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MobileFirefox - Bring Firefox on your thumbdrive.

It is funny that Firefox(and the rest of web browser except IE6 which is the default browser) are not allowed to be installed in the computer where I’m currently working at, due to virus/security concern. Seriously, I’ve never seen such restriction anywhere before. Leave that alone, for whatever reason is, that computer is their right?

To use Firefox, I use MobileFirefox (not a Firefox for mobile phone code named Fennec), that I stumbled upon while looking for Fennec.

According to the homepage, MobileFirefox is a ‘compressed’ version of Firefox, and no installation required. Once the copy of MobileFirefox downloaded, put it into the optical drive such as thumb drive/hardisk or even CDROM.

On my case, I put it onto my external hard drive, so I can add any plugins I wants, just like normal Firefox.

However MobileFirefox is little bit outdated, where it still on version 2.0. Anyway, it still provide an alternative to IE6 and better internet browsing.

If you’re on the same boat like me, just give it a try.

Admin 1 February 2009 Software , , , , No Comments

Google ‘chroming’ Firefox with Chrome’s new tab style

Do you think Firefox should behaving like Google Chrome? The new Google Toolbar appears doing that.

The latest toolbar released yesterday making Firefox appearance Chrome looks alike. By default, when the new tab opened , the thumbnail of your favorite (most visited) sites will shown there.

Don’t like it showing favorites site? You can control the appearance of the new tab behavior, to be filled up by other websites or just a blank space from within the toolbar or Firefox setup.

But keep in mind, it works only on Firefox 3 and some users experiencing lags during browsing.

firefox new tab 450x337 Google chroming Firefox with Chromes new tab style

Admin 1 February 2009 Software , , , , , , 2 Comments

Internet Explorer 8 RC1

I know I’m late. That’s because of this.

Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate (RC) has been released few days ago, which means it is nearing the fully functional release. Although it is the most widely used internet browser in the world, because it is default web browser on Windows which is the most used OS in the world as well , it is less popular among geeks and bloggers who prefer Mozilla Firefox and Chrome.

I jumped over from IE6 to IE8, so I’m not too sure what are available on IE7. So does the previous and current company that I’m working with (An American & European company respectively), which still stick on IE6 for reasons largely due to to application incompatibility with IE7. No comments about that.

I just tried IE8 few times today, there are few enhancement and new features that quite interesting.

One of most discussed features is accelerator . To be honest, I find this feature quite useful but that doesn’t mean it is necessary. Basically it provide you with a quick access or shortcut to do something upon finding something that interesting. For instance, you want to share the football result with your friends via email, which you can do it immediately from the result page itself.

accelerator 450x163 Internet Explorer 8 RC1

instant search Internet Explorer 8 RC1 Instant search is just like Firefox’s search bar which incorporated few search providers, except that you can switch between search providers and get a new suggested search phrase without leaving the drop down list.

Love to see if the IE add-ons can be expandable and more supportable by third party application developers just like Firefox. IE add-ons are no longer just as if it is active-x kind of stuff that run at the background. Some of add-ons are now accessible via Accelerator, just like Firefox’s browse extension.

There are also Developers Tools for developer purpose.

Performance wise, in some parts, it still lagging behind Firefox and Chrome although there are slight improvement such as the start up time. But this slowness is not obvious to the average user.

Try the new IE8 RC1 here.

Admin 29 January 2009 Software , , , , 5 Comments

Google Chrome - Beta no more

google chrome Google Chrome Beta no more

Barely 100 days released in Beta mode, Chrome has been officially released from Beta (stark contrast to Gmail which in Beta since introduced in 2004). And the main reason behind the removal of beta label is the better stability and  performance that Chrome had achieved so far.

Ironically, Firefox had just released its 3.1 Beta Release 2 version few days back. Whether this is merely coincident, or the timing issue, between this 2 competing internet browsers are unknown. But undeniably, Chrome has made significant impact to Firefox. With 10 millions download in 100 days, and the fact that it is quite popular among geeks and blogger which help spread the words faster is surely turn every attention to Chrome

On 5th release, Google claim that Chrome promising stability, greater performance, speedy, secured and better privacy control. Additionally better bookmark features has been introduced with import & export features.

RSS support will be added in near future, even though you can now click the RSS button to subscribe the content in RSS reader successfully, without being shown a ‘weird looking’ web page.

Overall, Chrome is incredibly fast (they got benchmark), but I’m still waiting for ‘ads block’ feature available, before I’ll using it more frequent that I’m now.

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Admin 13 December 2008 Software , , 2 Comments

Mozilla 3.1 Beta Release 2

firefox 3 1 Mozilla 3.1 Beta Release 2

Mozilla 3.1 Beta Release 2 had just been released for beta testing. For regular users like most of us, among the few features include on this release are as follow

  • Beta version is available on your local version.
  • New Private Browsing Mode.
  • Added functions to make it easy to clear recent history by time as well as remove all traces of a website.
  • Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.
  • Removed the new tab-switching behavior based on feedback from users
  • Support for new web technologies such as the <video> and <audio> elements, the W3C Geolocation API, JavaScript query selectors, CSS 2.1 and 3 properties, SVG transforms and offline applications. More information.

Before installing, if you’re heavy Firefox user with lots of plugin installed, please be aware that some of them might not work. Beside that, please have a look at the Known Issue section

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Admin 9 December 2008 Software , , , No Comments
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