Firefox releases 3.6 Beta 2

Few days after the release of Beta 1, Mozilla released the second Beta version of 3.6. This beta version includes over 190 bug fixes.

Add-on Compatibility Reporter helps you report compatibility issues with add-ons on the new beta version. If an add-on is marked compatible and it doesn’t work, you can report to Firefox using this compatibility reporter, so that a newer version of the add-on will be made available. Similarly, you can report incompatible add-ons that are marked compatible. Download Add-on Compatibility Reporter. (more…)

Firefox 3.6.1 Beta now available for download

Mozilla just released the first official beta version of Firefox 3.6 and is now available for download. This beta version is built on Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering engine and is said to have many improvements for web developers.

UPDATE: Firefox 3.6.2 is now available. Read here

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Test your Site in Different Browsers & Screen Resolutions

Ever wondered how your site/blog will appear for an Internet Explorer 4.0 user? Or for a Mozilla Firefox 0.9 user? Your site might look great on your Firefox 3.5 but it could look dreadful on Internet Explorer, due to the way IE renders your page. It obviously is impossible for a webmaster to fetch all versions of all browsers and to test their site one by one. Here, you find the use of BrowserShots. BrowserShots is a free and Open-Source service that makes screenshots of your site in different browsers starting from IE 4, Firefox 0.9, Opera 0.27 to the latest version available on different Operating Systems (Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD). You can also specify the Screen Resolution in pixels (640, 800, 1024, 1440, 1600, etc), Color Depth in pixels, JavaScript version and finally Java & Flash support. So, if you prefer to test your site with no Java & Flash support, you can choose to Disable them using the dropdown list-box available at the bottom of the page. (more…)

5 Essential Add-ons/Extensions for your FireFox

Here’s my list of 5 essential Extensions for FireFox for better security, protection, easy & clean browsing.

KeyScrambler

The name says it all! KeyScrambler – Scrambles your keystrokes. With email, banking and online transactions taking place often nowadays, passwords and Credit/Debit Cards have become the most vulnerable ones. A simple Key-logger (an application that logs your keystrokes) can log all your Credit/Debit Card numbers and passwords. Obviously, passwords or Card numbers have to typed in one way or the other (even if you save them in your Google Toolbar). And here comes KeyScrambler to protect all your sensitive keystrokes by scrambling them. Be it a username or a password, or a search term, or a card number or even a website, you will be able to find the scrambled letters in KeyScrambler’s floating bar. So start protecting your keystrokes with KeyScramber (more…)