Filed under: Productivity, Mozilla, Search, Browsers
Firefox's new tab page adds a bit of RSS
Built-in start pages are all the rage in the latest browsers. Chrome and Safari each show slick-looking selection of your most visited pages when you open a new tab, and now Firefox is getting into the game with its own new tab page for version 3.5 (formerly known as version 3.1). The Firefox About:Tab page isn't as flashy as the other two, but it might be a bit more practical, now that it features a little bit of RSS. Firefox's new tab screen-- previously covered on Download Squad -- now shows an unobtrusive list of your top sites down the side of the page, instead of the full-page graphical layouts other browsers use. It also shows a button to Google search or Google Map whatever's in your clipboard with one click. The real advantage of the list format over the graphical version wasn't obvious to me until the latest version of About:Tab, though: the list is ideal for displaying a few RSS items from your top sites, so you know if they've been updated before you click through. This new RSS feature works automatically, and -- for me, anyway -- it gives Firefox the edge over Chrome or Safari's start pages.
Pocket Internet Explorer has a lot in common with Internet Explorer for the desktop. It might not be the best web browser for the platform, but it's the one that comes with the operating system, so most people use it. If you've got a Windows Mobile phone or PDA and want quicker page rendering, tabbed browsing, or support for Flash video, you're best off 
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
