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By Adam Pash Windows/Mac/Linux: The folks at Mozilla continue their steady march towards the release of Firefox 3.6, today releasing an update to Firefox 3.6 Beta 3. The update addresses 90+ bugs from the beta 2 release. Firefox 3.6 Beta 3 [via Mozilla Links]

By Whitson Gordon IfWinNotExist ahk_class MozillaUIWindowClass; opens a new Firefox session if it is not already open Run, C:\Programmer\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe WinWait ahk_class MozillaUIWindowClass Send, ^l sleep 50 sendInput, ^v sendInput, {Enter} Return

By Adam Pash Windows/Mac/Linux: Less than two weeks after they released the first beta, Mozilla is back with Firefox 3.6 beta 2. This release includes over 190 bug fixes from beta 1, in addition to the already existing performance boosts and support for one-click themes. Firefox 3.6 Beta 2 [Mozilla]

By Adam Pash There's nothing terribly exciting to speak of in today's Firefox 3.5.5 update; from the looks of the tiny changelog, it looks like one critical security fix and a few other minor bug fixes will make their way to your browser. Mozilla should officially announce the update to Firefox 3.5.5 somet...

By Adam Pash Remember how VCRs destroyed the film industry? Oh wait. [Techdirt]Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition 3.6 Beta 1 Apparently Linux may actually be the fastest OS for the Chrome browser—which kind of makes sense, since Chrome OS will be based on a Linux kernel. [Slashdot]

By Whitson Gordon Mozilla's all-in-one browser, email, RSS, and calendar suite SeaMonkey has been updated to 2.0, and it's a pretty big overhaul. The release notes include a lot of new changes, including more similarity to Firefox in the user profiles, add-ons, and UI elements, as well as faster IMAP, Mozi...

By Kevin Purdy Like Firefox, Opera has already released a beta of Opera 10.1, with the Unite media server installed, but 10.01 is a fixed release for the main, stable branch of Opera. You can see what's changed in the changelog, and grab a copy at the link below.

By Kevin Purdy Windows/Mac/Linux: It's not the official beta of Firefox 3.6—that's been put off for a week. But a "test build" of Firefox 3.6 has landed, with Windows 7 compatible taskbar thumbnails, visual tab previews, and a new rendering engine. Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 [via Download Squad]

By Adam Pash Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): Whenever you hover over a link, Firefox extension Status Address Bar displays the URL a link is pointing to in your Firefox address bar, eliminating the need for your status bar and freeing up precious screen real estate.

By Adam Pash Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): Firefox extension The Camelizer adds a small button to online retailers Amazon, Newegg, and Best Buy that, when clicked, displays price history charts and item watch features to help you make a smart buy. The Camelizer [Firefox Add-ons]

If you hate installing all your Firefox extensions, plugins, and custom tweaks when you do fresh system installation, Silence of the Foxes will build you a custom and silent Firefox installation.Hotspot Shield 1.3 Works with Hulu Again... Sometimes (Windows/Mac)

By Jason Fitzpatrick Mac users, especially those who have adopted Snow Leopard, will be pleased to see that importing settings from Firefox is smoother, the search engine manager is now available in the Mac version, and there are a variety of Snow Leopard-specific bug fixes. Linux users got an improved bookm...

By Gina Trapani Your netbook's screen is tiny and processor less than mighty, so you want to maximize the web page viewing area without any performance-killing Firefox extensions. Here's how to consolidate Firefox 3.5's chrome for your Windows or Linux-based netbook.

By Adam Pash Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): Mozilla's in-house syncing extension, called Mozilla Weave, updated today with a new, polished UI for setting up and configuring your sync preferences, "major performance improvements," better error handling, and support for syncing Personas...

By Adam Pash Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): On Monday we showed you how to speed up Firefox by vacuuming your fragmented database regularly using a copy-and-paste Error Console command. Sounds like a pain, right? Vacuum Places Improved handles it for you with a mouse click.

By Adam Pash Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): Last week we showed you how to set up space-saving, permanent Gmail and Google Reader tabs in Firefox, a process requiring four Firefox extensions to get up and running. Now it's a touch easier.

By Adam Pash Windows/Mac/Linux: Firefox 3.5.1 is available for download, addressing the security issue and startup bugs (as well as some stability fixes) we mentioned yesterday. (If you want to know more, you can see the full changelog here.) If you haven't been prompted already, click on Help > Che...

