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Official Mozilla Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 for Download

eches — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:09:31 +0000

After releasing stable Firefox 3.0.7 few days ago, Mozilla announced the Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 which is now available to community tester and its developers. Firefox 3.1 was, in the first place, intended to be an incremental update but plan was changed as there are significant feature set introduced.

Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 which is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform, brings a lot of impressive changes, including new features for users and developers and performance enhancements. The changes include:

Available in 64 languages so get your local version
Improvements to web worker thread support
Improved the new Private Browsing Mode
Improved performance and stability with the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine
Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering
New native JSON support
Support for new web technologies such as the and elements, JavaScript query selectors, the W3C Geolocation API, SVG transforms, (CSS 2.1 and 3 properties) and offline applications.

I just get Mozilla Firefox 3.1 installed. Don't worry about conflict that might be triggered between your current Firefox version with the beta version. The beta version won't overwrite or interfere with your current Firefox. Obviously there will be several plugins that don't work until updates are made for them.

Download Mozilla Firefox 3.1 Beta

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Portable Mozilla Firefox 3.0.7 for Download

eches — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:57:40 +0000

Mozilla Firefox is a full featured web browser that is easy to use with lots of great features including tabbed-browsing, popup-blocking, integrated search, automatic updating, improved privacy features and many more. With Firefox web browser is rapidly building up its market, portable version of Firefox is one one way to keep the momentum going. Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition appears to be more versatile and more importantly you don't have any trouble running Firefox on computer that has privilege restrictions.

This portable Mozilla Firefox 3.0.7 allows you to run it virtually on every computer; just make sure to carry it in your USB flash drive. Portable Firefox 3.0.7 has all features of normal Firefox 3.0.7 and as usual it fixes several issues encountered in Firefox 3.0.6.

It runs a bit slower but it doesn't bother me much.

Download portable Mozilla Firefox 3.0.7.

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Check Places – Check Duplicate Bookmarks in Firefox

eches — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:57:30 +0000

I bookmark many new pages everyday and imagine how easily my bookmark collection swells into a pile of messy favorite pages. With the burgeoning number of bookmarks, categorizing them into proper categories is essentially important. Unfortunately, as time goes by your memory might betray you. You may start adding the same exact page again in different category or even sometimes in the same category. How about pages that become obsolete and may no longer available for access? How do you handle that?

Checking each and every bookmark is not a practical option; it's tedious and a waste of time.

Check Places is a useful extension that is able to clean sweep all Firefox 3 bookmarks for duplication or obsolete pages. By installing the plugin, the new Check Places entry will be added to the bookmarks menu for easy access. A click on the menu will automatically pop up a new window so that user can customize how the scan should be done.

This add-on is small but versatile. It is able to scan the entire bookmarks or even on selected folders. It can also include exclusions to folders or bookmarks.

The scan won't take long, a minute or so for few hundreds bookmarks. The results are then displayed, detailing the bookmarks that are no longer exist or identified as duplicates.

Please note, this add-on is still in experimental, so you can only download this little plugin after you successfully login into Mozilla site.

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Download Original Flickr Image with Flickr Original 1.0.1

eches — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:53:57 +0000

Flickr images are available in various sizes and this give viewers many resolutions to choose from. While this seems to be a pretty convenient feature to most of the viewers, it might add hassle to those who love to download the original pictures because they need to go all the way through photo page, choosing the original size before they can safely download it into their computer.

Flickr Original is another Firefox plugin that provides perfect solution to the hassle. This plugin allows users to download Flickr original pictures just simply by right clicking on the thumbnail and choose to download the original Flickr image from the menu. So no more unnecessary steps! Easy huh?

Download Flickr Original

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Download Youtube Videos in High Definition (HD) mp4 format

eches — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:21:46 +0000

This special Firefox plugin that I'm about to introduce in this post was specially created to take advantage of the recent introduction of high definition videos on Youtube. The new HD feature in Youtube get buzzed with many websites attempt to explain how viewers can enjoy and bring excitement of watching Youtube videos to the next level. What they might be missing is to address how viewers can grab those high quality videos off Youtube.

This little plugin makes it easy to Firefox users to download any Youtube high definition (or even normal) videos in mp4 format. There will be no popup whatsoever that might be bugging you while you surf and watch videos. Once installed, there are 2 links in the panel (right) that contain the url and embed links which read "Download as MP4" and "Download as 720p HD MP4".

