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Introducing Firefox Next - Codename Namoroka (v. 3.6), Planned for 2010 Forget Firefox 3.5

Firefox 3.1 evolved into Firefox 3.5 in the move from Beta 3 to Beta 4, Mozilla is also looking ahead beyond Shiretoko, to the next iteration of its open-source browser. Firefox Next will be codenamed Namoroka and the version number for the project will be 3.6, although this will only be valid for the initial stages. Mozilla in fact refers to what will be the successor of Firefox 3.5 as Firefox.next. Namoroka will be based on the Gecko 1.9.2 rendering engine, and is currently planned for availability in the first half of 2010.


“In contrast to previous product planning exercises, which were declarative and relatively inflexible, we hope to develop this project in a highly iterative manner by which we initially declare project goals and prioritized areas of interest for investigation, and then spend time determining the exact shape and scope of feature development tasks. The outcome of these investigations will be a set of feature design documents (using a common template) which will be prioritized and constitute the final product development plan,” revealed Mike Beltzner, Director of Firefox at Mozilla Corporation.


The codename for Firefox.next has been borrowed from the Namoroka National Park (the Tsingy de Namoroka National Park) in Madagascar. According to Mozilla, there will be a total of four focus areas with the development of Namoroka, namely Performance, Personalization & Customization, Task Based Navigation, and Web Application Support. At the same time, Mozilla plans to integrate the browser seamlessly into the underlying operating system, also in terms of the graphical user interface, including Windows Vista's and Windows 7's Aero Glass.


Firefox Namoroka should deliver “observable improvements in user-perceptible performance metrics such as startup, time to open a new tab, and responsiveness when interacting with the user interface. Common user tasks should feel faster and more responsive,” Mozilla explained. In addition, Firefox codename Namoroka will be designed to deliver streamlined browser customization and to kick extensions to the next level. This will be valid for a variety of developer and user tasks including the building, discovery, deployment and management of personalization components and add-ons.


Furthermore, Mozilla aims to “allow users to organize their tabs, history, downloaded files, and other resources according to the task they were attempting to accomplish. Provide support for executing common web-based tasks, mash-up style, without having to visit a website. [But also to] Blur the distinction between web and desktop applications, providing web developers with the tools required to create rich application experiences for a user who is connected or disconnected from the Internet. Act as the intermediary between web applications and the user's OS desktop.”


Firefox codename Namoroka will get kicked off with an exploration and prototyping phase that is scheduled to last some two months. The next iteration of the Mozilla open-source browser, or should I say the next next iteration, since Firefox 3.5 is the upcoming version, will spend no less than five months in actual development, which includes all the alpha versions, and the first Beta build. In the next three months, Firefox Namoroka should be taken out of the Beta testing process.

JOKES FOR YOU

Right Click

Tech Support: "I need you to right-click on the Desktop.

" Customer: "Ok."

Tech Support: "Did you get a pop-up menu?"

Customer: "No."

Tech Support: "Ok. Right click again. Do you see a pop-up menu?"

Customer: "No."

Tech Support: "Ok, sir. Can you tell me what you have done up until this point?"

Customer: "Sure, you told me to write 'click' and I wrote click'."

FREE LEARNING SECTION

Change icon of a folder

How to change icon of a folder?

Changing icons of folder is a fun. You can change your favorite icon of any folder and can show color full icons.

Follow the steps to change icons.

* Right click on folder and click on Properties.
* Click on Customize tab.
* Click on Change Icon button.
* Select your favorite icon and click on OK

See Screen Shot here
after using the steps above icon of folder will change.

Note: You can also use your customized icons instead of Windows own icons.

Tips of the day

Acrobat Reader shortcut keys with detail

Uses of Function keys in Acrobat Reader


Function keys -- Action

F1 -- Use to give the help of any windows panel

F3 -- Use to Find next search result

F5 -- Apply to select the document list panel

F6 -- Use to open/close the document list panel

F8 -- use to view/close main tools bar list

F9 -- use to view/close main menu bar

F10 -- Use to select the main menu bar

Ctrl+F4 -- Use to close the current file

Ctrl+F6 -- Move through next open document

Ctrl+ Shift -- Move back to open document

Shift+F3 -- Use to Find previous search result

Shift+F6 -- Select the previous open page

Shift+F8 -- Use to select main tools bar list

Shift+F10 -- Press keys to open context menu



Shortcut keys -- Action

Up Arrow Button -- Scroll up the active document

Down Arrow button -- Scroll down the active document

Ctrl+Hyphen -- Use to Zoom out the active page

Ctrl+equal sign (=) -- Use to Zoom in the active page

Alt+Right Arrow button -- Use to Next view

Alt+Left Arrow button -- Use to previous view

Right Arrow button -- Move to next page in active document

Left Arrow button -- Move to back page in active document

Page Up -- Move to the previous screen

Page Down -- Move to the next screen

Ctrl+Shift -- Apply to close all open windows

Ctrl+Spacebar+click on active page -- Zoom the active page for temporarily

Ctrl+Home -- Go to home page of document

Ctrl+End -- Go to last page of document

Ctrl+A -- Use to select the all pages

Ctrl+Shift+A -- Use to deselect the all pages

Enter -- Scroll down the pages

Ctrl+0 -- Use to adjust the document

Ctrl+1 -- Use to view actual document size

Ctrl+Q -- Quit the active document

Ctrl+L -- To view the document in full view

Ctrl+Shift++ -- Move the page clockwise

Ctrl+Shift+- -- Move the page counter clockwise

JOKES FOR YOU

Nine Type Of Users

El Explicito

"I tried the thing, ya know, and it worked, ya know, but now it doesn't, ya know?"

