Firefox Reaches 200 Million Downloads

Comments (2) · July 31, 2006 at 6:19 pm · Firefox News

First things first, I have to say congrats to the folks over at Firefox. No mater how many folks out there might say that Firefox isn’t the browser for them for this reason or that reason, 200 million speaks volumes. It shows there has been and will be an audience for such a browser.

Here is what Asa Dotzler had to say via the SpreadFirefox.com Web site:

Let me start off by saying that YOU ALL ARE AMAZING! Today the Firefox download counter crossed the 200 million mark. We know that this number doesn’t represent actual users because this number includes both Firefox 1.0 and Firefox 1.5 (soon Firefox 2,) because not every one completes every download, and because not every download results in a new Firefox user.

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Tags: 200-Million, browsers, downloads, firefox, Firefox News, numbers

Swiftfox

Comments off · July 31, 2006 at 5:00 am · Firefox Usability

Swiftfox is an optimized build of Mozilla Firefox. Swiftfox has builds for both AMD and Intel processors. The 1.5.0.5 release is based on Firefox 1.5.0.5. The trunk is the most cutting edge of all the builds and is where Firefox 3 is being developed. Branch builds are built from a code base that has been tested much more than the trunk and therefore should be considered to be more stable. The 1.8 branch is where Mozilla develops Firefox 2 which will be the next major Firefox release.

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Tags: firefox, firefox-2, mozilla, optimized, Swiftfox

Throbber Bookmark Checker

Comments off · July 31, 2006 at 5:00 am · Firefox Hacks

Now you have probably heard of the idea of setting multiple start pages via Firefox before. Did you know though that you can set your throbber to open up several bookmarks as well? It will take a little editing in about:config, but I promise it is not that hard to do.

+ Follow the Steps at TheQuicky.net!

Tags: Bookmark Help, firefox, hacks, links, shortcuts, throbber

WebMemo

Comments off · July 31, 2006 at 4:38 am · General Posts

How many times can you honestly say that you have used the history feature in Firefox? I have gone back and forward a lot, but I don’t really use the history. Am I weird or are you the same? Well, I have found a new Firefox extension that might get me a little more interested in using it again.

[Learn More About WebMemo!]

Tags: extensions, firefox, history, navigation, WebMemo

Block the Naughty Words

Comments off · July 30, 2006 at 5:00 am · Greasemonkey

A few four letter words got you down? I do not think you will have to worry about it on this Web site, but on others you might have a problem with curse words getting on your screen. If this happens to you and you don’t want it to, you need the Profanity Filter! This script filters profanity from Web sites.

To use this script you must have Greasemonkey for Firefox installed.

[Learn More About the Profanity Filter!]

Tags: bad, filter, naughty, profanity, userscripts, words

New Portable Firefox Details

Comments off · July 29, 2006 at 10:57 am · Firefox News

Thanks to Jim for pointing this one out to me. It looks like Portable Firefox has a new edition out with some awesome features not seen before.

Portable Firefox is now Mozilla Firefox - Portable Edition (Firefox Portable among friends), and version 1.5.0.5 has been released. It’s the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser packaged with a PortableApps.com Launcher as a portable app, so you can take your bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords with you. This new release adds in a ton of new features, including: the ability to run from a CD, complete Firefox partial update support, in-place upgrades, lots of handy bug fixes, support for running within Wine on *nix and more.

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Tags: downloads, firefox, mozilla, portable

Digg This! Firefox Extension

Comments (1) · July 28, 2006 at 11:39 am · Firefox Usability

Due to how popular Digg is, you would think there would be more Firefox extensions related to it. I just have not seen too many become too popular. The Digg This! Firefox extension hopes to change all that.

The Digg This! toolbar adds two buttons to your main Firefox toolbar and one menu. With the toolbar buttons you can quickly goto to Digg or Digg the page you are viewing. The menu allows you to goto your Digg profile or any of the top Digg categories.

If you do a lot of digging, then this extension is right for you.

[Learn More About Digg This!]

Tags: digg, extension, firefox, links, social