You can grab the Firefox 3.5 beta for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Firefox 3.5 comes with a spate of new features--5000 total, according to Mozilla. Among the major ones: built-in video; local storage to enable richer Web applications that can work even ... Firefox 3.5 team aims for RC2 ZDNet

Seneca an open source leader Popular examples of this type of software are Mozilla's Firefox Internet browser and the Linux operating system. According to Weaver, the concept and popularity of open source programming is reaching critical mass and is set to blow. ...

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How to install Firefox add ons while using in Ubuntu Linux. it.truveo.com

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By edit@zdnet.com.au (Stephen Shankland) Firefox developer rebukes GoogleGoogle, Sun plan partnershipGoogle Talk to debut this week?Will Google say hello to IM? Google plans shortly to release a beta version of Picasa for Mac OS X, helping Apple fans catch up to Windows and Linux users already employing the free tool for editi...

By Kevin Purdy Along with Windows and Mac downloads, this year was chock-full of free software for Linux users. Read on to see what our readers were eager to grab and install on their free desktops. Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 What's your favorite Linux download of 2008? surveys)

By Adam Pash Windows/Mac/Linux: The long-awaited cross-platform media player Songbird officially reaches its 1.0 release today. The open-source application—built on the same platform as Firefox—promises to bring exciting new innovations to a software jukebox market that has become arguably...

After releasing the beta version to developers, Adobe found some issues and has created fixes. For example, in Linux, Flash Player 10 supported only browsers supported by each specific distribution of Linux. At the time the product was written, Firefox 3 was not supported by Ubuntu 7.

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After releasing the beta version to developers, Adobe found some issues and has created fixes. For example, in Linux, Flash Player 10 supported only browsers supported by each specific distribution of Linux. At the time the product was written, Firefox 3 was not supported by Ubuntu 7.

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By Kevin Purdy Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): Spinspotter, a free toolbar plug-in for Firefox 3, gives anyone who sees opinions masquerading as objective reporting a kind of little red pen to note the spin with. After installing the toolbar, signing up and logging in, you'll see red-highlighted line...

By Lee Mathews My affinity for Firefox comes as much from the fantastic community of addon developers as it does from the program itself. Now, I'm sure you will have heard of some of these before: good Firefox addons tend to spread like wildfire. I hope I've managed to include some that you might have missed.

Among the fanless Zonbu's 23 open-source Linux-based applications are Firefox, OpenOffice, which is an office suite compatible with Microsoft Office with a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation software and more, and there's also a video player and a place to upload your photo...

By Michael Arrington Red Swoosh (acquired by Akamai for $15 million earlier this month) released v1.0 of FoxTorrent today. This is a fully functional BitTorrent client for Firefox that works cross platform (Windows, Mac, Linux) and has a very cool additional feature - the ability to stream files as they are do...

By Richard MacManus By the end of this week, the Thunderbird 2.0 Release Candidate will be launched. Thunderbird is Mozilla's open source desktop email client, similar to Microsoft Outlook in features. However with the 2.0 release, Thunderbird takes on more Web functionality from the Firefox browser (more o...

By Hemos AdamWill writes "Mandriva Linux 2007 Spring RC3 "Beijing" is now available. Featuring the most comprehensive support for 3D desktop technologies, the latest versions of KDE, GNOME, Mozilla Firefox and others, a beautiful new theme and enhancements and refinements to the comprehens...

By Richard MacManus BlogRovr is an interesting new way of getting blog information, on the go while you're surfing the Web. It is a download plugin for Firefox 2.0, which works cross-platform on Windows, Mac and Linux. There's no IE plugin for now, but support for IE6 and IE7 is coming soon (a couple of weeks away)....

By Michael Arrington Zimbra Desktop will be available cross platform (Windows, Mac, Linux) and cross browser (Firefox, IE, Safari). The Zimbra web application and all user data is stored on the client computer (the database is Apache Derby). Data is synced real time when in online mode.

By Anne Zelenka It’s not Microsoft that matters so much these days — it’s Google and the web and new ways of doing things. Does Apollo represent a truly new way of doing things or a backwards look at the desktop and past hopes for a cross-platform development environment? Even if Ajax applications are heino...