Firefox 3.1 Alpha 1 (Shiretoko) is already here and is now available for download. It looks like yesterday only Firefox 3 was released, and here we are today with the first alpha version of Firefox 3.1.

Firefox 3.1 is scheduled to release by the end of this year which will have a new visual tab switching feature that will work like the Alt + Tab switching feature in Windows.

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Today morning while browsing on Firefox, I found a new trick to quickly open new tabs. May be you would already be knowing about it, but for me it was new and I thought I would also share it with you in case you didn’t know about.

I accidently doubled clicked at the empty area in my tab bar (mostly its full), and suddenly a new tab opened. At first, I thought I must have used to key combination for that. But again when I double clicked in that area, another new tab opened. Till now I’ve using the Ctrl + T key combination to open new tabs, but I guess this new trick will help me open tabs more quickly!

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Firefox 3 browser does not have any feature to view PDF files in it. In fact it downloads the PDF files and opens them in your Adobe Reader (Foxit Reader recommended), which is a double pain for most of us.

To directly view them in your browser, I use a Firefox extension called PDF Download. Using this addon, you can do whatever you like with the PDF files online. PDF Download by Nitro PDF Software is the leading tool for handling and viewing Web-based PDF files and is enjoyed by millions of Firefox users every day. The browser extension removes the pain often experience when encountering PDF files online, and now lets you quickly convert your Web pages into high-quality PDFs that are ideal for archiving, printing and sharing.

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FireNES is a Firefox addon that lets you play over 2500 NES games right from your Firefox. This addon fetches games from another online Java powered NES emulator.

This is an ultimate time waster where you can play your favourite old games for hours. Turn your PC into a NES Emulator with this addon and play without downloading or installing any other emulator or separate ROMs.

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Orca Browser is another web browser, after Flock that is based on Firefox 3 engine and offers a bunch of features that are not found in Firefox 3 unless you don’t add add-ons and tweak your browser settings.

It is an extremely fast and user friendly web browser by Avant Browser team, designed to add more functions on the latest Firefox. First thing after installation you will notice its speed, which is definitely faster than Firefox 3 and Opera 9.5.

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