Firefox 3.6 – Fashionably Late

January 21st, 2010 by FuzzyFox with 1 Comment »

Okay, so Firefox 3.6 is a little later than planned, however we are sure that you will find the wait has been worth while. As they say in the world of fame, “it is fashionable to be late”. That is not all that is fashionable about this new version of the browser. Oh no, that is just the start of it.

With a new theme system known as Personas you can now change the look of the browser in seconds, with a choice that just boggles the mind. How often are you going to want to choose from over 30,000 different themes? Fashion is not all that Firefox is about however an there have been many changes under the hood that you may not notice. So let us fill in some of the details for you.

For Designers there is now support for CSS gradients as well as WOFF (these are small fonts that you can integrate into a website). This means that not only will you be able to make your sites look good, but they will load faster than ever before.

Oh and did we mention that Firefox 3.6 is fast? Firefox 3.6 is 20% faster than 3.5, and, if you remember, 3.5 was 3 times faster than Firefox 3. So on the whole, you cant get much faster without the safety that Firefox provides. This safety comes to you in the from of the new plug-in check feature that will allow you to see if your plug-ins are up-to-date, or if they need a little bit of an upgrade.

Programmers of the world. We did not forget you in the slightest. You can now add page orientation to your web apps thanks to the new orientation API. You can also use drag and drop functions as well as use the new FILE API to make your web apps more like desktop apps.

For all those out there that love to customize your browsing experience (with over 6000 Add-ons and over 30,000 Personas), to those of you that love to make the web better. Firefox 3.6 is the browser for you.

So visit www.firefox.com and enjoy a faster, safer and more secure way to use the web.

The Migration

January 18th, 2010 by FuzzyFox with 7 Comments »

It is a trend that is catching on and hopefully will become global. This trend is the migration from Microsoft Internet Explorer to a better browser. After years of trying to convince technologically inept relatives to stop using Internet Explorer, computer geeks worldwide may finally rejoice as they have something new to back up their words. The German and French Governments!

The French government joined Germany today in advising to its citizens to stop using IE and migrate to another browser. Hopefully this will mean a large jump in the amount of Firefox users this month :D

The announcements come after a recent admission by Microsoft that there is a serious security problem that can be found not only one version but in numbers 6, 7, and 8!

Internet security company McAfee pointed out this security vulnerability in Internet Explorer, which allowed hackers in China to attack Google, Adobe and a large number of other companies, including Yahoo and Northrop Grumman.

While Microsoft is working on a fix for the problem, I believe that this is a big, and potentially critical blow to the company and will encourage a large number of people to migrate away from the browser permanently.

My next thought is this… How do we take advantage of this in the Mozilla Community and help people make the right choice when looking for another browser? Not only that, but how do we encourage other governments to follow the German lead and get them to advise people to steer clear of the browser?

#eumozcamp09 A Unique Round-Up

October 10th, 2009 by FuzzyFox with 4 Comments »

MozCamp PragueOkay so it is now about 1 week since MozCamp EU 2009, and, the first thing that comes to my mind about the event is “Did everyone who booked the 5am shuttle on the Monday get it okay?” Sad I know but… I did organize it and should it have all gone tits up the blame falls on me! I want to have left a good and lasting impression on the European Mozilla Community. So enough of my shortcomings. Lets get to my round-up of the event!

The event first started for me when I arrived at Ruzyne airport and I met up with 2 members of the Mozilla Community. I shared a taxi with them instead of using the free transport ticket, which, gave time to get to know them both a little better. That night dinner was found at a nice little pizza pallor where I got a pasta :P I can’t eat pizza at a pizza pallor. That would be insane! Read the rest of this entry »

Plectrum Radio

October 6th, 2009 by FuzzyFox with 1 Comment »

Just for all those who follow this blog. As part of my A level course work I need to have a blog about my project and I thought…”why setup a new blog when I have one that works fine? Lets just add a category for all my project posts!” So here it is. The first post for my project. Telling others that I am blogging about my project :P enjoy!

MozCamp Prague 1 day to go!

October 1st, 2009 by FuzzyFox with No Comments »

Prague_mozcampWith just over a day to go MozCamp is now knocking on this front door. I am looking forward to the event, but, those who don’t get to come, do not fret. How amazingly and fantastically awesome could this event really be?

I’m sorry I know that was mean of me but this is a really big thing for me. It is not like you get invited to a conference of this scale when you are not part of a major company, and are only 17 years old. Well… I say my chance is 1 in about 7 billion, so it looks like I beat the odds there! That 7 billion came from the number of people on the planet by the way.

I intend to be going to the unofficial welcome drink and to the jetpack hackathon when I hope to learn a little more about the framework and maybe write a small audio player script.

So, a busy week ahead, and a lot of new blog posts all about the event, as it happens. Just keep your eye my Mozillaca account for the latest from me on the event.

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