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Mozilla Engineer Writes Steve Ballmer; Promptly Takes Foot Out Of Mouth

Mozilla platform engineer Rob Sayre has probably had better ideas. Hoping Microsoft might allow Firefox on their new Windows Phone 7 Series, Sayre wrote an open letter this morning to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. “ Hola, amigo. I know it’s been a long time since I rapped at ya, ” is how it starts. He then proceeds to make fun of Windows Phone 7 Series, the iPhone, Cocoa Touch, and Unix — all in three concise paragraphs.
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Opera, Safari Beat Chrome On Google’s Own JavaScript Conformance Test

Back in June, Google launched Sputnik , a suite of tools that runs over 5,000 tests to check a web browser’s JavaScript conformance. Last week, they made the tool a lot easier for anyone to use, with a version that works in the web browser. The results are interesting.
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Mozilla Labs builds add-on to bring address book to Firefox

Firefox's flexible XUL framework and sophisticated add-on system offer a rich platform for enhancing browser functionality. Mozilla Labs takes advantage of this capability as it experiments with new concepts for augmenting Web interaction. Some of the latest experiments to emerge from Mozilla Labs aim to make contacts and identity a core part of the browser. Mozilla has announced the availability of an experimental new add-on for Firefox that is designed to import information about the user's contacts from a variety of Web services and other sources.
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iPhone will be first mobile device to fall at Pwn2Own 2010

The fourth annual Pwn2Own contest —which takes place at the CanSecWest security conference every year—kicks off next week. Like last year , 2010's contest will offer security experts and hackers the chance to "pwn" a number of mobile platforms in addition to various browser/OS combinations. Though no mobile devices were successfully hacked last year, expectations are high that the iPhone will go down in this year's contest. "With all the recent research on mobile phone security being presented worldwide, these devices are quickly becoming a ripe target," wrote Aaron Portnoy, security researcher at TippingPoint and Pwn2Own contest organizer.
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How do I Keep Windows From Hibernating While I’m Downloading? [Ask Lifehacker]

Dear Lifehacker I frequently download big files to my computer and walk away. How do I stop my computer from going into standby while downloading something from the internet? I'm using Firefox on Windows 7. More
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Congratulations To The Winners Of SyncMate Expert Edition

Thanks to all of the participants of contest in which SyncMate Is Giving Away 15 Single User Expert Edition Licenses . We ran the MySql random query and selected these 15 commenter to give them Single User licenses of SyncMate Expert Edition . Chris Rajesh Kanuri @ TechCats Vryuk Kim Evan Andrew Ortwein Adone (Please contact us) Passuf Heather St. Marie Askari Vpap Joanna Nicole Matthias Paulo SyncMate is probably the only sync tool which allows syncing your Mac with multiple devices simultaneously (Windows Mobile devices and Nokia S40 phones, other Mac and PC computers, Google account and online storage, Sony PSP and USB flash drive)
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Mozilla Contacts Imports and Auto-Fills Email Addresses in Firefox [Downloads]

Firefox: Mozilla knows we often reach out to our contacts through our browsers. So the Firefox maker has crafted an experimental tool to make, for example, filling out "email this" forms easier by importing contacts directly into your browser. More
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LangLadder Aids Foreign Language Students with Reading and Vocabulary [Downloads]

Firefox: LangLadder is a smart Firefox extension designed to aid you with your foreign-language studies, teaching you vocabulary and improving your reading skills. More
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The New IE9: More HTML5, CSS3, and No Windows XP

Today Microsoft released the developer preview of Internet Explorer 9 . It’s the first look we’ve had at Microsoft’s flagship browser since it first revealed details late last year. The preview is bare-bones: after playing around with it, I can tell you that it doesn’t have much in terms of user interface — or anything else for that matter.
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Make Firefox Extensions Compatible with a Simple Hack [Firefox]

Every time a new version of Firefox arrives, there are always a few well-regarded extensions that stop working, and while there is a Firefox hack to force compatibility , you could simply tweak one or two favorites to make the compatibility cut. More
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