Mozilla has just released the Firefox 6 beta for download. Firefox 6 beta is now officially available for Windows, Mac, Linux and Android users. Firefox 6 beta is released just few days after the release of Firefox 5. This release introduces innovative tools to help developers build rich and compelling Web experiences.
Looks like Firefox team is working hard these days. Firefox 5, which was scheduled for 21st this month, is released before its release date. Yes, Firefox 5 is released 3 days before its release date and is available for download via FTP.
Some of the features of Firefox 5 are:
- Added support for CSS animations.
- Improved canvas, JavaScript, memory, and networking performance
- Improved standards support for HTML5, XHR, MathML, SMIL, and canvas
- Improved spell checking for some locales
- Improved desktop environment integration for Linux users
You can read more about the new features at the official release notes.
While reading an article on BloggingTips about 4 Ways To Post Longer Tweets on Twitter, I thought to share a Firefox add-on with you called Twitze. With this add-on you will be able to post longer tweets on Twitter. Though there are many different Twitter tools available, but why to use any other tool if we can do it by installing a simple add-on.
Here is a cool firefox addon for cricket lovers – HitWicket. HitWicket displays live cricket score in the status bar of Firefox. It is based on the ScoreWatch Firefox extension and it shows cricket score updates from CMDN.com in the status bar.
It will show you fall of wicket alerts even if you are running a screensaver. You can also track what happened in the previous matches.
To find the font used on a particular text on any webpage, a user needs to view the source code of the page. It may be easy task for webmasters but for normal internet users this method is very complex. Today I will share a Firefox add-on that simplify this task and let you view the font used by right-click only.
If a nofollow tag is added to a link, it will prevent search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN from indexing that link. So after exchanging your blog’s link with other blogs, you must check for nofollow tag. You must only exchange link with other bloggers if they are giving you a dofollow backlink otherwise there is no benefit of exchanging link with others.