[digg=http://digg.com/software/Firefox_Tab_Groups] Ever find your tab bar getting congested? Too many open tabs? Having to scroll (for those of you who have not Disabled Tab Overflow) to find the tab you want? Wish there was way to organize (group) your tabs into folders? If you answered yes to any of these questions check out the Tab Groups extension. So, what does the Tab Groups extension do? Since it is a difficult concept for me to to try to explain I’ll quote the extension’s author: Tab Groups is a firefox extension that lets a user organize tabs into groups, those groups in…

[Part 1][Part 2][Part 3][Part 3.5][Part 4][Part 4.5] “The best laid plans of mice and men are usually about equal.” — Blair Still more troubles trying to get the AMO done. The latest (2007/02/22) from the Mozilla Webdev Blog: “As morgamic wrote on Friday, the Remora team have all had a long 9 days trying to get the new version of AMO out the door and make all its improvements available to our users. As we discovered to our chagrin, our performance testing on the stage environment did not really map well into real-world results, and the result was unacceptable load…

After several delays Mozilla surprised us today and released Firefox 1.5.0.10 and 2.0.0.2! You likely will not be presented with an update offer or via the Help >> Check for updates option until tomorrow. If you want to upgrade now, follow the links below to get Firefox directly from the download sites. Also see below for release notes. Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 has NOT been released yet, should know more about TB after next Monday’s Mozilla Weekly Update meeting. Fx 1.5.0.X Users: Be advised support for these builds is ending in about 2 months (April 24th). Also, in the next 2-3 weeks…

A couple quick updates on the Add-ons Promotion. I now have four reviews in the contest: CoLT Download StatusBar Foxy Tunes Splash The contest runs through April 9th and you no longer have to register for a Squidoo account to vote. Simply go to the Firefox Add-ons Review Contest site to see the reviews and cast your vote.  

There are some extensions that I simply wonder how did I ever get along with out them? FoxyTunes is one of those extensions and by far the most used. Since I am always using WinAmp to listen to my music anytime I am using the computer (not just surfing the web), FoxyTunes makes things so much simpler. With FoxyTunes, you can control (right from the Firefox browser) virtually any music/media player including: WinAmp Real Player iTunes Windows Media Players Yahoo!Music Engine and many more (see the extension page for a complete listing) Once installed and configured, FoxyTunes adds all the…

About six months ago I download this extension just to try it out. I had a friend raving about it, so I decided to try it out myself just to see. Now I can’t imagine using Firefox without it. Instead of having the Firefox download manger pop-up in it’s own window or tab this adds a “download statusbar” directly above your status bar. During the download it will display a colored progress bar, the name of the file, amount download so far, estimated time and download speed. If you hover your mouse over the downloading file the tooltip will show…

There are some extensions that I simply wonder how did I ever get along with out them? FoxyTunes is one of those extensions and by far the most used. Since I am always using WinAmp to listen to my music anytime I am using the computer (not just surfing the web), FoxyTunes makes things so much simpler. With FoxyTunes, you can control (right from the Firefox browser) virtually any music/media player including: WinAmp Real Player iTunes Windows Media Players Yahoo!Music Engine and many more (see the extension page for a complete listing) Once installed and configured, FoxyTunes adds all the…

The Mozilla Developers have decided to break up the Wednesday Firefox 3 (Gran Paradiso)/Gecko 1.9 (Minefield) status meetings into to two separate meetings. This began last Tuesday (02/13) with Fx 3 meetings mvoing to Tuesdays at 11:00 AM PST and Gecko 1.9 meetings staying at the Wednesdays 11:00 AM PST slot. For those familiar with the meeting schedule, you may recall the Tuesday time slot use to be for the Bon Echo (Fx 2) Status meetings. I will continue to post weekly updates on the Fx 3 meetings and (if there is) anything of interest from the Gecko meeting. Not…

I was looking at the list of reviews at the Firefox Add-Ons Contest Squidoo Lens and noticed several I had not heard of before. Of course, this is that the purpose of the contest is to get more exposure to the extensions. An interesting one I found is called Firefox Extension Backup Extension (FEBE). This extension is great for testers such as myself who run multiple profiles or the casual Firefox user who has experienced the pain and heartache of dealing with a fried profile. I’ve said before the most difficult part of creating a new profile is not just…

Due to the President’s Day Holiday there was not a Mozilla Weekly Update meeting today. Not sure if they are going to have it tomorrow since there is no agenda on the site for this week. While nothing has been announced officially, it looks like having the Fx 1.5.0.10/2.0.0.2 release this week was very doubtful. I was taking a look over on the Mozilla FTP server at the ‘candidates’ directories for both of the Fx 1.5.0.10 RC2 and Fx 2.0.0.2 RC4 builds were put out on Friday. After a quick look over at the Firefox:1.5.0.10-2.0.0.2 on the Mozilla Wiki, the…