Mozilla has released a new update for it’s popular browser Firefox. The latest version of Firefox is 3.0.4.

Version 3.0.4 of Firefox has incorporated official releases for Icelandic and Thai languages apart from beta releases for Bulgarian, Esperanto, Estonian, Latvian, Occitan, and Welsh languages which are available for testing purposes. Firefox 3.0.4 also fixes many issues found in the earlier version apart from fixing 4 critical, 2 high and 2 moderate apart from 1 low priority security issues which makes this upgrade high priority.

Check out the complete list of bugs fixed and update your old version of Firefox with the new one.

Download the latest version of Firefox now!

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When was the last time when you forgot a password which you had earlier typed in Firefox?

With the Remember Password facilities of most web browsers including Firefox, Users (like me) tend to forget their passwords while logging into the same website from another computer.

Grim as this may sound, there is a simple way to remember your saved password, easier than trying all combinations of your girlfriend’s name and her telephone number!. Here is how one can locate a saved password in Firefox.

Finding forgotten passwords in Firefox

1. In Firefox, Navigate to Tools>Options

2. Click on the Security Tab and navigate to the Saved Passwords button:

3. The Saved Passwords box contains a list of all the websites where you clicked on the Remember Password tab, and your usernames on that website.

In the Saved Passwords Box, Click on Show Passwords. The saved passwords for all websites you visited will be revealed. Scroll to the password you are looking for, and there it will be waiting to be discovered. You can also search for a particular website from this list.

Precautions to be taken:

As easy as 1-2-3 that it may sound, there are some precautions to take care of:

1. Whenever you clear your Private Browsing Data in Firefox (Tools>Options>Privacy>Private Data Settings), make sure you have not clicked on the saved passwords check-box. This will delete all your saved usernames and passwords. (believe me, its complete mayhem if you do this, you’ll end up re-registering on websites, without realizing you had an account there)

2. Firefox has the habit of saving all usernames and passwords, irrespective of the fact that they are correct or not. For example, if I enter the wrong username or the wrong password, and click on Remember me on this computer tab, then Firefox will remember it inspite of the fact that it is the wrong password. However if you use the same username again and give the correct password, Firefox will update the current password for the same username.

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Having seen what Google Chrome did to the Web Browser Market Share on Day 1 of its existence, it only made sense that I continue closely following the statistics and see what happens as days go by. Here’s how the pie chart looked for my blog visitor stats before the introduction of Google Chrome.

As can be seen, most of the visitors (over 85%) of Tech Spikes use Firefox.

The day Google Chrome was introduced to the world, things did shake up a bit and you can check out our detailed analysis about that here - Browser Market Share After Google Chrome.

Having gone mad after the introduction of a new product, it is quite expected that things settle down a bit from Day 2 onwards. Here is how Day 2 shaped up.

Data for September 4th - After Chrome Day 2.

As expected, quite a few Firefox users who experimented with the new browser have gone back to their old and faithful browser. One more thing that is noticeable here is that Internet Explorer users seem to have been slow in trying out the new browser and mustered up courage only on Day 2.

Comparison Chart

Bottomline: Firefox regains a little of it’s lost market share and Internet Explorer goes down, even more than before and Chrome benefits!

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Whenever a new product from a reputed brand is introduced into the market, it generally shakes up the market share percentages, initially at least. So when Google released its much touted Google Chrome, it aroused my interest to see how much of a market share would it initially grab. The only place where I could test this was my blog and that’s what I did!

Before reading further, one thing to keep in mind is that most of the people who follow blogs are slightly more technologically endowed than the rest. Therefore, this data will definitely appear to be skewed in comparison to overall browser market share data.

I collected the my browser share data from pMetrics which is simply wonderful as far as blog metrics are concerned. You can check out our review here.

Here is a pie-chart for my visitor data on September 2. I’m going to call this Before Chrome.

As can be fairly expected, Firefox with over 85% is the preferred browser of most active web users. Internet Explorer came an expected second with a little over 12%.

Here’s data for September 3rd and I’m going to title this After Chrome.

This one surprised me and I’ll tell you why. It’s quite fair to understand that a lot of geeks are traditionally Firefox users so when a new browser hits the market, it is not unusual for quite a lot of Firefox users to try out the new product. What surprises me more is

1. Chrome has overtaken Internet Explorer on Day 1
2. Internet Explorer’s market share has surprisingly gone up by more than 2% instead of going down!

Does this mean that a few of the Firefox users have shifted(possibly temporarily) to Internet Explorer? Is it because a lot of Firefox users are also trying out the newly released Internet Explorer 8 Beta? I guess things will settle down a bit in the coming days.

Here’s a comparison between Before Chrome & After Chrome. This gives you a better idea as to how the shift has taken place.

I’ll do another analysis a week down and see how the stats are.

I decided to do a day by day analysis for a week or so to see how Google Chrome fares. Don’t forget to check out

Browser Market Share - After Chrome Day 2.

P.S.: To see global browser market share, check out StatCounter.

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1. about:robots
2. about:mozilla (My personal favorite!)
   

Do remember not to leave a space in between the command. For best results, just copy paste

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