Cool Firefox 3 facts
Here are a few Firefox facts for those who didn’t know them. They will not only save your time, but will impress your boss too. Now, you can switch to other browsers even when you are using Firefox 3. The new ChromeView add-on allows you to view the current page in Google Chrome. By simply choosing the option “View this page in Chrome” in the context menu, one can switch to Chrome.
For all those who have been using Firefox for a long time, they must know about switching from Firefox to IE using IE View or IE Tab. IE View is similar to ChromeView. IE Tab embeds IE inside the Firefox tab. This way you save a lot of effort. Similarly, OperaView and SafariView cater for the same.
To enhance the tabbed browsing feature, Firefox use FoxTab. FoxTab is an add-on, which arranges your tabs in different ways. Tabs are represented in a row, in a cyclic manner, or in a grid like fashion. This add-on provides a beautiful manner to display your tabs. Tabbed browsing was a great idea that Mozilla ever implemented. To turn your address bar into a search box, just type the word you want to search about in the address bar. Then, automatically Google searches the word for you. This helps you search a lot more easily without having to open a new tab or window.
FaviconizeTab is a great add-on to turn your tabs into favicons. BugMeNot is another add-on that helps you to bypass compulsory registration on some sites. It saves you a lot of irritation. All-in-one-sidebar is a plug-in which gives you access to a lot of controls. ShareThis allows you to share all kinds of web content with your near and dear ones. Be it music, recipes, photos, etc. you can share it all with your family and friends.
Morning Coffee is a unique add-on, just as its name is. It opens up the websites you visit daily in tabs. Who Is This Person is a new add-on which allows you to highlight a name which you have come across while you are browsing and search about that person on different websites.
Firefox 3.1 beta is going to release soon. Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2, named “Shiretoko”, released some time back and improvements to the same are being made. Let us take a look at the features that the beta version has to offer to us. The beta version is going to support the Ogg Vorbis audio and video formats. Although, these formats are not used as widely as the mp3 formats; they will support HTML5 in the browser. This means that Firefox 3.1 will support HTML audio and video tags. Mozilla is planning on a code freeze in the last week of September, so that the beta will be released somewhere in mid-November.
Firefox 3.1 is using the TraceMonkey Javascript engine. Therefore, it will be even faster than Google Chrome’s V8. TraceMonkey will boost the performance of Firefox 3, which will help it to compete with other browsers. TraceMonkey will add to SpiderMonkey’s code and together they will make history. Firefox 3.1 has the some unique next generation features. It has increased support for CSS3. In addition, there will be improvements to the “Awesome bar”.
Multiple tag editing, deletion of URL records and changes in the password manager are also expected. Therefore, there is a lot to look forward to with the next release. Currently, Mozilla developers are busy removing bugs from the code. Mozilla is planning for a late 2008 or early 2009 release for Firefox 3.1 if everything works on schedule.
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