Firefox 3 Extensions

In this post I talked about the release of version 3 of the browser Firefox .

But the post is not going to try the browser itself, but I will talk about supplements or Addons for Firefox, which come to be extensions to add extra profits to the browser depending on what you need and is one of the things that really adds value to the browser, since you have almost infinite extensions, some very useful and imprescincibles, and more curious than anything else, but extensions to the end, after all, everyone who wants to choose between all there , .

And there are many, I will talk specifically that I currently use in the past I used others in the future will surely add more, but now these are the ones I use:

• Adblock Plus : One of the extensions that arguably impresicindible for Firefox, since with it practically ran advertising on web pages or any image from any website that feels uncomfortable, as it says in the description of the extension:

  Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than the rest of the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of it.

• Adblock Filterset.G Updater : Extension that should be used in conjunction with Adblock Plus and allows filters updated Adblock Plus blocks advertisements by default.
• Colorful Tabs : This curious extension tab lets you view each of your Firefox open in different colors so that you make it easier to move between them, I find it funny and entertaining.
• Easy Drag To Go : With Easy drag to go you can open links in new tabs, search text in Google, or save images with simple mouse movements.
  
  I personally only use to open the links or links and is super useful, simply (previously configured) pricks your mouse over the link to open, drag the mouse down slightly a few millimeters, release the mouse button, and voila, the you link opens in a new tab. I would do without this extension!.
• FlashGot : This extension is a bit more specific, and allows you to connect Firefox with some external download manager you may have. It is a useful extension, as for example on pages made available to the user to download multiple items, you can download all en masse, among many other functions.
• Forecastfox : Another extension perhaps more curious than useful, but I like it Forecastfox lets you keep in the status bar the weather forecast for the places, days, etc. as you choose to set up.
  
  Personally I have the time and temperature forecast the present situation in my city, and the next day. The information was obtained from the page: Weather
• Gmail Manager : A very useful extension, especially if you have multiple accounts in Gmail , as this is their task, allow the browser to manage from multiple accounts simultaneously from the mail service, so that at the very bottom bar Firefox can scroll through the different emails from different accounts. In fact your own extension, switching between accounts when you receive new mail in one of them.
• No Script : Again we are faced with an extension of what might be called as necessary, at least in terms of security, this extension prevents the execution of javascript unless permitted, thus avoiding the execution of malicious code in web pages.

  The interesting thing about this extension is not allowing you to always be sites as if you know a website that is safe, and browse through it you can usually add it to the white list of allowed websites and do not block it.

  If you are a website where you know you're only going to surf at times, as you can temporarily allow for that session only the execution of javascript, and in fact, you can allow each element at site.

  No doubt, a most basic extension for your safety.

• PDF Download : It shows different actions when you click on a PDF document browsing the Internet, basically gives you the option to download it, open it in pdf, or html. It may be helpful.
• Sage-Too : Add a simple but functional RSS reader in your Firefox sidebar to enjoy your feeds in a simple but effective, I tried it and now I do not use another reader, .
• IE Tab : Any website you go wrong with Firefox or not working properly?, no problem, this extension lets you open Web pages from Firefox using the Internet Explorer engine and who do you have to open the page in this browser . It also lets you add to a list and thereafter automatically opens Explorer engine. Another area almost basic, although there are fewer pages to go wrong in Firefox, but hey, one is out there.

Finally, remember again that these are the extensions I use, since there are many more, and many are well known, especially in more specific areas such as programming and web publishing, as in this case we find extensions useful as Greasemonkey (Requires some knowledge), Firebug or Firecookie that lets you manage individual cookies in your browser without having to delete the entire history of cookies.

So if you want to entertain extensions that may be interested in looking at the official site for Firefox extensions you have all you want, .

In this post I do not explain anything about their options, configuration, operation, etc. would be immense as the post, however, soon I'll show several posts on the operation of the most interesting case anyone does not know them or use them with images and others, or as a video tutorial, who knows.

Do you?, Do you use any extension that you consider essential and that is not here?, You can say in the comments.

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Highlights for the launch of Firefox 3

After launching the surf Firefox 3 John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla, posted on his blog some relevant data after the first 24 hours of discharge:

• More than 8.3 million downloads (the official number will be revealed in a few weeks)
• The market share of Firefox 3 has grown to stand at 4% worldwide
• The "Top 10" countries who have downloaded Firefox 3, so far are: USA, Germany, Japan, Spain, UK, France, Iran, Italy, Canada and Poland
• 757 parties were held to celebrate the launch!
• 83 Terabytes were served
• That comes to approximately 8.5 full copies of the "U.S. Library of Congress' print collection" or 1,000,000 copies of the new Coldplay album
• In the maximum peak discharges were served 17,000 downloads per minute (283 per second)
• Peaks in the occupation of the servers (mirrors) are reached record transfer rates of 20 Gigabits per second

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Congratulates Explorer Mozilla Firefox 3 Launch

With the recent release of Firefox 3 , Internet Explorer team has congratulated the developers of Firefox for the launch of Firefox 3 with a cake, and the truth is that there seems to be bad, .

The text, as in the previous occasion, is to say:

"Congratulations on the launch, with affection, the IE team"

mm, than rich. It's good that there are these signs of friendship, despite the competition between the two browsers, .

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Firefox 3

Yesterday saw the global launch of the browser Mozilla Firefox 3 in the so-called Download Day 2008 with the addition was intended to break the world record for downloads exceeding 5,000,000 downloads in one day, draw your conclusions watching the real time counter . At the moment, when the 20:34 Spanish time, spent more than 8,000,000 and up, considering that downloads were available from 19:00 Spanish time of 6.17.08.

As was natural, was not naturally good, because if you organize something of this caliber, you must be prepared for it, Mozilla's servers could not withstand this avalanche of shock and were offline a long time, but hey, it just bad luck, and you can download Firefox 3 seamlessly for different platforms (Castilian versions):

• Download Firefox 3 for Windows
• Download Firefox 3 for Linux
• Download Firefox 3 for Mac

Perhaps, "the glue" that more can annoy when upgrading older versions of Firefox to 3 may be that some extensions you use, to stop work temporarily until they are updated, although you can use, this trick (via Microsiervos) to does not happen. I'm not going to do, since only 1 extension fails me all I use, and I is essential, so is not bad right?. But beware, using this trick is your responsibility, because as they say in the post: "This check will stop Firefox installed extensions are compatible with the version that is running, but beware, this can make Firefox do strange things, so use at your own risk. If you have many extensions installed, it is better than go uninstall them and adding little by little until you see that all is well. "

Still, worth changing to the new version as it is much faster, improved memory management and use, provides better performance and adds new features, but because they are enough, you may consider that you see on the page Mozilla (Firefox developer company).

And finally, if this is the first time you hear of this browser, I personally recommend you give him a chance and tried it, I did, and I have not already use another browser.

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