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If you a person that doesn’t inspired by Chrome (Google’s web browser) but still want to be into the web browser scene, you have the option now to turn your Mozilla Firefox to Chrome by simply installing the Chromifox theme. I got to know about Chromifox theme from Danny. Chromifox 1.0 is available for Mozilla Firefox 3 on Linux, Mac OSX and Windows platform. You can download Chromifox and install to your Firefox here. Make a change for your Firefox web browser today.

After one month of Firefox 3.0 released, finally I upgraded the Firefox 2.0.0.16 to Firefox 3.0.1 for my company’s notebook. I have no worries about all the extensions installed because the extensions I am using are compatible with Firefox 3.0.1 and there are many extensions available out there. That’s here I come in to recommend 25 must have extensions for hardcore web surfers and developers. Try Firefox 3.0.1 with the 25 extensions listed below and see for yourself their usefulness today.

Adblock Plus - Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them.

ColorZilla - Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies…

DownThemAll! - The first and only download manager/accelerator built inside Firefox!

Google Icon - Adds favicon to google search results.

GooglePreview - Inserts preview images (thumbnails) of web sites into the Google and Yahoo search results pages.

Exif Viewer - Displays the Exif and IPTC data in local and remote JPEG images.

Fast Dial - Fast access to your favorite sites through thumbnails, like Opera speed dial.

Firesizer - Allows you to resize the window to specific dimensions.

Fission - Fission combines address bar and progress bar (Safari style). This makes the progress bar more visible and allows for a nice visual effect.

Flagfox - Displays a country flag in the status bar depicting the location of the current website’s server, and provides quick access to detailed location and webserver information.

FoxClocks - FoxClocks lets you keep an eye on the time around the world - or just your local time - by putting small clocks in your statusbar. Choose from a set of useful time formats or create your own - custom formats are easy to create and very flexible.

Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer - If you use Firefox on more than one computer, you’ll want Foxmarks. Install Foxmarks on each computer, and it will work silently in the background to keep your bookmarks synchronized. You can also log in to my.foxmarks.com to manage your bookmarks from any computer.

FoxyProxy - FoxyProxy is an advanced proxy management tool that completely replaces Firefox’s limited proxying capabilities.

MeasureIt - Draw out a ruler to get the pixel width and height of any elements on a webpage.

Morning Coffee - Keeps track of daily routine websites and opens them in tabs…

NewsFox - NewsFox is an efficient 3-pane(email) style Atom/RSS feed reader.

NoScript - The best security you can get in a web browser! Allow active content to run only from sites you trust, and protect yourself against XSS.

Quick Locale Switcher - Allows you to quickly switch to a different language (User Interface, Spell Checker Dictionary and Website content) in your Mozilla application.

QuickRestart - Ever needed to restart Firefox after enabling or disabling an extension, switching to a new theme, or modifying configuration files (such as userChrome.css or user.js)?

Screengrab! - Screengrab saves entire webpages as images.

Server Spy - Server Spy indicates what brand of HTTP server (e.g. Apache, IIS, etc.) runs on the visited sites.

StatusbarEx - Show some useful information on statusbar of firefox, such as the memory usage of system & firefox itself, network speed, system power status, etc.

StumbleUpon - StumbleUpon discovers web sites based on your interests, learns what you like and brings you more.

Tab Scope - Preview and navigate tab contents through popup.

Undo Closed Tabs Button - Tired of going to History -> Recently Closed Tabs just to undo a closed tab? Then this extension is for you! This extension allows you to undo closed tabs via a toolbar and/or tab bar button or the right-click context menu.

Source: Firefox Add-ons

After releasing Firefox 3.0 by Mozilla on June 18, 2008, Mozilla is releasing Firefox 3.0.1 to fixed several issues found in Firefox 3. You can read more on the Firefox 3.0.1 release note here and Mozilla is happily to receive your feedback or submitting a bug in Bugzilla. You can now download the latest version of Firefox 3.0.1 here in variety of operating systems and languages.

However, you can also download the older version of Firefox 2 here and it will be maintained with security and stability updates until mid-December, 2008.

