October 22, 2006

Upgrading to Firefox 2

As I mentioned here and even here, it looks good for Firefox 2 to be released this coming Tuesday (October 24th). Now I am sure many folks are wondering ‘How do I upgrade to Firefox 2?’ Well, like Microsoft and IE7, the auto-update won’t be until sometime in November or may be even December. Now, if you want it as soon as it comes out, you can download it directly from the Mozilla Firefox Page (note: this link will always link to the most current released version of Firefox). I would recommend you do a couple things you should do…

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Firefox 2.0: Close Tab Buttons

[digg=http://digg.com/software/Change_Firefox_2_Close_Tab_Buttons] One of the new & improved features in starting with Firefox 2 is having the ‘Close Tab’ button on each tab. However, there are folks who don’t like change and would rather have the close tab button at the end of the tab bar as it is in Firefox 1.x builds. Sure there are extensions that will do this for you, but why bother downloading an extension when all it does is make a change to a setting in about:config? A simple about:config tweak will change the way the ‘close tab’ button is displayed: Click the about:config button (if…

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