Planet Lowyat

Subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

Firefox 3 Beta 5 is now available for download. This milestone is focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 3. Ongoing planning

for Firefox 3 can be followed at the Firefox 3 Planning Center, as well as in mozilla.dev.planning and on irc.mozilla.org in #granparadiso

Read more »

Do you want to know where your website ranks in the search results? Try Firefox Rank Checker extension. The free Firefox extension allows you to easily check your website rankings in Google (US and international), Yahoo, and Microsoft Live search. free Firefox

Download & Installation Instructions:

• You have to be using Firefox to get this to work. If you have not yet used Firefox go download Firefox, and then come back to this page using Firefox as your web browser.
• Click Here to install the Firefox Rank Checker extension.
• If the Software Installation window is visible click Install Now.
• If not, then:
  • See if there is a yellow bar near the top of your browser.
  • Click the Edit Options button on the yellow bar.
  • Click Allow. Then click OK.
  • Click Here
  • Click the Install Now button.
• As a final step, restart Firefox.

Click on the words Rank Checker in the bottom of your Firefox browser to activate the tool. Enter a URL and keyword combination and click the start button to check it’s rankings.

Read more »

A new version of Mozilla’s popular Firefox Web browser 3 is ready for “prime-time”,  for download with improved security and memory use as the tiny company takes a stab at Microsoft Corp’s dominant Internet Explorer.

“In many ways it (Firefox 3) is much more stable than anything else out there,” Mozilla Corp Vice President of Engineering Mike Schroepfer said in an interview. Engineers at Mozilla are still putting the finishing touches on the software and hope to release the final version of Firefox 3 by the end of June. A fifth round(Firefox 3 beta 5) of changes, due to begin within the next few weeks, will involve “tuning the visual look and feel of the program” and further improving its stability,” Schroepfer said.

Most all Firefox users have been living their days on the Web with version 2 for a good long while. It is. But as with all things technological, progress is made, and it just so happens that Firefox fans (and perhaps a large number of potential converts-to-be) have some nice things to look forward to when Mozilla puts version 3 of its open-source phenom front and center. One of which is the news that Firefox 3 manages to perform its Web browsing duties while using considerably less computational resources - in particular, memory (RAM).

Read more »

Long long time ago, I used to have Netscape Navigator as my primary Internet browser but Firefox is my first choice now.

Goodbye and Sayonara to Netscape Navigator that now owned by AOL, will no longer be supported after 1 March 2008, the company has said.

The company recommends that users upgrade their browser to either Firefox or Flock, which are both built on the same underlying technologies as Navigator.

“I think we represent the hope that was of Netscape,” Mitchell Baker, chair of the Mozilla Foundation which coordinates development of Firefox, told BBC News.

“We have picked up many of the things that Netscape launched but we’ve taken them further in terms of openness and public participation.”

Read more »

Congratulations to Mozilla Firefox!

The Firefox browser has been downloaded more than 500 million times, says their SpreadFirefox website. Read more »