Firefox 3 was recently released to the world. Here are some links covering its launch:

Power User’s Guide to Firefox 3 - lifehacker.com
Firefox 3 Sets Record 8 Million Downloads in 24 Hours - spreadfirefox.com
IE Sends Mozilla a New Cake for Firefox 3 - arcanology.com
Firefox 3 Sets Record 8 Million Downloads in 24 Hours - spreadfirefox.com
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The latest Firefox Beta, version 5 came out this past week and I was hoping that they would have made the change to the to the buttons they’ve been talking about. But they didn’t and the huge, ugly Back button still sticks out like wart on Margaret Hamilton. Thankfully though the fix is fairly simple [...]

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Welcome to the second round in our Safari 3 vs Firefox 3 series. Round one covered speed, which is a big factor. In round two, we’re going to cover security and standards.
Both security and standards are important, and because they’re so short I decided to lump them together. Also, I’m ignoring the Windows versions of [...]

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If you’re a Firefox user you’re probably always on the lookout for great extensions. ExtremeTech has came up with probably the most useful and genuine list I’ve ever seen. Here’s the link, it is comprised up of four different lists:

10 Best Firefox Web Developer Extensions (listed below)
10 Ways for Better Surfing
10 Useful Information and Reference [...]

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These two services (TinyURL and shortURL) are great for taking long URLs and processing them so that you can use a different shorter URL to link to the original one. This is useful for stuff from IM, to Email and Twitter (got keep it under 140 characters!). In Safari there’s the script that uses the [...]

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Bookmarklets are basically short JavaScript codes that can be opened like a regular bookmark and apply a function to an open web page. One of the most interesting bookmarklets I’ve run into is the Open All Links bookmarklet. It simply locates all the links on a web page and asks you if you want to [...]

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After a period of hiatus I’m trying Flock once again, and I’m loving it. Before there weren’t many (or any at all) Firefox extensions working on Flock but now every single one that I use is on Flock.

One small thing that bothered me at first that I changed was the default search being Yahoo, and [...]

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I use 1Password all the time to store and generate long and strong passwords. However the little icon that 1Password installs for Firefox doesn’t match with my Safari-like theme (Proto) that I have installed for Firefox. To change the icon so that it matches with Safari’s here a little hack I [...]

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Many of you have probably been wanting to use the new, faster and better looking Firefox 3 Beta, however it can’t use your favorite extension(s) and you’re stuck with Firefox 2. Thanks to this quick hack you can use the new FF3 Beta and still have your extensions.

Open about:config in the address bar.
Right click on [...]

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A friend of mine recently discovered that you can drag tabs in between Firefox and Safari. I’m not sure if this works with other browsers but I think it most likely does

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