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shared by Mojo joanne on 29 Aug 11 - No Cached

Firefox 6 already sees bump in traffic soon after debut
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Firefox 6 just launched last week, and new research already sees the latest version of Mozilla’s browser accounting for a significant fraction of traffic.
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After Chitika took a look at all U.S. and Canadian traffic between August 16 and 22, the survey found that Firefox 6 has already garnered at least eight percent of the total traffic from browsers and approximately 45 percent of all Firefox-stemming traffic.
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However, don’t get too excited for Firefox 6 just yet. Chitika found that the growth rate for Firefox 6 is starting to taper off, likely due to the fact that all of the early adopters have already downloaded and started using Firefox 6.
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Chitika also found that Firefox 6 usage peaks during the morning and at the end of the day, but very early morning hours tend to belong to Internet Explorer. Yet, this phenomenon is only relevant to Firefox 6 and not previous editions of the software. It’s not clear what Mozilla could try to do to make up for this gap — except maybe start some kind of advertising campaign targeted at night owls and graveyard shift employees.
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shared by Na Young Kim on 29 Aug 11 - No Cached

Firefox 6 already sees bump in traffic
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Firefox 6 just launched last week
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new research already shows the latest version of Mozilla's browser accounting for a significant fraction of traffic.
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Firefox 6 officially debuted earlier this month
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the survey found that Firefox 6 has already garnered at least 8 per cent of the total traffic from browsers,
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45 per cent of all Firefox-stemming traffic.
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don't get too excited for Firefox 6 just yet;
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Chitika found that the growth rate for Firefox 6 is starting to taper off,
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This means that Mozilla has some work to do, in order to get other Firefox users and beyond to jump on this version now.
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shared by Na Young Kim on 31 Aug 11 - No Cached

For many years, it was the best Web browser around.
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Mozilla got serious about improving it
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The other Web browser developers have caught up and surpassed Firefox.
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last few versions of Firefox haven’t been that good
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I’ve found one Web site, my bank as it happens, that works fine with Firefox, but it doesn’t recognize Firefox 6 as being a valid Web browser.
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This version of Firefox also does much better than previous versions at managing memory
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I know that Firefox 7 will have better memory management. I also know that Firefox 7 is due out on September 27th
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Firefox 6, the newest version, is better than Firefox 5, but it’s not that great either.
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Just because Mozilla developers are paid to keep up with constant change doesn’t mean that individual developers or small independent software vendors (ISV)s can keep up.
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I ran not only Firefox, but Chrome 13 and Internet Explorer (IE) 9 to see how Firefox 6 compared to its chief rivals
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Firefox, once more, didn’t do well on Web standards.
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Firefox really fell behind with 4,588 points. On this benchmark, IE surged ahead with a score of 8,343 to Chrome 13’s 8,010.
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The other browsers are better
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I wish I coud still recommend Firefox, but I can’t.
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shared by Giang V on 15 Aug 11 - No Cached

Dell updates Vostro laptop for better battery life
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Dell has launched the V131, a new ultraportable laptop in its small-business Vostro line that the company says improves on the poor battery life of its
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predecessor
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the Vostro V130.
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ets customers replace batteries themselves and also offers lengthier battery life.
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unveiled
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V131 could manage almost 10 hours on a single charge.
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Other features include an HD webcam with dual-array microphones, SRS Premium Voice Pro audio software, a fingerprint reader and a fall sensor for the hard drive. Although US customers can only choose configurations with hard drives, SSD options are available in some countries, including the UK.
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on sale at a starting price of £359 excluding VAT and shipping
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price can go much higher depending on the configuration
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shared by Mojo joanne on 29 Aug 11 - No Cached

Firefox users who have went along with the update process from Firefox 4 to now Firefox 6 stable were in for a big disappointment as the new versions were not really offering any new features or visible speed improvements
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Firefox Beta, Aurora and Nightly users have already had the chance to experience some of those new features and improvements.
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Reset Firefox (Release Target: Firefox 9)Many Firefox users reinstall the web browser when they experience issues like crashes that they cannot fix.
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The Reset Firefox feature would automatically create a new Firefox user profile and migrate the user’s data, including bookmarks, history and passwords.
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Mozilla tackled half the problem in Firefox 8 by blocking automatic third party add-on installations in the web browser. Users now have the option to accept or deny installation of the add-on. The feature is integrated in Firefox 8.
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