To save the video, simply right click on the either link and "Save Link As". Sit back and relax until your videos are completely downloaded. Please note that the HD link only works on HD videos. You may try to download it but you will quickly notice that the name of the file (and its extension) isn't correct

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Firefox 3.1 Incorporates Private Browsing Feature

eches — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:59:26 +0000

Firefox is making the right move in order to keep pace with Internet Explorer & Google Chrome by incorporating Private Browsing feature into Firefox 3.1. This feature will put Firefox users completely under the radar, so users of the same computer will not know where you wander on the internet.

If you browse on the web looking for the most suitable gift for your family members, they can be be a little bit observant (as the event drawing near) and sometimes they can be a bloodhound when it comes to this kind of things.

They can easily smell birthday present (that should only be known during birthday party) and this is especially true when all of family members use the same computer. Making an online purchase while in private browsing mode will ensure not even a single trace is left behind that might give your family members a hint on what the present would be.

Technically, when in private browsing mode, all cookies are only stored during the browsing session and will be flushed out as soon as the session ends. Apart from that, the visited site will not be stored in the history like we always experience, password will not be asked and auto-complete will be available but the entered data will not be remembered.

While waiting the stable Firefox 3.1 stable to be available, Firefox users can use Stealther addon in order to have this functionality.

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How to Remove Firefox Extension Delay

eches — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 01:12:17 +0000

Everybody loves Firefox because its wide range of plugins or extensions to choose from. Wondering where to look for Alexa ranking plugin or anything under the sun; you can always find them in its large repository over at Firefox Add-On. There is, however, a small thing that bugs Firefox user when they are about to initiate a plugin installation; the notorious 3-second delay.

You might wonder why it's there in the first place and here is the explanation.

Firefox’s solution, from bug 162020, is to delay enabling the “Yes”/”Install” buttons until three seconds after the dialog appears. I believe that this is the only possible fix other than completely denying untrusted content the ability to pose the dialog. Unfortunately, this fix is frustrating for users who install extensions often.

Some users have been intentionally lowering the delay to 0 seconds, which frustrates me. These users think the delay was added merely to force everyone to read the dialog. I surprises me that these users were not able to figure out the security hole given the fix.

If you use Firefox plugin lightly like me you might not be as disturbed as people who love to play around with new plugins in Firefox Add-Ons arsenal.

Solution

This can be done in any version of firefox.

1. Type in "about:config" in address bar.
2. Click on "I'll be careful, I promise!"
3. Find "security.dialog_enable_delay" and set it to zero and you are done!

Please be reminded, removing the delay might expose you to unexpected security breach. You may want to read this article to get better picture of the situation and why the delay is implemented in Firefox in the first place. As far as my laptop is concerned, it never fails to be up and running as usual like every other day :)

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ChromiFox: Chrome Styled for Firefox 3

eches — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:50:13 +0000

Google Chrome fever is not over yet, at least not in this blog. What now? :) For those in love with Google Chrome interface but still prefer to use Firefox, you may want to try Chromifox. As the name suggests, it is a new theme for Firefox with its design based on Google Chrome interface. Though you are not really into Google Chrome, you might be enticed by the refreshing look of Chromifox as it will definitely give your mundane Firefox interface a new uplift.

If you want to try this out, you may want to visit Chomifox: Firefox Add-ons. Chromifox is still a Beta release so you need to to sign up over at the website before you can download the theme.

Chromifox, from the developer of Camifox, is another blatant rip-off of another default theme from another great open source web browser! This time, the target is Google Chrome, or more specifically Chromium, the open source project behind it. The clean lines, slick layout, and compact style of Chromium were the points of inspiration for this theme. Chromifox offers a coat of Chrome for Firefox.

Here is the mirror link hosted at Rapidshare if you hate the sign up hassle. Good luck in Chromifoxing your Firefox.

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How to open websites in Google Chrome from Firefox

eches — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:32:27 +0000

Google Chrome is really the buzz of this week with many bloggers were so excited to talk about the release of Google's first ever web browser. While many people anticipate more plugins in the near future like they experience with Firefox, there have been few developments of tweaks or hacks to further improve Google Chrome functionality and more are expected to come soon. Such developments encourage other developers to integrate Google Chrome into their applications.

