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Firefox 3.6 is out!

January 22nd, 2010 by stuffaboutlife | Comments Off | Filed in Technology

Mozilla’s Firefox 3.6 was released on Thursday, bringing many improvements to the already excellent browser.
Firefox 3.6 offers a 20 percent speed improvement over Firefox 3.5,
* HTML5 support.
* Faster launch times,
* Improved JavaScript performance,
* Web Open Font Format support,
* The ability to auto-update plugins,
* Improved support for “Personas” (themes)
* …and more!

Firefox 3.6 is free and available for download at Mozilla’s Firefox Web site.

I downloaded it last night and have been happy so far. No stability problems. The plugin updater is nice, but all it really does is send you to the plugin vendor’s site where you have to download and install the plugin yourself. There’s not really much of an “auto-update” feature, but it’s still nice to have. It also failed to detect the version of a popular Quicktime plugin for Macs called Flip4Mac. But aside from that, it seems like a worthy update.

And again, it’s free!

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Firefox 3.5 to be released Tuesday (June 30th, 2009)

June 29th, 2009 by stuffaboutlife | Comments Off | Filed in Technology

PC Magazine is reporting that Firefox 3.5 is slated to be released this coming Tuesday, June 30th.

“Firefox 3.5 will include a private browsing mode that hides browser activity, a sped-up JavaScript engine known as TraceMonkey, new location services, and support for several emerging HTML 5 features.

HTML 5 support will allow the browser to natively play video encoded in the open source Ogg Theora format and Ogg Vorbis audio, which provides for manipulation and editing of video without the use of an external program.”

Just like the other Mozilla products, Firefox will be a free download. I recommend using Firefox or Safari on a Windows PC because of its better track record when it comes to security.

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Get free food by reading the receipt!

June 28th, 2009 by stuffaboutlife | Comments Off | Filed in Food

Many fast food joints will give you free stuff just for taking the survey seen on the receipt. Arby’s was giving away a free beef & cheddar, Taco Bueno gives out free beef tacos or bean burritos, and Taco Bell gives away a free taco.

The surveys are all anonymous, and you get free food out of it. Might as well!

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