Tag: Firefox
YouTube's unpopular ads blocked by new Firefox extension
YouTube's recent experimentation with video obliteration advertising has not been well received by the community, but fortunately a resourceful Firefox hacker, Chris Finke, has come up with a way of restoring that lost 20 percent with his TubeStop extension. In…
Daily Tech Hotlinks for 18-Jul-07: Grand Theft Auto IV, Firefox, Peter Moore, Harry Potter, Blogs
– Rockstar Games ask civilians to create radio segments for Grand Theft Auto IV (Wonderland)
– Recent statistics show 28% of Europeans use Mozilla Firefox (Daily Tech)…
Daily Tech Hotlinks for 31-May-07: Tiscali, Firefox, Wi-Fi, iTunes
– Tiscali has admitted it will take at least 10 days to restore their customers’ email addresses to full functionality, after being blacklisted as spam by various ISPs. At least we’ve got Big Brother now to distract us…
– Web browser junkies will be jonesing for the fifth alpha release of Firefox 3 from Mozilla set for release tomorrow, sadly syringes aren’t included.
– Apparently Londoners aren’t interested in free internet and the plethora of potential Bittorrents possible, as only 6,000 people have registered to use the free City of London…
Mac Firefox team call for feedback
Colin Barrett of the Firefox for Mac development team has opened up his blog and email address to allow Mac users to comment on what features they'd like to see added to future releases of the Firefox browser, and what…
Internet Explorer 7 still losing out to Firefox, says, errr… Firefox
According to the "Spread Firefox" website (who I'm sure are being entirely impartial) Microsoft's announcement of 100million installations of Internet Explorer 7 is entirely (?) attributable to upgrades from IE6, with the total market share of Internet Explorer dropping over…
Opinions split over whether Firefox 2.0 is any good or not
It might be the browser success story of the last couple of years, but opinions are split over whether Firefox's recently-released v2.0 upgrade is the best thing since sliced bread, or the mouldiest thing since that sliced bread you found…
Does Firefox 2's anti-phishing tool violate privacy?
There are concerns that the latest and greatest Firefox, version 2, could compromise a user's privacy because of the way that its anti-phishing system works. To use the feature, you (apparently, I haven't used it yet) have to send Google…
Firefox 2 launches tomorrow
The second generation of massively popular anti-IE browser Firefox (is that enough propaganda for you?) is officially released tomorrow, aiming to build on the continuing success of the first version and take further market share from Internet Explorer. Perhaps unsurprisingly,…
