E-Z Life » Firefox http://www.ezrahill.co.uk - Daily Diary of Ezra Hill Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:12:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Mozilla to overhaul Firefox’s default home and tab pages http://www.ezrahill.co.uk/2012/01/28/mozilla-to-overhaul-firefoxs-default-home-and-tab-pages/ http://www.ezrahill.co.uk/2012/01/28/mozilla-to-overhaul-firefoxs-default-home-and-tab-pages/#comments Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:05:00 +0000 Dante Cesa http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/28/mozilla-to-overhaul-firefoxs-default-home-and-tab-pages/
Despite Mozilla kicking its release schedule into overdrive, not all parts of Firefox have gotten the tender love and care they truly deserve. Take for example, the browser’s default homepage, which hasn’t evolved much since its humble beginnings nearly a decade ago. That’ll change soon in a two pronged effort, with Mozilla first adding a function bar to version 12 (seen after the break), followed by a later and more extensive revamp (up-top) which incorporates apps, top sites and chat functionality. Also planned is a Chrome and Safari-esque Top Sites “New Tab” view and savvy URL autocompletion in the address bar. A more in-depth preview awaits at the source, or we suppose, you could live dangerously and hop aboard Mozilla’s nightly release train. You decide.

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]]> http://www.ezrahill.co.uk/2012/01/28/mozilla-to-overhaul-firefoxs-default-home-and-tab-pages/feed/ 0 Internet Explorer holds onto top browser crown while Chrome and Firefox tussle over second place http://www.ezrahill.co.uk/2012/01/03/internet-explorer-holds-onto-top-browser-crown-while-chrome-and-firefox-tussle-over-second-place/ http://www.ezrahill.co.uk/2012/01/03/internet-explorer-holds-onto-top-browser-crown-while-chrome-and-firefox-tussle-over-second-place/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2012 01:21:00 +0000 Mat Smith http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/02/internet-explorer-top-browser-chrome-and-firefox-second/

Both Net Applications and StatCounter have released their figures for browser market share for 2011 and it makes for largely unsurprising reading. Internet Explorer’s full share has dropped but it still maintains the top spot — a 52 percent share according to Net Applications and 39 percent according to StatCounter. Meanwhile, second place remains tantalizingly within reach for Chrome, which has made headway catching up with Firefox, whose growth had apparently stalled during 2011. According to Net Applications, Firefox held a 21.8 percent share of browser users this month, while Chrome reached 19.1 percent, up just under 8 percent and capping off a second year of impressive growth. Meanwhile, StatCounter pegs Google’s browser at second place for the end of the year, claiming 27.3 percent versus the 25.3 percent share grabbed by its vulpine rival. Unsurprisingly, the Windows Team Blog takes a different slant on recent browsing trends, trumpeting that its latest version, Internet Explorer 9, continues to grow on Windows 7. This is, however, balanced out by a corresponding drop in the users of its predecessor, IE 8. Better luck next year, eh, Microsoft?

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Omar Shahine has sent SkyDrive off to the Microsoft gym in the hopes that it’d trim up ready for its forthcoming update. Users will soon be able to enjoy beefier document management powers, share individual files from private folders, control permissions and post files to Facebook in a couple of clicks. They’ll also be able to upload groups of documents whilst navigating the site and best of all, can use the HTML5 file api to drag’n'drop documents in any standards-compliant browser. Slideshows are much improved this time out, and right-clicking fans will be able to edit individual documents and photos inline. The service will purportedly now load in around half the time it did before — clearly it’s been told to shed some of those Silverlight pounds.

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]]> http://www.ezrahill.co.uk/2011/11/30/skydrive-juices-up-document-sharing-and-uploading-grabs-a-html5-smoothie-afterward-video/feed/ 0 SlingPlayer for Facebook is okay, Chrome(book) compatibility is better http://www.ezrahill.co.uk/2011/11/19/slingplayer-for-facebook-is-okay-chromebook-compatibility-is-better/ http://www.ezrahill.co.uk/2011/11/19/slingplayer-for-facebook-is-okay-chromebook-compatibility-is-better/#comments Sat, 19 Nov 2011 00:16:00 +0000 Amar Toor http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/18/slingplayer-for-facebook-is-okay-chrome-compatibility-is-better/
Ready to let the world know all about your most intimate TV-viewing habits? Good, because the SlingPlayer Facebook app is now available, and prepared to do just that. Once installed, the app allows Slingbox Solo or Pro-HD owners to manage their DVRs and watch their favorite live or recorded shows, all from the comfort of their own social network. The share button doesn’t automatically tie in with any kind of guide data, so friends don’t need to know you’re watching the Teen Mom reunion finale at the office — unless you want them to. The other big news from Sling is that its plugin finally supports Google’s Chrome browser (Mac version of FF8 is still a no-go, while Chromebooks can at least access a Flash stream now, but only via Facebook), so if you’ve been waiting for a way to ditch IE and FireFox then congratulations, your sometime is now.

[Thanks, @wyldtek]

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Just about three months after launching on Safari and Chrome, Amazon’s Kindle Cloud Reader app has finally made its way to Firefox. With this HTML5-based app, Mozilla devotees can access Kindle books directly from their browsers for both online and offline reading, while syncing their digitized libraries, notes and bookmarks. Available for Firefox 6 and above, the Cloud Reader also offers a touch-optimized store that’s integrated directly within the app, putting you within just one click of Amazon’s coffers. Take it for a spin at the source link below, or float past the break for the full PR.

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