CheckPlaces Firefox extension was originally built to clean-up your Firefox bookmarks by detecting and deleting duplicate bookmarks, empty folders and dead or failed (invalid) web pages. CheckPlaces version 2.1 now has the option to compact and optimize your Firefox databases, vacuuming is now part and parcel of this must-have Firefox extension. More»
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Mozilla has announced the end of the Firefox 3.0.x series, there will be no more updates for Firefox 3.0.x, this means Firefox 3.0.19 will be the last the last security and stability update to of that series.
Firefox 3.0 was released 2 years ago, in June 2008. Its time to embrace Firefox 3.5.x and 3.6 branches of the open source web browser. According to the Mozilla developer’s weekly meeting notes Firefox 3.0.19 update is estimated to be released on the 30th of March.
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I you have Firefox Mobile on your mobile device then try out these keyboard shortcuts that make browsing with Firefox Mobile “Fennec” much easier. Those who use Firefox on their desktops certainly know common shortcuts like Ctrl+T to open a new tab or Ctrl+W to close the current tab – these and others like
– Go to Location Bar: Ctrl+L
– Quit Firefox: Ctrl+Q
also work in Firefox Mobile. More»
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Mozilla’s Stephen Horlander that showed us some iterations of Windows design mock-ups for Firefox 4 has posted again on his personal blog a couple of animations showing what might be tab-tasks in still-to-come Firefox 4.
The goals of these animations as Stephen puts it, is to give a visual clue to the functions of Tabs. The animation posted here simply shows how adding a new tab is will be an animated task.
For more details and Tab tearing animations with affordance move to Stephen blog.
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Many years back, Aaron Boodma wrote the Greasemonkey extension “exclusively” for Firefox, now working with Google, he has bent and twisted Greasemonkey so well that thousands of user scripts written in JavaScript now natively work in Chrome – just like any regular Chrome extension. Its a big smack to Firefox, if you consider that its even easier to get user scripts working in Chrome unlike in Firefox where you have to install the Greasemonkey add-on then get the script. More»
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