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July 17, 2008

Firefox 3 Extensions

In this post I talked about the release of version 3 of the browser Firefox .

But the post is not going to try the browser itself, but I will talk about supplements or Addons for Firefox, which are to be extensions to add extra profits to the browser depending on what you need and is one of the things that really adds value to the browser, since you have almost infinite extensions, some very useful and imprescincibles, and more curious than anything else, but extensions to the end, after all, everyone who wants to choose between all there , .

And there are many, I will discuss specifically the one I use now in the past I used other, probably in the future add more, but now these are the ones I use:

Adblock Plus : One of the extensions that arguably impresicindible for Firefox, since with it practically ran advertising on web pages or any image from any website that feels uncomfortable, as it says in the description of the extension:
Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than the rest of the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of it.

Adblock Filterset.G Updater : Extension that should be used in conjunction with Adblock Plus and allows filters updated Adblock Plus blocks advertisements by default.

Colorful Tabs : This curious extension lets you view each of your Firefox tab open in different colors so that you make it easier to move between them, I find it funny and entertaining.

Easy Drag To Go : With Easy drag to go you can open links in new tabs, search text in Google, or save images with simple mouse movements.

I personally only use to open any links and is super useful, simply (previously configured) pricks your mouse over the link to open, drag the mouse down slightly a few millimeters, release the mouse button, and voila, the you link opens in a new tab. I would do without this extension!.

FlashGot : This extension is a bit more specific, and allows you to connect Firefox with some external download manager you may have. It is a useful extension, because for example on pages made available to the user to download multiple items, you can download all massively, among many other functions.

Forecastfox : Another extension perhaps more curious than useful, but I like it Forecastfox lets you keep in the status bar the weather forecast for the places, days, etc. as you set your choice.

Personally I have the time and temperature forecast from now in my city, and the next day. The information was obtained from the page: Weather

Gmail Manager : A very useful extension, especially if you have multiple accounts in Gmail , since that is its purpose, let the browser handle from multiple accounts simultaneously from the mail service, so that at the very bottom bar Firefox can scroll through the different emails from different accounts. In fact your own extension, switching between accounts when you receive new mail on one of them.

No Script : Again we are faced with an extension of what might be called as necessary, at least in terms of security, as this extension prevents the execution of javascript unless you allow it, preventing execution of malicious code in web pages.
The interesting thing about this extension is that you are always not allowing sites because if you know a website that is secure, and browse through it you can usually add it to the white list of allowed websites and do not block it.
If a website where you know you're only going to navigate at times, as you can temporarily allow for that session only the execution of javascript, and indeed, can afford to each element of each Web page.
Certainly a most basic extension for your safety.

PDF Download : Shows different actions when you click on a PDF document Internet browsing, basically gives you the option to download it, open it in pdf, or html. It may be helpful.

Sage-Too : Add a simple but functional RSS reader in your Firefox sidebar to enjoy your feeds in a simple but effective, I tried it and now I do not use another reader, .

IE Tab : any website you go wrong with Firefox or not working properly?, no problem, this extension lets you open Web pages from Firefox using the Internet Explorer engine and who do you have to open the page in the browser . It also lets you add to a list and thereafter will automatically open the Explorer engine. Another extension almost basic, although there are fewer pages to go wrong in Firefox, but hey, someone gets there.

Finally, remember again that these are the extensions I use, since there are many more, and many are well known, especially in more specific areas such as programming and web edition, since in this case are extensions very useful as Greasemonkey (Requires some knowledge), Firebug or Firecookie that lets you manage individual cookies in your browser without having to delete the entire history of cookies.

So if you want to entertain extensions that may be interested in looking at the official site for Firefox extensions you have all you want, .

In this post I do not explain anything about their options, configuration, operation, etc. would be immense as the post, however, soon I'll be posting several posts on the operation of the most interesting case anyone does not know them or use them, with images and others, or as a video tutorial, who knows.

Do you?, Do you use any extension that you consider essential and that is not here?, You can say in the comments.

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Firefox , Software

June 20, 2008

Ruben

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Highlights for the launch of Firefox 3

Following the launch of Surf Firefox 3 John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla, posted on his blog some relevant data after the first 24 hours of download:

More than 8.3 million downloads (the official number will be revealed in a few weeks)
The market share of Firefox 3 has grown to be in the world 4%
The "Top 10" countries who have downloaded Firefox 3, so far are: USA, Germany, Japan, Spain, UK, France, Iran, Italy, Canada and Poland
There were 757 parties to celebrate the launch!
83 Terabytes were served
Amounts to approximately 8.5 full copies of the "U.S. Library of Congress' print collection" or 1,000,000 copies of the new Coldplay album
In the maximum peak discharges were served 17,000 downloads per minute (283 per second)
Peaks in the occupation of the servers (mirrors) are reached record transfer rates of 20 Gigabits per second

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Firefox , Software

June 19, 2008

Ruben

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Congratulates Explorer Mozilla Firefox 3 release

With the recent release of Firefox 3 , Internet Explorer team has congratulated the developers of Firefox for the launch of Firefox 3 with a cake, and the truth is that there seems to be bad, .

The text, as in the previous occasion, is to say:

"Congratulations on the launch, with affection, the IE team"

mm, that rich. It's good that there are these signs of friendship, despite the competition between the two browsers, .

