Mozilla Firefox 4 Beta 1 released

It’s released! You can now download Mozilla Firefox 4 Beta 1, check it and send your valuable suggestions to shape it to a full-fledged commercial product. This Beta 1 will give you the first impression of the new Firefox with more Beta versions in pipe. According to a media document, you may expect a new Firefox 4 Beta on every six to six weeks for next couple of weeks.
In an appeal to application users and developers, Mozilla has requested to send them after-use feedbacks so that they can implement those observations and suggestions in their final product. Six times you download Firefox 4 Beta 1, automatically you become a part of the Beta program and become eligible to get regular updates from Mozilla.
For Windows PCs, the browser brings an-all new look with greater flexibility to explore your web page. You will notice tabs here are shifted at the top allowing you to have greater control on the tools in your browser. In case of Windows 7 or Windows Vista, you will find only a single Firefox button in lieu of lengthy Menu bar. This is done fundamentally to make the browser compatible with the design of these six Windows platforms. The beta will support WebM format .
The beta offers a series of new useful tools and features such as New Add-Ons Manager to manage Add-Ons, Themes and Plugins; HD Video permitting to enjoy HD-quality HTML5 video on YouTube; Crash Protection allowing to resume browsing basically by refreshing a crashed plugin session; Enhanced privacy; and Improved performance.

You can download the Firefox 4 Beta 1 from here.

Boost Firefox Speed with SpeedyFox

FireFox is one of the best browsers around with support for Extensions as well as themes. But with the passage of time, you notice that it starts to work slowly and takes a lot of time start. This is mainly due to the fragmentation of profile databases. SpeedyFox is a freeware tool which has been designed to address that problem and it can Boost up your FireFox speed up to 3 times with a single click.

The usage of the program is very simple. When you run the program, it will automatically select your default profile or you can select the one that you want to optimize in case you have multiple profiles. Just select the profile and click on the “Speed Up MyFirefox” button. Firefox uses SQLITE databases to store lots of its settings and SpeedyFox compacts the database without losing any data. The optimization process can take anywhere from 5 minutes to an hour depending on how large the database is. Theprogram is safe to use and won’t affect any settings like Bookmarks or Passwords.

The program is small in size and a portable version is also available. It is a freeware

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