Awesome. The power of Firefox. Firefox 3 download has set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloads in 24 hours. A total 8,002,530 people downloaded Firefox 3 from 18:16 UTC on June 17, 2008 to 18:16 UTC on June 18, 2008. I am very proud to be part of the Guinness World Record holder and a Firefox 3 user. If you have missed the opportunity, no worries. Just proceed to download Firefox 3 web browser to enjoy safer, smarter and better web experience. Again, congratulations to Mozilla.

Source: Spread Firefox

You can have Safari style progress bar in your favorite Firefox web browser. With Fission, your Firefox progress bar is more visible and outstanding. Get Fission from Firefox Add-ons to extend your Firefox web browsing experience. To get the same blue 3D look Safari progress bar above, you can download the image here created by me. Fission works with from Firefox 2.0 to 3.0.

Source: Firefox Add-ons - Fission

Firefox 3 is finally here on my notebook. I had successfully download it this morning at 0215 MYT. The total downloads hit 5 million copies and keeps growing. Firefox 3 gives new features on user experience such as: -

• Easier password management
• Simplified add-on installation
• New download manager
• Resumable downloads
• Full page zoom
• Tab scrolling and quickmenu
• Save what you were doing
• Optimized open in tabs behavior
• Easier to resize location and search bars
• Text selection improvements
• Find toolbar
• Plugin management
• Integration with Windows Vista
• Integration with Mac OS X
• Star button
• Tags
• Location bar and auto-complete
• Smart bookmarks folder
• Bookmarks and history organizer
• Web-based protocol handlers
• Easy to use Download Actions
• Improved look and feel
• Color management support
• Offline support

To learn more on the user experience features above and other feature like performance, security and privacy, you can discover it here. Besides, to reward myself, I get a personalized copy of Firefox 3 Download Day certificate shown below in Portable Document Format (PDF).

So, flaunt it now.

Firefox 3 will be released very soon. We already know the official Download Day date is June 17th 2008. But, do you know the exact time? The official Firefox 3 Download Day time starts on 1000 Pacific Daylight Time (PDT). You can check your local times here. I had pledged and will stay up late to start download Firefox 3 at 0100 Malaysia Time (MYT) which is 1700 GMT/UTC. How about you?

Note: PDT is observing Daylight Saving Time (DST).

Source: Spread Firefox

I am very excited about the news I read in Mozilla Developer News that Firefox 3 is coming out officially on June 17th 2008, Tuesday. Will start my count down myself. 3 days to go. At the meantime, you can download the Firefox 3 Release Candidate 3 prior to the release of Firefox 3. It is available in more than 45 languages and 3 different platforms includes Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.

I will be joining the Firefox 3 greatest mission to set a Guinness World Record for most software downloaded in 24 hours. Lets pledge and dive for Firefox 3. Besides, just wondering anybody is hosting a party celebration for the Firefox 3 launch in Malaysia?

FoxClocks extension for my Mozilla Firefox. FoxClocks has extension for Mozilla Thunderbird and Mozilla Sunbird too. It’s Zone Picker tree lets you browse virtually all the world’s time zones by country, region or city. You can change the standard time format if you don’t like. You can even create your own custom time format. FoxClocks can take you to any location from Google Earth database. It is a very good extension for me because I need to work with different people globally for me to know their working hours.

The current stable version of FoxClocks is 2.1.93 released on 26 June 2007. The new features in this version are: -

• Keep up-to-date with automatic time zone database updates (can’t reach the Internet? Update automatically from your LAN)
• Set your clocks to change colour, e.g. make your clocks green from 9 to 5 local time
• Style your clocks: bold, italic, underlined
• Move your FoxClocks settings between computers
• Choose the right time zone more easily with a new Zone Picker (English-only)
• Show your clocks in the statusbar/toolbar, just in a tooltip, or both
• Sort your clocks by name or local time

You can set each clock’s country flag as below.

You can set each clock’s colour individually as below.

Source: FoxClocks

The award-winning web browser is now faster, more secure, and fully customizable to your online life. With the new version of Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.5, your online experience will become even better. Enjoy a Better Web Experience. Stay Secure on the Web. Personalize Your Browser. It is a cross-platform browser, providing support for various versions of Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

Source: Mozilla Firefox