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Firefox : Now on iPhone

Ripul Kumar — Sat, 29 May 2010 17:49:16 +0000

Firefox Home is the latest app you should look out ,for you iPhone,iPods and iPads. Mozilla Firefox has recently updated their blog stating about their project.

“Firefox browsing history, bookmarks and the set of tabs from their most recent browser session. What’s more, it provides Firefox “Awesome Bar” capability that enables people to get to their favorite web sites with minimal typing.”

…more information on FireHome

This seems exciting and the video below will explain how exactly firefox will work on your iPhone. But what remains to be seen is whether Firefox home will support flash or not? My guess is no!

Firefox Mozilla 3.5 Critical bug fixed!

Ripul Kumar — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:00:13 +0000

A Bug which was reported as critical has been fixed by mozilla in the latest version of firefox 3.5.1 download.The new version has fixed the security problem, improving stability, and speeding launch time on some Windows systems.

“Firefox 3.5 embodies Mozilla’s hope to build a better foundation for Web applications, but about two weeks after its debut, a vulnerability in the browser’s JavaScript engine came to light. Mozilla rated it “critical” because an attacker could create a Web site that would run malicious code on the computer.” [CNET]

The security hole in Mozilla 3.5 could have given essential controls to some malicious websites and through which they could have run a code[possibly a virus or a Trojan] though Mozilla on the host machine. [This looks quite similar to the security update that Microsoft fixed in internet explorer days before].

Moreover people were experiencing problems with the tab switching in windows , hope this issue has been fixed in the latest version.

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Roll back to Faster Mozilla 3.0.5 from Slower Mozilla 3.0.11

Ripul Kumar — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:15:43 +0000

Mozilla’s latest update 3.0.11 is too slow in tab switching (though mozilla claims 3.0.11 to be the fastest mozilla)and the degree of slowness goes to such an extent that users are now getting frustrated . I also experienced the slowness and switched to some other browsers just to come back to mozilla firefox and try and solve the problem.

I tried all the method given online, deleting the cookies and clearing the temp folder ,creating another profile,opening mozilla in safe mode, removing the favourite bookmarks and removing all the plugins . But the problem of slow tab switching persisted , I was left with no other option than to roll back to Mozilla Firefox previous version. I read on few blogs that 3.08 has a similar problem so i switched to 3.0.5 and now everything works absolutely fine.I have installed all my plugins and the memory usage has decreased substantially.To my understands firefox 3.0.11 has some security fixes and have tried to make mozilla faster, because of which it starts consuming a lot of memory and then it affects other system processes as well.

Though I hope firefox to fix this issue in the next version it releases , you can refer to mozilla forums if you are experiencing similar problems:

Mozilla Forums

You can post your problem here Mozilla Forums

My experience with other browser’s taught me that Firefox can never be replaced.It is the best browser available currently.

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