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Two weeks ago Mozilla released the beta 1, Now Mozilla is come with Firefox 3.6 beta 2 again. This release includes over 190 bug fixes from beta 1, in addition to the already existing performance boosts and support for one-click themes. if you're already using 3.6 beta 1, those 190+ bug fixes seem like they'd be well worth the update.Firefox is one of the most pospular Software and no doubt it is the best Web Browser. So what makes this web browser so special? It is because we can customize it by installing add-ons and plugins. Most of us will be downloading content from web often and sometimes it seems to be difficult to manage downloads. Here are some of the best Firefox add-ons which will answer to all your download management requirements.Firefox has just released Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 and its available for download. This beta version of the next version of Firefox is built on the Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering engine, containing many improvements for web developers, Add-on developers, and users.
This first revision of the Beta of Firefox 3.6 / Gecko 1.9.2 introduces several new features:
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Mozilla Firefox 3.5.4 is now available for download. Many of you must have aleady got notifications of the update from automatic update. This latest Firefox release brings in security and stability updates to your browser which makes it important for everyone to update. According to the release notes, the total changes list include 124 items with seven marked as critical and 13 as major.You can: Download Firefox 3.5.4
A common misconception for site users is that the author of any random article basically just records his or her thoughts on a topic and publishes it to the site. To some that’s all there is but if you want traffic and maybe eventually become an authority in a particular area then the steps can pile up. The actual fact is blogging requires a lot of steps in order to be successful and some of these include: choosing a niche, planning for an article, researching the topic, subscribing to RSS feeds, keyword planning, SEO management, image editing, writing, marketing of articles, and responding to the various comments. Yeah, it can be a lot of work so let’s take a look at some add ons that can ease the stress load a little.
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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.
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Autofill Forms enables you to fill out web forms with one click or a keyboard shortcut.
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Brief makes reading RSS feeds as easy and intuitive as it gets. Designed to have exactly the right set of features, it is powerful and simple at the same time. Feeds are presented on a seamless, interactive page which let’s you bookmark and tag items with a single click.
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Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies. Have you ever had to compress an image for the web but once placing it against the bg color, realize the two colors no longer match. For me it’s easiest to use this plug-in to see what the image color changed to and adjust as needed. This is good stuff!
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CustomizeGoogle is a Firefox extension that enhances Google search results by adding extra information (like links to Yahoo, Ask.com, MSN etc) and removing unwanted information (like ads and spam). All features are optional and easily configured.
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DownThemAll is all you can desire from a download manager: it features an advanced accelerator that increases speed up to 400% and it allows you to pause and resume downloads at any time.
DownThemAll is fast, reliable and easy-to-use! It lets you download all the links or images contained in a webpage and much more: you can refine your downloads by fully customizable criteria to get only what you really want!
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Despite its compact size, Download Statusbar packs in more useful features than the standard download window. The fully customizable interface auto-hides when not in use, allowing full control without interruption.
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Generate “Lorem Ipsum” dummy text (from http://www.lipsum.com). Minimum text length: 5 words. Context menu option on form inputs (”Insert Dummy Lipsum”). This option fills automatically the selected field.
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Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page. This is a must have if you do any coding at all. I can’t imagine not having it.
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Along with transferring your files quickly and efficiently, FireFTP also includes more advanced features such as: directory comparison, syncing directories while navigating, SFTP, SSL encryption, search/filtering, integrity checks, remote editing, drag & drop, file hashing, and much more!
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Adds the ability to capture web pages (take screenshot of entire of visible part), edit it, add annotations and upload to free screenshot hosting, save (PNG, GIF, JPEG, BMP), print (NEW!) copy to clipboard, send to external editor or e-mail it.
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Simply highlight a single element (e.g. a paragraph or a strong tag ), right-click and select `Font Finder`, then marvel as the full CSS text styling of the selected element appears.
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Manage multiple Gmail accounts and receive new mail notifications. Also, allows you to view account details including unread messages, saved drafts, spam messages, labels with new mail, space used, and new mail snippets. As far as I know this is the only way to manage multiple gmail accounts. This is a better option for me than having it all forward etc.
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KGen (Keyword Generator) is an extension that allows you to see what keywords are strong on visited web pages. Than, you can retrieve them for social sharing (tag filling) or webmastering/SEO.
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Draw out a ruler to get the pixel width and height of any elements on a webpage.
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Allow active content to run only from sites you trust, and protect yourself against XSS and Clickjacking attacks.
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This extension gives you the ability to close all tabs, while opening another one that will make it look like you are doing what you should be doing. It was break time right?
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Allows quick enable and disable of Java and Javascript from statusbar.
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ReminderFox displays and manages lists of date-based reminders and ToDo’s. ReminderFox does not seek to be a full-fledged calendar. In fact, the target audience is anybody that simply wants to remember important dates (birthdays, anniversaries, bills, etc) without having to run a whole calendar application. ReminderFox makes sure you remember all of your important dates via easy-to-use lists, alerts, and alarm notifications.
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Seoquake is a Mozilla Firefox SEO extension aimed primarily at helping web masters who deal with search engine optimization (SEO) and internet promotion of web sites. Seoquake allows you to obtain and investigate many important SEO parameters of the internet project under study on the fly, save them for future work, compare them with the results, obtained for other, competitive, projects.
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If you use one or more sites like Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, LinkedIn, etc to share you’ll love having Shareaholic by your side. Shareaholic makes sharing online better, faster & easier.
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Browse faster by speeding up common tasks – faster downloading, searching, visiting favorites, copy & paste, and more.
