FireFox 3.0 beta:- it solves your memory leak to great extent.

Yes guys, when i was in FireFox1.5 i faces too much memory leak (500Mb)and browser gets crashes frequently but  in firefox2.0  the problem of  memory leak  is reduce to some extent(it varies 150Mb to 300Mb[when i open gmail account]) and crashing of browser is solved.Now FireFox 3.0 here the problem of memory leak is reduced to further more extent (150 Mb) and they provide more security to you.Fixing more than 11,000 issues in there 3.o beta.Here are few..

More Security

• One-click site info: Click the site favicon in the location bar to see who owns the site. Identity verification is prominently displayed and easier to understand. In later versions, Extended Validation SSL certificate information will be displayed.
• Malware Protection: malware protection warns users when they arrive at sites which are known to install viruses, spyware, trojans or other malware. You can test it here (note: our blacklist of malware sites is not yet activated).
• New Web Forgery Protection page: the content of pages suspected as web forgeries is no longer shown. You can test it here.
• New SSL error pages: clearer and stricter error pages are used when Firefox encounters an invalid SSL certificate.
• Add-ons and Plugin version check: Firefox now automatically checks add-on and plugin versions and will disable older, insecure versions.
• Secure add-on updates: to improve add-on update security, add-ons that provide updates in an insecure manner will be disabled.
• Anti-virus integration: Firefox will inform anti-virus software when downloading executables.
• Vista Parental Controls: Firefox now respects the Vista system-wide parental control setting for disabling file downloads.

Easier to Use

• Easier password management: an information bar replaces the old password dialog so you can now save passwords after a successful login.
• Simplified add-on installation: the add-ons whitelist has been removed making it possible to install extensions from third-party sites in fewer clicks.
• New Download Manager: the revised download manager makes it much easier to locate downloaded files.
• Resumable downloading: users can now resume downloads after restarting the browser or resetting your network connection.
• Full page zoom: from the View menu and via keyboard shortcuts, the new zooming feature lets you zoom in and out of entire pages, scaling the layout, text and images.
• Tab scrolling and quickmenu: tabs are easier to locate with the new tab scrolling and tab quickmenu.
• Save what you were doing: Firefox will prompt users to save tabs on exit.
• Optimized Open in Tabs behavior: opening a folder of bookmarks in tabs now appends the new tabs rather than overwriting.
• Location and Search bar size can now be customized with a simple resizer item.
• Text selection improvements: multiple text selections can be made with Ctrl/Cmd; double-click drag selects in “word-by-word” mode; triple-clicking selects a paragraph.
• Find toolbar: the Find toolbar now opens with the current selection.
• Plugin management: users can disable individual plugins in the Add-on Manager.
• Integration with Vista: Firefox’s menus now display using Vista’s native theme.
• Integration with the Mac: Firefox now uses the OS X spellchecker and supports Growl for notifications of completed downloads and available updates.

More Personal

• Star button: quickly add bookmarks from the location bar with a single click; a second click lets you file and tag them.
• Tags: associate keywords with your bookmarks to sort them by topic.
• Location bar & auto-complete: type the title or tag of a page in the location bar to quickly find the site you were looking for in your history; favicons, bookmark, and tag indicators help you see where results are coming from.
• Smart Places Folder: quickly access your recently bookmarked and tagged pages, as well as your more frequently visited pages with the new smart places folder on your bookmark toolbar.
• Bookmarks and History Organizer: advanced search of your history and bookmarks with multiple views and smart folders to store your frequent searches.
• Web-based protocol handlers: web applications, such as your favorite webmail provider, can now be used instead of desktop applications for handling mailto: links from other sites. Similar support is available for other protocols (Web applications will have to first enable this by registering as handlers with Firefox).
• Easy to use Download Actions: a new Applications preferences pane provides a better UI for configuring handlers for various file types and protocol schemes.

Improved Platform for Developers

• New graphics and font handling: new graphics and text rendering architectures in Gecko 1.9 provides rendering improvements in CSS, SVG as well as improved display of fonts with ligatures and complex scripts.
• Native Web page forms: HTML forms on Web pages now have a native look and feel on Mac OS X and Linux (Gnome) desktops.
• Color management: (set gfx.color_management.enabled on in about:config and restart the browser to enable.) Firefox can now adjust images with embedded color profiles.
• Offline support: enables web applications to provide offline functionality (website authors must add support for offline browsing to their site for this feature to be available to users).
• A more complete overview of Firefox 3 for developers is available for website and add-on developers.

Improved Performance

• Reliability: A user’s bookmarks, history, cookies, and preferences are now stored in a transactionally secure database format which will prevent data loss even if their system crashes.
• Speed: Major architectural changes (such as the move to Cairo and a rewrite to how reflowing a page layout works) put foundations in place for major performance tuning which have resulted in speed increases in Beta 1, and will show further gains in future Beta releases.
• Memory usage: Over 300 individual memory leaks have been plugged, and a new XPCOM cycle collector completely eliminates many more. Developers are continuing to work on optimizing memory use (by releasing cached objects more quickly) and reducing fragmentation.

