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It was already 10 years since Netscape launched mozilla.org to develop its open source project. It’s most well known project - Mozilla Firefox has been reached its success milestone by achieve 500 Millions downloads.

With this achievement, Mozilla willing to donate 500 Millions grains of rice to feed the world’s poor and hungry people.You could contribute part of this 500 Millions grains of rice!

How to Donate Free Rice?

Play the vocabulary game on Free Rice and donation with go to the hunger. No sign up, no login, no hassle. Just goto Free Rice homepage, answer the word meaning with objective choice. For each word you answer correctly, Mozilla donate 20 grains of rice (money earn from ads) through the UN World Food Program to help end hunger in over 75 countries.

According to the United Nations, about 25,000 people die each day from hunger or hunger-related causes, most of them children. While you answer the vocabulary game correctly, you are actually helping one of these child to have some food on that day. So why don’t join now? There is no limit, do what ever you can!

My two cents

Mozilla is so kind to organize this charity work. Hope the money generated from the website can save some life in poor countries. I myself have contributed 100 grains of rice to them by answered 5 question correctly! How many grains have you contributed?

Tips: Check out the word’s meaning at Dictionary.com (English dictionary) or Tigernt.com (Eng to Chinese dictionary)

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Today I noticed my Firefox running extremely slow. I thought it was streamyx problem, but the ping results to TM DNS server is fast.

After check my Firefox browser in task manager, I found my Firefox is running at more than 300MB in RAM (Physical Memory). This is ridiculous! I just open few tabs to check emails and read feeds. It cannot be so heavy on these simple daily tasks.

Mostly this was cause by cache memory. Cache is temporary files that stored in your computer when browsing internet. Although it helps reduce our internet bandwidth consumption, but might slow down internet browser’s performance.

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Fun with Personas

Personas for Firefox is an extension that adds lightweight theming to your firefox web browser. With this add on, you can swap your favourite browser themes instantly from the dynamic menu, without restart you firefox.

Personas is still in beta and it does not need to download, install or update for new theme release. The reason behind is Personas selector is dynamically loaded and populated from a JSON feed and all designs are loaded via URLs to remote resources. This mean all latest themes name are loaded automatically into your menu, and only download automatically when you acquire it!

How to use Personas?

Install Personas extension and do a restart for your firefox. You will see a Personas icon on your firefox status bar as below. Click on the Personas button and select your desire theme

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What’s New?

Refer to my previous guest post at LiewCF blog about Mozilla Prism, Mozilla developer is developing the new engine for it’s Mozilla Firefox 3. But never thought that Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 1 has been release so early before my vacation to Shanghai! But bear in mind that this is a developer preview release and it is being made available for testing purposes only.

New Mozilla Firefox 3 features

According to the Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 1 release notes, it was rebuild based on Gecko 1.9 Web rendering platform which has been under development for the past 27 months!

Firefox 3 Beta 1 is based on the new Gecko 1.9 Web rendering platform, which has been under development for the past 27 months and includes nearly 2 million lines of code changes, fixing more than 11,000 issues.

Further more, it is ready for more security, easier to use, more personal, improved platform for developer, and improved performance in this version.

So, without waiting until I come back from vacation, I’ve download Firefox 3 Beta1 immediately and evaluate it.

My two cents

I am so impressed by the latest feature as below: (more…)

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