Firefox 4 for Mobile RC released, hints of new badge-collecting social game Firefox Spark

The near-final Release Candidate of Firefox 4 for Android and Maemo is now available to download. The final release is expected in the next week or so.

Moving away from the beta builds, this RC is more of a stability and spit-polish release than anything else. Usability-wise, the release notes point out that there are now 150 add-ons that work with Firefox 4 for Mobile, up from 100 last month -- and there's now a Form Assistant, which should make logging into websites a lot easier, especially if you have Firefox Sync enabled.

The most significant change is that the now-infamous checkerboarding from page rendering and scrolling is now a lot less prevalent, thanks to smarter rendering and page loading algorithms. Likewise, JavaScript performance has apparently been improved, but we haven't had a chance to confirm it yet. There's a promotional video from Mozilla that demonstrates Firefox 4 for Mobile after the break.

Finally, the RC contains a link to Firefox Spark, a new badge-collecting website, which seems to be one of Firefox 4 for Android's 'launch goodies.' As far as we know, Firefox Spark will be a social game, where you share the Firefox for Android download link, collect badges, and level up. We're not sure of the exact details yet, though.

Grab Firefox 4 for Android from the Market or download the Maemo version.

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Tag Heuer's Mikrotimer Flying 1000 Watch Looks Like It's Trying to Take Off [Video]

It may be the first watch to ever measure (and show) what 1/1000th of a second looks like, but your friends down the pub won't care for that. They'll just keep asking you to "make it fly again!" More »

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UPDATED: BlackBerry Messenger to hit iPhone on 26th April?

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IE9 is the most energy-efficient modern browser, according to Microsoft's own testing

Of all the battlefields we've witnessed in the browser wars, this one's never really crossed our minds before: energy efficiency. Yes, the power efficiency of a piece of software, not hardware, is being touted by Microsoft as a differentiating feature for its fresh new Internet Explorer 9. It's thrown together the top five most popular browsers and put them through a cycle of benchmarks -- including Microsoft's own FishIE Tank graphics acceleration test, but not the somewhat popular Adobe Flash -- while measuring how much power they use beyond what the underlying Windows 7 system needs to keep itself going. Shockingly, IE9 was the winner each and every time and there's a tenuous conclusion drawn that if you want good battery life, you'll be going with Internet Explorer. Oh well, whether you consider them a good laugh or really valuable buyer's advice, there's plenty more of these power consumption comparisons at the source link below.

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Novatel's USB551L 4G LTE modem hits Verizon March 31st

Samsung's new LTE mobile hotspot may have managed to sneak out a bit early, but it looks like those opting for Novatel's USB551L LTE modem instead will still have to wait a few days. Verizon has just confirmed today that the modem will be available on March 31st for $99.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate (on a two-year contract). As expected, the modem packs both Windows and Mac support out of the box, and promises download speeds up to 12 Mbps and upload speeds of up to 5 Mbps. Still no word on Novatel's 4510L MiFi, though we presume it will be following shortly. Full press release is after the break.

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Indulge Your Desire for Precision With the OCD Cutting Board [Desired]

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The Best Deal of the Day [Dealzmodo]

Remember that movie with James Franco? The one where he's trapped under the boulder or something, and he has to saw his own arm off? I think it won an Oscar? I forget, I never saw it. I did, however, see Blue Valentine, and it almost made me cry. It was really good though! But anyway, imagine, for a moment, if that James Franco movie had been about a big laptop instead of a boulder or whatever. Trapped under a massive, leaden laptop from the late 90s. Awful plastic hinges, giant ports! A laptop leviathan. This scenario isn't that far-fetched. It could happen to you. At work. Or at home. Right now. You could find yourself pinned under your laptop. Trapped. Desperate. Ready to saw off your own limb. Or, if you bought this new 11-inch MacBook Air (with free shipping!), you'd be able to lift the thing off of you with ease and then frisbee it out of your nearest window. Show that computer who's boss! Now you're as handsome and famous as James Franco. -SB More »

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