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I had an interesting discussion today about Firefox with Mozilla's Mike Schroepfer and Mike Beltzner. One of the things we drilled into a bit was the address bar in Firefox 3 (download). It's being called the "awesome bar" at Mozilla, and while it will end up with an official name eventually (the "smart location bar"), what it does for users can fairly be described as awesome. And as it's probably the most important touchpoint in the browser, it's worth exploring not just what it means for users but for Mozilla as well. read more »
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One of my colleagues just pointed me to this blog post where Simeon Bateman calls Mozilla an ungrateful child.

I started to post a reply there but it got a bit longer than what I think fits in "comments" format so I'm posting it here instead (though, this is still more in the "reply" format than the "post" format.)

Simeon's basic assertion is that Adobe is doing a lot to open up some parts of their next-g read more »
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Any task you perform on the Web can be automated by writing a script. But you don't have to know how to use Javascript or some other scripting language to create your own custom scripts. The Chickenfoot add-on for Firefox makes it easy for nonprogrammers to devise scripts that do their bidding. read more »
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ChatZilla provides all the usual IRC client features: multiple servers, a built-in list of standard networks, easy searching and sorting of available channels, logging, and DCC chat and file transfers, plus easy customization with JavaScript plug-ins and CSS styling. read more »
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Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): Firefox extension Next Tab adds an option to the right-click context menu to open a link in a new tab directly next to the current tab. If you're the sort who's still got 10 tabs open on a light day, you know how quickly your reading can get disorganized. Next Tab helps keep those tabs in context and next to the tabs from whence they were launched. Next Tab is free, works wherever Firefox does. read more »
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Now that Firefox 3.0 Release Candidates are starting to become available, we have made modifications to AMO to accept the production version numbers for Firefox 3. In particular, we have added “3.0″ and “3.0.*” as valid Firefox compatible versions. The full application compatibility list is available here.

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Firefox with Greasemonkey: The comment threads here at Lifehacker can get lengthy, and when you want to reply to a certain point someone made 12 comments up, it's not as easy and readable as it could be. Sure you can hit the convenient Reply (arrow) button next to a comment to link back to it, but it would be better if you could quote the person you're replying to easily. Instead of doing the whole copy/paste/HTML markup dance by hand, install our brand new Quote in Reply Greasemonkey user script. With this script enabled, you can select tex read more »
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Windows/Mac (Firefox and IE7): PicLens, the Firefox and Internet Explorer 7 plug-in that lets you flip through photo sets in full-screen splendor, just added YouTube support to its latest version. That means searching and parsing through YouTube videos in the same elegant interface as with photos, making it far easier to spot just the clip you're looking for, and playing the videos, full-screen or reduced size, from inside PicLens. The latest version is available for Firefox 2 and 3 Beta 5 on Windows and Mac, as well as Internet Explorer 7 on read more »
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For Firefox users, this is a small hack that I think might come in handy sometimes. Firefox Search Engines support on-the-fly auto-complete, which IE7 as I know doesn’t. This feature however is rarely utilized, but the default Google search engine luckily does use it. It comes pretty useful sometimes, especially when you want to search for something that you don’t know how to spell. Now suppose you want this auto-completion to search for specific product on Amazon rather than Google. You could do that easily without moving your han read more »
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Songbird Blog announces the release of Songbird 0.6 blessed nightly. read more »
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