Digg Extension for Firefox 3 Released
Digg today released an official extension for Firefox 3 which adds a toolbar to your Firefox. It works pretty much like StumbleUpon toolbar. With this toolbar, you can know whether the page you are visiting is already submitted to Digg or not.
You can Digg new stories directly from this toolbar and if a story has already been stumbled, it will show you the Digg count and the number of comments on that story.
Firefox 3.1 Alpha 1 Available For Download
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.
How To View PDF Files As HTML In Firefox
by Haris on July 25, 2008
in Firefox, Tips and Tricks
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.
Orca Browser: A Firefox 3 Based Browser
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.
Firefox 3.0.1 Is Now Available For Download
Mozilla announced last week that they will be releasing a security update to their world-famous browser, Firefox 3, on July 16. And it looks like they lived up to their promise.
Firefox 3.0.1 is released a day later of Firefox 2.0.0.16, and almost a month after the new Firefox 3 was released and they made a world-record for the most downloaded software in 24 hours.
How To Disable Firefox 3 Awesome Bar
by Haris on July 15, 2008
in Firefox, Tips and Tricks
With the release of Firefox 3, a new address bar was introduced which along with your URL history, also drops down URLs from you bookmarks.
This has proved handy for some people, but many dislike it and have their own opinions why it shouldn’t be like this. Here is a small about:config trick that will enable you to disable this awesomeness.
Tweak Firefox 3 With FasterFox 2.0
This is a very nice tool to perform some nice performance and network tweaks for Firefox. It is one of the most popular tweaking tool for Firefox 2, which due to some reasons never got updated for Firefox 3. It is still left in experimental stages.
Firefox 3 World Record Is Now Official
Mozilla today confirmed, that the world record they attempted to make for the most downloaded application (Firefox 3) in 24 hours has finally become official. They also confirmed that the official number that has made to the Guiness World Records is 8,002,530 times downloaded on June 18th, Download Day! It’s just two weeks since Mozilla attempted this world record, and the overall number of downloads tops 28 million.
How To Display Richer Colours In Firefox 3
by Haris on June 22, 2008
in Firefox, Tips and Tricks
Firefox 3 has a built-in advance colour support for images and page layouts. But by default, this has been disabled because by disabling it, it increases your Firefox’s performance by 10-15%. But if you have fast computer, there is no harm in enabling it then. Once you enable it, you will see a quite noticeable difference in the image quality.