Advantages: Provides interesting communication challenges.

Disadvantages: So do chimps.

Symptoms: Complete inability to use proper nouns

Real Case: One user walked up to a certain Armenian pod manager and said, "I can't get what I want!" The pod manager leaned back, put his hands on his belt-buckle, and said, "Well, ma'am, you've come to the right place."

Mad Bomber

"Well, I hit ALT-f6, shift-f8, CNTRL-f10, f4, and f9, and now it looks all weird."

Advantages: Will try to find own solution to problems.

Disadvantages: User might have translated document to Navajo without meaning to.

Symptoms: More than six stopped jobs in UNIX, a 2:1 code-to-letter ratio in WordPerfect

Real Case: One user came in complaining that his WordPerfect document was underlined. When I used reveal codes on it, I found that he'd set and unset underline more than fifty times in his document.

Frying Pan/Fire Tactician

"It didn't work with the data set we had, so I fed in my aunt's recipe for key lime pie."

Advantages: Will usually fix error.

Disadvantages: 'Fix' is defined VERY loosely here.

Symptoms: A tendency to delete lines that get errors instead of fixing them.

Real Case: One user complained that their program executed, but didn't do anything. The scon looked at it for twenty minutes before realizing that they'd commented out EVERY LINE. The user said, "Well, that was the only way I could get it to compile."

Shaman

"Last week, when the moon was full, the clouds were thick, and formahaut was above the horizon, I typed f77, and lo, it did compile."

Advantages: Gives insight into primitive mythology.

Disadvantages: Few scon are anthropology majors.

Symptoms: Frequent questions about irrelevant objects.

Real Case: One user complained that all information on one of their disks got erased (as Norton Utilities showed nothing but empty sectors, I suspect nothing had ever been on it). Reasoning that the deleted information went *somewhere*, they wouldn't shut up until the scon checked four different disks for the missing information.

X-user

"Will you look at those. . .um, that resolution, quite impressive, really."

Advantages: Using the cutting-edge in graphics technology.

Disadvantages: Has little or no idea how to use the cutting-edge in graphics technology.

Symptoms: Fuzzy hands, blindness

Real Case: When I was off duty, two users sat down in front of me at DEC station 5000/200s that systems was reconfiguring. I suppressed my laughter while, for twenty minutes, they sat down and did their best to act like they were doing exactly what they wanted to do, even though they couldn't log in.

Miracle Worker

"But it read a file from it yesterday!" 'Sir, at a guess, this disk has been swallowed and regurgitated.' "But I did that a month ago, and it read a file from it yesterday!"

Advantages: Apparently has remarkable luck when you aren't around.

Disadvantages: People complain when scon actually use the word 'horse-puckey'.

Symptoms: Loses all ability to do impossible when you're around. Must be the kryptonite in your pocket.

Real Case: At least three users have claimed that they've loaded IBM WordPerfect from Macintosh disks.

Taskmaster

"Well, this is a file in MacWrite. Do you know how I can upload it to MUSIC, transfer it over to UNIX from there, download it onto an IBM, convert it to WordPerfect, and put it in three-column format?"

Advantages: Bold new challenges.

Disadvantages: Makes one wish to be a garbage collector.

Symptoms: An inability to keep quiet. Strong tendencies to make machines do things they don't want to do.

Real Case: One user tried to get a scon to find out what another person's E-mail address was even though the user didn't know his target's home system, account name, or real name.

Maestro

"Well, first I sat down, like this. Then I logged on, like this, and after that, I typed in my password, like this, and after that I edited my file, like this, and after that I went to this line here, like this, and after that I picked my nose, like this."

Advantages: Willing to show you exactly what they did to get an error.

Disadvantages: For as long as five or six hours.

Symptoms: Selective deafness to the phrases, "Right, right, okay, but what was the ERROR?", and a strong fondness for the phrase, "Well, I'm getting to that."

Real Case: I once had to spend half an hour looking over a user's shoulder while they continuously retrieved a document into itself and denied that they did it (the user was complaining that their document was 87 copies of the same thing).

Princess (unfair, perhaps, as these tend, overwhelmingly, to be males)

"I need a Mac, and someone's got the one I like reserved, would you please garrote him and put him in the paper recycling bin?"

Advantages: Flatters you with their high standards for your service.

Disadvantages: Impresses you with their obliviousness to other people on this planet.

Symptoms: Inability to communicate except by complaining.

Real Case: One asked a scon to remove the message of the day because he (the user) didn't like it.

Tips of the day

Hide or Show File Search Command in Start Menu

Hide/Show File Search in Start Menu

Hiding or Showing Windows File Search Command in Start Menu is easy as ABC. You can do this by using Registry Editor. First of all open Registry Editor by typing "regedit" in Run Command or Creating short cut on Desktop using "regedit" command line.

Open this key if you want to hide Search File Command for current logged user only.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

Open this key if you want to hide Search File Command for every user of Windows.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

After opening this key in Registry Editor. Create new key "NoFind" as String value and enter value 1 in it.

After adding this key Log Off or restart your windows. If you are using Microsoft Windows 9x then you should restart your windows and open Start Menu. You can not see File Search command any more. File search command is hidden now.

If you want to show again File Search Command then delete key from Registry which you created above.