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Mozilla Releases Firefox 8 Today

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I don’t want to repeat what others have already wrote about the release of Firefox 8 today!  I just want to emphasize that Firefox 8 is safer for users, but will be a pain for some application developers.  I’m not sure if that even sounds about right, because some web developers might not care.  Nonetheless, it’s good to know that users don’t have to worry how certain third party software they install onto their computers might automatically install toolbars and extra Firefox extensions without the knowledge of the users, because Firefox 8 will notify the users if they want to allow third party software’s extensions or toolbars to be added to their Firefox browser or not.

Mac OS X Lion’s users might be disappointed with Firefox 8 in one aspect.  It is that Firefox 8 isn’t yet added an easy button to allow full screen mode.  Unlike Firefox 8, Google’s Chrome 15 has visibly displayed two slant arrow heads button (i.e., one arrow head slants up and the other slants down) at the uppermost right corner so when users hit on it, Google’s Chrome will go into full screen mode instantly.  Of course, users can go into full screen mode with Firefox 8 on Mac OS X Lion by go to View > Enter Full Screen or using shortcut keys, but somehow it seems these methods are somewhat cumbersome.  In case non-mac users have no idea, full screen mode isn’t a big deal to Windows at the moment, but this feature is a big deal for Mac OS X Lion.

Google Patches 11 Security Flaws By Releasing Chrome 13.0.782.215

In case you have missed the news, Google has released newer version of its Chrome browser to 13.0.782.215 which addresses 11 security vulnerabilities.  Some Mac users might not be able to upgrade since an unknown bug which prevents users from update Chrome and complains that users don’t have sufficient permission to do so.  Don’t sweat, just drag the old Chrome app/folder in application folder to Trash.  Become root and change the permission of Chrome app/folder inside Trash to the specific user that you want to use to trash the Chrome folder/app.  Use that very user to trash the Chrome folder/app inside Trash.  Now, you can install newer version of Chrome onto your Mac.  Windows users should not have any problem in upgrading to newer Chrome version.  You can check out MSNBC article “Google updates Chrome, fixes 11 flaws” to read on what sort of security flaws that the previous Chrome version had.

Google Updates Stable Version Of Chrome Browser To 13

If you’re using Google Chrome browser, then you need to update/upgrade it to latest stable version which is Chrome 13.  According to PCWorld, Google patched 30 bugs in Chrome browser.  New features of Chrome 13 are Instant Pages and Print Preview for Windows and Linux users (Mac users will have this soon).

To my understanding, somewhat flimsy though, that Instant Pages for Chrome browser will dispatch an algorithm which tries to guess what results would be in fact the results that you most likely to click on, and when you actually click on the results that Instant Pages had it right, then the webpages you are trying to load will load way faster!  In a way, it’s as if Google is trying to read your mind and load the webpages that you want to load sooner or later beforehand.  Well, at least that how it looks like as Google tried to explain in the video below.  For how it actually works, I doubt I know, but I can see that Google might want to learn an individual’s search behaviors such as how each of us would click on what type of things on a search result page.  Nonetheless, like I said, I’m not entirely sure what sort of magic Google has concocted for Instant Pages to work or how Google will improve it to the point of mind reading its users.

Enabling Instant Pages by going to Chrome >> Preferences/Options >> Basics >> Enable Instant for faster searching and browsing.  I think we have been experiencing part of Instant features such as instant results from Google Search for quite sometimes already, but Instant Pages is a newer feature which allows us to load websites way faster, but I’m not 100% sure this is the case!  Anyhow, I guess when enabling Instant feature in Chrome browser, you and I will get faster results from search and loading websites.

Print Preview is something Chrome browser has been missing, because people like us have gotten used to previewing print pages on Microsoft Office and Open Office and so on that we kind of feel somewhat uncomfortable when Google Chrome isn’t allowing us to do something simple as previewing the pages that we want to print!  The wait is now officially over for Windows and Linux users who use Chrome browser, because Print Preview will work for them now when using Chrome.  Unfortunately for Mac users, they have to use beta version of Chrome to enjoy the feature, because this very feature is still in testing phrase for Mac users.

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