I mentioned last week in the Thoughts: Chrome Not Importing Fx Settings post that Chrome opens a new tab just to the right of the current tab. I clicked on a link in an email and Chrome opened this link in a new tab right next to my Windows Live Mail instead of the end of the tab bar. I am sure this is possible with Firefox 3 with one of the tab extensions, but it is nice to see Chrome does this by default. Turns out, the Tabs Open Relative extension does just that. So when opening a link…
September 8, 2008
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Within less than a week of the release of Chrome, comes a couple Firefox 3 Themes based on the new browser by Google. The first theme Chromifox features the sky blue colour scheme as well as the compact navigation bar (combined stop/reload buttons and no ‘Home’ button) while still preserving Firefox 3’s Bookmark Star. Also reproduces the same tab aspect and rounded menus as Chrome. Note: The title color bar is going to vary depending on your OS (Blue for Windows, Orange for Linux and Grey for Mac). The other theme, Chrome Package is a very good reproduction of the…
FIREFOX/GECKO Fx 2.0.0.16 > 3.0.1 MU – Status: Released Major Update will allow current Fx 2.0.0.16 users to auto-update to Fx 3.0.1 Does NOT include ja-JP-mac builds (coming with Firefox 3.0.2) Current Schedule Final Release: August 25th Fx 2.0.0.17 & Fx 3.0.2 – Status: Pending Release to Beta Schedule Code freeze: August 26th Builds start: August 27th QA starts: August 28th Release to beta channel: September 9th Final Release: September 15th Firefox 3.1a2 (Shiretoko)/Gecko 1.9.1a2 – Status: Released Schedule Code freeze: August 26th Builds start: August 27th QA starts: August 28th Release to beta channel: September 4th Final Release: September…