Mega launched a new Firefox extension for the better experience with their online file storage service. The browser extension, which has been ‘preliminary reviewed’ by Firefox maker Mozilla, is billed as ‘secure and invisible’.
On your next visit you will notice that Mega has changes the notification window for the browser suggesting you to install Firefox extension (if you are using mega on Firefox), rather than prompting you to install Google Chrome to enjoy the service at its best.
Firefox is now #MEGA. Install our extension and enjoy blazing transfer speeds. On your next visit you will get an option to install it
The browser extension, the dialog box promises, brings “vastly improved download performance” and will allow users to “batch-download an unlimited number of files without any size restrictions”.
MEGA just got a new CEO, open Internet advocate and entrepreneur Vikram Kumar, after a successful launch that saw over 1 million users upload approximately 50 million files so far.
Firefox 13 is out now! You can download the latest version of Firefox web browser from their official website, which will bring the most anticipated improvements and features to enhance your experience.
Finally, Firefox 13 brings some visual improvements and features to the browser. If you have already upgraded to the newest version, you will immediately notice the – new sleek start page with “common settings” shortcuts.
You can find the speed dial in the “new tab”, where you can keep your most frequently visited web pages in a tile, to get zippy access to them.
Then there comes some internal CSS and script optimization which makes the browser more stable and ready for the future web.
Firefox can now prove to be good asset for those, who uses greater number of multiple tabs in the single session. Also When loading a previous session’s tabs, Firefox will not load each tabs contents in the background, but only when you ‘switched’ to it. This is aimed at speeding up browser performance for users of tab-heavy sessions.
Firefox has improved their “In page Element Inspector“, which now included “inspect elements” feature. It is found that the default element inspector works flawlessly, which may get some attention of web page developers – who prefer to use chrome to do the similar work.
The moment you connect to the Internet, your information is no more in safe hands. Everything you do on internet is being tracked via multiple websites and third party apps.
There is nothing much you can do to stop such events to occur and stop other websites to track your behaviour over the Internet.
Mozilla Firefox is the first web browser, which allows it’s users to enable a “Do not Track” Feature back in March 2011, which minimizes the occurrences of users identity tracking. Many other web browsers joined Mozilla, and now provides the option to enable do not track feature for it’s users.
Google announced recently that they will support “Do Not Track” on their native browser “Google Chrome”.
Here are the simple steps which can help you to enable it in Mozilla Firefox:
Instructions:
1. Open Mozilla Firefox
2. click on Firefox on the top left corner of the window and then click on options.
3. Click on Privacy button and then Click on checkbox which reads “Tell browsers I do not want to be tracked”
4. Click OK
Requirements:
1. Ability to follow simple instructions
2. Mozilla Firefox should be installed on your computer.
Basically Firefox on Ubuntu provides 4 modes of update. Daily Channels (nightly Builds), Firefox Beta, Firefox for future (named aurora), and then comes the stable release.
all you need to know is the basic terminal commnad to make everything simpler. Here you go.
Many howtos on this subject will tell you to install Firefox pre-versions through Mozilla’s ppa ubuntu-mozilla-daily.
Using this ppa will not only install the latest Firefox 10 nightly build, used to be called “minefield” – updated daily! It will also update your current Firefox and Thunderbird to test versions.
These testing versions are not meant to be stable. Avoid this ppa unless you know exactly what you’re doing! If you want to install firefox on production machine, scroll down to #4
The firefox-next ppa will replace your current Firefox installation with the current available version in Mozillas Beta channel. Simply run these two commands in a terminal:
Note: you can use only one of these three channels (Aurora, Beta, and Daily) at the same time! rememember that Aurora is not stable and is for developers only. It is the test version and a place where Mozilla team tests their new scripts and approach. So, until and unless you are a dev, we won’t recommend you to install Aurora for any purpose.
4. Firefox Stable Releases
Firefox Stable is comes bundled in most of the Linux distros. You won’t need to install or upgrade it manually because linux team updates it automatically each time you run the system update. Since Ubuntu 11.04 “Natty Narwhal”, Ubuntu will update automatically to the newest stable Firefox version when it is released. (it may take a few days more, though) This is also valid for Ubuntu 11.10 “Oneiric Ocelot” and upcoming releases.
However, if due to some reason you don’t have it installed already. you can follow the simple steps below.
That’s all you are ready to have Latest version of Mozilla Firefox. You just need to choose which channel you want to go with. We would prefer stable or beta version. nightly builds and aurora are unstable most of the time and they can really make you slam your head on the wall!
*Don’t subscribe/install two ppa channels at the same time, it would lead to a conflict.
