- New Add-Ons Manager: gives you more space to manage your Add-Ons, Themes and Plugins. Customizing your browser has never been easier!
- HD Video: Watch hardware-accelerated, super-smooth, HD-quality HTML5 video on YouTube using the new WebM format.
- Privacy improvements: Mozilla always puts privacy first, and this latest beta fixes flaws in some Web standards that could expose your browser history.
- Crash Protection: Experience uninterrupted browsing (now available on all platforms) – when a plugin crashes or freezes, you can resume browsing by simply refreshing the page.
- Performance: In this version, the FFOX engineers have focused on improving responsiveness at start-up and during page loads.
Mozilla has officially released the first of what will be many betas for Firefox 4. Users running the current stable build (3.6.6) are in for a surprise. Here are some of Firefox 4's highlights:
Jul 8, 2010
Mozilla Firefox 4.0 Beta 1 has been released to public. Since its a beta build, Mozilla asks all users to provide their feedback so that it can improve the upcoming web browser version. That's why Mozilla has added a new "Feedback" button in the Toolbar to easily and quickly send your valuable feedback to Mozilla:
Although it doesn't take much space and doesn't harm in any way, if you don't like the button and want to remove it, you can follow these simple steps.
1. Select "Tools -> Add-ons" option from Menu Bar. If you can't see Menu Bar, you can press "ALT" key to show it.
2. Now select "Feedback" add-on and click on "Disable" button.
3. Restart your browser and it'll remove the "Feedback" button from Toolbar.
1. Select "Tools -> Add-ons" option from Menu Bar. If you can't see Menu Bar, you can press "ALT" key to show it.
2. Now select "Feedback" add-on and click on "Disable" button.
Mozilla Firefox 4.0 comes with Tabs on Top by default which might become quite difficult and annoying for some Firefox users who were used to bottom tabs. In this tutorial, i'll tell you how to put Tabs back on bottom as you used to get in older versions.
1. Open Mozilla Firefox, right-click on Toolbar and deselect "Tabs on Top" option.
2. That's it. As soon as you uncheck the option, it'll put the Tab bar on bottom.
It also enables Aero glass in Toolbar which looks good.
1. Open Mozilla Firefox, right-click on Toolbar and deselect "Tabs on Top" option.
Mozilla Firefox 4.0 comes with a new "Firefox" button in Titlebar which has replaced the good old Menu Bar. Although it looks good but some may find it difficult to use and annoying as it doesn't provide all menubar shortcuts and also hides the Titlebar text. So you can't see website titles in this way.
Here i'll tell you how to get the good old Menu Bar back in Firefox 4.0 which will also disable the new "Firefox" button:
1. Open Mozilla Firefox, right-click on Toolbar and enable "Menu Bar" option.
2. That's it. As soon as you enable the option, it'll put the Menu Bar back in the window and will also disable the new "Firefox" button.
Here i'll tell you how to get the good old Menu Bar back in Firefox 4.0 which will also disable the new "Firefox" button:
1. Open Mozilla Firefox, right-click on Toolbar and enable "Menu Bar" option.
Windows 7 allows users to easily change Login screen background:
You just need to follow a few simple steps. But there is a new tool available to do the whole task automatically.
Open the tool and all you need to do is to double-click on the preview box, select the desired image, right- click on it and select "Set as Logon" option to apply it.
Its a very small and easy to use tool which can be downloaded here.
You just need to follow a few simple steps. But there is a new tool available to do the whole task automatically.
Open the tool and all you need to do is to double-click on the preview box, select the desired image, right- click on it and select "Set as Logon" option to apply it.
Jun 25, 2010
Windows Live Essentials is a free collection of web-enabled programs for blogging (Writer), photo editing and management (Photo Gallery), video editing (Movie Maker), instant messaging (Messenger), email client (Mail), parental controls (Family Safety), and a new component for file synchronization and remote access (Sync). In this new version, originally known as Windows Live Essentials Wave 4, Windows Live Essentials loses Windows XP compatibility, but gains new features and better usability.
A few of the new features include:
- Office 2007/2010-style ribbon bar for easier access to menu items in all components except Family Safety
- Enhanced special effects and editing tools in Movie Maker and Photo Gallery
- Better and easier connections to Microsoft and third-party sites like Facebook and YouTube
- Easier access to information with Mail, Calendar, and Messenger on PC's and Mobile devices
The final version of Windows Live Essentials 2011 won't be available until August.
Download here
