Firefox Extensions

In this issue… Extend Firefox 3.5 winners Art competition winners New Firefox 3.6 beta available Thunderbird 3 release candidate Identity in the browser Firebug 1.5 beta 5 Second beta of Weave Sync add-on User feedback after a Firefox update Fennec: nightly updates on Maemo Upcoming events Developer calendar About about:mozilla Extend Firefox 3.5 winners Extend Firefox 3.5 has wrapped up and the winners have been announced. “With so many...  

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Name: InvisibleHand Quick Pitch: InvisibleHand is a Firefox addon that shows a discreet notification when the product you’re browsing can be bought for a lower price elsewhere. Genius Idea: While...  

By Scott M. Fulton, III, Betanews Download Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Beta 4 for Windows from Fileforum now.As Web users anticipate data from NetApplications and other services that could show Mozilla Firefox having eclipsed the 25% mark in global usage share for the month of November, the beta process for Firefox 3.6 has found an extra gear. Demonstrating that more user input can result in a faster turnover process for developers' builds, rather...  

Using CSS gradients in a background allows you to display smooth transitions between two or more specified colors without having to use images. This in turn reduces download time and bandwidth use, looks better while zooming, ...  

The Mozilla website hosts – among other programs and files – the web browser Firefox and the email client Thunderbird. The very same website is also a directory for Firefox and Thunderbird add-ons which can be browsed and downloaded from the website. Add-ons can be sorted in various ways including by popularity, date, name or [...]  

Firebug is one of the most popular Firefox extensions for troubleshooting CSS problems. Firebug Lite is a JavaScript file that simulates some of Firebug’s features in Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari and other browsers. You can use the Firebug Lite bookmarklet in class. Due to our security settings you won’t be able to drag the bookmarklet to the Favorites/Bookmarks bar as [...]  

I realized something yesterday. I thought about the add-ons that caused me trouble lately by breaking Adblock Plus (and often the browser as well) — .NET Framework Assistant, Skype Extension, Ask Toolbar (a.k.a. Zone Alarm Toolbar a.k.a. Foxit Toolbar). I noticed that they all have something in common: none of these extensions is being hosted on AMO, consequently none of them had to pass AMO’s review process. So while AMO’s review process...  

Hi I have added some add-ons from Firefox, after the initial one was recommended by Lisa, ie Colorzilla. I then added Firebug, Flagfox, the HTML validator and finally measureit. None are visible onn the screen, except the flagfox one; which is just for a bit of fun really, it gives the country flag of the server where the web site is being hosted. How do I get the others to be visible please ?  

An anonymous reader writes "Researchers have found several security holes in popular Firefox extensions that have an estimated total of 30 million downloads from AMO (the Addons Mozilla community site). Three 0-days were also released. Mozilla doesn't have a security model for extensions and Firefox fully trusts the code of the extensions. There are no security boundaries between extensions and, to make things even worse, an extension can...  

I’m going out on a limb to say that if there’s a browser bloggers should be using, it should be Mozilla Firefox. Apart from the inherent speed and good JavaScript handling for the AJAX-powered websites, Firefox simply has the available add-ons to make blogging an easier activity.  Here are a few of my favorite blogger-friendly add-ons [...]  

This is a re-post from Rob Cambell’s personal weblog. Firebug 1.5 is the first release that will work with the upcoming Firefox 3.6 and also also works with Firefox 3.5. It’s currently in beta and will be available before the release of Firefox 3.6. As of this minute, Firebug 1.5 is sitting comfortably in its third beta and available for download. This version is shaping up to be our best release yet and initial reports have been very...  

Five years ago today, on November 9th in 2004, Mozilla Firefox heralded its first official 1.0 release. Emerging as a successor to the Mozilla Suite’s browser and positioned as a lighter weight alternative based on the same underlying technology, the open source web browser has seen countless point releases and two full point zero iterations [...]  

That's odd. Did you set up the site/blog yourself? Or, were you just given an Admin title but without the privileges on single WP with multiple users? Or, do you have a blog on a WordPress Multi-User installation where the Site Admin limited the capabilities of a blog Admin?  

Platypus is a Firefox extension which lets you modify a Web page from your browser — “What You See Is What You Get” — and then save those changes as a Greasemonkey script so that they'll be repeated the next time you visit the page. ...  

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