TechRaga

As we have Flock goes Chromium, Flock has released a new stable version of the social friendly browser powered by Chromium. Google Chrome is also based on Chromium, and hence Flock is now blessed with the Chromium goodness. The newer stable version can be installed from flock.com.

A good news for Firefox + Apple fanboys: the Firefox Home has been approved fro the App Store now, and the users of iPhone or iPod Touch can install it on their devices.

This add-on, Mozilla Sniffer, sends all submitted password field form data to a remote location. Hence, it tries to steal passwords of users who have installed this malicious add-on.

Flock, the browser based on Mozilla Firefox and optimized for social networking addicts, is switching to Chromium. The Flock has released a new beta version today developed on the Chromium platform.

I have just noticed an interesting thing, which will certainly excite all Mozilla and Firefox fans. @Firefox is using a new URL shortening service: mzl.la!

Mozilla today claimed that Firefox has seen a 40% improvement in stability over the past five months. Mozilla has updated its crash report, which reveals that the Firefox v3.6 is more stable than previous releases.

Shareaholic sends sensitive browsing data to the third part sites like Compete.com, and most of the users are unaware of this! Shareaholic is not even mentioning this malicious behavior on their homepage or as a privacy policy on Mozilla AMO.

Mozilla has released “State of the Internet” : the Quarterly Analyst Report for the first time. This report, for Q1 2010, analyzes various online trends and Firefox stats worldwide.

Mozilla has banned FatPlug, and hence any add-on using FatPlug will not be allowed on AMO. FatPlug is a monetization solution for Firefox add-ons.

Ever seen Mozilla Firefox logo crop circle? Firefox lovers at Oregon State University has created a Firefox logo crop circle.

Mozilla has released an experimental add-on for Firefox and other Mozilla based browsers: Contacts. This add-on brings your contacts to the browser and saves them natively there.

Whenever you install an add-on, you need to restart the Firefox to complete the changes. Now, Mozilla developers are working on this problem, and the add-ons developed on Jetpack platform will not require restarting in future.

Mozilla is working on “Online Identity Management Concept”, which will try to develop a protocol definition that sites can use to define and maintain their account-and-session management features, and a browser implementation of this protocol.

Mozilla has launched a new campaign “Rock Your Firefox” to promote best Firefox add-ons. “Rock Your Firefox” will feature reviews of most useful Firefox add-ons.

Jolicloud, the Linux based operating system optimized for netbooks, has announced to adopt Google Chrome technology to power the rendering of web apps.

Much awaited feature multi-process for plug-ins is now live in developer preview release of Mozilla Firefox. This will make Mozilla browsers safe from annoying plug-in crash, which results into browser crash.

Visual Tab Switcher is a new feature in Firefox 3.6, which shows previews of all tabs in the current browser window when users press CTRL + TAB keys to switch between tabs.