Take the Firefox 3 Pledge

Posted June 15th, 2008 by Steve Backman
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I’ll be celebrating Download Day Tuesday June 17. That’s when Mozilla will release Firefox 3, the new generation of the Open Source browser.

I have used test versions of Firefox 3 for months and love it. I love the performance and speed even when I have multiple tabs open, which I almost always do. Right now, I have Firefox 22 tabs open, and the browser remains perky and stable. Yes, it’s using up a huge amount of my computer’s free memory, but I’d rather give it to that then most anything else on my desktop.  

Loving Firefox 3

Posted March 27th, 2008 by Steve Backman
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I have been using the beta version of Firefox since last weekend. I love it! You can try it here.

The main thing I needed and that I’m experiencing is that it stays perky even with a ton  of tabbed windows open. Yes, my browsing habits include opening and keeping open lots of windows at once. Firefox has had the ability to support this for a while, but memory use grew, sluggishness crept in, and Firefox sometimes crashed.  

Hyperspeed web searches with Firefox keyboard shortcuts

Posted November 11th, 2007 by Aaron Manire
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I'm addicted to Firefox's keyboard shortcuts. You can open a new window, enter the address of a website and close the window without moving your hands out of QWERTY position.  

Firefox Smart Keywords to customize web-searches

Posted November 11th, 2007 by Steve Backman
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Use Firefox smart keywords to make it easier to use your favorite search engines to find what you need faster.  Takes about a minute to add a web site to your Smart Keywords list, and then you have an easy way to search websites right from the browser Location bar (where you usually have to type the whole web address).