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Firefox Tab Candy

By Posterous - Last updated: Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Tabbed browsing was a nice innovation, and the Mozilla team are taking tabs to the next level. Take a look at this video about the forthcoming Tab Candy feature. [7 minutes] An Introduction to Firefox’s Tab Candy from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

Close button missing from first tab in Firefox 3.5

By Surferbill - Last updated: Saturday, July 11, 2009

I just upgraded to Firefox 3.5 and while it’s still fairly familiar, there are a couple of things that have changed that aren’t to my taste. The main one that bugs me is with the tab close button. In Firefox 3.5, when you only have one tab open it doesn’t have a close button. You [...]

Ubiquity is not for me (yet)

By Surferbill - Last updated: Sunday, September 7, 2008

I can’t remember where I first heard about Ubiquity, but it wasn’t until Al blogged about it that I took the plunge and had a quick look. I love the idea and hope it does well and would love to use it, but it’s not for me at this stage. Let me explain why. I [...]

Firefox Download Day 2008 – Tuesday 17th June 2008

By Surferbill - Last updated: Monday, June 16, 2008

With more than 15,000 improvements, Firefox 3 is faster, safer and smarter than before. Help set a Guinness World Record for most software downloads in 24 hours. I pledge to get Firefox 3 during Download Day to set the Guinness World Record for Most Software Downloaded in 24 Hours.

Firefox: Open a Search in a New Tab

By Surferbill - Last updated: Monday, May 5, 2008

Revision3‘s Tekzilla has a great daily tip on how to open a search in a new tab in Firefox: open a new tab type about:config in the address bar and press return in the filter bar, enter browser.search.openintab double click the entry in the list to set it to true restart Firefox for it to [...]