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Tab Mix Plus enhances Firefox’s tab browsing capabilities. It includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more. It also includes a full-featured session manager.
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TwitterFox is a Firefox extension that notifies you of your friends’ status on Twitter. It’s all about muti-tasking and now you can tweet and blog at the same time. Now that’s is what I call power blogging!
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URL Fixer corrects typos in URLs that you enter in the address bar. For example, if you type google.con, it will correct it to google.com (asking first, if you enable confirmation). This version will correct common misspellings of .com, .net, .org, .edu, .gov, .mil, and all other mainstream TLDs, as well as the protocol (http:, https:).
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Xmarks is the #1 bookmarking add-on. Install it on all your computers to keep your bookmarks and (optionally) passwords backed up and synchronized. Xmarks also helps you uncover the best of the web based on what millions of people are bookmarking.
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We will also suggest you try one experimental Addon:
Be in control of which cross-site requests are allowed. Improve the privacy of your browsing by not letting other sites know your browsing habits. Secure yourself from Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) and other attacks.
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Firefox is most loved web browser in the world with millions of active users. Twitter is a social networking site which as gained huge popularity in a short span of time with millions of registered users. No doubt people want to combine these two great internet players in one. As Firefox is well known for customization you can install extensions and add-ons to add more functions to web browser. There are many Twitter add-ons for Firefox which enable you to perform many functions of Twitter right from Firefox web browser.
As more and more people are joining top social networking site, Twitter, programmers and web designers are constants creating new add-ons for Firefox to improve Twitter functionality. Here are some Top Firefox add-ons using which you can tweet, reply to tweets, direct messages, and tell people what you are viewing and much more. Check these cool extensions and feel the freedom and joy of Twitter in your Firefox web browser.
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TwitterBar is most loved Firefox extension for Twitter because using this extension you can tweet your message directly from the address bar. After you download and install this cool plug-in you can see a small Twitter icon by the side of address bar. Type your message in the address bar and click on the Twitter icon to post your tweet to your account. Mouseover Twitter icon will show you how many characters left as Twitter allows you to post message that is up to 140 characters long. You can also tweet URL of the page that your are viewing by simply clicking on the Icon.
Power Twitter changes the way you look at Twitter. It adds many extra features to the Twitter web interface which offers extra functionalities. Using this add-on you can view all sorts of web media like YouTube, Google Maps, TwitPic, etc., right in Twitter web interface. It also expands any shorten links so you can know which page it is actually linking to. Power Twitter can also shrink links, translate links to page titles, target search a user and photo uploading. Facebook status update is an extra function you can get by using this Firefox extension.
Echofon is formerly known as fox is a great add-on to use in Firefox. It allows you to have one click access to your Twitter account and shows you number of unread messages in the status bar. You can manage multiple accounts with this plug-in and it can also handle other simple Twitter functions like retweet, direct message. When you use Echofon Pro for iPhone it will also sync your unread tweet with iPhone.
Twitbin is a small Firefox add-on which appears in sidebar. You can manage Twitter account right from Firefox sidebar. Using this extension you can view conversations, send messages, share links of the web pages and much more.
After you have downloaded and installed TwitKit in Firefox you can see a sidebar in your web browser. It has 6 section interfaces so you can separate contents on Twitter page easily. You can view your timeline and friend’s timeline in separate tabs. Twitkit enables you to view latest tweets from your followers and friends and your account stats. You can change its appearance to suit your preferences.
If you love music and wants to share the songs and tracks that you are listening with your friends and followers then Twitty Tunes is here for you. It can also post websites that you visit and videos you watch to your Twitter account. You can assign Twitty Tunes to automatically submit songs you specify with one click.
Normal 140 character limit is not applicable if you use Twizer Firefox extension. Using this little application you can post messages longer than 140 characters to Twitter account easily. It also expands any TinyURL links to help you know you click on safe links.
Yoono is a Firefox sidebar which helps you to stay connected with all your friends across various social networking sites and instant messengers from one place. It supports Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Flickr, Yahoo IM, AIM and many more. Using this simple application you can share stuff like links, videos, images, etc across all your social networking sites at once with one click. You can update you status on all networking at once hence your friends can always know what you are doing.
Instant Tweets is much similar to TweetBar. Using this application you can tweet from Firefox address bar and also share link of the page you are viewing. To tweet or share link click on the bird icon that is present by the side of address bar. It will show number of characters left as you type or shorten long URLs automatically. To share images just right click on it to tweet image link. You can also know when somebody is following you. Bird icon will turn blue when someone is following or it turns red if not.
Firendbar is both Twitter and Facebook toolbar for Firefox web browser. Using this application you can manage both great social networking accounts from one place and keep in touch with friends on both networks. It will constantly stream updates from your Facebook and Twitter account right in the browser. You can post updates, tweets, retweet, @messages, direct messages from the toolbar itself. It will automatically generate a TinyURL of the webpage you are viewing so you can share the link easily on both sites. It can post messages on both networks at once or separately.
Most of us would like to share music with our friends. Using Song.ly you can share music links with your friends on Twitter easily. If you come across a music link and want to share with your friends just right click on it and select sony.ly. Link will get shared automatically with your friends. When they click on the shared link they can listen to the song directly in their web browser.
StockTwits is a great gift to all online traders who wants updates information about the stocks they hold. You can also search and follow the stocks such that you get all the latest tweets related to the stocks that you follow.
Twitter has millions of users tweeting about various topics. Twitter search helps you to find tweets related to a topic by searching content. By using this extension you can know what people are thinking about a topic or you can use it to simply find people on Twitter. This powerful search engine will answer all your Twitter search needs from your browser.
