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Firefox hits v3.6, throws up funky one click themes, speedier browsing

January 22nd, 2010 12:29pm mike s 4 comments

Firefox hits v3.6, throws up funky one click themes, speedier browsingIt’s taken a while to get drrssed, but the latest 3.6 version of Firefox has finally rocked into town.

Promising nippier performance, natty one-click themes, safer add-ons and plug-ins, improved font handling and other life enhancing properties the browser is now ready for your downloading pleasure.

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Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0 RC1 email client – full review

November 26th, 2009 9:15am Michael H. No comments

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0 RC1 - full reviewMozilla Thunderbird, the free email client produced by the makers of the Firefox browser, has recently undergone some important revisions, and is now available as Thunderbird 3.0 RC1.

RC stands for Release Candidate, meaning that this version of Thunderbird 3 is designed for testing, and might still have a few bugs, so don’t install it in production environments.

I’ve been using Thunderbird 3 in its various Beta iterations for a while, and have now updated to RC1, and I believe that this latest version of the popular email client is a considerable improvement over its predecessors.

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Firefox is five years old

November 9th, 2009 10:51am mike s No comments

Firefox is five years old

Launched on November 9, 2004, the web browser Firefox is now five years old.

Starting life as an experimental arm of the Mozilla project, whose hefty suite of apps included a web browser, mail client, news reader, irc client and web page editor (Mozilla Composer), Firefox looked to offer a slimmed-down alternative to the wobbly lard of Internet Explorer.

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