Mozilla, the non-profit behind the Firefox web browser, has been exploring new revenue models for the past few years, including options that don’t rely on advertising. Now the team has launched a “Test Pilot” program for Firefox Better Web, a service that Mozilla first teased last year. It lets you pay a monthly fee to […]
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Mozilla’s Firefox Send is a free, encrypted file transfer service (for any browser)
Mozilla recently pulled the plug on its Test Pilot program that allowed beta testers to try out experimental features for the Firefox web browser. But some projects that got their start in Test Pilot are graduating to become standalone services. Case in point: After spending a year and a half as a Test Pilot experiment, […]
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Lilbits 324: Samsung’s 4TB consumer SSDs are coming
Solid state drives are faster, more energy efficient, and harder to break than hard drives. But they also tend to be more expensive and come in smaller capacities. So while it’s not unusual to see laptop and desktop computers ship with 1TB or larger hard drives, models with SSDs often have just 256GB of storage […]
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Lilbits 317: More 2-in-1 Chromebooks
Microsoft isn’t the only company with a new tablet powered by a 6 watt, dual-core Pentium 4415Y processor based on 7th-gen Intel Core “Kaby Lake” architecture. Chrome Unboxed spotted evidence suggesting that HP will offer a version of its Chromebook x2 2-in-1 device with the low-power chip, possibly offering a cheaper option than the $600 […]
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Mozilla releases experimental Firefox Color, Side View extensions
Mozilla’s Test Pilot program for the Firefox web browser lets you try out experimental new features to help decide whether they should be added to future versions of Firefox. Today Mozilla is introducing two more, which you can try out by installing Firefox Extensions. Firefox Color is a tool that lets you customize the color […]
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Experimental Firefox “No More 404s” feature shows archives versions of missing web pages
Comments Off on Experimental Firefox “No More 404s” feature shows archives versions of missing web pagesThe web works best when nothing is ever deleted: because nobody likes clicking on a link to a website that no longer exists. But sometimes companies go out of business, servers crash, or the person responsible for publishing something to the web has second thoughts. But future versions of Firefox may help you put the […]