TechnoSlab

Google Chrome has turned out to be the most popular and widely used browser in 2012. This week's stats from statcounter says Google Chrome dominates the browser market by occupying around 33% of the total market share.
Internet Explorer holds 32% and Mozilla Firefox has around 25% market share. This makes Firefox third most popular browser in the market.

I've experienced smooth scrolling on my Phone and on other Browsers which is why I wanted to have it on Firefox too. It just feels so modern and smooth to have this feature. :P

This is how I enabled it on Firefox 12.


1. Open Firefox, type about:config in address bar and press enter.
2. In the search box, write smooth.
3. Double click on general.SmoothScroll to change it's value from false to true.
4. Done.

Firefox 13 will come out with this feature enabled by default.

When browsing through sites you may have noticed different colors appear in address bar of Firefox. The color depends on website's certification. Most websites are Grey because they are not running over https and hence don't have any certification.

Others websites are either Blue or Green depending on the type of certification. The image explains each of these colors.

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This is an official Webapp by Mozilla that tests the speed on your Firefox and suggests an upgrade based on the result. The new Firefox claims to be 7 times faster, very stable, crash resistant and protects your privacy.

Mozilla Corp. is getting involved with its users a lot lately, perhaps because Firefox has been receiving some real competition from Chrome.

See how my Firefox speed test went. (Ya I know it's slow. :P )

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Check your speed now: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/speed/

Many Firefox users complain about it's unpredictable and high memory usage. In my case, it consumes a small amount of RAM as you can see in the screenshot above but this is not the case with everyone else.
Some users have noticed Firefox's memory usage extend even above 1GB which is not okay because nobody wants their PC to lag just because of a browser.
People should understand that memory usage can be high not only because of buggy program codes but also because of number of tabs currently open, java or video or flash embeds, Javascripts, buggy plugins or extensions etc. While the former can be fixed by sticking to latest release of the program, the later has to be manually sorted out.

Mozilla Firefox - about:memory

You can monitor Firefox's memory usage by going to their about:memory page or about:memory?verbose for a more detailed report. Other than providing detailed analysis of memory usage for tabs and plugins, the page also has a button that helps minimize current memory usage.
To stay away from sudden memory upsurge, stick to latest stable releases of  Mozilla Firefox.
You can know about other significant about pages by going to about:about.