*To remove the ppa, use this terminal command -> sudo apt-add-repository remove {channel name you want to remove}
(if the link does not work, use Mozilla’s FTP server)
A 64 bit build is also available in the x86_64 directory of Mozilla’s FTP.
This how-to supposes that the downloaded file is saved in the “Downloads” directory situated in your home directory.
2. Extract
The downloaded file is a compressed .tar.bz2 archive. In case you want to Learn more on these extensions: tar, bzip2.
To extract this juicy archive, open the Downloads directory. Look for a file named firefox-8.0.tar.bz2, right-click on it and select “extract here“.
Alternatively, you can extract the archive from the command line:
cd ~/Downloads/
tar xjf firefox-8.0.tar.bz2
For those interested, here are the tar arguments used in the command: x : eXtract j : deal with bzipped file f : read from a file (rather than a tape device)
Launch the newly installed Firefox by running firefox8 in a terminal, or create shortcuts/icons referring to firefox8.
5. Updates & Final
Firefox 8 will manage its own updates independently of your system’s package manager, an download subsequent releases.
There will be no need to repeat the whole “procedure”… Enjoy Firefox 8!
B. Ubuntu’s case, Linux Mint and Debian
1. Ubuntu: no ubuntu-mozilla-daily ppa!
Many howtos on this subject will tell you to install Firefox pre-versions through Mozilla’s ppaubuntu-mozilla-daily.
Using this ppa will not only install the latest Firefox 10 nightly build, used to be called “minefield” – updated daily! It will also update your current Firefox and Thunderbird to test versions.
These testing versions are not meant to be stable or usable.
? Avoid this ppa unless you know exactly what you’re doing!
2. The Firefox Beta ppa: mozillateam/firefox-next
The firefox-next ppa will replace your current Firefox installation with the current available version in Mozillas Beta channel. Simply run these two commands in a terminal:
Note: you can use only one of these three channels (Aurora, Beta, and Daily) at the same time!
3. Official Ubuntu updates for Firefox (automatic)
Since Ubuntu 11.04 “Natty Narwhal”, Ubuntu will update automatically to the newest stable Firefox version when it is released. (it may take a few days more, though) This is also valid for Ubuntu 11.10 “Oneiric Ocelot” and upcoming releases.
5. Linux Mint 11, and Debian 6 “Squeeze”, …
This howto has been tested with success on the following distributions, with Firefox 6, 7 and 8:
Debian 6 “Squeeze” Linux Mint 10 “Julia” Linux Mint 11 “Katya” Ubuntu 10.04 LTS “Lucid Lynx” (Long Term Support, until April 2013) Ubuntu 10.10 “Maverick Meerkat” (support until April 2012) Ubuntu 11.04 “Natty Narwhal” (support until October 2012) Ubuntu 11.10 “Oneiric Ocelot” (support until April 2013)
this installation procedure is reliable and should work with a wide range of distributions. Please share your experience with OpenSuse and Fedora in the comments.
C. Uninstall/remove Firefox 8 (for non-ppa installations)
Remove the Firefox directory:
sudo rm -r /opt/firefox8
You also should consider changing back or removing symbolic links which pointed to the old Firefox directory. Change back:
sudo mv /usr/bin/firefox-old /usr/bin/firefox
Or remove the firefox8 symlink:
sudo rm /usr/bin/firefox8
D. Run multiple profiles and instances simultaneously
Problem: it is possible to run different Firefox versions with the same profile (profiles are compatible through major versions). However this is not very convenient, as Firefox will check the profiles extensions and plugins every time you start a newer or older version.
Solution: create a profile for each Firefox version. Create new profiles with:
firefox -no-remote -ProfileManager
The -no-remote option starts a new instance of Firefox even if there is already a Firefox instance running. Use the -no-remote option to run Firefox 8 and Firefox 9 instances at the same time.
Let’s say that you’ve created two profiles: ffox8_profile and ffox9-profile. You can start one instance of Firefox 8 and one instance of Firefox 9 with the following commands:
Now you may create desktop shortcuts / icons / launchers (Gnome: Custom Application Launcher) for each of these Firefox versions with their respective profiles.
If you need some svg icons to recognize your different Firefox installations, here they are. (Obviously these are NOT official Mozilla artwork, please use them wisely.)
On your next visit you will notice that Mega has changes the notification window for the browser suggesting you to install Firefox extension (if you are using mega on Firefox), rather than prompting you to install Google Chrome to enjoy the service at its best.
MEGA just got a new CEO, open Internet advocate and entrepreneur Vikram Kumar, after a successful launch that saw over 1 million users upload approximately 50 million files so far.
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