There will be no more updates for Firefox 3.0.x anymore, so if you haven’t upgraded to Firefox 3.6 – you had better hurry up and do so.  That was the official word from Mozilla on the topic in a recent meeting.

The History Submenus extension for Firefox is here to make thumbing through the browser’s history easier.

Is it time yet?
Come on, is it time yet?
If you find yourself asking this question time and time again, it might be about time you picked up the Simpler Timer add-on for Firefox.  This clock and timer, once installed, lives inside your status bar (or toolbar) for easy access.

On Friday, Mozilla Firefox was downloaded for the one billionth time since the release of 1.0 in 2004. To help celebrate the news, Mozilla has released a new web site called One Billion + You. 
From there, you can easily post to Twitter how much one billion really is, such as:

A bowl big enough to fit one billion goldfish would be as big as a stadium.
One billion stacked coins would reach nearly 1,000 miles high.
One billion centimeters [...]

The new Firefox logo has made its first appearance in the wild.  So, what do you think?  Do you love it, hate it, or not really see a difference?!  Check out Alex Faabord’s Mozilla blog if you want to check out and pick up all the various shapes and sizes. 

Seems like the deeper we get into the holidays and the end of the year, the more Firefox and Mozilla related news comes out.  Are the two events related?  Could be…

Dear Firefox: Please forgive me  When we met three years ago, I thought: This is it, the browser I’ve been waiting for. I’ve found my life partner. So I dumped Internet Explorer faster than you can say “unrecoverable system error” and we moved in together. Sure, we had our [...]

Firefox 3 Beta 3 is released out for testing purposes. Are you getting excited yet? Here are some things worth taking note of in the newest Firefox release:

[Improved in Beta 3!] Speed: Major architectural changes (such as the move to Cairo and a rewrite to how [...]

Nice to see that the development of the mobile Firefox browser is really starting to gain some steam.  From the look of things, they are branching this project into two directions – one for touch screens and one for what I guess you would call “not” touch screens.
It shares some of the look and feel of Firefox 3 so you have to believe that with that being said that the gui-feeling they are delivering with the new browser will [...]

Seems like another company is jumping in trying to make your browsing safer.  CallingID nearly slipped by my radar, but I do have to say they seem to stack up with the competition at least.  SiteAdvisor and WOT might want to take notice.

Here are a few more details about CallingID Link Advisor:

Just call this stupid browser tricks Monday! Ever felt that need to turn your favorite photo you have on the Web into some ascii art?
With this Firefox extension from Photo2Text.com now you can. Now I am not going to pretend that anybody has a good reason to do this. There isn’t one darn good reason you can think of either – go ahead and try. Time to geek out, relax and transform your photos [...]