Amit Agarwal over at Labnol had done some modifications on IE view in order to integrate Google Chrome into Firefox browser. This plugin will effectively enable an option for a Firefox user to open an external link by using Google Chrome from Firefox browser. The only downside is this little hack cannot run together IE View as there are variables conflict. As far as I'm concerned, it's not a problem at all since I use Internet Explorer occasionally and I don't use IE View.

To install this hack, first you need to download opengooglechrome.xpi. Once finish, simply drag and drop it on your Firefox browser. After that there will be a pop-up that requires you to install it and you are required to restart your Firefox browser right after that.

We are not done yet but we are almost there. Next you need to go to Tools -> Add-ons -> Options and browse for the chrome.exe file on your Vista / XP / Windows 2000 machine.

In Windows XP, Google Chrome installs under \Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\ while in Windows Vista, Google Chrome installs in \Users\\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\

That's it and you are good to go.

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How to Disable Automatic Virus Scanning in Firefox 3

eches — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:35:07 +0000

I came across several posts since last week on how to turn off virus scanning in Firefox 3. It makes me wonder why I don't see such a feature after completing a download. The virus scanning however appeared for the first time today (was I being too observant or what?). It's a Word file (*.doc), so I presume the feature is only activated when we download certain types of files which might affect our computer systems.

The file I downloaded today was not that big (roughly 100kb), so the scan took place pretty quickly. I guess the time taken will be longer as the size of file downloaded is bigger. Even though it doesn't pose any problem yet, I better turn this off as I don't see any significant security enhancement being delivered. From I could gather from around the net, if a file is suspected to contain a virus, Firefox will effectively give warning message that reads "Blocked: Download may contain a virus or spyware" though we know for sure it is not.

Here is the steps need to be taken to turn this feature off.

1. Type in "about:config" in Firefox URL bar and press Enter. To confirm, click on "I’ll be careful, I promise! button".

2. Type scanwhendone in the Firefox cpanel Filter box ( look at top ). You should see something like "browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone" in the results window.

3. Double-click on this entry or right-click on it and select "Toggle". Now your setting value to "False".

4. That's it! Close firefox, restart your Firefox and you are good to go :)

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SearchStatus: Firefox Extension to Examine Sites Performance

eches — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:19:29 +0000

I'm always curious about performance of websites I visit and that explains why I installed Alexa plugin and Google pagerank bar. They are, however, only related to alexa ranking and Pagerank. On top of that, with more Firefox extensions need to be installed, this will somehow contribute to excessive memory consumption on Firefox.

SearchStatus is a Firefox extension that allows you to see how a website is performing by presenting related information on a compact toolbar. This extension is particularly useful to people who do research on their competitors performances.

By installing SearchStatus, it lets you view the Google PageRank, Google Category, Alexa popularity ranking, Compete.com ranking, Alexa incoming links, Alexa related links and backward links from Google, Yahoo! and MSN. This combined search-related information means you can view not only the link importance of a site (according to Google), but also its traffic importance (according to Alexa), so providing a balanced view of site efficacy. If you like to lurk on somebody's website performance, you may want to try this out.

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Firefox plugin: View PDF files as HTML

eches — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:09:51 +0000

As many documents are documented in PDF format nowadays, I always look for lighter PDF reader such as Foxit Reader to open PDF documents. While everything seems to be on the right place there's only one feature I would like Firefox 3 to have; to open PDF file in the Firefox itself. This appears contrary to my previous post but bear in mind, when I published that post I still didn't know about the existence of alternative readers other than sluggish Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Like I mentioned above, Firefox 3 does not allow PDF files to be opened in its browser and you need to download it before you can open it. If you wish to open PDF files directly inside Firefox you need to use this useful plugin, PDF Download.

PDF Download is specially built to handle Web-based PDF files viewing and thus lets you quickly use the high quality PDF files that are ideal for printing and sharing.

List of features

Convert Web pages to PDF. (NEW) Convert any Web pages to great looking PDF files, and then save, share, print or archive them.
View PDF as HTML. View the contents of PDF files faster and eliminate browser problems by instantly converting any Web-based PDF to a browser-friendly HTML Web page.
Control PDF files in Firefox. Stop crashes and get the upper hand on Web-based PDF files by automating and controlling how your Firefox or Flock browsers deal with them.
Works in your language. Through the help of our users, PDF Download is now available in 19 languages and counting.

