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January 12, 2005

PubSub Launches Sidebar for Firefox

PubSub is now offering a sidebar that's compatible with Firefox. (It's also available for Internet Explorer, if you must.) You can get it at http://www.pubsub.com/downloads.php . PubSub is a monitoring...

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December 28, 2004

Opera's Browser Hits Version ? Beta

As longtime readers of ResearchBuzz know I've been hitting the drum for Opera for a long time. And I used it exclusively for years. Nowadays I find my time being...

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November 10, 2004

Firefox 1.0 Released

I was going to announce this yesterday, but the site wouldn't respond. Firefox 1.0 has been released. You can download your copy from http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ . See the release note list...

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November 09, 2004

A9 Toolbar for Firefox

Last week Amazon announced that the toolbar for their A9 Web/Amazon search tool is now available for Firefox. You can download it at http://toolbar.a9.com/....

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November 08, 2004

Portable Firefox

An extremely clever human has come up with a version of Firefox called Portable Firefox. This version you can install on one of those keychain USB drives (aka nerdsticks) and...

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September 16, 2004

Firefox Goes to 1.0

Mozilla's Firefox browser has gone to a 1.0 release and is now available for download at http://www.mozilla.org/ . I've been sticking to the regular Mozilla thus far, but I decided...

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August 28, 2004

An Entire Web Site Devoted to Switching from IE to Firefox

http://firefoxie.net/. Fifteen steps to install and upgrade Firefox so it "feels" like IE. Steps include hiding the search bar, getting a Googlebar with page rank, upgrading the interface, some recommended...

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August 24, 2004

Search A Local Index of Pages With Recall Toolbar

Ah, your hard drive, the next frontier in search technology. For a long time there have been specialized tools to search your browser history; here's one that searches an index...

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August 23, 2004

New Mozilla.org Design

There's a new design of the Mozilla.org Web site being tested. Check it out....

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July 13, 2004

Opera Releases Tools to Make Itself More Like IE

Opera, my browser of choice for years upon years, has announced a series of one-click setups to give Opera an IE look and feel, for users who are migrating to...

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May 11, 2004

Opera Releases Version 7.5 of Browser

Break out the root beer and crank up the zydeco, Opera Software has released version 7.5 of Opera for Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris. You can download it at...

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February 25, 2004

Mozilla 1.7 Alpha Released

The Mozilla 1.7 Alpha was released on February 23rd; you can download it at http://www.mozilla.org/releases/#1.7a . New offerings in this version include lots of improvements to Mozilla's pop-up blocking features...

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January 19, 2004

Mozilla 1.6 Is Now Available

Kudos to the Mozilla people -- Mozilla 1.6 is now on the air and available at http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/ . It looks like most of the new features involve the mail/news portion...

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October 16, 2003

New Browser Roundup -- Mozilla, Opera, Firebird

There are some new browsers out there. Opera this week announced the release of Opera 7.21 for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris. It's available from http://www.opera.com . There's a new...

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September 03, 2003

New Versions of Opera, Mozilla

Opera last week announced their latest beta version: Opera 7.20. You can read the press announcement at http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2003/08/28/. New features here include support for bidirectional languages such as Arabic and...

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December 18, 2002

New Browser Releases From Opera and Mozilla

Three new browser releases to tell you about. Opera has released Opera 6 for Mac OS 8.6-10.2 -- you can get more information about that at http://www.opera.com/mac/changelogs/600/ . Also, Opera...

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September 26, 2002

Mozilla Rolls Out A Couple New Barrels

Internet browser maker Mozilla ( http://www.mozilla.org ) has issued a couple of new releases. First is the alpha of Mozilla 1.2, and update of their main browser product. The Mozilla...

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June 17, 2002

Mozilla Resources

One gallant reader sent me a ton of Mozilla-related links and resources. Check these out if you're into Mozilla and want to soup it up a bit. If you don't...

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June 06, 2002

Mozilla 1.0 Released

Mozilla 1.0 is out, for which O Be Joyful! Frankly I can't see much difference between it and Mozilla 1.0 RC2 (I skipped RC3.) You can download it in several...

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April 19, 2002

Mozilla 1.0, Release Candidate One

Pop the sparkling apple cider and break out the Tofutti Cuties. Mozilla has released Release Candidate One (RC1) of Mozilla 1.0, a Web browser. You can download it at http://www.mozilla.org/releases/...

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January 31, 2002

Opera Launches New Browser and Composer

Opera has released version 5.12 of its Opera Browser at http://www.opera.com/download/ . This new version includes several bug fixes and an "enhanced popup-window killer feature," though all I could find...

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May 15, 2001

Opera Releases Version 5.0 for Linux

Opera has released version 5.0 of their browser software for Linux, they announced today. It's available now at http://www.opera.com/download /linux.html . You may download it for free and use an...

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May 08, 2001

Mozilla 0.9 Now Available

Mozilla 0.9 is now available at http://www.mozilla.org/releases/ . This new version includes a new help viewer and Personal Security Manager with improved performance....

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March 28, 2001

New Browser Versions Available

Ah, the quest for the perfectly-compatible, never-crashing, bookmark-friendly, groovalicious browser continues (though Opera comes pretty darn close.) Microsoft has released a public preview of Internet Explorer 6. (I don't know...

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March 08, 2001

New Browser for Blind Web Users

CNET is reporting ( http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-5044435.html ) about a new browser for blind Web users. The browser, from WeMedia, converts Web pages to text-only format and speaks them to the user....

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January 08, 2001

Little Nemo In OperaLand

I have occasionally talked in these pages about my frustration with IE and Netscape, and my intention to get away from those browsers and migrate to either Opera or Mozilla....

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December 07, 2000

Opera Launches Version 5.0

... for Windows. Opera has launched a new version of their browser in an "ad-supported" mode for users who don't want to pay the $39. (You can still pay for...

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November 14, 2000

Netscape Releases Netscape Version 6 Final

Netscape announced this morning (3:01AM Pacific!) the release of the final version of Netscape 6. While I'd love to download a browser that's more stable than NS 4.76 (though I...

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May 12, 2000

No, It's Not Just IE

After my cookie swipe warning yesterday, I got a couple of e-mails from readers saying, "It's not just IE, ya know. Netscape also has browser holes." I agree 100% and...

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April 05, 2000

Browsers A Go-Go

Right on the heels of The Microsoft Situation comes a ton of browser news. The 2nd beta of Opera 4.0 is online at http://www.opera.com/download.html .. Get the list of known...

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January 28, 2000

Mozilla keeps moving...

Browser Mozilla has gone into release Milestone 13, which is their Alpha release. You can download the release candidate at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/release-notes/...

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November 29, 1999

More Mozilla News

Is there a Mozilla 5.0 beta coming in December? (corrected) [Link corrected as of 11/16/2003: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=1999-11-27-011-04-PS]...

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