You will need Picasa installed on your system, if you wanna download the Picasa Web Albums. Perhaps not! You can download the whole album without installing Picasa on the system.
DownThemAll, a Firefox add-on can do it for you. Install the extension on Firefox. Click on the RSS Feed icon in the address bar of Firefox. On the landing page, right click & select DownThenAll from the Menu.
About a month has been passed, I installed Ubuntu 8.04. Firefox 3 was the default installed on it.
From starting I faced lot many problems regarding the Flash on FF3. Somehow sometimes it played flash videos, but always got hanged after playing 4-5 seconds of video. After referring lot many google searches, I installed FF3, 'lashplugin-nonfree', 'swfdec-mozilla', 'adobe-flashplugin'.. lot many times. But still the problem was not solved.
Finally, Part of Solution found on Ubuntu forums, got it worked. This is how:
sudo apt-get purge flashplugin-nonfree gnash gnash-common swfdec-mozilla && sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree libflashsupport
That leads to flash working on Opera only, still not in FF3. The problem I got when I launched it from command line. It was not able to initialize shared libraries. So copying all the shared libraries (.so files e.g. libnss3.so, libssl3.so, libplc4.so.. total of 16 files) from FF3 source to '/usr/lib' got it worked.
In one corner we have Internet Explorer 7. After 18 months of development and a shiny new set of tabs, Its in top shape and looking better than its predecessor ever did. That is, before it entered the ring with Firefox 2.0. Now its just a cripple with fancy RSS reading.
Microsoft leaves no doubt what their products are. If they made toilet paper it would be called Butt Wiper. Internet Explorer isn't a bad name, but it's not spectacular.
This battle wasn't pretty. Firefox runs on more versions of Windows than IE 7 does. And it was all downhill from there.
Latest Version of Firefox can be downloaded from here.
Check out the graph.
The overall interface of IE has also been cleaned up and simplified.
Unlike IE 7, which has reorganized its toolbar, Firefox 2 changes only the look and feel of its buttons.
Tabbed Browsing
Perhaps the biggest change within IE 7, aside from the overall interface redesign, is tabbed browsing.
Firefox 2's tab updates are generally a step ahead of IE's. For example, you can configure Firefox to always save your last session for future use; with IE 7 you have to click a box every time.
RSS
However, you have no way to quickly preview the feed's contents without opening the feed's rendered page in IE, which somewhat defeats the purpose
Firefox 2 makes the raw [RSS] feed understandable, and offers a range of new subscription options.
Add-ons
Another area where IE7 has serious shortcomings is with add-ons that give extra features to the browser, most of the add-ons you'll find aren't free.
Thousands of Firefox addons are available.
Performance
IE 7 still uses essentially the IE 4 Web engine. So in terms of page performance.
Mozilla Firefox 2.0, which updated its Web engine with Firefox 1.5, remains the much faster browser.
Conclusion
The new Internet Explorer is a solid upgrade, but it's disappointing that after five years, the best Microsoft could do was to mostly catch up to smaller competitors.
Of the two rivals, Firefox remains the better application.
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When it comes to using the world's most famous alternative browser Mozilla FireFox, You should consider more when you use it.
Here are some essential Firefox extensions
1. Extended Statusbar
A Statusbar with Speed, Percentage, Loaded size of the webpage ( like in Opera )
Adds an Opera-like statusbar to Firefox that shows:
-number of loaded images
-bytes downloaded
-average download speed
-load time
-percentage of the page loaded
2. Image Show-Hide
By clicking on icon on the toolbar (Or "Shift+Z" shortcut) you can simply turn on|off images on all web-pages and (optional) autoreload current page!
Recommended,
If you want to reduce time in loading the page.
To save your bandwidth on your limited internet broadband connection.
3. Undo Closed Tabs Button
Tired of going to History->Recently Closed Tabs just to undo a closed tab? Then this extension is for you! This extension allows you to undo closed tabs via a toolbar button, right-click context menu or even a shortcut (Alt+Z).
4. Web Developer
Web Developer is very usefull extension, if you are a web developer. ItAdds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.
5. Flashblock
Flashblock is an extension for the Mozilla, Firefox, and Netscape browsers that takes a pessimistic approach to dealing with Macromedia Flash content on a webpage and blocks ALL Flash content from loading. It then leaves placeholders on the webpage that allow you to click to download and then view the Flash content.
Flashblock currently blocks the following content types:
-Macromedia Flash
-Macromedia Shockwave
-Macromedia Authorware
Recommended,
To save your bandwidth on your limited internet broadband connection.
6. CustomizeGoogle
CustomizeGoogle is a Firefox extension that enhance Google search results by adding extra information (like links to Yahoo, Ask.com, MSN etc) and removing unwanted information (like ads and spam). All features are optional and easily configured.
View a short introduction movie at http://www.customizegoogle.com
It shows number of results as soon as you typing your search phrase in the search box in Google.
It matches your search phrase with other most searched phrases (or phrases with large no. of results) and shows those phrases under search box.
Recommended,
To get relavant search phrases instantly matched with your search phrase.
7. DataFox
DataFox is a bandwidth usage monitor for BSNL , DataOne and MTNL TriBand.
It is a cross platform extension written for Firefox.
DataFox works by obtaining usage information directly from the BSNL / MTNL usage site, it does not monitor your network in any way, so usage details probably won't change until you logout of DataOne / TriBand and log back in again.
8. Fast Video Download
Fast Video Download can save embedded video files from following video-hosting servers:
Angry Alien, Anime Episodes, Anime Forever, Bad Jojo, Blip.TV, Bo-Funk, Bolt, Break.com, Bubblare.dk, CollegeHumor.com, Current.TV, Daily Motion, Danerd.com, eVideo Share, Google Video, Grinvi, iFilm, Libero.IT Video, HI5 (VideoEgg), My Space, MetaCafe, News.NTV.ru, PornoTube, Put File, Streetfire, Totally Crap, You Tube, V-Social and Vidiac.
Recommended,
When yoy watch videos in youtube, you always think about saving them on your computer, This extension can help you there.
It saves the video which is currently you are viewing.
It saves the video from the Firefox cache, will not download the video from the server again.
9. Firebug
Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of web development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.10. YSlow
Speed up your webpages with YSlow.YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they're slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool. YSlow gives you:
-Performance report card
-HTTP/HTML summary
-List of components in the page
-Tools including JSLint
