Fire Fox cross 1 Billion Download

Open http://www.onebillionplusyou.com/ 1,000,000,000 + you. It says fire fox download counter has crossed 1 billion downloads in the five years. It shows that how much people care for better things and how they get fit in to the all OS and ensures smooth and fast browsing.

It have some facts saying what one billion means. We can post it to twitter or create our one liner.

Add-ons collection get new look

Mozilla Foundation add-ons offical page has received a makeover and it looks cool. New design new graphics a total new look. Now it shows number of items in each categories. On right top it shows add-ons download and add-ons in use.

A new feature or utiltiy called collection is rolled out. Collections a way to categorize ,mix ,match and mingle add-ons.

Creating a own collection is also easy. Giving name like "Ashish Web Collection" by selecting what add-ons i would like to put. It will thn be shown in directory and can be send to the freinds or a link in blog. The more people add it as favorite, the higer it will be ranked.

So what you r waiting for lets create our collections. :)

FireFox 3.5 Beta Shiretoko

Shiretoko can u guess what it is. No but seems like some japnese name isnt'it . Yes its actually the name of Japanese National Park.

But firefox use it for code name. Firefox came with new version 3.5. The beta was relaesd for testing purpose the stable is yet to come. It is claimed as fastes firefox i.e twice as fast as firefox 3.0 and 10 time faster thn firefox 2.0. Amzing isn't it. Its named Shiretoko.

Download beta and test it your self its available in all flavours.

It was build on Mozilla Gecko 1.9.1 layout engine. It come with html 5 video support.

As far as the logo is converned it will be same with some changes in the look and feel like Shape of the tail will no longer be 2D. Some of the textures will be modified: soft fox, glossy earth etc..

So a tough competition betwreen chrome and firefox.