Firefox Browser

The Firefox browser is an excellent browser among the availables today. I found an interesting article that compares the Firefox browser and the IE browser (Internet Explorer).

So of the interesting features are;
- Tabbed browsing
- Popup blocking
- Prevent scripts from doing various things
- More control over text zooming
- Block images from third party sites
- Cross-platform
- Open Source
- Huge range of extensions and ease of installing extensions

Read all the 101 things that the Mozilla browser can do that IE cannot.

I installed some more extensions for Firefox today which are listed below.

- CustomizedGoogle
Adds a selected set of search sites like yahoo, ask jeeva,.. to your google search result page. Also provide an easy customization.
- Tab X
This is an extension I was looking for. This adds a close button to each browser tab which is not availble in default Firefox.
- Gmail Notifier
Browser notifies for new mails. Still only the new mail arrival is shown, but showing the mail headings would improve the extensions popularity.
- Resize Search Box
Another feature that I was expecting from the default Firefox installation, how ever now I can resize the search box at the top right corner.
- Show IP
This shows the IP of the site.
- Flash Block
Allows the user to decide whether to play or stop the flash contents in the site.

What is your idea on these extensions?

Microsoft sued Google

As the search engine competition is in a top level with google, yahoo and microsoft competing, I heard a news today as follows.

Microsoft sued Google yesterday (07.19.2005), for hiring one of their top employer to head a new research lab in China. As Microsoft argued that taking such a position in a direct competitor is illegal. And also Microsoft point the finger towards Google for encouraging him to do so.

As news expalined, Dr. Lee is a well known character in the industry and he has worked for Silicon Graphics and Apple.

When google is growing so fast while offering new wide range of services, losing Dr. Lee will be a huge issue for Microsoft to retain in the competition.

So we'll look forward to see the continuation.

One interesting point I noticed was the demand that Bill Gates have given to the qualified professional in this industry, as he says that the major problem is talented computer science graduates.

Read More...
www.forbes.com
www.pcpro.co.uk

TechNewsWorld

Today I found a good web site which consists of news on new Techs. That is www.technewsworld.com. Seems it provides news in all most all the techincal fields. I was mainly focused on the Open Source portion.

Some of the interesting news I found today are;

Firefox Patch
Patch releasing has two practices. One is to release patches at the end of each month and the other is to realese as soon as it is ready.
I feel that patch releasing as soons as possible is the best way since recovery of an attack will be much harder than applying a patch even in a large scale organization.

One-in-Ten-Web-Users-Have-a-Taste-for-Spam
As the news explains 39 percent of the people still reading the messages and clicking on links embedded in the emails. As they says, this is a known method for spammers to detect if an email address is being used, and as a result 57 of the latter group reported that they started receiving more spam.

Sun-Open-Sources-Its-Authentication-Technology
Sun Microsystems moves towards Open source. But I wish the complete java platform not to become Open-Source.

Google News

"Google News" provides a well organized and a customizable view for NEWS.

You can customize the viewed news by providing key words. And also the news can be prioritize according to your requirements. So news searching and organizing is done by Google, we just have to watch it.



http://news.google.com/


I have created a customized News View for me. You can check my configurations and even you can use that as your customized view.

My Customized News View