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It's Friday AGAIN! Amazing how, like clockwork, Friday continues to occur every seven days. Incidentally, while on the topic of the day/night cycle, what part of the Earth is shown in the Firefox logo to the right? I presume that little lump is meant to be the United Kingdom, but the rest... I don't know!News from Mozilla and Firefox has actually been pretty slow this week, probably because they're all in crunch mode and working around the clock to get Firefox 3.6 out of the door. Even so, I've done my best to collate the most interesting Firefox news from the past week!
1. Mozilla Prism nears V1.0 public release
If you're like me, you've probably not heard of Mozilla Prism before now. But it's neat -- maybe even very neat. It's just like Fluid, but this is for Windows and Mac, and supported by the full communist force of Mozilla and Firefox!
As Lee mentioned in his article on Prism, web browsers are still complex pieces of software. With Chrome there has been a push towards making things easier to use, but surfing the 'Net is still tricky and dangerous compared to standalone desktop applications. With Prism you can create desktop shortcuts for web apps and sites like Gmail and circumvent the browser entirely. Let's not forget how much malware could be avoided by staying away from 'live' web browsers...
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Firefox Friday Five originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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