Hopefully, by now you’ve grabbed your copy of Firefox 3 and consequently played an active role in helping our favourite browser set a new Guinness World Record. Here’s an added perk for being such an avid follower of Firefox – a personalised Firefox 3 Download Day Certificate stating your role in helping Firefox achieve the world record. I got mine just now and here’s what it looks like…
Getting the certificate is as easy as filling up this form (with just your name) and grabbing the generated PDF File.
Incidentally, I managed to grab my copy of Firefox 3 only today morning – almost 12 hours after the official release. Last night it was literally impossible to access any of the Firefox download sites due to the initial download rush.
Installation went smoothly and all my earlier settings & bookmarks were preserved – though a couple of extensions failed to work (Fasterfox, FEBE and TabMixPlus). None that I will sorely miss, (for the time being) except for FEBE. On the good side, FF3 DOES take a shorter time to fire-up. How about you? How was your initial experience with FF3?
For those who didn’t know, the guys at Mozilla are reaching out for a new Guinness World Record for the most downloaded software in a span of 24 hours – with the support of it’s million plus fan base.
The software which will strive for this record is the all new Firefox 3 (with more than 15,000 improvements), which is being launched on the 17th of…
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There are plenty of preview tools sprawled around the vastness of web – Snap Shots, GooglePreview etc. to name a few. Each come with its own set of features and modus operandi. For example, Snap Shots provides small thumbnail previews of a site when you hover your mouse over the link on the site. GooglePreview, which is an extension for Firefox provides automated snap shots…
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For all the ardent Firefox users out there this might come as a bit of a shock – but did you know that for quite sometime Firefox is being silently blocked across thousands of sites !! This is an act of direct retaliation by a group of site owners, developers & webmasters who’s main objection is that Firefox actively endorses Adblock Plus, a plug-in that…
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Here’s a short but sweet one. If you’re daunted by the task of creating OpenSearch plug-ins for your site or any of your favourite sites, fear no more. OpenSearchFox is a cool new Firefox extension that can create such plug-ins for you with a single click.
Is it really that simple?
Absolutely so. All you need to do is install the extension and then browse to the…
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Following the tutorial(s) I posted on creating OpenSearch plug-ins for Firefox that can search Invision Power Board based forums & WordPress blogs, I received quite a few requests for help in creating such plug-ins for a wide variety of blogs/CMS/sites.
To make the job easier for all of you, I decided to create a couple of sample plug-ins, which I’ll list here as zip files. The…
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An article at CyberNet shows you a cool trick to make Firefox 2 render the Tabs according to the installed theme of your OS. Normally Firefox tabs are rendered same across all OS-es, be it Windows, Linux or Mac and are kind of bland if you consider the visual aspect. Those who like fancy graphics / themes might find this particularly unappealing…
Say for instance, in…
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In my earlier tutorial titled Creating OpenSearch Plugins for Firefox (adds to the QuickSearch bar) I taught you how to write a basic OpenSearch XML format plug-in that can be used with both Firefox 2.x and IE7. The demonstrated example consisted of creating a plug-in that searches through Invision Power Boards.
As an afterthought, I felt like coming up with another quick tutorial on creating the…
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