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Firefox , Software

June 18, 2008

Ruben

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Firefox 3

Yesterday saw the worldwide release of the browser Mozilla Firefox 3 in the so-called Download Day 2008 with the addition was intended to break the world record for downloads exceeding 5,000,000 downloads in one day, make your own conclusions watching the real-time counter . At the moment, when the 20:34 Spanish time, have more than 8,000,000 and up, considering that downloads were available from 19:00 Spanish time of 6.17.08.

As was natural, was not naturally good, because if you organize something of this caliber, you must be prepared for it, Mozilla's servers could not withstand such a flood of downloads and were offline a long time, but hey, it just bad luck, and you can download without problems Firefox 3 for different platforms (Castilian versions):

Perhaps, "the glue" that can annoy more updating earlier versions of Firefox to 3 may be that some extensions you use, temporarily stop working until they are updated, although you can use, this trick (via Microsiervos) for does not happen. I'm not going to do, since only 1 extension fails me all I use, and I is essential, so not bad right?. But beware, using this trick is your responsibility, because as they say in the post: "With this Firefox will check whether the installed extensions are compatible with the version that is running, but beware, this may make Firefox do strange things, so use at your own risk. If you have many extensions installed, it is better than go uninstall them and adding little by little until you see that all is well. "

Still, worth changing to the new version as it is much faster, improves memory management and use, provides greater performance and add new features, but because they are enough, perhaps better than you see them on the page Mozilla (Firefox Development Company).

And finally, if the first time you hear of this browser, personally I would recommend you to give him a chance and could prove it, I did, and I have not already use another browser.

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Blog , Google Analytics , Marketing

February 20, 2008

Ruben

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Statistics HelloWorld Blog

With the new year, I wanted to do some summary statistics that marked 2007 as other yes they did, but could not be.

And recently, held the 2 years old of HelloWorld Blog on the net I decided resarcirme a bit and today I will show in a reduced and shortened some statistics that have marked these 2 years old, but not too deeply, because for me the statistics are not crucial, but if I find curious, apart from a comprehensive analysis of all options and possibilities offered by Google Analytics would be almost endless, so just put some graphics that you can perhaps be representative and interesting.

1) Number of visits in these 2 years old of existence in the network, :

2) Where are you from?

As shown in the image on the left, and logically, the majority of visits is for Spanish-speaking visitors, mainly from Spain as the largest source of visitors, followed by several South American countries like Mexico, Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, etc.

In the right image, since Spain is the biggest source of my visits, you can see q ue cities do so in greater numbers.

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But that list does not go all that are, or are all that are, , I put a map that makes the most representative Spanish cities I visited this time, at least for guidance, since it does not leave the names of cities, towns, etc.

3) What operating system is the most used by my visitors?

As seen in the picture, there is little surprise, and the result is overwhelming, I will not say logical because it would not be, but being realistic, taking into account the current reality we live in terms of OS, yes it is Predictably, the increased use of Windows, followed by Linux and Mac minority, although I was surprised by the large difference in percentage, and that over 96% of visitors, you did with Windows, so the conclusion seems clear, is not it, .

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4) What browsers are most used by my visitors?

Here the fight is more equal, and plays a little script that expected, because first we have an approximately 53% of visitors accessed through Internet Explorer, a nearly 40% do so through Firefox, and the other alternative browsers by following the logical sequence imagined, ranking as 3rd Opera browser access.

My desire it, that next year that Firefox had more% Explorer, .

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5) What if we combine browser and OS?

The result seems quite logical when you consider the above data, because as you see in the picture, a little more than half, using a combination accedeis Windows / I.Explorer, a nearly 40% the combination you use Windows / Firefox almost 5% prefer the combination Windows / Opera, and what is evident is that those who accedeis with Linux, you do it using Firefox.

Finally, I also find it curious that enter with Mac and you do it with a similar percentage of Firefox or Safari.

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6) Most of you are coming from search engines and specific pages, let's see which

Most visits (over 50%) comes from search engines, being approximately 75% from Google, which makes sense, being that Google has 99% share in Spain, and many services that use the blog, are related to Google, so it is normal that high percentage.

Another important part of the visits (30%) are from web pages, especially "Our Partners" and that eliminating access to the main blog page directly which of course are many of these visits, and also eliminating related pages from Google (Google Images), is that primarily visits from "Our Partners" do it from:

Bicosyes , Cyn's place , Take it slow , Miguel Daza ,

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And finally, in closing, I want to comment above, post or categories that have generated more attention over these 2 years old, that removing the main entry page to the blog that have led some 11,900 visits (31.12%), Most liked what has been:

Heroes of Silence Concert 10.10.2007 (1717 views, approximately 4.49%)
Category Minigames (1,216 visitors, approximately 3.18%)
Attention test (840 visits, approximately 2.20%)
Ad Repsol and Maslow (634 visits, approximately 1.66%)
Category My parakeets (508 visits, about 1.33%)
Stockholm: Extra photos (316 visits, about 0.83%)
Category Economics (305 visits, about 0.8%)

I hope that you will not have seemed very boring post, and I have some curious and interesting result data.

On this occasion, as the images are mine, also benefiting from the license Creative Commons of helloworld blog, except comments which express (as applicable) are excluded images.

Also discussed some statistics helloworld blog in this post

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