Firefox 4 Beta 7 is Much Better & Faster

Firefox 4 beta 7 is out, and as you read, it really looks much better, fast and nearly complete. Mozilla enabled graphics acceleration on both Windows and Mac OS X and integrated Sync and the previous feature Panorama.

Mozilla says that they worked hard to bring impressive engine for web pages, interpreting webapps and games. The chart below contains three benchmark tests, including their own, shows what looks like some serious improvements.

Mozilla also planes for some hardware-based graphics acceleration. Guys over there made a quick demonstration video for how JavaScript performance can speed along with the apps:

FireFox 4 Delayed Untill Early 2011

The final version of Mozilla FireFox 4 been officially delayed by the Director Mike Beltzner. He officially confirmed this by writing some words on Mozila Dev Planning mailing lists. Firefox 4 beta 1 was released early in July this year followed by the release of beta 2 and beta 3 then beta 4 late in August. Here's what Beltzner said.

Completing this work (on Firefox 4) is taking longer than initial estimates indicated as we track down regressions and sources of instability

Firefox 4 Beta features some great improvements as changed the all-design of this browser with user-friendly interface. This browser also supports HTML 5, it also have Hardware Accelerated HD video and most likely improved support for Add-ons. It might also be possible that this version will be more faster than older ones. We have to wait until any further notice by Mozilla for the release date of this new version.

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Firefox Extension Can Hack Your Facebook and Twitter On Any Unsecured WiFi Network

At a Cafe? Connected to an unsecured Wi-Fi network? Now, anyone can gain access to all of your social network login information whenever you connected to an unsecured Wi-Fi network. Guess what? Your Twitter or Facebook account can be hacked using a Firefox extension!

ReadWriteWeb points to his new Firefox extension which is called Firesheep and developed by Eric Butler. Here's Bulter explains how it works on his blog:

On an open wireless network, cookies are basically shouted through the air, making these attacks extremely easy

Firesheep opens a sidebar in Firefox that shows everyone who is connected to a certain unsecured WiFi network. With a single click, you can connect to most any social network using that person's user name and password.

For anyone who complains about this, TechCrunch pointed to Force-TLS as a way to protect your information from FireSheep but Bulter answers the following:

Websites have a responsibility to protect the people who depend on their services

They've been ignoring this responsibility for too long, and it's time for everyone to demand a more secure web. My hope is that Firesheep will help the users win.

Google is Planning to Release 60x Faster Chrome 7 to Hit IE9 and Firefox 4

In case you are living under a rock and don't know yet, last week Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 9 beta with full hardware acceleration of all HTML5 content, improve canvas speed. Also Mozilla has released Firefox 4 beta last month with Panorama feature and more. So, Google is planning to Release Chrome 7 to hit back at IE9 and Firefox 4.

Well, Microsoft's IE9 is still in beta, so we can't judge on it now. According to Neowin, IE9 still wins in canvas speed demos but Chrome 7 is greatly improved over previous versions. Also, take in mind that Chrome 7 is in early stages and not released yet for non-developers but it promises to show up to 60 times speed improvement over the current version of Google Chrome. The new version picks the best API graphics with support for Windows XP, Vista, 7, Mac OS and Linux.

This video was showed by Google in a series of demos, showing ranging from a aqurium to 3D walls of photos. The demo really shows what can you do with 2D accelerated APIs in chrome.

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Firefox 4 Beta 4 Released, Panorama Envolved

Firefox 4 Beta 4 has been released to evolve the new amazing feature "Tab Candy" but this time it's called "Panorama", (I really love it) and it’s now built in Firefox 4, starting from this beta. Aza Raskin says on his blog,

I am happy to announce that Tab Candy is coming to Firefox 4. Starting today, Tab Candy will be called Firefox Panorama and be available as a feature in Firefox betas. Head to the Firefox 4 feature list, or watch the video below, to learn how to organize your tabs into groups and reclaim your browsing experience from clutter and information overload.

Give it a try and tell us how you like this feature! It's really awesome

Download Firefox 4 Beta 4 for Windows / Mac / Linux

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Firefox Home is now Aavailable in the App Store for iPhone and iPod Touch

I already posted an article about Firefox Home and it was submitted in the App Store about 2 weeks ago, Now Mozilla has announced that Firefox Home is now available in the App Store and can be Downloaded for both iPhone and iPod Tuch, feel sorry for iPad!

Here's the description of the App:

Get up and go and have everything waiting for you on your iPhone: Your Firefox history, bookmarks and open tabs, just as you had left them on your desktop computer. Firefox Home is secure from end-to-end so your data is always safe. And, of course, it's free.

Download Firefox Home for iPhone and iPod Touch [iTunes Link]

Download Mozilla Firefox 4 Beta 1

Here's fast post for people who don't know from where they can download Mozilla Firefox 4 Beta 1, Mozilla announced the new version of Firefox but people having difficulty to download it, so I got the links below after the jump..

We Don't have a change log for the new features, but it's really cool, you have to give it a try!

Download Mozilla Firefox 4 Beta 1 for Windows
Download Mozilla Firefox 4 Beta 1 for Mac
Download Mozilla Firefox 4 Beta 1 for Linux

Firefox Home has been Submitted to App Store

I already told you about this App a month ago, Firefox was developing a new App called "Firefox Home" and it was announced a month ago. Now Mozilla posted on it's blog that they have Submitted Firefox Home App to iTunes App Store.

Watch a short video showing a beautiful lady running Firefox Home App on her iPhone (Not sure but Think it's iPhone 4)

 

The app will be avaliable shortly and it will be announced here on CoveringWeb, So Stay tuned!
Also you can Check our App Store for more iPhone Apps and iPad Apps that you may be
interested in.

Mozilla is Developing a new App "Firefox Home" for iPhone

Yes, you will get Firefox on your iPhone Soon. Mozilla is Developing a new App to work on iPhone which is called "Firefox Home" and it provides users with direct access to various data / information using Firefox browser on their computer.

Here you can watch a Video introducing Mozilla Home App for iPhone..



From the Reports we got, Mozilla will submit the Firefox Home application to the Apple App Store next month.[via iHackintosh]