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Date: Mar 20 18:57 2006

RE: Firefox 1.5	Permalink

An alpha version of Firefox 2.0 called "Bon Echo" is now available on Mozilla's FTP servers. For Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux versions. Version 2.0 has a handful of new features, such as a revamped places menu, which is accessible from the bookmarks toolbar. You can now search your history, bookmarks, and RSS subscriptions for a keyword. Plus, a few minor tweaks to the UI, such as Xs on inactive tabs for easy closing. Firefox 2.0 should be officially released in a few months time. __________________

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Date: Mar 20 09:06 2006

Firefox 2.0 Alpha 1	Permalink

Portable Firefox 2.0 Alpha 1 — Download It Here! __________________

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Date: Mar 19 18:53 2006

AllPeers	Permalink

A new P2P program for file sharing is being released, (yet to launch publicly), as an extension to Firefox, which will allow users to create a buddy list for file sharing among many other cool innovative features. Unlike most file-sharing networks, AllPeers doesn't require users to download a separate software application. Another difference is that you can set up a buddy list, and files are shared only with the buddies you specify. AllPeers is a startup company based in Oxford, England. See more __________________

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Date: Mar 8 02:05 2006

Firefox 2.0	Permalink

Firefox 2.0 Alpha 1 is set to be released in 3 - 4 days, after being delayed a month due to development issues __________________

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Date: Mar 7 11:20 2006

RE: Firefox 1.5	Permalink

Have you forgotten a password to a site? Remember if you use Firefox that it can store your passwords, and that you can easily access them by going to Tools -> Options -> Privacy and click on the View Saved Passwords button. Then choose Show Passwords. BTW, You can set a master password to encrypt this information if you share your computer. (or create a separate account in your XP operating system) __________________

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Date: Mar 3 15:36 2006

uBrowser	Permalink

uBrowser is a simple web browser based on Mozilla Firefox 1.5. It embeds the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine into a standalone application using LibXUL. In this case, the contents of the page is grabbed as it's being rendered and displayed as a texture on some geometry using OpenGL. http://www.ubrowser.com/ __________________

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Date: Mar 1 00:23 2006

SiteAdvisor	Permalink

SiteAdvisor Plug-in for Firefox SiteAdvisor is testing all Web sites for spam, spyware, & safety threats. You browse and search as normal and their empirical data (green=good, yellow=caution, red=bad) appears in an icon in IE or Firefox & next to results in Google, Yahoo, & MSN. Every site gets its own site details page w/ in-depth analysis. When you search with Google, Yahoo! or MSN, SiteAdvisor's safety ratings appear next to search results. As you browse, a small button on your browser toolbar changes colour based on SiteAdvisor's safety results. http://www.siteadvisor.com/download/ff.html __________________

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Date: Feb 20 17:40 2006

Gmail Skins	Permalink

Gmail Skins is a Firefox extension that lets you change the look of your Gmail inbox (amongst some other things). It adds the following features: * Change the colour/skin of your inbox * Insert smileys/emoticons and images in to your emails * Make the navigation (Inbox, Starred, Sent Mail, etc) horizontal * Fix the navigation in place so that you don't have to scroll to the top of the page to see it * Zebra stripes on mailbox - pretty! * Change the attachment paperclip (on inbox) to an icon indicating the type of attachment * Hide various page elements (invite panel, page footer, your email address from the top right of inbox - may be useful for public computers) http://gmailskins.mozdev.org/ __________________

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Date: Feb 17 15:24 2006

Firefox Calculator	Permalink

Mozilla Firefox’s JavaScript Console can be used as a calculator. Go to the Menu>Tools>JavaScript Console , and press the messages tab, and in the input box type in your sum 2+2 or 7/3 or even 4/29. Don’t use the = sign. To see your answer in a box that will appear below, press evaluate*. __________________

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Date: Feb 14 21:32 2006

Firefox "memory leak"	Permalink

A lot of people complain about the Firefox "memory leak(s)". All versions of Firefox no doubt leak memory - it is a common problem with software this complicated. We look to fix the issues where we can. David Baron and others have done a huge amount of excellent work in this area. What I think many people are talking about however with Firefox 1.5 is not really a memory leak at all. It is in fact a feature. To improve performance when navigating (studies show that 39% of all page navigations are renavigations to pages visited < 10 pages ago, usually using the back button), Firefox 1.5 implements a Back-Forward cache that retains the rendered document for the last five session history entries for each tab. This is a lot of data. If you have a lot of tabs, Firefox's memory usage can climb dramatically. It's a trade-off. What you get out of it is faster performance as you navigate the web. For those who remain concerned, here's how the feature works. Firefox has a preference browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers which by default is set to -1. When set to this value, Firefox calculates the amount of memory in the system, according to this breakdown: RAM Number of Cached Pages 32MB 0 64MB 1 128MB 2 256MB 3 512MB 5 1GB 8 2GB 8 4GB 8 (reference: nsSHistory.cpp) No more than 8 pages per tab are ever cached in this fashion, by default. If you set this preference to another value, e.g. 25, 25 pages will be cached for every tab. You can set it to 0 to disable the feature, but your page load performance will suffer. http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/ben/archives/009749.html __________________

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