I have had a few folks ask, “So Guru, what’s new with Firefox 3?” To be honest not a lot, there are a couple minor changes such as Advanced Microsummaries, Acid 2 Compliant and is being built on Gecko 1.9. However, I really couldn’t think of anything else. There is good reason for this, according to Mozilla Links: Firefox 3 Alpha 1 is also in Release Candidate status and expected in the next 2-3 weeks. It won’t feature any of the improvements expected for Firefox 3 like Places, the integrated bookmarks and history management interface, the Cairo graphics engine, not…

Firefox 2.0.0.1 is going to be released soon (December 14th?). If you are curious as to what kind of fixes are in this build check out the Firefox 2.0.0.1 fixlist. There are currently about 180+ fixes (landings): General Landings — 99 DOM Landings — 11 Layout Landings — 16 RSS Landings — 6 JavaScript Engine Landings — 50

Our buddy Ryan at CyberNet News has way too much time on his hands which why we suspected something was up when he wasn’t posting much on the blog or the discussion forum on Tuesday. Well we learned today what he was up to, a little experiment he called Firefox 200. Ryan went through the Mozilla Extension (Firefox Add-Ons) page and installed the top 200 extensions. His article has several screenshots including the extensions list, toolbars and the Firefox ‘Tools’ menu. Surprisingly his Firefox stood up fairly well to his ‘extensions hurricane’. Warning: If you want to “try this at…

We are moving a step closer to the next milestone for Thunderbird 2, the Beta 1 release. Release Candidate for beta 1 is now available in en-US build only via Mozilla FTP Server. Estimated release date for Thunderbird 2.0b1 is December 14th. News Source: mozillaZine Forums Thunderbird Builds

High performance gaming machines with their multiple GB of RAM, fast processors and very high-end video cards tend to run a lot hotter than your normal PC. Traditionally, most PC’s use a couple 90mm fans to keep the insides cool. Meet the Antech Nine Hundred which comes standard with four fans. 3 120mm (1 rear mounted and 2 front mounted blue LED) fans AND a 200mm top mounted fan. If that is still not enough cooling power for you, it has mounts for 2 more 120mm fans for cooling video card or a processor. Even with the four to six…

So you ask what’s the big deal about this extension? Simply put it adds ‘Create TinyURL for this Page’ to the context menu. When you select this option a small pop-up window opens giving the TinyURL which is automagically copied to the clipboard and the option to Goto the URL, Save It or Close the window. It also adds its own menu into the Tools Menu. In a nut shell, no having to copy the page address, switching over to TinyURL, pasting the address, copying the TinyURL and switching back to paste the TinyURL. The TinyURL Creator works with Firefox…

Much to my amazement my post: Firefox 2.0: Close Tab Buttons is still the most viewed and commented of my 200+ posts.  I have setup another Firefox 2 ‘Close Tab’ Button Poll on the CyberNet Forums. You need not be a registered user to vote or for that matter to join in on the discussion. However registration is free and once registered you will no longer see the ads.  While you are there take a look around, lots of great information from Windows Vista & Office 2007  to Gaming Consoles (PS3 vs Wii) to PC Software (Freeware & Paid).

Four Firefox Flicks 30-second TV commercials will be airing soon in Boston and San Francisco areas. However, you can see the four videos just by clicking on the thumbnails below. All of these were made by Firefox users and very well done. Note: High speed connection needed and even then you may want to download the videos (4 to 8 MB) for best performance. Mozilla Links >> 72 names make it to Firefox Ads