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The new Social Media extension for Firefox is like a powertool for submitting your favorite articles to social media sites. The extension will let you know if the article you’re reading has already been submitted to Digg, Reddit, Delicious, and StumbleUpon.
For those focusing on establishing powerful profiles on social media sites, this extension can give […]

Mozilla has posted a mock-up of the much-awaited Firefox 3 feature, Places, in its weekly update. Places will be the new history and bookmark manager that supports tags, and is powered by the SQLite database engine.
The feature was supposed to be included in Firefox 2, but was scrapped because it wasn’t finished in time.

The full […]

The open source community isn’t the only one to benefit from Mozilla’s decision to release their security tools. Opera Software recently identified and patched what it called a “highly severe” bug in it’s browser code. Opera used Mozilla’s Javascript fuzzer to find the bug.
Opera released version 9.23 of its browser that fixed the bug, and […]

The best thing about Firefox is the amount of plugins and extensions that are available to enhance your browsing experience. Gmail Manager will let you manage your email accounts right from your browser. The extension lets you recieve email notifications, and display your account details which includes unread messages and snippets from new mail.

Gmail Manager […]

Mozilla Corp. is putting a lot of effort into making the next Firefox version as secure as possible before its release. With their decision to release their security tools to the open source community, Mozilla is hoping to find and eliminate serious flaws in the browser’s code before it’s made public.
Mozilla has confirmed that the […]

Mozilla Corporation is releasing some of its security tools to the open source community. The first security tool to be released is The Javascript Fuzzer, a utility which detects javascript bugs in Firefox. Two more tools used for stress testing HTTP and FTP protocols will be released once Mozilla concludes talks with other browser vendors.
Mozilla […]

Good news for all you portable apps users. The latest version of Firefox Portable has just been released. Version 2.0.0.6 fixes known security issues and includes an updated launcher that correctly cleans up temp files.
For those unfamiliar with Firefox portable, this is a fully functional copy of Firefox that can be used on USB drives, […]

DownloadHelper 2.3.2 is a Firefox extension that lets you download videos from most video sites like YouTube, MetaCafe, Veoh, Google Videos, LiveVideo, Tv.com, Myspace, and a lot more. Once installed, the DownloadHelper icon will notify you of videos and images you can download from the site you’re on by showing you a menu.
If the page […]