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    Regain a long-missed Twitter feature with classic retweet

    Posted May 26, 2012 - 7:14 am

    Change is never easy, especially when it's one of your favorite services making the changes--and forcing them on you. But, if you're one of the many Twitter users still lamenting the loss of the old-style retweets in the new Twitter, you don't need to be sad any longer. Classic Retweet, a simple Firefox add-on and Google Chrome extension, can return you to the glory days of Twitter's retweet feature, allowing you to append your pithy comments to everything you retweet

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    Hands on: Firefox 11 improves syncing

    Posted March 17, 2012 - 7:23 am

    Firefox 11 -- the latest version of Mozilla's popular browser, released on March 13 -- includes only modest improvements over Firefox 10.2, and is unlikely to motivate a large number of people to switch from competing browsers. The upgrade (which is available for several platforms, including Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Android) now includes the ability to sync add-ons among multiple systems and to import bookmarks, history lists and other data from Chrome.

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    Review: Firefox 5

    Posted July 16, 2011 - 7:13 am

    With Firefox 5, Mozilla shifts to a faster release schedule, emulating the lightning pace at which Google's Chrome gains version numbers. Version 5 debuts mere months after Firefox 4, and Mozilla promises that future editions will arrive with similar speed.

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    Attack of the mobile browsers

    Posted June 22, 2011 - 6:13 am

    Firefox, Opera, and a horde of mobile upstarts give iPhone, iPad, and Android users plenty of alternatives

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    Browser wars, 2011

    Posted April 25, 2011 - 5:22 pm

    Which browser is best for security, speed, and compliance with web standards? To find out, we ran the new versions of Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari through a battery of benchmark tests. Here's how they stack up.

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    Hands on with Firefox 4

    Posted March 22, 2011 - 9:26 pm

    A lot has changed in the browser universe since Firefox 3.0 launched in June 2008. Google Chrome burst onto the scene, and has undergone frequent updates since then. Microsoft released IE 8 and IE 9. Safari advanced from version 3 then to version 5 now.

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    Review: 'HTTPS Everywhere' fends off Firesheep

    Posted November 29, 2010 - 10:42 am

    The Web is an insecure place and getting more insecure all the time. The latest threat, the Firesheep add-in for Firefox, is particularly dangerous because it is exceedingly simple to use. Someone with absolutely no hacking experience can grab your private login information to sites such as Facebook and Amazon, and then log in as you and do anything they want, as if they were you. The free Firefox add-in HTTPS Everywhere helps protect against that threat and other privacy invaders by effectively encrypting information when you visit certain Web sites.

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    The best Web browser: Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, or Safari?

    Posted August 11, 2010 - 4:06 pm

    Find out which of the leading browsers is the perfect balance of features, speed, innovation, and flexibility for you

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    First look: Firefox 4 Beta 1 shines on HTML5

    Posted July 13, 2010 - 2:04 pm

    Sure, Firefox 4's new Chrome-like UI is nice, but the real story is under the hood

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    Browser wars redux: Top 5 duke it out

    Posted October 18, 2009 - 9:05 pm

    The good news for users is that every one of the five most popular web browsers is exceedingly feature-rich, increasingly fast and easier than ever to use. The bad news is that it's become very hard to decide which to use. Here's how they stack up.

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    NotAwesome Firefox Add-On Hides History

    Posted October 4, 2009 - 8:57 pm

    NotAwesome is a simple, free Firefox add-on that allows you to selectively hide bookmarks from the incriminating gaze of the AwesomeBar.

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    Make Firefox Chores Go Faster With iMacros

    Posted September 14, 2009 - 12:45 pm

    If you find yourself doing the same tasks over and over again in Firefox, maybe it's time you automated some of those things. Free add-on iMacros for Firefox records your keystrokes and actions and saves them as macros. Then you can then perform recorded tasks with the click of a button.

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    Bookmarks Archiver

    Posted September 10, 2009 - 9:13 am

    It's likely that you have dozens--perhaps hundreds--of Firefox bookmarks in your Bookmarks menu, making it difficult to find useful sites among ones that you don't need anymore. Bookmarks Archiver, a tiny and free add-on for Firefox, attempts to solve this problem by allowing you to archive or delete bookmarks that you haven't visited in 90 days or more.

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    Mozilla's Prism: a First Look at a New Firefox Add-on

    Posted May 13, 2009 - 10:14 am

    Mozilla Labs has unveiled the beta of a new application called Prism 1.0 that takes the Internet off your browser and plants it onto your desktop. Prism is both a useful Firefox extension and a desktop app -- the latter for those who needlessly cling to Internet Explorer.

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    TACO Firefox Addon Fights Ads With Cookies

    Posted April 3, 2009 - 12:31 pm

    Nobody likes the idea of advertising networks tracking their travels across the Web and potentially building a profile of their likes and dislikes. This free Firefox addon keeps many of these networks at bay.

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    Chrome Is Fastest in Site-Loading Tests

    Posted March 31, 2009 - 5:28 pm

    PC World undertook detailed real-world tests to determine how quickly each of four browsers--Chrome 2 Beta, Safari 4, Internet Explorer 8, and Firefox 3.0.7--loaded a series of popular Web sites. The results: Google Chrome 2 Beta beat the field.

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    How secure is Firefox?

    Posted January 28, 2009 - 11:21 am

    Firefox has always pushed the boundary in terms of features and functionality, and it can boast both growing enterprise support and the ability to run on Windows, Mac, and Linux. One claim Firefox can't make is a high granularity of security control.

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    My New Web Browser...Thank You, Google!

    Posted September 5, 2008 - 12:26 pm

    One tiny but important aspect of my day job is to review new and/or popular versions of web browsers to make sure my company's web-based applications function properly. So I downloaded the beta of Chrome today. After approximately 15 minutes of use, I made Chrome my default browser. It really is that good.

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    Google Chrome vs. Internet Explorer 8

    Posted September 3, 2008 - 2:34 pm

    They're back! Just when you thought the "browser wars" were over, with the two camps -- Microsoft and Mozilla.org -- settling in for a kind of intransigent détente, along comes Google to stir things up all over again. Clearly Google is unhappy with the current state of browser geopolitics and feels it needs to roll its own in order to ensure a robust base for its myriad hosted applications (e.g. Gmail, Google Docs, etc.)
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