Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve already heard that development on Firefox 3 is pretty close to done. Well as of today, it’s done. The Mozilla crew want to set a world record for most software downloads in 24 hours, so head over to http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/firefox3 and grab your copy today!
As you likely know by now, Google has updated their favicon.ico from the boxed G (
)to a lower case (with no box) g (
). However, Firefox continues to use the old icon in the search bar.
Old Google Firefox Search Bar
New Google Firefox Search Bar
To switch to the new icon in your Firefox Search Bar, keep reading. …
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Google recently changed their favicon.ico from the ever familiar boxed G, to a smaller g. If you’re not a big fan of the new icon, you can install this Greasemonkey script and pretend the change never happened. You will of course need to be using Firefox (or Safari) as your browser to use Greasemonkey scripts.
Using the amazing Firefox Addon GMarks, you can import your Firefox bookmarks to Google Bookmarks, and then add a GMarks menu item to replace your Firefox bookmarks. And you get a number of extra features, one of the best being quick search. Follow the instructions outlined below and your bookmarks will be organized like never before. …
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The PortableApps.com Suite is a collection of free portable apps including a web browser (Firefox), email client (Thunderbird), office suite, calendar/scheduler, instant messaging client, antivirus, sudoku game, backup utility and integrated menu, all preconfigured to work portably. This guide will take you through installing and setting up PortableApps to best suit your needs. …
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This brief tutorial will take you through the steps required to add favicons to your Bookmarks Toolbar in Firefox 3 Beta 5. This is a tutorial requested by the friendly How-To Geek.
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Using the Firefox Add-on GooglePreview, you can have thumbnails displayed next to each search result for both Google and Yahoo.
GooglePreview installs the same way most other Firefox add-ons do, and you’ll have to restart Firefox for it to take effect.
If you’re a Firefox fan, but get frustrated with the number of times it crashes on your Mac, or would like to squeeze some extra performance out of it, you should give Firefox Mac Community Builds a look. They have G3, G4 and Intel specific builds of Firefox – from v1.5 right though to the nightly builds of Firefox 3.
Using the very helpful Toolbar Buttons Firefox plugin, you can add more than 70 ‘new’ buttons to your Firefox Toolbar.
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If you’re a die-hard Safari user, you may want to check out one of Firefox’s best features – Greasemonkey. Using the free software SIMBL and GreaseKit, you can run most of the scripts created for Greasemonkey – in Safari. And Mailplane. And all WebKit apps. So now you can use the genius that is Folders4Gmail while using Safari. …
One of my favorite Greasemonkey scripts is Folders4Gmail – and it was updated today to work with the latest version of Gmail. Once again my Gmail filters are folders.
With the very helpful Firefox addon Source Viewer Tab, you can view a pages source code in a new tab, rather than a new window (which is the annoying default). …
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This tutorial will guide you in setting up and using FireFTP – a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox. …
The following brief tutorial will show you how to open multiple web sites, each in their own tab, every time you launch Firefox. …
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This brief tutorial will show you how to enable spell check in web page forms (text input fields) in Firefox.
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