Change the way firefox looks by adding the personas add-on. Choose from different skins to suit your style and enhance your browsing experience - be it nature, outdoors, anime, fashion and loads more. And if you can't find any category which satisfies your taste, its just a few simple clicks to create your own. Get personas now. Happy Dressing! ;)
Getting Started with Personas from Mozilla Labs on Vimeo.
Showing posts with label firefox. Show all posts
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Wednesday, April 08, 2009
Sunday, August 05, 2007
Browse the web safer with Opera
During the past few years, we have seen and witnessed the emergence of so many web browsers, all focusing on security since perpetrators breached into Microsoft's flagship web browser, the most popular Internet Explorer.
Many of us have since bowed to Mozilla Foundation's Firefox. For sure, Firefox and its plethora of addons is a must for any surfer and tech-aholic. But we have other choices as, and in this case here, a better choice to Firefox.
Opera for some unknown reasons has seen itself fall from zenith for no reason. I believe Internet Explorer reached out to people in such tremendous force that Opera was in no time in the dark, for Opera was amongst the first generation of web browsers. It has been out there much before any modern browser and has been in constant development. The last few years have seen Opera rising in fame again. Let us not forget that Opera introduced tab-browsing.
I have been using it since now 6 years and I have nothing to complain about. I just don't know why web designers don't use Opera's powerful features and make their web sites compatible with it. Opera has a huge collection of built plug-ins and its easy to add more.
New features are always on-coming in new releases of Opera; there's always something new to play with at some point in time with Opera. The newest version comes with the "speed dial" idea which allows a user to quickly select a favourite website he or she has set. This is a real time saver. You could just put all your favourite search engines and community sites and they would all be just one click away.
Opera is also very easy to expand with the widgets. Thousands and thousands of people work on developing the widgets and you can have anything you want. A particular one I like is the Sudoku widget - nice thing to play around with waiting for that download to be over. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, you can embed and play games in Opera while you are browsing.
I see no reasons why you shouldn't give it a try. Its packed with features, loaded with options, fast in dealing with downloads, its a time-saver, its faster and its OPERA. A well-deserved name and reputation to live up to.
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Safari on Windows
Ah! Here comes another web browser for the Windows platform and its from no other firm than Microsoft sworn rival Apple. Apple has launched a public beta of its most famous Safari browser for the windows environment. As soon as I got hint of this from the BBC news technology section, I checked it out for myself.
The software is a sleek and elegant masterpiece, well-crafted to fit the needs of the web browser. It is not as bulky as Firefox and starts in a split second, so fast you don't even realise it. And when I say fast, I mean faster than any other application that lurks in your PC. It renders web pages quickly and effortlessly, though for now you might have some troubles viewing some pages, but that wasn't much of a problem for me. It opened all my pages flawlessly. If its doing so good in beta, I can just wonder what the final release will be like.
You have the option to download most used plug-ins when you request to get the package from the apple web site. Only the most needed plug-ins are available, such adobe flash, adobe reader, java and so on.
I am myself only starting to use it and I more than very happy with it. I am sure it will become one of my browsers of choice in a few days time, due to its simplicity and ease of use.
Check out :
Want to know the reason behind Apple launching Safari for Windows... view it on BBC News.
Its definitely worth a try...
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
Flock?!! New Web Browsing Generation?!?
Many of you who are technology or software oriented, like me, would have come across advertisements and sites promoting the all new web browser Flock since the past few weeks. Many things are being said about it and I decided to try it out for myself since it was so blatant in my RSS feeds and CNET updates.
The software comes in a neat packaging amounting to 9.05 MB. The file size is much larger than any of its concurrent's from the open source corner. Mozilla's Firefox weighs 5.72 MB and Opera's offering does a 6.25 MB. Its two competitors sure have a much respected market of their own. Opera came up first with much of the technology upon which Firefox is based. Features like tab browsing were the result of Opera's research, at least that's where I first used it five years ago.
The funny thing I noticed when I ran Flock was its similarity with another browser I am darn familiar with since it's my default browser and I use it at least 5 hours a day. I was, to tell the truth, confused for a few seconds!! Did I press the wrong button on the Quick Launch bar?!! Nope, I didn't. Flock is the exact look-alike of Firefox. Identical to such an extent, you can say they are twins. The reason behind this is simple. After searching the web for 10 minutes or so, I found out the relationship. Flock is not only the son of Firefox, but it has also been built by some people who used to work for Mozilla Foundation, more notably Bart Decrem. He and his small cadre of programmers in Palo Alto, California , have spent this summer quietly readying Flock, an open-source browser. Flock is entirely based upon Firefox, for that point, or more precisely on the beta code of Firefox 1.5, not even 2.0.
So what's so different and new about it? Why is the world bragging about it? The difference is that Flock, unlike Firefox, comes with some integrated "plug-ins" which many users use often. That's one of the reasons why Flock is branded as a "social browser," meaning that the application plays nicely with popular web services like Flickr, Technorati and del.icio.us. Flock also features widely compliant WYSIWYG, drag-and-drop blogging tools. The browser even promises to detect and authenticate all those user accounts automatically. It's a clear attempt to be the browser of choice for the Web 2.0 user as it caters mainly for bloggers and web 2.0 savvy users.
What its not?
"Flock is not the browser that just anyone can pick up and use. Unlike Firefox, there is a slightly sharper learning curve. The way regular bookmarks are managed has changed, making it remarkably different from IE and Firefox, but seemingly closer to the way Safari handles bookmarks. Oh and I should mention, they are now called favorites not bookmarks. Apparently the bookmark has lost its cool factor now. Flock is not yet compatible with every extension and theme made for Firefox, therefore much of the functionality that Firefox users gain from extensions will be lost in Flock."
(Taken from PaulStamatiou.com)
Once you first start it, it asks you for the famous "whether you want to set it as your default browser," to which I graciously answer no as I have to experience it to make a decision. After this you can a dialog which asks you to configure the browser with any Photo service you use; like Flikr and PhotoBucket. Then comes the configuration screens for the blogging service and favourites. Once done, you get access to the normal browsing window. On the Favourites toolbar you can see sites like MySpace, YouTube and MTv already added for your convenience. Just a quick roam about the application will reveal nothing more, but the Firefox usual interface.
You don't get much from Flock what you wouldn't have got from Firefox. Its just some add-ons and, as I understand it, for web 2.0 compliance which Firefox has too, since Flock is based on it. They brand Flock for the power users when in fact I would say it is for non-power users, as it makes surfers' life easier. Power-users can have add-ons installed into Firefox whenever they wish. Though Flock enthusiasts bring forward the point that installing add-ons makes Firefox unstable. As a hard core Firefox fan since the fall of Internet Explorer and an alternative to Opera (since Opera is not quite compatible with all web-pages but damn powerful and loaded), I have never experience any, I say ANY, problem whatsoever while running the Father of Flock for the past four years or so, that is since Firefox was first branded as FireBird.
If you are a Firefox or Opera user, Flock won't bring much to you. Maybe if you're an all-time blogger or you upload photos like its nobody's business, then Flock can save you some time, that's all you get and an easier web experience, from my point of view. I am sticking with the old Firefox 2.0.0.3 and my Opera 9.10. Oh by the way, I also use Internet Explorer 7.0, since Microsoft pages look awesome on it.
Go ahead make your choice, you have a lot to choose from. Hurrah to the Open Source community to bring out such wonderful pieces of lines of codes…
Confused about which one to use? Read more about Flock's features on PaulStamatiou's blog.
Visit the official homepage of Flock.
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