Here is an easy step-by-step guide for all those who want to upgrade or install the latest Firefox 3.6.3 on Ubuntu. All you need is to download Firefox setup and place it into your Ubuntu’s home directory. After placing setup into your home directory, just copy-paste the given scripts in your terminal and it will automatically upgrade your Firefox to the latest version within a matter of seconds. Not only Firefox 3.6.3 but you can use the same procedure for upgrading your stock Firefox to the future Firefox releases.

Firefox 3.7 Pre-Alpha (also known as Minefield) is now available for download for Windows, Mac and Linux. It was an awesome UI is inspired by Windows 7 / Vista glass look. Moreover its fast and looks pretty cool to eyes. This trunk build is quite stable as i have experienced no crashes until now. Apart from glass UI, Firefox 3.7 can display its opened tabs in your Windows 7 taskbar as shown in the screenshot below.

Annual Pwn2Own contest gives various hackers and security experts the opportunity to win over $100,000 USD by hacking various browsers and cell phones available in the market. Nearly all famous web-browsers including IE8, Safari and Firefox were hacked in the contest this year. Not only this but the famous iPhone’s SMS database was also hacked within 20 seconds.

With the release of Opera 10.5, the opera team claims to have World’s Fastest Web Browser On Earth. Opera 10.5 introduces new JavaScript engine known as Carakan which makes it 7 times faster than the old JavaScript engine Futhark which is being used in Opera 10.10. Moreover data compression at server end and de-compression at client end makes it more faster than other web-browsers like Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Opera managed to beat Chrome in both Peacekeeper and Sunspider. So, it appears that Opera is now the fastest browser available.

Mozilla has recently released a portable version of Firefox for Windows based mobile phones, next on the track is their mobile project named Fennec, this this project Mozilla will release customized Firefox Browser for Android phones. As per a member of Fennec team, the project Fennec’s testing for Android is going good and soon they we’ll have an alpha release of their product out for Android OS handsets.

Its quite annoying when sometimes you accidentally press the close button and Google Chrome closes all opened tabs without warning you. Mozilla Firefox provides you with the option to save your work along with the warning before closing multiple tabs. “Windows Close Protector” is a useful Google Chrome extension which gives you a warning dialog box before closing multiple / inactive tabs in Google Chrome.

You might have noticed popup video ads on YouTube by Google as soon as you play a new video. There are number of Firefox extensions available to remove these ads in Mozilla Firefox and now Chrome fans can also remove these ads by installing Gresemonkey script in Google Chrome. However you may also use the same Greasemonkey script to remove these video ads in Mozilla Firefox too.

Mozilla has released Firefox 3.5.5 as an update for Firefox 3.5.4 in which several security and stability issues are fixed. You may view complete list of changes in version 3.5.5 from here. Installing this update in Microsoft Windows is very easy however upgrading your existing Firefox to version 3.5.5 in Linux is bit tricky. Follow these simple steps to upgrade your Mozilla Firefox in Ubuntu (Linux).

Built on Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering engine, Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Beta after Firefox 3.5.4 is finally out and is available for Windows and Mac OS X. Although it was scheduled to release couple of days earlier but the amount of blockers pushed back the release. Mozilla Firefox 3.6 comes up with improvements in JavaScript performance and with very less startup time like Google Chrome.

Firefox 3.5.4 has been released by Mozilla and is available for download. This short tutorial will explain how you can update to Firefox 3.5.4 from Firefox 3.5.3 or any other older version in Ubuntu (Linux). All you need to do is to paste one command in your Ubuntu’s terminal and it will do the rest of the job for you.