Aug 31, 2011

Mozilla Firefox Breaks World Record


Mozilla Firefox 3.0, the resurgent browser developer has come of age with its latest offering. The new browser has been downloaded well over 8 million times in 24 hours as against the developer's target of 5 million and has entered the Guinness Book of World Records for maximum number of downloads in a single day of download history. There was overwhelming support, both from the United States and the Euro zone with downloads in excess of 2.5 million apiece.

The response for the finished Mozilla browser is largely on account of meticulous care the foundation has taken in providing solutions to expert suggestions. The new version was delivered after three and half years of extensive research and development which included of six months of public testing. The highly mutated form of earlier versions of the browser is set to change the way users organize and search the sites, they frequent more often. Back in late 1990's, the Netscape, the first browser developer virtually lost out to Microsoft's Internet Explorer, but with the third avatar of Firefox, they are making an attempt to garner the past glory.

After America Online took over Netscape, they created a non-profit Mozilla Foundation in 2003. The first offering from them, the Firefox, itself was able to catch the imagination of the internet buffs. It is estimated, Firefox has 200 million users worldwide prior to the launch of the new version and the numbers are still growing rapidly. Millions of users had downloaded Firefox and started using the browser in lieu of the default browser Internet Explorer clearly indicates its user-friendliness and application.

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Aug 25, 2011

Uninstall Mozilla Firefox on a Mac

When you uninstall Mozilla Firefox from your Mac, you have the option of removing only the application or removing the application and the user account information. Uninstalling only the Firefox application means that if you reinstall Firefox, all of your previous bookmarks, menu items and personal preferences will return. Uninstalling both the application and the account information erases all Firefox information. If you reinstall the application, it will have the default settings.

Instructions


Go to the "Applications" folder in the Finder.

Click on "Firefox," drag it to the Trash and drop it. If you only want to uninstall the application, skip to Step 5.

Click on the "Go" menu and select "Home." Open the "Library" folder. Open the "Application Support" folder. Open the "Firefox" folder. Open the "Profiles" folder.

Click on the folder with the ".default" extension. Drag it to the Trash and drop it.

Go to the "Finder" menu and select "Empty Trash." Confirm the selection in the pop-up window.


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Aug 19, 2011

Vital Tips You Can Use to Speed Up Mozilla Firefox Browser


Nothing dulls the mind like a sluggish browser that slows the surfing speed of the user. This usually brings the issue of how to speed up Mozilla browser. It is quite frustrating to have a slow Mozilla because the WebPages won't load on time, the window will freeze most of the time and you would discover that Mozilla will be full of error messages. Soon as you notice any of these, it is time do affect some cleaning so as to regain your browser's speed. If left unattended in such sluggish state, the browser would make it almost impossible to do any meaningfully thing with the computer especially if the activity is internet-related. If you insist on using it as it is, you may be surprised that at each time you want to initiate browsing, the windows would be telling you to please wait while it works to fix the problem. You can wait for some 10 minutes and be sure that it will repeat after a little time. If this continues for awhile, you may be surprised that all of a sudden the windows can't even fix the issue any more and this is when we have the greatest unfortunate incident- crash, on our hands!

The Mozilla is usually slow as a result of all the files that have been stored on your computer as you keep using it. Many of the files we leave on our computers are unnecessary or aren't needed at the moment but take up much pretty space and cluster the system thereby slowing the speed of the browser. These unnecessary files reside in your system's registry and would continue to slow down the browser's speed till you get rid of them. There are some ways to speed up Mozilla by fixing the registry issues.

Some people may start thinking of buying a new computer the moment they are confronted with the slow speed. But the truth is that even if you buy another computer, it would still get slow at some point. So it is more important to find ways of boosting the speed or eliminating the things that slows the computer rather than thinking of purchasing another one.

You may opt to delete the files you don't use or those you seldom use one after the other. Note that any file you delete from your system frees some space and gives room for faster operations. It is time consuming though to practically remove unwanted files individually so before embarking on it, you have to consider the time it would take you to get it all done.

You may decide to take your computer to a professional laptop or computer engineer to clean up your system but remember that you have to pay some money for the service. This is something that has simply solution and it can be done by you without any hassle.

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Aug 5, 2011

Add SpellCheck to Mozilla

If you've ever spent the better part of a half hour filling in a commercial Web site's required information fields, you know how frustrating a few missed letters or keystrokes can be. When you add spellcheck to Mozilla applications like Firefox or Thunderbird, you can check the spelling of field entries and save yourself a lot of aggravation.

Instructions


Find out what version of Mozilla you have. Open the browser and click on the "Help" tab, and then drag down to "About Mozilla." You should get a page which lists the current version of Mozilla.


Go to the Mozilla support site. You can find a quick link to this free site in the Resources section below.

Find your version of Mozilla. Underneath the name of each version of Mozilla is a list of supported operating systems.

Choose your operating system. Find the name of your operating system and click on the Install link. You may choose to download the spellchecker first and install it later.

Confirm the spellcheck version. Read the filename in the download window and make sure that it is compatible with your version of Mozilla. Click "Install Now."

Wait for the download and install to finish. This may take some time.

Restart your browser for the spellchecker to take effect.


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