Firefox in Ubuntu 10.04 ‘Lucid’ will soon undergo two important changes; The default search provider for new installations of Ubuntu 10.04 ‘Lucid’ and upgrades will no longer be Google but Yahoo!. Yahoo! and Canonical have reached a “revenue sharing deal” that will generate revenue for the latter – revenue that will help “Canonical to provide developers and resources to continue the open development of Ubuntu and the Ubuntu Platform”. In any case the user has the last say, you are free to switch back to Google provider if you prefer it. More
Windows, Linux, Mac: There is a time to reap and a time to sow – there is a time to back-up your personal Firefox settings such as bookmarks, extensions, passwords. Mozilla Firefox stores them in a profile folder on your computer, in a separate location from the Firefox program. Backing up your profile is easy; just locate your profile folder, close Firefox if it is open and then copy the profile folder to another location. That’s all it takes, but the problem is “how to locate easily your profile folder” in different platforms. It’s default location depends on your system – Windows 7 and Windows XP for example have the profile folder in two different locations.
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Private Browsing Window is a Firefox extension that permits you to start a private browsing session in a completely new incognito window alongside your existing session – like you do in Chrome. This extension greatly improves Firefox’s behavior as far as “private browsing” is concerned – before Firefox would automatically close all windows and tabs in a working session when you switch to the private browsing mode, all except one – the launched private browsing window, to get back a closed working session you had to leave the private browsing mode. With this extension private browsing and non-private walk side-by-side. More
Windows, Linux, Mac: Upcoming Adobe Flash Player 10.1, still a beta 2 pre-release, will introduce many new features like the Windows-only H.264 video hardware acceleration support. In this new version flash will accept without objection your wish to browse in the private mode, it will automatically clean-up your flash history once you terminate the session. More
For Windows, and Linux: Opera Mini, the mobile version of the Opera web browser is certainly one of the best mobile browsers out there. Unlike Mozilla’s Mobile browser, Fennec, Opera Mini does not have builds for your computer, so you can’t get to test it before loading it into your smartphone, unless you use a walk-around like this one below; More
