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Mozilla has pushed back Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 by several weeks, with the ‘code freeze’ deadline moving from September 9 to September 30, a Mozilla executive said in a message added to the mozilla.dev.planning forum.

‘Code freeze’ is Mozilla’s term for locking down builds of the browser in preparation for crafting an alpha, beta or release candidate version as it works toward a final edition. It usually precedes the actual ship date of a version by anywhere from a few days to several weeks, as the intervening time is required to do internal testing, assemble the release build and prep it…

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A typical computer mouse has 3 buttons but only two buttons remains dominant in our daily computer usage. For those who don’t know, the middle mouse can become quite useful too, if one know how to use it properly.

In this post, I will show you 6 tips to supercharge your Mozilla Firefox with the middle mouse button , thus making your web browsing experience better than before.

1- Click on a link with the middle mouse button to quickly open a link in a new tab. No more right click -> “Open Link in new tab”!

2- Press the Control (Ctrl) button and…

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When Firefox’s bookmarks are a scattered mess of links, you can restore order instantaneously by alphabetizing them. Simply reordering the column in the Bookmarks Manager won’t do it though—you’ve got to invoke the context menu.

Select a folder full of bookmarks in the left pane of the Bookmarks Manager window. The right pane will fill with that folder’s contents. If you want to sort all the items in the right pane by name, just Control-click (Ed: Windows users, right-click) on an item in the right pane and choose Sort By Name from the contextual menu. Firefox will first organize folders…

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Firefox 3.0 Beta 5 landed on Mozilla’s download servers on Wednesday.

Mike Beltzner, Mozilla’s interface designer, highlighted several changes to the open-source browser, including improved UI integration with the underlying operating system, performance gains from additional changes to the JavaScript engine, and an unspecified number of bug fixes and modifications for features new in Firefox 3.0, such as the full-page zoom and bookmark backup and restore.

Beltzner also called out other speed optimizing changes "to improve performance over previous releases as measured by the popular SunSpider [JavaScript] test from Apple, and in the speed of Web applications like Google [ Gmail ]…

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Mozilla patched 10 vulnerabilities, half of them marked "critical," in its open-source browser as it updated Firefox to version 2.0.0.13. The new Mozilla Messaging spin-off, however, was not able to provide a matching update to its Thunderbird e-mail client, which shares five of the Firefox flaws that were fixed.

Mozilla’s six advisories spelled out five Firefox bugs marked "critical," three tagged "high" and one each "moderate" and "low."

"There’s a little bit here to interest most everyone," said Andrew Storms, director of security operations at nCircle Network Security. "The bulletins claim no favor in the many types of vulnerabilities typically associated with…

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I previously have show many tips to reduce the memory usage of Firefox. Even show a application that forces Firefox to use virtual memory and cpu to reduce physical memory usage. Most of them reduced the memory usage to a great extent, still i would love Firefox memory usage to around 90 to 120 MB. Below are few tweaks in the about:config that does some tough things.1. Reduce memory usage when minimizeDo you know Firefox keeps sucking memory each time you minimize your Firefox. This tip will reduce the memory usage when each time you minimize your Firefox.

1. Start up Firefox
2. Type in about:config in…

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As you would know Firefox is the worst offender when it comes to RAM consumption. Previously I should you some memory optimizing techniques to reduce the memory usage in Firefox, but still it doesn’t significantly reduce the memory usage.

Firefox Ultimate Optimizer is a tiny yet a god’s sent program that reduces Firefox memory usage. You’d be surprise to see the memory usage coming down to around 200 to 300 kilobytes…. What the f#$% 300 kb ? Yes this ain’t fake, it really reduces the memory usage to less then 300kb. Even with five to ten tabs and many extensions running…

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