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So, Firefox 3 is coming.
Mozilla want us all to download it on the same day to set a world record. The thing is, they don't seem to have decided when that day is going to be yet. If you click on the cute firefox there, you get whisked off to their 'pledge to download' site. You have to give 'em your e-mail address to pledge, but they use it to e-mail you the release date - when they've made their minds up when that's going to be, of course.
As I type, there have been 2,262 pledges in total; 68 from the UK, 96 from the US and, bizarrely, a staggering 462 from Spain.

Anyway, I am assured that Firefox 3 is amazing, fantastic and brilliant with-a-cherry-on-the-top. Husband has been using one of the beta versions and raves about it, particularly the resize-ability of pages and images, its stability (although I can't say I've ever had a problem with Firefox crashing) and is less of a drain on the memory.

In case anyone reading this is still on the prehistoric IE6 or the bloody awful IE7, the arrival of Firefox 3 is the ideal excuse to switch browser. Firefox is the best thing since sliced bread, mostly because you can trick it out with all kinds of themes and extensions / add-ons.

Here's what's on my Firefox:
Qute theme - with small icons.
Adblock Plus - gets rid of annoying adverts.
British English dictionary - automatic spell-check. Excellent!
del.icio.us - 'social bookmarking'; much easier than ikeepbookmarks and hopefully much more reliable.
Research Word - highlight word, right click, search YouTube, Google images, dictionary.com, Wikipedia, IMDb, Amazon, etc.
Undo Closed Tabs button - tabbed browsing is possibly the best browser invention ever; closing a tab accidentally, not so good.
TubeStop - stops the automatic playing of YouTube videos. Now you can open videos in several tabs at once without having to go to each tab to stop them all playing at once.
URL Link - allows navigation to broken or unlinked URLs.
ChromEdit - along with about:config, it lets me tinker under Firefox's bonnet.

But you probably knew all that already.

via A Welsh View

Comments

[Teresa]

*snort* I've only ever used it as a browser; apparently I'm boring.

[em]

I have been on the Firefox 3 betas for a while as it 'leaks' less. Big improvement though not all my add ons are compatible yet but include scribefire (for blogging), stumbleupon, blueorganizer (bookmarking to anything), Zemanta (blogging),British Eng dictionary,Greasemonkey and Googlecustomize (for secure access).
It's these that keep me using Firefox and Flock.