Mozilla is building bookmark, password, and preference synchronization for Firefox into a product called Firefox Sync. You can use it to keep your browser work, home, and other computers in sync. Opera has allowed users to synchronize their data for years, and the Google Chrome browser now has similar features baked in. But the grandaddy […]
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Netbook Optimization Kit makes Firefox a bit more netbook-friendly
I’ve never exactly had a problem running the Firefox web browser on a netbook. But I do tend to disable a few toolbars so that the browser UI doesn’t take up too much screen real estate. When you’re using a 1024 x 600 pixel display, every pixel counts. One user has gone a few steps […]
Acer LumiRead eBook reader to ship with Opera web browser
Digital book readers with E Ink displays aren’t really ideal devices for surfing the web. E Ink is known for its slow page refresh rates, which makes dynamic content like video impossible to view. But that doesn’t mean you can’t surf the web on an eBook Reader. After all, a growing number of these portable […]
Mozilla Weave renamed: Meet Firefox Sync
Mozilla Weave is an application that lets you synchronize your bookmarks and settings across Firefox installations. In other words, if you install the Weave plugin, you can share your bookmarks, passwords, preferences, and open tabs between your work and home computers — or say, your desktop and netbook. But apparently Mozilla doesn’t feel that the […]
Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10 could replace Firefox with Google Chrome
We already knew that Canonical was planning to overhaul the user interface for the next version of Ubuntu Netbook Remix — the version of Ubuntu Linux optimized for laptops with small screens and low power processors. But now it looks like Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10 could also come with some new default applications. The most […]
ChromeTouch makes the Google Chrome web browser tablet-friendly
Google’s Chrome web browser is great for netbooks, thanks to its minimal navigation bar which takes up significantly less screen real estate than Firefox, Opera, or Internet Explorer. If you have a netbook with a 1024 x 600 pixel display, you want a web browser that makes as much room as possible for displaying […]
Netbook friendly Google Chrome extension auto-zooms web pages
Most modern web browsers feature full-page zoom functions. Just hit the + or – keys to zoom in and out of a web page. This comes in handy if you happen to be using a netbook with a 1024 x 600 pixel or 800 x 480 pixel display and you don’t have enough room to […]
Video: NVIDIA Tegra netbooks playing HD video, Flash
A few new details are coming about about NVIDIA’s Tegra platform for low cost netbooks. First, as expected, these things can handle HD video without using much electricity at all. The Tegra 600 platform can handle H.264 video at 720p resolutions, and the Tegra 650 can do 1080p. And as TechVideoBlog discovered, that doesn’t just […]
Acer demos Google Android on a netbook… with Firefox
Well, that happened a little sooner than I’d anticipated. I’ve been a bit skeptical of Google Android’s viability as a netbook platform, because I contend that people expect more from a netbook than they do from a cellphone. While stripped down mobile browsers may be good enough for Blackberry, iPhone, Windows Mobile, or Symbian phones, […]
How to optimize Firefox for netbook displays
I’ve taken to using Google Chrome as my primary web browser lately because it’s super fast and its navigation area doesn’t take up very much screen real estate. That makes it ideal for use on netbooks, which have relatively small displays. But as I was reading through Mobile Computer Magazine’s Eight essential netbook utilities list, […]