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Getting started with Ubiquity

February 9, 2009

When Mozilla Labs introduced Ubiquity last August, I boldly said that “Ubiquity will change the way you use the web.” As Ubiquity matures, it is doing just that.
Ubiquity is sort of a dashboard for Firefox. When you bring up Ubiquity, you just tell it what you want to do. Let’s say you want to email [...]

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Ubiquity will change the way you use the web

August 28, 2008

This is an early prototype—the .1 release—but even in its infacy, Ubiquity, a Firefox plugin, shows it has the potential to change the way we interact with the web. As it is now, you have to go visit a website in order to use a tool. Like an RSS reader, Ubiquity brings everything you want, [...]

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Download Firefox 3 today!

June 17, 2008

Mozilla is looking to set a world record for one-day software downloads with the release of Firefox 3, which should be released sometime today is available now at getfirefox.com.
I have been using Firefox 3 for a little over a month now, and it really is a better browser. Better than Internet Explorer by a [...]

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Browser and OS share of readers

January 31, 2008

I was looking at the numbers for browsers and operating systems for viewers, and thought you might want to take a peek yourselves.
Windows XP is, as expected the favorite operating system. However, you do not favorite as much as the national numbers suggest. I am pleased to see so many Linux users (11%), but a [...]

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Lifehacker’s top 10 Firefox add-ons

March 23, 2007

Not using Firefox yet? Get it. It is better than Internet Explorer just for the add-ons, if for no other reason. Lifehacker winnowed a long, long list down to its top 10 Firefox add-ons. The winners:

10. AutoCopy (clipboard helper)
9. CustomizeGoogle
8. Firebug (web development helper)
7. FireFTP (FTP client)
6. Greasemonkey (site-specific script manager)
5. ScrapBook (web clippings library)
4. [...]

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Textarea Backup

March 14, 2007

If, like me, you do any serious amount of writing in text boxes online (including webmail, blog commenting, etc.), Textarea Backup is a pretty useful Greasemonkey script for Firefox. It backs up your text area every ten keystrokes, ten seconds, and whenever the text area loses focus. You’ll need Greasemonkey to run it, and then [...]

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