Everyone is uniting to force IE6 users to make a switch as the browser ages, however Mozilla’s Firefox 3.5 has managed to make a major climb as reports put its market share at 4.5%. What’s worth noting is the fact that it has been out there for only a month. Sounds more than impressive and a clear indication that it is the most preferred browser in the market. Apart from this, it also confirms that Internet Explorer reigns supreme only because it comes as a default browser on all of the systems that run Windows. The trends clearly show that the long running leader in the market continues its dive to demise while Firefox, Chrome and others continue to progress. And we already know that Windows 7, specifically in Europe will have no default browser, meaning that IE’s share would further be hammered. Lets see what the market is like in the next year and who leads the pack.
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Firefox 3.5 was in open to attackers to try and run the arbitrary code on users computer. The vulnerability was due to a problem with the execution of JavaScript handling of code. The team has taken quite a jump with that and has introduced a fix for the bug with the release of Firefox 3.5.1. You don’t need to manually update to the latest fix as Firefox has auto updates enabled.
Just couple hours after its release and Firefox 3.5 is already crossed one million downloads. You can keep track of the number of downloads in real time here. Most of the downloads have been made in the U.S with almost 300,000 followed by Germany with almost 150,000 downloads. I mean this could very well break the 8 Million download record that Firefox 3.0 set last year?
While add-ons or plug-ins can give your browser additional functionality but at times one would feel the urge to make it more lively by adding backgrounds, etc. Canvas, a Firefox add-on that lets you add any image to your browser theme lets you do exactly that. Whether it’s an image in your hard drive or one from a web page just point, select and add it to your Canvas. Here’s how you can do that once you have downloaded the add-on:
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If you don’t enjoy all the clutter while you read an article on your favorite blog and pray there was a tool that could only show content, then try TidyRead. It’s a pretty useful Firefox extension that does exactly that and removes everything from the webpage showing the text alone. Plus it lets you customize it the way you would like to read the text by letting you select various combinations of text and hyperlink colors, to font sizes and styles.
