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The behaviour of opening the web links in new tab has been changed in Firefox 3.6

Links opened in new tab will now open in the immediate next tab to the current page. This behaviour is not something new for Google Chrome users.

If you don’t want to have the new behaviour and revert it back to the old one, then given below are the steps to be  followed.

1. Open a new tab and type about:config

2. Click on the promise button to go next stage.

3. Search for the Preference Name browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent

4. Double-click on the resulted row to change the Value to false.

5. All done. Close the tab.

All the new tab windows will be opened in far right in the tab bar.

Few weeks back we have published an article about Google Chorme Ads in London streets.

Given below is one of the advertisement posters fount in London Tube station. Checkout the contradictory statement given by Google Chrome in the Ad.

Not sure whether this is corrected or not.

Firefox 3.6 released on 21 Jan.

This video will give you an introduction on what is new in Firefox 3.6.

Do you remember when did you join Twitter? Do you want to know when did your friend join Twitter? You need not struggle too much to know these dates.

www.whendidyoujointwitter.com is a cool web app that gives the date on which you or your friend joined Twitter.

Website Link : www.whendidyoujointwitter.com

You can follow me on http://twitter.com/vijayforvictory

Mozilla rolled out the new edition of Firefox today.

Firefox 3.6, the new version, has some cool features that include Personas,  HTML5 Support, One click theme update and a lot more.

Visit Firefox Features to konw more details about the cool features included in the new  edition.

Download the new Firefox 3.6.

Bill Gates is joined Twitter yesterday, 19 Jan 2010. 

All Microsoft fans, you can now follow Bill Gates in twitter @billgates.

He had also got the “Verified Account” stamp on his profile which confirmed that he is the man himself.

First tweet from Bill Gates is,

"Hello World." Hard at work on my foundation letter – publishing on 1/25.

Below is Bill Gates’ Twitter stats, at the time of posting this article.

143,425 followers,

listed in 4,396 lists and

following 40 tweeple.

Another interesting fact is that, Bill Gates fist followed @ashleytisdale even before following @microsoft

PI has always been an interesting mathematical constant. Most of the mathematicians in the world are using Pi to derive formulas.

Newton himself worked on the digits of Pi and spent a lot of time using one of the formulas he developed to get a few extra digits.

31 Dec 2009, Fabrice Bellard, a computer programmer/scientist from France, claimed the new world record for calculation of Pi, having it to nearly 2.7 trillion places. He announced that he used his desktop to calculate the 2.7 trillion digits.

By having 2.7 trillion digits, he had broken the previous record of 2.6 trillion digits by Daisuke Takahashi at the University of Tsukuba in Japan. The previous record was set using multi million Super Computers; where as the new record has been set using a desktop computer.

Few of the interesting facts about his findings.

• It took 131 days to calculate 2.7 trillion digits
• Used a desktop of Core i7 CPU at 2.93 GHz, 6 GB of RAM and 7.5 TB hard disks.
• Linux – Red Hat Fedora 10 distribution was used for this calculation.
• Desktop used to calculated the 2.7 trillion digits is worth less than 2000 Euros.
• The base 10 results needs 1137 GB  of storage space.

Let us wish him to continue his research to find more. This would definitely give a new dimension to Aribitrary Precision Arithmetic techniques.