Adblock = Supporting Communism?

May 21st, 2008

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120 New Firefox Icons For Each OS Platform

May 20th, 2008

New Firefox 3 will contain approximately 120 new icons styled for each platform. Many of them are project or already have some modifications planned.

Unified attack on Microsoft By Open Source Projects

May 20th, 2008

Firefox 3 to Have built In Malware Protection

May 18th, 2008

Firefox 3 Built-In Malware ProtectionFirst, they gave us built in pop-up blockers.  But with the new release of Firefox 3 about to be announced we have another great feature: Malware protection.

Building on their protection of users that used to protect us from dubious phishing sites that would try to steal your personal data by using websites designed to look reliable websites.  The people at firefox 3 have now installed built in Malware protection that will ensure that no malicious software gets installed on your system.

“Similar to how Firefox 2 blocks Web sites that are potentially going to try to steal your personal information, Firefox 3 will block Web sites that we believe are going to try to install malicious programs on your computer. Mozilla is coordinating with Google on this feature,” says Alex Faaborg.

ComputerWorld quotes Gervase Markham, a developer for Bugzilla, who says: “What we are actually doing here is giving Google veto power over any Web page.” The list of potentially harmful sites is managed by StopBadware, an organization that fights against spyware, malware, and deceptive adware. StopBadware is sponsored by Google, Lenovo and Sun.

The Firefox Racing Car

May 18th, 2008

Below is the racing car template that was used on the firefox sponsored nascar race car:

Before you start getting your hopes up you should know that this skin was created for use in Papyrus’ NASCAR Racing 2002 Season PC video game.

How To Get FireFox on your iPhone

May 18th, 2008

Check out the screenshot:

I got firefox on my iPhone

Now for the instructions:

How-To get Firefox to the IPhone

  • Get a Creative Common picture
  • Use Alt+Print to get a Firefox screenshot
  • Use Photoshop to merge them together
  • Done

Sorry, it’s just a cheap Photoshop…

75 Of the Best Firefox WallPapers in One Place

May 18th, 2008

Alright, it took me a really long time to compile this gallery of wallpapers for you the readers. So please enjoy them, if you feel that we are missing any of the really good ones please let me know by leaving a comment.

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Timeline of FireFox 3 Updates

May 18th, 2008

With the recent release of firefox 3 beta 1.  I thought it would be a good idea to put the timeline of the devolopment of the project in one place.

You can see that from start to finish it took the guys at firefox an amazing 1 and a half years to release a major update that will work, it will not be like what happened when Microsoft released Vista in place of XP.

These are the currently released milestones.

Release Date Description
Alpha 1 December 8, 2006 Gran Paradiso alpha 1 release notes
Alpha 2 February 8, 2007 Gran Paradiso alpha 2 release notes
Alpha 3 March 23, 2007 Gran Paradiso alpha 3 release notes
Alpha 4 April 27, 2007 Gran Paradiso alpha 4 release notes
Alpha 5 June 6, 2007 Gran Paradiso alpha 5 release notes
Alpha 6 July 2, 2007 Gran Paradiso alpha 6 release notes
Alpha 7 August 3, 2007 Gran Paradiso alpha 7 release notes
Alpha 8 September 20, 2007 Gran Paradiso alpha 8 release notes
Beta 1 November 19, 2007 Mozilla Firefox Beta 1 release notes
Beta 2 December 18, 2007 Mozilla Firefox Beta 2 release notes
Beta 3 February 12, 2008 Mozilla Firefox Beta 3 release notes
Beta 4 March 10, 2008 Mozilla Firefox Beta 4 release notes
Beta 5 April 2, 2008 Mozilla Firefox Beta 5 release notes
Release Candidate 1 May 16, 2008 Mozilla Firefox Release Candidate 1 release notes

Themes of FireFox 3

May 18th, 2008

If You did not know now you do:

Every major release of firefox has a theme/code name.  As per tradition the code name comes from a major park from around the world.  The Code Name fo Fire Fox 3 is Gran Paradiso, (Great Paradise), Gran Paradiso means to “evokes images of travel from an earlier, more glamorous era so we decided to center our campaign around a vintage travel theme”.

Below is the artwork created by poster designer, Steve Forney.  Mountain, Lanscape, seafront, and of course a plane flying the firefox 3 banner.

Clicking on the above image will take you to the full size version of the firefox 3 wallpaper which you can use on your desktop.

20 Crazy Windows Error & Blue Screen Of Deaths

May 18th, 2008

Remember when you are on your computer chatting/blogging away and you get that error message that doesn’t go away, or even worse that Blue Screen Of Death that will mean that all the hard work you were doing/pretending to do is now gone. How annoying is that? Imagine if you were an advertiser paying millions to have your ad displayed in Times Square or if you paid to have your Ad played in Oxford/Picadilly Circus in London. Imagine how pissed off you would be if you got an error message than?

Whilst our main competitor here at FireFox 3 downloads is internet explorer we also hate Windows. And believe it is our mission to try to educate the world on better/cheaper/faster software that you would be using on your systems.

We have compiled 20 images of Blue Screens of Deaths as well as Error messages that will not only leave you scratching your head but also leave you wondering why so many huge companies can spend ridiculous amounts of money on advertising and yet not have fail safes in place to ensure that their messages do not get disturbed by software errors.

Without Further Ado: