I installed Mozilla Weave in Firefox 3.5.x couple of weeks back (Click here to see what Weave is). I created an account and signed in. When I click on the Sync Now option, I get a pop up window saying Starting Sync Engine with a red circle and nothing happens (screenshot below). Nothing gets synced. I’m not sure if it’s a bug in Weave or something I did or didn’t do.
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Mozilla Lab has released Ubiquity 0.5. If you are not sure what Ubiquity is, click here. According to Mozilla Lab, this release brings
Ubiquity 0.5 requires Firefox 3.5. If you have Firefox 3.5 and you want to install Ubiquity, click here.
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I’m using Firefox 3.5 for quite sometime (from the beta version). I like it for the most part. The only irritation I found was, before Firefox 3.5, if I had only 1 tab opened, when I press CTRL+w, it would close that tab and would create a new blank tab. With Firefox 3.5, when I do that, it closes Firefox.
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Mozilla has released Firefox 3.5 today. Here are some of the new features in Firefox 3.5, according to Mozilla:
To learn more about Firefox 3.5, check the video below.
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Mozilla Labs has released Weave 0.4, a prototype that encrypts and securely synchronizes the Firefox experience across multiple browsers, so that your desktop, laptop, and mobile phone can all work together. Weave Sync is the first prototype component in Weave. From what I read, Weave seems to be something similar to Xmarks (formerly Foxmarks). Here is what Weave can do, according to Mozilla Labs:
Weave 0.4 has the following features:
To use Weave, you have to have Firefox 3.5. It won’t work with the current stable Firefox release.
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Fedora team has released their next version of Fedora OS, Fedora 11. According to Fedora, Fedora 11 offers a very good technical preview of features that may appear in the upcoming version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Fedora 11 showcases a new default filesystem in ext4, a 20 second startup, and the latest GNOME, KDE and XFCE releases. Firefox 3.5 and Thunderbird 3 latest pre-releases are available as well. Fedora 11 features Presto, a yum plugin that reduces bandwidth consumption drastically by downloading only binary differences between updates. It also features Openchange for interoperability with Microsoft Exchange.
Here are some of the highlights of Fedora 11:
For more information on Fedora 11, check the release note.
Source: Fedora
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Mozilla team has released the 4th beta version for Firefox 3.5 (formerly Firefox 3.1). According the Mozilla developer center, here are the list of features that are new or changed in beta4.
Here is a note about Firefox’s Geolocation feature. According to Mozilla, Geolocation lets websites know where you are in order to bring you more relevant information, or to save you time while searching. For example, if youre looking for pizza restaurants in your area, a simple search for pizza will bring you the answers you needno further information or extra typing required.
Some modern websites offer services that are richer and easier to use if they know your location (such as online mapping, or searching for specific things in your area). When you visit one of these sites, Firefox will ask you if you want it to provide the site with your current location.
If you choose to allow Geolocation, Firefox first looks for relevant location markers such as location data provided by a GPS device built into or attached to your computer or browsing device, the signal strength of nearby wireless hot spots and/or cell phone towers, and/or your computer or devices IP address.
So what about Privacy? Here is what Mozilla says: Firefox never shares your location without your direct permission. When you visit a page that requests your information, youll get a notification that you can accept or deny before any information is shared.
If you do authorize Geolocation, the following information is sent from Firefox to Google to retrieve your location based on WiFi and/or IP:
This information is sent via an encrypted SSL connection to further protect your privacy. Google Location Services sends back to Firefox an estimate of your location which Firefox provides to the requesting web page. Google does not know the URL or domain of the requesting page.
It’s your choice to expose yourself or not.
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Mozilla team has been working on how to make a new tab page more usable. You get a blank new tab page currently. Mozilla wants to change that and make it more useful. Google Chrome shows you thumbnails of most visited sites and Opera shows a speed dial. Mozilla wants to make something that’s not a distraction to users. This paved the way to Cognitive Shield.
The design of the cognitive shield is a ring of 8 circles, each containing one of your top-visited sites. The cognitive shield hides the distractions until you move the mouse. Then the links fade in quickly. If you are typing the web address directly in the location bar in the new tab, then the cognitive shield won’t distract you. On the other hand, if you want to use one of the most visited sites using the cognitive shield, then move the mouse over the circles and the icons will get brighter and colorful. I believe users should be able to edit the list of icons/websites that would appear in the cognitive shield.
To install, visit Mozilla Labs.
Source: Mozilla Labs.
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