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Firefox 6 'Released' Two Days Early

official release for Firefox 6 is scheduled for this Tuesday

A lot of the changes coming in Firefox 6

A new permissions tool (accessed by typing "about:permissions" in the browser's address bar) will give users a chance to set site-specific permission levels for saved passwords, cookies, location-sharing, pop-ups, and images, to name a few options.

Steve Jobs announced to the world last week that “unfortunately, that day has come” for him to step down as chief executive officer of Apple,

impeccable.

14 years since Jobs regained control of his company in the summer of 1997 after a long, bitter exile

Apple shares have increased a stunning 110-fold

surpassed rival Microsoft a year ago, Apple’s $350 billion in market capitalization places it behind only ExxonMobil

most valuable company in the world.

Apple has made money so quickly and so prodigiously that it holds an outrageous $76 billion in cash and investments

graduate students at the University of Wisconsin, Madison: Abdulfattah Jandali, a Syrian immigrant

In his second time around at Apple, Jobs ultimately achieved what had eluded him in his early years there, from 1976 to 1985

visionary and a brilliant promoter but wasn’t respected as a businessman

Now Jobs, 56, retires,

awesome sum thought to be parked in an obscure subsidiary,

Jobs didn’t just create products that instilled lust in consumers and enriched his company.

Personal computing. The music business. Publishing. Hollywood. All have been radically transformed because of Steve Jobs.

It’s impossible to begin to understand the sources of Jobs’s success without looking to his unusual life story.

like the fictional Harry Potter, he was a misfit, raised by adoptive parents

Bill Gates as the most highly regarded business figure of our times

doctorate in political science

He was adopted at birth by Paul and Clara Jobs of San Francisco.

his constant risk taking, his rare deal-making ability

icrosoft’s Bill Gates and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg.

“dropout”

drop-in”:

leftist artsy intellectualism, even though he knew his parents couldn’t—and wouldn’t—pick up the tab.

That’s how strongly he wanted to be at an elite school and obtain its validation that he was indeed a wizard rather than a muggle. And that’s how good he was at persuasion and dealmaking—and how open to real risk.

fruitarian” diet that left him constantly hungry.

And a recent delay in renovations to the house has given the wall itself a new lease on life.

stairwells

2004 after a $20m security upgrade. The observation deck at the top of the crown was reopened on 4 July 2009.

240 people visit each day. About 3.5 million people visit the monument every year.

history

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ppression systems, elevators and bathrooms.

s much less memory

attach some significance to the new release

It's just "the latest."

Mozilla wants to take this a step further

The argument is made that you don't know what version of, say, Twitter or Facebook you're using, so why should your Web browser be any different?

If you're going to force the user to know about every update, it seems a little unfair to refuse to even tell her what version she's using.

he regards the entire discussion as crazy.

from £250 to £199

launch a new cheaper version of its PSP handheld console, with a price point of 99 euros.

launched in 2006 and has now shipped over 50 million

cheaper slimline machine in 2009.

supermarkets likely to go as low as £180

The new, cheaper PSP, which removes the Wi-Fi functionality from the six-year-old handheld, surprised many in the audience.

"Our strategy is to provide the best quality entertainment experience at accessible prices. With PSP at 99 euros, Vita starting at 249 euros and PlayStation 3 at 249 euros, we feel confident gamers can enjoy the incredible games available on PlayStation whatever level of investment suits their budget."

smartphones

tablet gaming.

while the new PSP price point makes that console very attractive,

"That's a big change from PS3's previous price drop."

Sony has assured gamers that PS3 will have a ten-year lifespan, and it's likely PlayStation 4 is a few years away yet.

Pushing out patches to fix security holes or resolve bugs does not qualify as a new version of the browser

Firefox 4.1, and Firefox 6 is really just Firefox 4.2

Firefox launching a "new version" every six weeks is a nightmare.

but it still has 50 percent more market share than Firefox and Chrome combined

latest flagship browser from Microsoft--Internet Explorer 9-

It breaks add-ons--again

5 was launched, many users complained that it broke add-ons

It is filled with serious security vulnerabilities

no longer supported by Mozilla

Firefox isn't riddled with security holes

Bing Webmaster Tools now provides users with traffic data from both Bing and Yahoo

The changes

rolled out between August 12th and 16th

you can’t currently filter for Yahoo versus Bing results

you will see is a combination of the two,

Bing is powering Yahoo’s search results. It’s expected that every regional version of Yahoo will have made the transition by early 2012,

notable exception of Yahoo Japan; Yahoo Japan functions as an independent company and will have its back-end powered by Google.

since Yahoo announced earlier this year that they would be shutting down their own webmaster tools once every market has transitioned to Bing.

migrant workers – who build the capital's offices and mansions, clean its streets and guard its security – have been shut down,

Tens of thousands of migrant children are left without schools

rural origin – a third of the city's 19 million population

day-to-day inju

stices

hukou (household registration), set up in 1958

control rural-to-urban migration

Peasants' role was to produce and feed the cities and support the modernisation process of their motherland.

as shown on their ID – no matter what they might choose to do. "Wo shi nongmin [I am a peasant],"

Deng Xiao Ping's gaige kaifang (economic reforms and opening up), in the late 1970s.

Agricultural production increased in the early stage of the reforms in "releasing the productive forces",

half of the 400 million rural working population have been pushed off the land, seeking a livelihood away from their villages.

As rural residents came to the cities, they immediately faced discrimination and exclusion.

They spoke their own dialects instead of "proper" Mandarin. Many faced verbal abuse as soon as they arrived.

the strict requirement for the unaffordable temporary residency permit, and the random street search by police.

The criteria for applying for a hukou remain harsh, and unreachable for most migrants, and many work for years without any status.

Without hukou,

healthcare, education and housing.

urban dwellers pay a minimal cost for medical care, many migrants have to return home for treatment.

"These children aren't treated as everyone else. They're called the mobile students, who can't go to state schools. Their parents have for years sent their children to privately run schools without proper facilities or curriculum."

hundreds such private schools were set up.

government-funded National Development and Reform Commission

admits it is an "institutional barrier"

government has shown no wish to listen to migrant workers' demands.

voice their discontent is by petitioning the local authorities

Little happens as a result.

Some suspect that migrant children's schools are being closed as a disincentive to future migration.

protests, road blockages, sit-ins and spontaneous strikes.

Hsiao-Hung Pai, Beijing

Migrants who toil in the cities still face a decades-old system of segregation and exploitation. But many are now demanding fairness

Beijing "a city of violence"

Beijing's migrant worker slums

are ruthlessly segregated from the urban dwellers, economically, socially and culturally

last few versions of Firefox haven’t been that good

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.

This version of Firefox also does much better than previous versions at managing memory

I know that Firefox 7 will have better memory management. I also know that Firefox 7 is due out on September 27th

Firefox 6, the newest version, is better than Firefox 5, but it’s not that great either.

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.

I ran not only Firefox, but Chrome 13 and Internet Explorer (IE) 9 to see how Firefox 6 compared to its chief rivals

Firefox, once more, didn’t do well on Web standards.

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.

The other browsers are better

I wish I coud still recommend Firefox, but I can’t.

such as until 50 years after the author's death

period has now been extended to 70 years in most cases

period of copyright

work is in the public domain

means that no one owns the copyright

ended

everyone is free to copy

use and change th

em without

ask for permission

pay the owner.