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Firefox 3.7 is now Firefox 4.0 Beta 1, free to Download!

The Mozilla developers have released the beta version of upcoming Firefox 4.0 web browser. You might know that this version was suggested as Firefox 3.7 previously and has now been renamed to Firefox 4.0.

A release date of the final version of Firefox 4 is expected somewhere at the end of this year.

firefox 4 beta

Firefox 4.0 has a new interface design and some new improvements:

browser tabs are now on top of the address bar by default
menu bar has been replaced by Firefox button (Vista & Windows 7 only)
the stop and reload buttons have been merged into a single button
the bookmarks Toolbar has been replaced with a bookmarks button
new add-ons manager, which is not completely available in the beta release. It is for instance not possible to search for and install add-ons directly from the manager.
some HTML5 capabilities have been improved, with support for web standards such as WebM video and other HMTL5 related features

You may find more information about Firefox 4.0 by visiting the official release notes page.

Download Firefox 4.0 Beta 1

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The hit series of online “Will It Blend?” videos now includes the iPad.

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Next Google PageRank Updates – 2010

What is Google PageRank Update?

Google PageRank update, as the name suggests, means updation of your PageRank by Google, i.e updating your website’s old PageRank and assigning your website a new Google PageRank.
Though the update of PR does not have significant effect on Google rankings, but still people anxiously wait for the update.

Pagerank have a range from 0-10. A site with PR 0 is least important and the site with PageRank 10 is the most important in the eye of Google.

Google PageRank Update for the year 2010

Last PageRank (PR) Update	31 December 2009
First 2010 PageRank (PR) Update	31 March – 3 April 2010
Second 2010 PageRank (PR) Update	30 June – 31 July 2010
Third 2010 PageRank (PR) Update	31 December – 3 January 2011