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<\/a><\/p>\nToday, my Fedora updates pulled in brand new and shiny Firefox 29.0<\/a> and the first time in years I am actually liking it.\u00a0 The first thing that stands out immediately is the much cleaned up user interface.\u00a0 The tabs look slick and main menu is moved into a single icon to the upper right corner, much like Google Chrome has it.\u00a0 The menu is also reworked into a customizable area of icons, rather than nested text items.\u00a0 The second important addition is the browser synchronization.\u00a0 Once you create an account and enable the sync, your tabs, passwords, history, and forms will automatically synchronize between different machines.\u00a0 That’s a very handy feature for those who have different home and office computers or some other scenario with multiple devices.<\/p>\n There is still a long road for the Firefox browser to catch up with Google Chrome though.\u00a0 Two things that come to mind are the performance and the ability to install\/uninstall extensions without restarting the browser.\u00a0 But I sure appreciate all the hard work that went into this version.\u00a0 After all, open competition pushes all products and the end user ultimately benefits.\u00a0 It’s been a long while since there was a feeling of competition in the browser marketplace.\u00a0 It’s good to catch a scent of that again.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n It’s been a long time since I stopped being a Firefox fan.\u00a0 Back when it was the only full featured open source browser, it was awesome.\u00a0 But then the development slowed down, the browser started eating memory like a starving Godzilla, and daily application crashes became a norm.\u00a0 On top of it, Google Chrome came … Continue reading Firefox 29.0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62,1334],"tags":[20,2302,991],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-21756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-browsers","tag-firefox","tag-milestones"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t