. Gran Paradiso) to be released today will include full page zoom support. For years and since the days of now defunct Mozilla application suite, Gecko-based browsers users have claimed for full page zoom that scales images as well as

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Mozilla has released a quick Firefox update to patch the security vulnerability discovered and exploited last week during the Pwn2Own competition that challenges hackers to break the latest versions of the most popular web browsers. Internet Explorer, Safari, and Firefox got hacked during the contest and the vulnerabilities disclosed to each browser maker. The flaw

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