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Mozilla Firefox 3.5 final is released today with several improvements and new features. The most notable are new Tracemonkey Javascript engine which will make rendering heavy Javascript pages like Google Docs and others to load faster. Geo location features, and HTML 5 tags support is also included. The release also includes improvements to the Gecko [...]

Web page load time is an important factor in we design and development, not only web developes but bloggers and site owners need to optimize their web pages so they load faster or else retaining users will be difficult. There are many tools which analyze web pages and show you ways to improve load times. [...]

I am experiencing a Firefox crash when I tried to upload images to Wordpress using the built-in Wordpress Flash image uploader. In Google Chrome it works fine but Firefox crashes immediately when i try to upload an image.

Jetpack is an API from Mozilla labs that allows anyone who can code for the web (HTML, CSS and Javascript) to write their own Firefox addons. For creating Firefox addons you need to know Javascript, XUL and XMl, but with Jetpack you could create Firefox addons with ease.

Desktop is a experimental Firefox addon that allows you to customize the new tab page of Firefox with your bookmarks or your favorite websites. This feature is missing in Firefox but other browsers like Google Chrome and Opera have it, infact Opera has this from long.

Mozilla foundation released public beta 4 Firefox 3.5 browser on Monday, it is available for download from Mozilla.com. This release is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

If you want to download photos of your friends albums from Facebook you have to do it one by one, if the album is large then its pain to download one after another. Facebook Photo Album Downloader is a Firefox addon that allows to download photos of entire album from Facebook.

If you are a user of popular file sharing sites like Rapidshare, Megaupload and others you may already know that you need to click pages to get to the actual download link and then wait for at least 1 min before you can download the file. SkipScreen is a Firefox addon that will skip all [...]

Paged articles are common in media sites like New York Times or Reuters, some articles contains 3 or 4 pages. If you are lazy to click the next page links to read complete article look at PageZipper, a new service from PrintWhatYouLike.

According to Statcounter Firefox 3 is now the top browser in Europe. This is a significant milestone for Firefox and good news for Firefox fans who have promoted the browser in every possible way.