Posted on May 29th, 2008
The Mozilla team is going for the world record with the official release of Firefox 3. They want to be the most downloaded software in the first 24 hours after release ever. I’m saying ever because this record attempt is a first, there is no magic number to beat and it will be the first entry in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Firefox 2 reached about 1.6 million downloads in the first 24 hours and that’s probably the figure that needs to be reached as a minimum but only the sky is the limit as the FAQ on the page points out.
Dedicated users can pledge to download Firefox 3 during release day. It’s a pretty nice table sorted by countries. Currently more than 79K users have pledged to download Firefox during release day with the United States taking the lead followed by Spain, Poland and Germany.
If you want to pledge to the cause visit the Spread Firefox site and add yourself to the list. The release date will be published on that site as well.
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Posted on May 26th, 2008
I usually work with the keyboard in Firefox whenever possible which speeds up many processes in Firefox. I was always a bit irritated that I had to click on a search result after searching on a search engine. This did not feel right and natural.
After typing the search phrase and hitting enter it would be natural to be able to select the first, or any other, search result from the list without having to move the hand away from the keyboard to grab the mouse and click the link.
Several Firefox users must have felt the same way because multiple Firefox add-ons have been created that deal with that matter. One that has not been updated in 18 months is the Search Keys extension which adds visible keys to the search results.
The first result would be labeled 1, the second 2 and so on. Pressing the corresponding key on the keyboard loads the search result in the same tab. Pressing ALT (CTRL in Linux) and the number will open the search result in a new tab while SHIFT and the number will open it in a new Firefox window.
The keys comma and period are used to navigate search results pages. This is not working in all search engines though. A quick test revealed that all keys are still working when searching Google while the comma and period shortcuts are not working in Yahoo.
Posted on May 20th, 2008
The guys over at Firefox Facts are explaining in an article how to backup the Firefox passwords manually. This is interesting for everyone who needs to quickly move passwords from one computer to another and those who want to backup their passwords regularly without using a Firefox password exporter extension.
All three files that need to be copied are located in the Firefox profile folder. This profile folder is normally located in your Application Data or AppData folder of the Windows user profile or ~/.mozilla/ in Unix or ~/Library/Mozilla/ and ~/Library/Application Support/ on a Macintosh.
The following three files contain all the information about the passwords: signons.txt, signons2.txt, key3.db. Moving them into another Firefox profile would remove the old passwords of that profile and replace them with the new ones.
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Posted on May 10th, 2008
Let me describe what I would like to do. When I open the bookmarks menu in Firefox I can load one bookmark at a time that is in a folder. I know that I can load all bookmarks in a folder by middle-clicking on the folder directly which loads all the bookmarks and removes every other open tab in the process.
This is not what I’m looking for. I would like to be able to pick multiple bookmarks at once and load them all in new tabs once I’m finished. Much like the left-click CTRL option in Windows Explorer when selecting files.
I tried to find a solution but no Firefox add-on or option seems to offer it. I know that I have got some Firefox geeks among my readers which is why I’m asking this question here.
Posted on May 2nd, 2008
Don’t you hate it when you visit websites that divide articles to increase their pageviews and look more appealing to advertisers this way ? While some websites provided a print link that displays the full article others do not have this luxury and if you want to read the full article you have to click next a dozen times.
Not very user friendly if you ask me. enter Repagination for Firefox. This little Firefox add-on adds an option to the Firefox right-click menu when hovering over specially named links. It only becomes active on links that are either numbered (1,2,3,4) or named Next.
The option Repagination becomes visible on those links. If you select it you can load all other parts of the article below the current part. That is extremely useful for paged articles. You can limit the amount of pages that should be loaded below the current one, it ranges from 5 to unlimited.
Repagination comes with a slideshow option that is great for photo galleries. You can select a delay of 1 to 64 seconds until the next photo of the gallery is displayed.
The add-on does not work with any website that is dividing their articles though. Some websites prefer to name the next links and do not use next or a numbered approach. Those paged articles do not work that well.
A great addition to this add-on would be the option to use an automatic approach for some websites that you visit regularly.
