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 have reached the milestone, it is time to flock to freerice.com and attempt to push the days total over 1/2 billion. This is just a foreshadow to where one day Firefox will be. Food for thought, uh, better yet, Food for Lives; if we reach 500 million grains of rice, that’s a direct contribution in feeding 25,000 people for one day! Donate now, http://freerice.com

1/2 Billion downloads

Start: 02/21/2008 – 05:00

End: 02/21/2008 – 23:59

Timezone: Etc/GMT

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

“Beautiful” tab switching for Firefox 3

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

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Digg triggers false start on Firefox 3

A false Firefox 3 report on Digg has caused headaches for Mozilla and confusion for users.The trouble started early on Wednesday morning when a Digg posting claimed that the first beta version of Firefox 3.0.1 had been posted 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 a one and it’s Awesome!!!

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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 better read this..
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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,You can have all the features of Firefox and some cool features of Safari at the same time.

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Online 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. Few of us Firefox fans missed our Firefox running home computer very much at that time. 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 short cuts etc.
But there’s another problem. We miss all our favorite Extensions Book marks and themes when we are outside. 😦 Don’t worry theres a nice way we can solve that problem.read more at the CyberCapital.Org
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Easily Stop Firefox from Consuming Your Cpu Cycles

You may be thinking that you have done all the things to stop this nasty habit of Firefox. But have you tried this? I’ve done this is Firefox 2.0.0.3 but this will work with all the other versions of Firefox. Ok! here’s the trick.

1. Type about:config in the address bar and press Enter to get the Firefox expert configuration page.
2. Type browser.cache.disk.capacity in the Filter text box.
3. Modify 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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