Fanhow » firefox http://blog.fanhow.com Social Media and Recipes for Software Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:33:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Firefox 4 Will Support HTML5 http://blog.fanhow.com/2010/05/firefox-4-will-support-html5/ http://blog.fanhow.com/2010/05/firefox-4-will-support-html5/#comments Thu, 13 May 2010 07:05:32 +0000 clzs http://blog.recipester.org/?p=1742 Recently Mozilla’s Director of firefox, Mike Beltzner, outlines the primary goals for Firefox 4 and clears some of the confusion that surrounds the current version of this web browser in his blog:

  • Fast: making Firefox super-duper fast
  • Powerful: enabling new open, standard Web technologies (HTML5 and beyond!),
  • Empowering: putting users in full control of their browser, data, and Web experience

Undoubtedly, supporting html5 is a great news for Firefox users. As YouTube and Vimeo pushing out HTML video, flash is dying while a new browser war flares up: to get support HTML5 Video.

It seems that Firefox has been inferior in this competition, because at present, YouTube and Vimeo html 5 videos only allow Chrome, Safari and Internet-Explorer-using-Chrome-Frame browsers to play a few HTML5 videos. Other browsers will simply not show the HTML5 link, so Firefox 4 will be Mozilla’s ace in the updated browser war.

Well, there comes another codec war: H.264 vs. Ogg. H.264 codec has gained dominance in the html 5 codec war due to its excellent compression and broad support in the consumer electronics ecosystem. It is used by Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 9. But Firefox, an open source stuff, is likely to support Ogg Theora codec which is believed to be unencumbered by patents.

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The extension places an icon with a counter in the Firefox status bar upon installation. The counter will be updated as long as the user is logged into the Hotmail account.

Click the icon, and you will log into the hotmail. Right click the icon to configure the timeframe (the default is 20 minutes). The alert sound will remind you when the email updates. You can also disable the automatic checks and check only on the your request.
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]]> http://blog.fanhow.com/2010/03/get-hotmail-notification-in-firefox/feed/ 22 A Good Theme For Firefox Mac Version, Make Firefox Looks Like Safari. http://blog.fanhow.com/2009/11/a-good-theme-for-firefox-mac-version-make-firefox-looks-like-safari/ http://blog.fanhow.com/2009/11/a-good-theme-for-firefox-mac-version-make-firefox-looks-like-safari/#comments Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:49:41 +0000 Apple http://blog.recipester.org/?p=699 Firefox may be the 2nd web browser on Mac. But even the Mac Version Firefox looks like a windows software, for example: the “close tab” button is on the right, but all the other softwares’ “cross” button are on the left! I am sure many Mac users like me have the unlucky time clicking the left of a tab in habit with nothing closed. Now let me introduce you a firefox theme called “GrApple Delicious”, which can make your firefox “tasts” like Safari and—-most important—-place the cross button on the left of every tab.

GrApple Delicious

GrApple Delicious Theme

See the firefox with GrApple Delicious theme? It looks like Safari and gives firefox an “apple tast”.

You can download the GrApple Delicious theme from https://addons.mozilla.org/zh-CN/firefox/addon/6703

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