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Mozilla Labs crowned their picks of best new and updated Firefox 3 extensions in a recent contest, but what about best extensions of all time? Last year we ran down our must-have Firefox extensions, but it's time for a refresh, this time with a little help from my friends. Yesterday I read more »
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Mozilla Labs has released the first public release of Ubiquity, a Firefox extension that has been in the works for a few months now and introduced during the Mozilla Summit, last month.

It is really hard to explain what it does but here are a couple of examples:

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After winning the Extend Firefox 3 contest, I thought it might be worth checking out Pencil to see what all the buzz was about.  This add-on for Firefox is an open source tool for creating diagrams and GUI prototyping that everybody can use.  As they put it, “With the power of the underlying Mozilla Gecko engine, Pencil turns y read more »
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The latest and by far best version of a new Firefox 3 extension, Better Directories, has been finished. It instantly improves boring, ill-thought out and impractical HTTP directories. The idea is that Firefox 3 has wonderful FTP-directory capabilities, so why not also HTTP-directory ones? Direct link: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8242 . Not following? Try comparing http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/ and ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/ in Firefox 3... read more »
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You should always know where a link takes you before clicking on it. Services like TinyURL.com make that difficult. LongURL Mobile Expander uses the LongURL.org web services to let you know where shortened links *really* go. read more »
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Selection Links is an add-on for Mozilla Firefox 3. It fetches all links inside a text selection. Instead of the default behaviour of Mozilla Firefox, this add-on can also handle multiple links. It also gives you the possibility to find and open plain text links. read more »
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Starting a little later tonight, users with the latest version of Firefox 2 will be getting an offer to update to Firefox 3. If you’re running Firefox 2.0.0.16 you will see the offer in the next couple of days, though if you’re eager you can always “Check for Updates” in the “Help” menu. This is what the offer will look like: read more »
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Special DNC Edition - Instant access to the latest news, photos, videos, and Tweets from the Democratic National Convention in your browser.

Because this add-on is so new, Mozilla requires you to have an account to download it. You can create a free account or login with "obamafoxer@gmail.com" and "getfoxy08" read more »
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Firefox 3 comes with several preferences baked into its options dialogs, but there are still a few you can only access by rolling up your sleeves and digging into its configuration manually. Power users have been diving under Firefox's hood to get their browser to behave just how they like since version 0.9, but Firefox 3 offers some new settings that customize its new features. Let's take a look at our favorite Firefox 3 about:config tweaks for customizing your browser. read more »
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