A new version of the Firefox browser, now available for testing mainly by developers, offers improvements on finding frequently visited websites and tools for running Web applications without a live Internet connection. The Beta 1 version of Firefox 3 released this week still has problems, including the inability to run newer Web-mail programmes from Yahoo Inc and Microsoft Corp, and a final version for consumers isn`t expected for several months. But it offers a window on what's to come. Many of its new features concern bookmarks, an area typically slow to change in the browsing world. One can now add keywords, or tags, to sort bookmarks by topic.
Firefox 3 Beta 1 is now available for download. This is the ninth developer milestone focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 3. Moxilla.org do not recommend that anyone other than developers and testers download the Firefox 3 Beta 1 milestone release. It is intended for testing purposes only.
Better YouTube Firefox extension Version: 0.2 Better YouTube is a compilation of scripts written by several Greasemonkey script authors.
* Theater View (Large Video + Clean Page) YouTube Theater--Enlarges video full-screen . * Centre and Enlarge Video YouTube Resize * Disable Autoplay Videos don't automatically play. * Expand "About This Video" Automatically displays the full video information. * Hide Comments and Related Videos YouTube Cleaner 2.0--Removes comments and related videos.
Flock 1.0 beta integrates a Firefox engine with built in social-networking tools. The browser lets users add photos to their Flickr account by dragging and dropping, creating new posts to their blogs etc. Version 1.0 beta includes the People sidebar for managing your friends lists, a media bar showing the latest uploads from you and your friends, several usability and stability fixes as well as the latest security patches from Mozilla.
Firefox extensions for tab addicts For Firefox users who are constantly referring to multiple pages, tabbed browsing is not a feature, but a way of life. There are enough of us that the Firefox addon page lists more than 110 extensions related to tabs.
ChromaTabs 2.0 Tints browser tabs with a colour specific to the website loaded. This helps you identify tab contents based on a distinct visual cue. Tints browser tabs with a colour specific to the website loaded. It can pick a random colour automatically (based on the site's hostname), or it can pick a colour based on the site's tab icon.
After Mozilla had some hard time fixing a Password Manager bug, which exposed passwords willingly and without the users consent to different sites, it seems that there is another yet controversial security problem surfacing: