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Mozilla Firefox 3 is out!

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The wait is finally over!

After 34 months of development, beta testing and feedback, Mozilla has released it's highly anticipated Firefox 3 web browser.

Help set the Guinness Book of World Records today by downloading Firefox 3. You can also learn more about Firefox 3's latest key features by reading this article.

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Firefox 3 Out Now !

¢mindfuckx:iconmindfuckx: reports, June 17
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. - June 17, 2008 - Mozilla today released Firefox® 3, a major update to its popular and acclaimed free, open source Web browser. Firefox 3 is the culmination of three years of efforts from thousands of developers, security experts, localization and support communities, and testers from around the globe.

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Help Firefox Help You Achieve A World Record!

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Firefox 3 will be released June 17th.

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the only time "best anything EVER" is appropriate...

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Topolate personal animation equipment

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The most advanced classical animation system I've ever seen, and pretty reasonable prices!

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=edmunn:iconedmunn: reports, July 15
Personas are lightweight, easy to install and easy to change “skins” for your Firefox web browser.

Personas builds upon the ideas that:
    Themes today are too hard to find, install and use

    Graphic designers should be able to style the browser without having to code

    Browsers can be more than just desktop software, they can include online components

    People just want their computer to be a little more fun and personal


Labs has just begun exploring the possible benefits of an online component to deliver a better browser experience. There much to explore in this regard; Personas is a simple example. Persona selector is dynamically loaded and populated from a JSON feed and all designs are loaded via URLs to remote resources. All changes to the browser chrome are applied instantly, with no need to restart.

It's a very good system, and I recomend trying it out to get the most from Firefox!

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cpu BAckrounds all you want

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=DemoReel:iconDemoReel: reports, July 11
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ReactOS - Home Stretch

~VelvetSea42:iconVelvetSea42: reports, 1d 2h ago
ReactOS Releases 0.3.5, road to 0.4.0 open for travel.

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Battlefield 2142 Comes with Spyware

~erikendres:iconerikendres: reports, October 18, 2006
From a comment on ShackNews:

In the latest CGW podcast, they received retail boxed copies of BF 2142.

When you open the box, a big slip of paper falls out first, preceding any discs or manuals. The slip of paper says, essentially, that 2142 includes monitoring software which runs while your computer is online, and records "anonymous" information like your IP address, surfing habits (probably via cookie scans), and other "computing habits" in order to report this information back to ad companies and ad servers, which generates in-game ads.

Now, I can live with certain in-game ads (though apparently there will be Dodge truck and Neon ads in the bleak, futuristic world of 2142), but including a lengthy description - outside of even the EULA - seems to indicate even EA knows that this is some shady borderline spyware shit. I don't support it and won't be buying 2142 (for a host of other reasons, too).

All I have to say is wow.

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~zootlocker:iconzootlocker: Oct 18, 2006, 5:35:47 AM
Indeed, wow.
Seems like an... interesting... way of determining market trends...
But I might be somewhat concerned at the number of pornographic ads which will appear.

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~siriusasthma:iconsiriusasthma: Oct 18, 2006, 6:08:52 AM
isnt it still beta???

u plat bf2? whats your Xfire?

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~erikendres:iconerikendres: Oct 18, 2006, 9:11:21 AM
The retail is just about to be released, and they got their hands on it early.

Nope, no BF2 for me. Never really enjoyed it much. Vietnam was my game.
~aforb-anduforme:iconaforb-anduforme: Oct 18, 2006, 9:53:52 AM
That's fucking hilarious.

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~Dynamoace:iconDynamoace: Oct 18, 2006, 11:34:38 AM Mood: Anger
Blasted EA! STOP USING UNETHICAL PRACTICES! NOW!

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*Studdy:iconStuddy: Oct 18, 2006, 12:35:50 PM
Sick. Well, so much for games. :D

Too bad there are still enough people to buy it anyways. Same with music ...we should all just stop to buy the crap they throw at us. Maybe someday they will realize that the money does still come from us customers...

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~erikendres:iconerikendres: Oct 18, 2006, 1:27:05 PM
From widescreengaming:

"You guys are going to love this little story. I just got off the phone with EA. When I inquired about the software they acted like they had no idea about it and that if there is software its only for monitoring BF2142 data, like log on time, gameplay time, ect.

Then I asked them, "So if I was to go and buy this game now, read the documents only available from with in the box about this software, I wont find anything discussing in detail about the monitoring of my web browser data?" The man I was talking to paused a second and asked to put me on hold. He returned roughly 4 mins later and said "Well, I just looked into this and EA is aware of this software. We here at technical support are just as surprised at this as you are. Unfortunately EA is only the publisher and we do not have any info from Dice about this software because the developer has not shared it with us." :? You read right. EA, a publisher in charge of sales and distributing doesn't have info about what's inside the game even AFTER LAUNCH. Which is pretty scary and dumb considering this is spyware we are talking about.

So I asked them how could they not have info on this for consumers even after the game launched? I of course got not good answer. Only that the software will not harm my computer but does in fact monitor/share my web browser info, though you have to hassle them to get that info. So I told the guy simply, if your not recording this, record it now. Then I told him that what they are doing is a invasion of privacy and is illegal. It is also not on the box anywhere that this software is included. And that EA has made zero attempts to alert current owners of the game about the software which is also wrong. The man said he will send my message to his superiors right now and watch over this incident himself.

So my advice guys is call them. Know the info you need about the papers and what the software does and call them. Don't play around if they play dumb, they know about this. Call and demand action. It will either go to the superiors or put pressure on tech support till it does."
~erikendres:iconerikendres: Oct 18, 2006, 1:51:30 PM
So sounds simple, yet it just purely isn't possible. I know I have stopped buying cd's from certain labels, but it is hard to completely stop. Kinda like those "no one buy gas today" days.
*Studdy:iconStuddy: Oct 18, 2006, 3:38:05 PM
I mostly like music back from 70s, 80s and some 90s. Those CDs still worked with any player you put them in. Todays copy protection is just crazy. :D

Everybody just looks wierd at me when I tell them I buy music. But when I like the band, why not ...maybe thats why I am more concerned about what the industry is doing to us buyers.

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