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   Review - Mozilla Firefox (v13) for Windows

   13.0 Beta 5 (May 24, 2012)

   I commend Mozilla for supporting old OSes for as long as they did but the bi-product was that all the other browsers didn't have the legacy Achilles Heel that Firefox et al did and started to gain in speed and performance. Beginning with this version, Mozilla finally decided to cut the cord and dump the legacy support so they can finally crank up performance. I hope it's not too little to late as they should have done this probably back in the Firefox 4 days. 13 is shaping up to be fast and lean and I notice with this 5th beta how much so as compared to version 12. Hope the Mozilla folks can reclaim the performance crown and win back all those who have fled to Chrome and other browsers. Benchmarks I've seen so far are very, very promising.

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   Review - Mozilla Firefox (v12) for Windows

   12.0 (Apr 23, 2012)

   Wow, noticeable improvement in speed and loading of pages. Want even faster rendering? Go to about:config and enable SPDY. This is also the last version that will work on Windows 2000 and older OSes. Can't wait for Fx13. Major speed and performance boost coming. Woot!

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   Review - Mozilla Firefox (v11) for Windows

   11.0 (Mar 13, 2012)

   Yup, 11 final was built last night and will go live today if not already. If you download and install it and it has a Build ID of 20120312181643 you are good. In terms of speed, it seems snappier. You can finally turn on SPDY with this version. No issues installing over 10.0.2 for me.

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   Review - Mozilla Firefox (v10) for Windows

   10.0.2 (Feb 17, 2012)

   Huge Erection / Hugh G. Rection....really? Of course, it's some 15 year old. Or just Bruno70 double-trolling. In any case, this is just a minor update to fix a couple issues and one security bug. I keep reading lots of good news coming down the pipe for version 13 though. Can't wait.

5. 
   Review - Mozilla Firefox (v10) for Windows

   10.0.1 (Feb 10, 2012)

   This point release just reverts one thing that a few people were having a problem with, nothing more. But on another note related to speed or rendering, if there are those of you out there in Chromeland smokin' the ganj stating that Chrome is leaps and bounds faster than Firefox, try enabling Pipeling (you know, the feature that's been around for 6+ years) in Firefox (Chrome is developing their own similar technology called SPDY). Go to about:config, set network.http.pipelining to true, restart Firefox. Clever tricks to make Chrome *seem* like its rendering faster does not make it a faster browser.

6. Comment - The irony and infamy of LulzSec's Rupert Murdoch attacks

   10.0.1 (Jul 19, 2011 - 12:07 PM)

   I am neither for nor against what LulzSec does because, in reality, it's a free-for-all and there are no rules. Everything is fair game. LulzSec doesn't use lawyers and nonsense extra-judicial justification for what they do. But it is hella funny. It's ok for big entities (Governments, Media Empires, and Security / Cyber Security "contractors") to do what LulzSec does in *secret* but when LulzSec does it and publicly, not secretly, announces their deeds, albeit a bit juvenile, it's suddenly wrong? When governments DDoSed Wikileaks, that was ok but retaliation for the illegal shutdown of a finance stream to an entity that commited no crime? All IS fair in love AND war. Prove it? Notice that when James Murdoch refers to the illegal phone hacking (as stated by Parliament) he calls it "illegal phone interception" and not hacking. Gee, no lawyer coaching there. Last I checked, interception is a term used by law enforcement, not the media. Oh those clever Murdochs just using corporate-speak to dodge culpability. Hey LulzSec, light 'em up.