Firefox 3 Beta 3
Other than the new Leopard-metal-rounded look, other features include: the newest version of Gecko (1.9) which is the rendering engine, cool new add on manager, the address bar also will now search your bookmarks and history as you type, and my personal favorite... over 350 memory leaking issues were fixed! As with most pre-releases, this version breaks a lot of add-ons, but the most important ones still work for me. Everyday developers are updating their add-ons to work with the most current versions too, so that's a plus. Download your copy here.
No More Dotted Lines!
Go to about:config and filter down the results and look for browser.display.focus_ring_width, then click on the on the parameter on the right and set the value to 0 (zero). This will get rid of that annoying dotted line and make your browser much nicer on the eye when clicking links!
Grab and Drag
Although Safari has wonderful RSS support that Firefox couldn't
hold a match to, I just can't have my Facebook bar with buttons for
sharing links or getting notifications when someone messages me. I
can't have a built in downloader that works like a dream
(DownThemAll!). I can't have the weather forecast(ForecastFox
Enhanced) in my status bar for me to check at any time. I sure as
hell can't use StumbleUpon features, or even my latest
addition...
Grab and
Drag.
This extension lets you physically drag the screen up and down just
like how the iPhone uses multi-touch. You can even turn on momentum
features so when you drag and let go the screen will keep going and
slow down to a stop with a friction that you set. You can alter how
and where Grab and Drag works, for instance you can set it up so
that whenever you click and drag only where there are no links or
text the screen will move with the curser, this way when you
highlight text the screen won't move around on you. So if you fancy
Firefox, check this out and you'll find yourself trying to scroll
with ease in tons of other applications wishing the feature was
available there too!
Lookin' Stylish!
Well here's a wicked cool Firefox extension,
Stylish
is to CSS (what websites look like) what
Greasemonkey
is to JavaScript (how they react), and unlike other methods of
using user styles, styles take effect almost instantly.
(Here's
a direct install link!)
Here's just an example of a user style I have installed that makes
google searches 100 times easier on the eyes...
Once you have Stylish installed if you like
this user style
you get it, and more like it, at
userstyles.org.
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