It's official. Mozilla has finally released the final version of Firefox 3.5. Head on over to Firefox.com to download the 8 MB file. Some of the new features include: Speed! The browser will have a new JavaScript engine for faster Web applications such as Google Docs, and was built from the ground up to make browsing faster. According to Mozilla, "Firefox 3.5 is more than twice as fast as Firefox 3, and ten times as fast as Firefox 2". Private browsing mode. IE and Safari have had this feature for several months now, so it's good to hear Mozilla finally jumped on the bandwagon. While most people will joke that this is only for raging porn-addicts, this feature is actually quite useful for people surfing on public computers or who need to hide certain things from prying eyes like medical conditions. The ability to watch video built into Web pages without plug-ins. Good for the noobs out there who don't know how to get said plug-ins. Fancy downloadable fonts! This should make browsing more enjoyable and customizable. It will also fix Firefox's famous printing problems. Geolocation technology that can let Web sites know where you are. For a list of all the new features, click here. To see ...

Recently both Firefox and my Safari browsers were feeling a little sluggish and running a little slow, needless to say it was frustrating me, so I found a little trick to clean them up and speed them up a little.  First I must say, I have left Internet Explorer off this list on purpose not only because I run a mac but it is a terrible browser; if you are still using it you need to stop today and get Firefox or Safari, they are available for PC and Mac. If you are in Firefox go to the menu bar at top and select Tools then go down and select clear private data. Check the boxes for cache and cookies, you may also select the history box if you want that cleared then select clear private data now. For Safari click on safari in the top menu, then click empty cache, after the alert pops up select empty.  Now click on safari again, and select preferences, select bookmarks (security if you are running Safari 4) select show cookies, then you can either click on remove all or select individual ones you would like removed, I would just choose to remove all. How does this speed up ...