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Jun 10

Firefox 3.6.6, an update to crash-free 3.6.4, has released

Firefox has released an updated to the recently released crash-free Firefox 3.6.4. The crash protection feature successfully prevented the crashing of third party plugins - Microsoft Silverlight, Adobe’s Flash etc to affect the browsers

…freeze is when it becomes unresponsive and can no longer interact with the user. Plugin freezes make the whole browser unresponsive. So, Firefox 3.6.4 used to wait for 10 seconds for the unresponsive plugin to respond after which it killed the plugin.
This strategy sounds good but the default time was a little too short for old computers. Some users had complained that they expect longer period of non-responsiveness from the plugin while playing games. So, Firefox 3.6.6 has been released as an automatic update to address this issue by raising the default timeout from 10 to 45 seconds.
This bug was reported as “Increased Hang Detector Timeout”. Users were complaining about not able to play Farmville, this was because Farmville used to hang the browser long enough for timeout to trigger and kill it….

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Firefox 3.6.6, an update to crash-free 3.6.4, has released

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24
Jun 10

How to update your Firefox to 3.6.4 on Ubuntu 10.04

Firefox recently released a major update of the browser, Firefox 3.6.4. Major is not in the sense of version numbers, its the integration of Out-of-process Plugins which isolates Third Party plugins and prevents Firefox crashes and freezes because of them

…Foxyproxy is an advanced proxy management tool which is available as an addon in firefox. It is a free and open-source tool. It can be used to handle multiple proxies, loading banned websites through worldwide proxies and a lot more. Foxyproxy has certainly made browsing amazingly fast for me. It is some of the best firefox-addons ever made. In this article, I will show you how to configure Foxy Proxy to use multiple proxies at a…

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Feb 10

Take the tour of Firefox 1.0 on Nokia N900 | Linuxers

Firefox released a tour video of their first mobile browser on Nokia N900.

…Firefox released a tour video of their first mobile browser on Nokia N900. It was a truly amazing experience seeing Firefox mobile browser with so many cool features. I have seen and used a few mobile browsers but Firefox is way better. Check out the video and see for yourself.
Some of the best features were the awesomeness of the awesome bar, power of addons and ofcourse the magic of Weave which lets you sync all your bookmarks, browsing history, saved passwords and even currently open tabs so that you can have the same firefox experience everywhere….

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Take the tour of Firefox 1.0 on Nokia N900 | Linuxers