Firefox 3: A Browser Odyssey
Posted 06/30/08 at 08:48:41 AM by Nathan Edwards
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Three Must-Have Extensions
Add-ons, also known as Extensions, are what set Firefox apart from the crowd—be it the stuffy inflexibility of IE or the all-inclusive weight of Opera. You may not need built-in RSS, BitTorrent, or mail clients, or you might merely want the opportunity to pick the best available extras to construct your ideal browser a la carte. There are thousands of Add-ons for Firefox to suit every personality and preference. But there are three we think everyone can benefit from.
Shareaholic makes sharing links with your friends and social networks easy.
FireGestures: Once you’ve used mouse gestures to navigate, you’ll wonder what you ever did without them. There are many mouse gesture extensions out there, but we like this one the best, and it’s already Firefox 3 compatible.
Shareaholic: Share links on Digg, Reddit, del.icio.us, Facebook, and many other sites from a single drop-down button.
Foxmarks: Automatically sync your bookmarks between multiple computers. Supports Firefox 3, as well as profiles (currently in beta)—keep your work bookmarks and home bookmarks separate, but access them from anywhere.
Zoom In, Zoom Out
In Firefox 3, the whole page resizes, not just text—buy-bye, layout snafus!
Firefox 3 finally introduces full-page zoom. Previous versions of Firefox resized only text, breaking layouts, tables, and hearts. No longer. Press Ctrl- to zoom out, Ctrl+ to zoom in, or just hold Ctrl and zoom in and out with your mouse wheel. Firefox 3 even remembers your zoom preferences for each website—set it once and forget about it! Or if you’re old fashioned, disable full-page zoom by going to View > Zoom > Zoom Text Only.
IE Tab Takes care of IE only web sites
Submitted by jrollins12574 on Fri, 03/13/2009 - 5:30pm
The power of Firefox is the add ons and the security of the browser.
Grab the IE Tab add on if you need an IE emulator.
The Firefox add ons are closest thing to getting web 2.0 out to the world.
Check out Ubiquity and you'll be hooked.
Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo
Submitted by mss627 on Thu, 07/24/2008 - 1:00am
I've used IE7, Firefox and Opera. I still don't see what everybody's raving about. The biggest problem with these 2nd party browsers is that sooooooooooooo many websites only support Internet Explorer. Netflix, MLB.com almost every TV website not to mention the intranet at work. I don't care if mozilla includes a BJ with every download. Until the mainstream websites adopt it it's pretty much worthless.
Hey butters! Great
Submitted by Strongbad536 on Thu, 07/03/2008 - 9:38pm
Hey butters! Great article. I love the personas thing you can do with FF3. Keep up the great work!
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Submitted by Shalbatana on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 6:02am
Hey look! Yet another article posted before I get a chance to read it in the magazine, which will show up at my door next week sometime! And It's already been here for a few days!
Hell, do I really need the subscription anymore?
Of course I will keep my hardcopy coming to the house, but others won't. It's offensive to see word for word posted free before I even get my paid version.
There's no time like the future.
Submitted by mynet43 on Tue, 07/01/2008 - 5:56am
I've been using Firefox 3 since the early release candidates and now I'm using the official release.
My experience is that it it very fast and very unstable. The browsing is faster but it crashes several times per day while I'm using it. The recovery feature seems to work pretty well.
I've tried a couple of the 'Minefield' Firefox 3.1 pre-releases but none of them support the Firefox extensions, so they're useless for those of us that depend on the extensions (like RoboForm).
I can't wait until 3.1 is released. The 3.0 features are great, the stability is horrible. Still better than IE...
Submitted by oihorse on Mon, 06/30/2008 - 8:52am
Why use Foxmarks over Delicious (or vice versa).
Anyone?
Personal preference,
Submitted by nedwards on Mon, 06/30/2008 - 9:29am
Personal preference, mostly.
At the time of writing, there were still a lot of problems with Delicious integration to FF3. Foxmarks is also less obtrusive.
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