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One of the main reason why Firefox has been so successful, is that you can tweak it to match your needs. Though there are another 12 million Firefox users out there, still you can make your Firefox installation unique, matching your personality.

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Firefox 3 has been out for two weeks now, so get with the program: It’s time to hack it. The newest version of Mozilla’s browser has plenty of new features, including the site identification button, the Bookmarks Library and what has become known as the “Awesome Bar” — and I’ll show you how to hack them all.

You can also force the browser to use Gmail for mailto: links, discover a hidden “Easter egg” and more. So fire up your browser and get ready to teach it some new tricks.

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Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 4 has been released for testing. The fourth beta of the next major Firefox version offers over 900 bug fixes over Beta 3, including improvements in download manager, full page zoom, better integration with Vista, Mac OS X and Linux, and significant improvements in speed and memory usage.

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New versions of favorite applications are always a little tricky; you want to keep up with the times without fixing what ain’t broke. With that in mind, I took a look at the newly released Firefox 3 Beta 2 to see what we can look forward to when the final version ships in 2008.

Although the basic look of the browser hasn’t changed, there are actually quite a few new features coming. (For a complete list, you can check out Mozilla’s release notes.)

Some of the new features in Firefox 3 are not immediately obvious — at least, not to the casual user. Among other things, Mozilla is incorporating new graphics- and text-rendering architectures in its browser layout engine (Gecko 1.9) to offer rendering improvements in CSS and SVG; adding a number of security features, including malware protection and version checks of its add-ons; and offline support for suitably coded Web applications.

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What good is a browser unless you can tweak it, hack it and bend it to your will? No good at all. The more you can hack it, the better it is.

And that means that Firefox must be a great browser. It’s infinitely customizable, via editing a text file called userChrome.css, making changes via a command called about:config, and using free add-ons to extend the features of the browser.

In this article, with those techniques and others, I’ll show you 15 great Firefox tricks, including how to build your own Firefox search engine, how to speed up your browsing, how to hack the interface and plenty more. So launch your favorite browser, and get ready for some great tricks.

read more | source: Computerworld

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Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon (And many other linux distributions, I’m sure) have only Firefox Alpha packages in their unstable repositories. Here’s how to update to the bleeding edge, latest software on your system, without waiting for the developers to.

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Never tried Firefox 3 beta but I’ve been reading positive reviews thru blogs and forums and I think it will be a great update from Firefox 2

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With the release this week of the second beta version of Firefox 3, one thing is certain: We definitely won’t see an official release of the latest version of the open-source browser from Mozilla in 2007.

But from my tests of this second beta, it does look like we are getting awfully close to a final version of Firefox 3. In my tests the beta has been very stable so far and has been fast, and hasn’t been as much of a memory hog as past versions of Firefox.

As far as new features go, most of the improvements in this beta release are under the covers and those who have already tested out the previous beta won’t see many differences except for in a few areas.

read more | source: eWEEK

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Mozilla has released the latest beta of Firefox 3 today, and the Linux efforts behind it are starting to show even more. This release, being a beta, is surprisingly stable. Here’s the killer that makes this beta release amazing: true GTK support.

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