Celebrating 500 million Firefox downloads

In honor of the 500 million download mark, we’re celebrating by raising 500,000,000 grains of rice in one day to help feed the world’s poor. Since we’ve hit this milestone, it’s time to head over to freerice.com and try to push the day’s total past half a billion. This is just a glimpse of where Firefox is headed one day. Food for thought – or better yet, Food for Lives. If we reach 500 million grains of rice, that’s a direct contribution to feeding 25,000 people for a day! Donate now at http://freerice.com.

1/2 Billion Downloads Start: 02/21/2008 – 05:00 End: 02/21/2008 – 23:59 Timezone: ECT/GMT

Join the celebration at http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/1424

Beautiful tab switching for Firefox 3

Among Firefox 3’s pending improvements is a cool tab preview feature that shows actual thumbnails of the currently open tabs. The feature is currently available as an experimental extension developed by Dão Gottwald, but it could make its way into Firefox 3’s final code.

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Digg triggers false start on Firefox 3

false Firefox 3 report on Digg has caused headaches for Mozilla and confusion for users. The trouble started early Wednesday morning when a Digg posting claimed that the first beta version of Firefox 3.0.1 had been released by developers.

Mozilla explained that there was no beta of Firefox available to the public and that the Digg poster had instead linked to a release candidate… read more on CyCap.Org

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Firefox the movie

Did any of you know that there’s a movie called Firefox? Well, there is one, and it’s pretty fun!!!

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Firefox Command Line Arguments For Newbies

Did you know that there are CLA’s in Firefox? If you didn’t, You’D better read this..

How to do Everything with Firefox Command Line Arguments

Firefox : Easy way to get involved

If you’re a Firefox fan and you’d like to get more seriously involved
with the project, this is a great place to start

Protect your privacy with these Firefox Add-ons

Ever wanted to cover your tracks when browsing the internet? I bet you did. So here are 7 Firefox Add-ons that will help you to protect your privacy.

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Transform Firefox into Safari

The best thing about this is that you can have all the features of Firefox and some cool features of Safari at the same time.

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Portable Firefox!- Use the same Firefox Wherever you go!

There was a time when all the internet cafes and office computers had only Internet Explorer installed. A few of us Firefox fans really missed our Firefox-running home computers back then. Luckily, now almost every computer has Firefox installed, so we don’t have to worry about missing all those invaluable features like tabbed browsing, keyboard shortcuts, and more.
But there’s another problem. We miss all our favorite extensions, bookmarks, and themes when we’re away from home. 😦 Don’t worry, there’s a nice way to solve that problem.
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Easily Stop Firefox from Consuming Your Cpu Cycles

You may be thinking that you’ve done everything to stop this nasty habit of Firefox. But have you tried this? I’ve done it in Firefox 2.0.0.3, but it will work with all other versions of Firefox too. OK, here’s the trick.

1. Type about:config in the address bar and press Enter to open the Firefox expert configuration page.
2. Type browser.cache.disk.capacity in the Filter text box.
3. Change the value to 16384.
4. Restart Firefox, and there you go!
After doing this, CPU usage for Firefox should stay under 10%.
~SeeJay

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