Tab Scope by Gomita is a Firefox addon the does the basic and easy feature of giving Firefox tabs previews when you pass over it. It also allows you to send mouse click on the tab preview. This is really useful if u just need to press the send button the tab or if you just wanna see a page looks real quick. Below is a list of features from his site:
Real-time preview of tab contents
Navigate (Back/Forward/Reload/Stop) through popup
Scroll pages or frames in preview with mouse wheel
Click links or buttons directly in preview
Automatically show preview for tabs opened in background
A lot of users really like the Speed Dial feature on Safari that allows users to quickly open up their favourite websites when opening a new tab. Here is a great Firefox addon to use to get the same features in the worlds most popular browser.
Speed Dial 0.9.5.8 (download) is the most robust of the four add-ons we’re looking at today. It’s highly customizable, offering the deep range of customizations that come with the best Firefox add-ons. Among the multitude of choices is the option to control whether it opens in new tabs or new windows; set the number of “dials,” create dial groups and hook them to hot key combinations for quick launching; and customize the look of each dial’s thumbnail.
Have you ever wanted to create your own toolbar for your website? Now you can with the Alexa Toolbar creator. Within minutes the Alexa toolbar creator makes it easy to create and customise your own toolbar. The toolbars currently work with Firefox and Internet explorer and can be downloaded by anyone.
Here is a quick video on how to create your own toolbar.
Tweetdeck has just released their web application in the Chrome Web store. Now any user can access Tweetdeck from within their Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer and Opera browser.
According to a blog post from TweetDeck, the new Web App, which requires no downloads, is already working on Chrome, Firefox 3.6, Firefox 4 and Safari with compatible versions arriving soon for IE9 and Opera.
If you’d like to try your luck at receiving a beta invitation you can visit: http://www.tweetdeck.com/webbeta. You’ll need to know your browser name and version number, then again if you don’t know how to find those you shouldn’t be in a technology based beta program to begin with.
WebGL is a great web based graphics library for Ubuntu. WebGL helps javascript to allow it to generate interactive 3D graphics within any compatible web browser.
After recent installation of firefox 4 I am getting the following error message
This Browser does not support WebGL
Solution
First you need to install the following package
sudo apt-get install libosmesa6
After installing above package open your browser and type about:config address bar and search for webgl.osmesalib now you need to add string type as /usr/lib/libOSMesa.so.6
Finall restart your firefox
You can check if webgl is working or not go to https://demos.mozilla.org/en-US/ and play 360° Video.
Mozilla Firefox 4 is quickly become one of the most popular browsers in the world. Pingdom has put together a great infographic that outliens the growth over Firefox 4 within 24 hours of release.
Within the first 24 hours Firefox 4 was downloaded more than 7.1 million times and now its upto 14 million and rising fast.
Here is a quick video from Mozilla that outlines the new additions to the very popular Firefox 4. Firefox 4 has had a huge overhaul since Firefox 3, with a lot of great user interface, bugs and speed improvements.
Firefox 4 was launched yesterday and in the first 24 hours there was more than 6 million downloads. This compared to when Microsoft launched IE 9 which only received 2.35 million downloads in the first 24 hours.
We have extensively covered Firefox 4 here on Crenk:
It seems as though Firefox 4 is going to grow into becoming the second largest browser on the internet, or maybe even the largest! At the moment in the browser stakes Internet Explorer is still the largest browser, but Firefox is quickly catch, while Chrome is slowly gaining.
Firefox 5 will absorb the Account Manager and F1 Simple Sharing add-ons to become built-in features. It looks like Windows 7 64-bit will be officially supported with FF5, too.
Firefox 6 will have a focus on the Web applications framework, JavaScript optimizations, and support for OS X 10.7. For Web applications, some missing pieces of CSS3 and HTML5 will be added to Gecko, the rendering engine.
Firefox 7 feature list is less clear. Electrolysis (splitting everything into separate processes) and changes to XBL support are mentioned, but nothing certain.
There seems to be a very big emphasis on the responsiveness and user interface within Firefox.
Microsoft will be hosting a press even in the US on February 10th to announce the launch of Internet Explorer 9.
Internet Explorer 9 is being seen as an extremely strong product, even more so for users with Windows 7 where it allows individual websites to be pinned to the Start Menu and Windows TaskBar. Any website pinned to the TaskBar can have custom jumplists with only a small amount of added code.
IE9 is not a browser for people who like plug-ins and browser add-ons. In fact the beta version will nag you to remove them in order to have the software working at its fastest. It is definitely a very fast browser and stands up well against its main rival, Google Chrome.
Do you think Internet Explorer can really compete with Chrome and Firefox or is it just a waste of time?