 Further details you can get here..Lets hope Firefox improves further , you can download FireFox 3.0 beta here.

Wish you happy 58th Repulic day:Proud to be Indian

Today we are celebrating 58th Republic day in our country.

Although India obtained its independence on 15th August 1947 the constitution of india came into effect only only 26th January 1950.

So since then we are celebrating 26th January as Republic day and 15 August as independence day.Much more you can find here. During this course of 57 years India has developed in all major streams whether its in agriculture, business ,Scientific Technology ,Sports ..etc. Being Indian i am proud of it.Wish happy Republic day.

Some Excellent Facts about India…..
Here are some facts about we, Indians in US of A.
There are 3.22 millions of Indians in USA (1.5% of population). YET,
38% of doctors in USA are Indians.
12% scientists in USA are Indians.
36% of NASA scientists are Indians.
34% of Microsoft employees are Indians.
28% of IBM employees are Indians.
17% of INTEL scientists are Indians.
13% of XEROX employees are Indians.

These facts were recently published in a German magazine, which deals with WORLD HISTORY FACTS ABOUT INDIA.

1. India never invaded any country in her last 1000 years of history.
2. India invented the Number system. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
3. The world’s first University was established in Takshila in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field ! of education.
4. According to the Forbes magazine, Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software.
5. Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans.
6. Although western media portray modern images of India as poverty striken and underdeveloped through political corruption, India was once the richest empire on earth.
7. The art of navigation was born in the river Sindh 5000 years ago. The very word “Navigation” is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH.
8. The value of ‘pi’ was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is now k! nown as the Pythagorean Theorem. British scholars have last year (1999) officially published that Budhayan’s works dates to the 6 th Century which is long before the European mathematicians.
9. Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India . Quadratic equations were by Sridharacharya in the 11 th Century; the largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Indians used numbers as big as 10 53.
10. According to the Gemmological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds to the world.
11. USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century-old suspicion amongst academics that the pioneer of wireless communication was Professor Jagdeesh Bose and not Marconi.
12. The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.
13. Chess was invented in India .
14. Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted surgeries like cesareans, cataract, fractures and urinary stones. Usage of anaesthesia was well known in ancient India .
15. When many cultures in the world were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley ( Indus Valley Civilisation).
16. The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.

Quotes about India .

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
— Albert Einstein.

India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend and the great grand mother of tradition.
— Mark Twain.

If there is one place on the face of earth where all dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India .
— French scholar Romain Rolland.

India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.
–Hu Shih
(former Chinese ambassador to USA )

and the saga continues………

Happy Republic India… JAI HIND!!

Hurry WordPress increases its Free storage to 3GB….

This will be a great news for us who use WordPress as they increases free storage to 3GB,Which is almost 3 times of which Blogger currently providing and TypePad charges $300 for the same.So don’t worry for memory now and enjoy blogging.Thanks Matt Mullenweg for such a great gift for this new year.For more details see here.

One of my company product won the crunchies award.

Today TechCrunch gave there results of 2007 Crunchies winner , in which one of my company product(not to be disclosed) won the chrunchies award .They give this awards to a good Web2.0 products .For further details you can get here.

MacBook Air worlds thinnest Notebook by steve jobs

On jan 15 2007, Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the MacBook Air which they clam as a world thinnest notebook such that to fit inside an interoffice mailing envelope.This seems cool, ya following are few specifications of this notebook

Specifications:-

• 13-inch wide-screen monitor with LED backlighting, 1280 x 800 pixel resolution.
• Intel Core 2 Duo 1.6/1.8 Ghz processor
• 2GB RAM
• 80GB HDD/ 64GB SSD
• WiFi + Bluetooth
• No optical drive, Remote Disc as alternative

Unique ones:-

• 5-Hours battery backup with wifi on.
• Multi-touch on the trackpad like ipod/iphone.
• It weighs about 3 pounds.

Cost:-

$1799 i think for this there won’t be any DVD drive which can be configurable for some additional cost.No internal optical drive is included, but Apple will offer a $99 USB 2.0-based add-on SuperDrive for users who need it.

Further details you can get it here.

Now its GTv…………………

Hey take it easy its not a new channel,but its a new television i.e Google Television.As we already know that google going to enter mobile market now they are aiming Televisions i mean to say Google going to plan for Google enabled Televisions.As from sources(TechCrunch) they make deal with Panasonic Japanese Television manufacturer to produce flat panel TV which allow users to access Google Services like You Tube,Picassa,etc.

I suppose it will be a great revolution for this new year.Doing so google may enter to common man life in daily aspects and going to hit mass media marketing.First bring GPhone and now thinking of Google Televison ,i think google just planning to make every thing Googlized in this world.Now what do you expect in future from google.

Do this television will have internet facility ..? ….:) lets wait and see.