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Firefox will have new tab page with style

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You’ll no longer seeing boring blank page when opening new tab,  on incoming release of Firefox.  Other browser such as Opera, Chrome and Safari has their own new tab page style for sometime, but Firefox as the 2nd most used web browser only planned to introduce it on its next release.

The new tab (also called About:Tab) consist of 2 main elements, called ‘quick-access bar’ on the right, and the ‘contextual actions’ on the upper left.

Closer look what it got.

quick-access bar – Showing the frequently visited sites and shows related items like feeds. It stay in faded gray until you move your mouse over it.

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Contextual action -Mozilla describe it as

Generally, you’ll select some text and open a new tab to search for that text. The new tab provides a big button so that becomes a one-click action (in the future, it will use your default search provider). If you’ve selected an address, the new tab provides a one-click action to map it. If you’ve selected a URL, one-click action will open it.

It can recover website that you close unintentionally too.

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Admin 6 March 2009 Software , , 2 Comments

This Firefox tweak release memory when minimized

One common issue with Firefox is, it is utilizing too much memory in the long usage, and not releasing it back after the tabs closed. It even took sometime to fully released the memory when it was closed.

This tip however manage to solve this problem. While it still maintain the memory rate it use before, it will at least release back the memory upon minimization.

On my quick test below,when Firefox maximized, it is utilizing 101,149kb memory and 28% CPU. Once the screen minimized, the memory consumption immediately dropped to 29,444kb with 19% CPU.

After running it for 2 days, I’m more than happy with the whole performance. It’s not an issue with powerful computer powered by multi core CPU with huge memory, but for old computer owner with less memory that still want to use Firefox, this is great help indeed.

Use with caution however, since some commentators point out this tweak, has slightly effecting the computer performance.

Firefox screen maximized with 14 tabs opened – 101,149k

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Firefox screen minimized with 14 tabs opened – 29,444k

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Admin 2 March 2009 Software , , , , 3 Comments

Firefox add-ons: Better Gmail 2 shows unread emails on Favicon

This little tweak will show the number of Gmail’s unread emails on the browser title bar become even clearer. It’s there by default, but if you open too many tabs simultaneously, it won’t shows the number in complete. This is how the default Gmail browser title bar looks like. See how the number truncated to ’70…’

before gmail unread Firefox add ons: Better Gmail 2 shows unread emails on Favicon

After Gmail Lab’s Title Tweak enabled,  the title changed from “Gmail – Inbox (20) – zakif@gmail.com” (above screen shot) to “Inbox (20) – zakif@gmail.com – Gmail (below screen shot)

To enable this, go to ‘Setting’ – ‘Lab’ – ‘Title Tweek’. Now you can view the number in complete.

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Want more? With firefox add ons Better Gmail 2, the number of unread emails will appear at the bottom of Gmail favicon. But since I have tonnes of unread emails which at 7k, the favicon only shows ‘99+‘ .

after gmail unread Firefox add ons: Better Gmail 2 shows unread emails on Favicon

Btw,  I just come across tweak guides for Firefox. Happy tweaking!

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Admin 1 March 2009 Promotion , , , 1 Comment

Safari 4 beta : The fastest web browser?

If it is not because of the benchmark result that confirm Safari 4 is faster than Firefox and the rest of web browser, I’m probably still not using full version Safari browser. I do use Safari, but only on Iphone.

safari url Safari 4 beta : The fastest web browser? But before that, there is something I want to show you.  This post was initially drafted in WordPress using Safari 4 beta, but I was hit by 1 bug when I attempt to create link using WordPress’s add/edit link feature. The lightbox JavaScript covered the whole page including the windows where I suppose to add the URL. It stay there with nothing I can do except close that page. Quite disappointing.

Let’s forget that. Despite that unwanted bug (or probably my computer setup, I’ve no idea), there are 150 features that you can try it out although normal user like me won’t probably use 100% of them. As this is Apple’s product, you can expect the minimalistic but excellent user interface, beauty, tough and etc.

Back to the real reason of this post which is about the benchmark, Safari 4 and the rest of its rival were fared against each other in rendering Javascript using SunSpider. The result put the Safari 4 beta on the top of the list (smaller the better) with IE7 on distant last position.

1) Safari 4 (Total time: 910ms)
2) Mozilla Minefield 3.2a1 (1,136ms)
3) Google Chrome (1,177ms)
4) Firefox 3 (3,250ms)
5) Opera 9.6 (4,076ms)
6) Internet Explorer 8 (5,839ms)
7) Internet Explorer 7 (39,026ms)

The milliseconds gap between them is hardly can be noticed by human eye, but since the point of the benchmark is to show who is the fastest, it still a win for Safari 4. But the result is critical figure to the web browser developer, as a selling point to compete for bigger chunk of web browser market.

It still early to say if I’ll start using Safari frequently. I have IE, Firefox, Flock, Avant and Chrome on this computer and Safari 4 is just another addition to my web browser collection.  I end up with Firefox and Chrome, and Safari might be next.

Apple fan might have downloaded it once it is released, but for anybody else, you can try it here.

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Admin 27 February 2009 Software , , , , , , , , , , 7 Comments

Perform search query in the Firefox’s address bar

I’m not sure how long has it been there, but when i discover it, I think this is cool. Now, another Chrome’s feature available in Firefox. You can perform any search by just typing anything into your Firefox’s address bar. Remember, the performing search from address bar is using Google by default.  There are 2 ways how it works.

First, it works like Google’s Feeling Lucky. Searching any key phrase will return and open a new website automatically. My search for ‘ezera‘ bring me to ezerasurf.com

address bar1 Perform search query in the Firefoxs address bar

Secondly, it works just like normal search. Type any key phrase will return the search result.

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I believe this functionality come with Google Toolbar although I don’t see it being introduced on the latest Google Toolbar 5 blog post. It might has been there before, only me that didn’t notice about it.

Have you notice this before?

Admin 6 February 2009 Software , , , , , , 6 Comments
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