Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 is now available for download. This beta version of Firefox 3.6 is built on the Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering engine. It contains many improvements for web developers, add-on developers and for the users. You an download this latest Firefox 3.6 beta version: Download Firefox 3.6 Beta 1.
Some of the new features introduced in Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 are:
- Users can now change their browser’s appearance with a single click;
- Firefox 3.6 will alert users about out of date plugins;
- Open, native video can now be displayed full screen, and supports poster frames;
- Support for the WOFF font format;
- Improved JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness and startup time;
- Support for new CSS, DOM and HTML5 web technologies.
SmarterFox is the most popular productivity Firefox addon which saves time by speeding up common tasks. This Firefox addon will help you get things done much quicker by getting faster, parallelized downloads, convenient shortcuts and more. If you don’t want or like any of its features, you can easily disable them from the menu Tools > SmarterFox. You can download this addon from Download SmarterFox.
- To save Web videos right-click anywhere and then select “download page media”;
- You can download all images and links of a page in parallel, maximizing the usage of your bandwidth;
- When you reach the end of the page, SmarterFox will automatically load the next page and append it to the end, saving you time;
- To open the qLauncher, press Ctrl + Space. You can change this in the options dialog.
- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9825
Firefox about:me Add-on allows you to watch personalized trends in browser usage statistics like browsing history and download activity in a more interesting view. The current version includes graphs that illustrate trends in your browsing and downloads histories.
The “Activity Stats” section graphs the websites you visit most, including the individual pages you visit most within each top-level site. This section also graphs your hourly browsing activity, which can reveal patterns in websites you visit most at various times of the day. The “Downloads Stats” section illustrates the distribution of different types of files you download, as well as daily trends in your download activity.
IE Tab, an extension from Taiwan, embeds Internet Explorer in a Mozilla/Firefox tab. The Firefox addon is very simple but also is one of the must-have Firefox addons for any web designers and developers. IE Tab allows you to open any webpage in Firefox with Internet Explorer engine, in other words, IE Tab can view IE-only pages in a Firefox tab. After installed this addon, you can switches the rendering engine with just right click and then select “View Page in IE Tab” or one click on the toolbar button icon. Of course, you can choose to open a new tab or just the current page. The latest version is compatible with Firefox 3.5.
