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Firefox Download Day – Firefox 3 Due on 17 June

The Mozilla Firefox 3 release date has been announced for tuesday June 17.

It has been over 34 months in development with contributions from thousands of users and developers.

Firefox Download Day

Firefox is also hoping to set the record for the most software downloads in a 24 hour period – this is known as Firefox Download Day. So if you want to help make history, then you can get involved now. All you have to do is download Firefox 3, which is going to be pretty cool anyway.

Click here to visit Firefox 3 Download Day

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Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1

Mozilla Corporation on Friday released Firefox 3 RC1, more or less the final form of this iteration of the popular open-source Web browser.

RC stands for Release Candidate and represents a stage in which the browser’s features are complete and the code is stable enough for public testing. Barring any serious bugs, RC1 will become the official release version of Firefox 3, which is planned for June.

The release candidate stage is the stage right between beta and final release, and it’s the last chance for developers to test their code against the browser before it’s push out into the world full-force.

It’s also the stage at which add-on developers can update their browser extensions without worrying about further code changes.

The release of Firefox 3.1 will also mark the likely end of life for support of the current Firefox 2.x browsers. The plan (as it has been since the release of Firefox 1.5) is to have security/stability updates once every two months or so, until the next ‘feature’ release — which is Firefox 3.1

Firefox 3 comes with more than 15,000 improvements, according Mozilla, but you have to be counting tiny changes very carefully to get to that number. More likely, you’ll notice maybe two dozen new and improved features.

Click here to download Firefox 3 RC1

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Speed Up Internet Explorer 7 (IE7)

If you have been using Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) you may or may not have experienced slow performance, this will really depend on your current hardware setup and on the other software you have installed/running. However, by implementing these quick speed tweaks, you should notice performance gains on any setup.

IE7 Tweaks

1) Disable the anti-phising filter.
Click on Tools -> Phishing Filter. Click Turn off automatic Phishing Filter

You should definitely notice an increase in performance after disabling the ie7 anti-phising filter. This has always been quite slow and has even been patched by Microsoft, but their patches don’t always work.

The phishing filter is to protect users from fake sites that pose as a real website, eg: fake websites setup to look like PayPal, for the purpose of capturing user login details. Generally people are only lured to phishing sites from email links, but if you are worried about this, then you can leave the phishing filter on.

2) Turn off clear type
Click on Tools – > Internet Options. Under the Advanced tab, uncheck the box Always use ClearType for HTML*

Thats it. Those very basic tweaks should add some extra performance to IE7. We will explore some of the other tweaks later on.

You can also fix Internet Explorer and improve PC speed with this free download and scan.

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Opera? Fast?

This is the question that many a net user will argue over and I’m not going to get in a argument over which browser I think is better or safer (I use Firefox).

But I have to say that I used Opera for the first time yesterday and I felt like a newbie to the net, I was not impressed at all. Firstly the speed, they claim they have one of the fastest browsers around but I felt like I was using dial-up from 98. It seems to take an eternity for any screen to load and don’t get me started on secure pages!!!

And I tried to write a post or two in this blog in Opera and it did some things that I have never seen before. The lines of text never went to a new line, so I thought that must be normal in Opera but when I posted it the text had disapeared! I eventually went into notepad and cut and pasted the text back into my blog and it worked fine.

As I said I’m not here to say one browser is better than others, but unless someone can explain the bizarre things I saw on Opera I will never use it again.

If you really want to download the Opera browser, then click here

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