I’ve just written a new ‘page’ (as I will update it as and when required) discussing which Firefox extensions I use. There are some I can’t live without on there, may be worth checking out: http://www.lewiz.org/firefox_extensions/
Mozilla released a new alpha of Firefox 3 today. I have previously looked at Firefox 3 to see what new things were coming.
For me, the big new feature is using libcairo, a screen-drawing library, to handle scaling of images. What does this mean to you and me—Firefox will finally use bicubic (i.e. nice, smooth yet sharp) scaling for non-100% images!
One of the big changes due to hit Firefox 2 was the ‘Places’ functionality—a complete overhaul of the bookmarks support. I must admit that since switching to del.icio.us Bookmarks (the name of a delicious plugin for Firefox 2) I’ve been more or less uninterested. That said, there is talk that the Places will include tagging support, and that Mozilla may offer some form of bookmark synchronisation.
Today I discovered that the result of the behind-the-scenes work on the Firefox Password Manager will pave the way for pluggable support for the likes of gnome-keyring (in much the same way as I was talking about for Pidgin yesterday (although Firefox does currently encrypt passwords, it could just be nicer)), OS X Keychain, etc. to handle things for us.
Congratulations on this excellent release!