Download link

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Free up memory usage in Firefox with RAMBack

eches — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:49:00 +0000

Firefox 3.0 was very much awaited with the anticipation that the memory consumption problem in the previous version was improved. It seems the same problem still plagues this latest version of Firefox. I know there are few tips out there to improve the memory consumption, but it doesn't change much.

RAMBack is a firefox plugin that can, to a certain extent, reduce memory consumption especially when you open too many tabs. The memory is increasing but not as much as without this plugin. Basically RAmback clears out memory cached that is not in use.

Apart from using this plugin you should take a closer look to other addons too because few of them can cause the Firefox to leak memory.

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Firefox 3.0 sets a Guinness World Record

eches — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:30:50 +0000

Today, the highly anticipated new version of the internet browser Firefox has finally released. Firefox 3 is expected to set a Guinness World record for most downloaded software in 24 hours with over 3 million downloads. The following is the screenshot taken from Spread Firefox.

However, there's perils come on the way to set the single day download record. It wasn’t available for download until 1:00pm EST and on top of that some bloggers had reported an exceptionally long download time of the new browser.

While people care about the Guinness World Record, let's see some of the cool features in Firefox 3.0

Instant Web Site ID - Avoid online scams, unsafe transactions and forgeries with simple site identity.
Improved Performance - View Web pages faster, using less of your computer’s memory.
Smart Location Bar - Find the sites you love in seconds—enter a term for instant matches that make sense.
Platform - Native Look & Feel - Browse with a Firefox that’s integrated into your computer’s operating system.
One-Click Bookmarking - Bookmark, search and organize Web sites quickly and easily.
Full Zoom - See any part of a Web page, up close and readable, in seconds.

So what are you waiting for? Get the latest Firefox 3.0

Download the new Firefox browser

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List of Social Bookmarking Plugins in Firefox

eches — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:21:16 +0000

Social bookmarking is becoming more popular and it can be seen from the emergence of hundreds of new social bookmarking sites all over the net. With hundreds of them, efficient submission becomes demanding and this explains why there are several services on the net offer to do the submission on our behalf at a certain price.

Anyway paid submission services lack of flexibility; typically they submit the same description all over the social bookmarking sites. The link building will look automated and unnatural. Sooner or later bookmarking sites will catch you and worst of all you site will be banned forever from their systems. Speaking of efficient submission, I'd already made a review on socialmarker, and yeah it's good at mass submissions.

Anyway, I'm no longer a big fan of socialmarker. One of the reason is it takes ages to move from one social bookmarking site to another. Rather than do mass submission, lately, I tend to use del.icio.us and few more social bookmarking sites frequently and less for the rest.

In the quest of finding alternative and better way in doing bookmarking, I found Bookmarker, a Firefox plugin that enables you to save and manage all your bookmarks online. So far, it supports

1. del.icio.us, digg.com
2. diigo.com
3. ma.gnolia.com
4. mister-wong.de
5. netvouz.com
6. linkarena.com
7. alltagz.de
8. memori.ru

While this plugin is doing great, it doesn't, however, cover most of other social bookmarking sites. So here some other related Firefox plugins as well.

1. Folkd - Social bookmarking made easy! Save, tag, discover the best webpages and share everything with your friends. The folkd.com toolbar buttons and Browser sidebar is all you need!

2. SFE (Simply) - Adds social bookmarking capabilities with tags and notes to Firefox using Simpy. This extension was previously known as Simpy.

3. Alltagz - For use with www.alltagz.de, a german social bookmarking site

4. Delicious Bookmark - The Official Delicious Add-on seamlessly integrates your browser with del.icio.us, the leading social bookmarking service on the Web.

5. Faves - Faves (formerly Blue Dot) is a Social Bookmarking service that lets you save your favorite web sites, tag them, and share & discuss them with your friends, family, and Faves users with similar interests. The Faves toolbar adds two buttons: one to create a bookmark of the current.

This post will be updated from time to time as there will be more plugins coming in, so don't forget to bookmark this post :).

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