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I’ve run into a lot of posts lately with a bunch of blatently obvious Firefox tips. From all those lists that I’m much to lazy to hunt down and give credit to, here are the three that I didn’t already know and have used more than once.

1. To remove that embarassing porn site that keeps autocompleting when you start to type, highlight it and hit shift-delete. It’ll be removed from your history.
2. about:cache?device=disk lets you browse through all the porn vids in your disk cache and save them in a safer place.
3. about:cache?device=memory lets you do the same thing with your memory cache.

That’s about it. Have fun.

It’s All Text! | Firefox Add-ons | Mozilla Corporation

It’s All Text!
by The Doctor What
Edit text using your favorite editor!

Cool plugin lets you use an external editor for any textarea field in Firefox.

This post was edited with gvim

How to Make Firefox for Mac More Mac-like · cavemonkey50.com

Who doesn’t love Firefox? I’ll tell you who, Mac users. While Firefox has always been great on Windows and Linux, it seems that the Mac version of the browser has always lagged behind in terms of performance and visual appeal. Since version 1.5, the Firefox development team has been paying more attention to the Mac version of the browser, slowly increasing its speed. The upcoming Firefox 2.0 continues those tweaks, finally making Firefox fast enough to be considered usable. That leaves just one problem with Firefox for Mac, the appearance. Luckily thanks to some third-party developers, Firefox can easily be tweaked to fit in with the operating system.

Firefox (Mozilla Corporation/Mozilla Foundation) made $72M last year?! - The Jason Calacanis Weblog

And who says that Free software can’t make any money?

Firefox, which is produced by the for-profit Mozilla Corporation, made $72M last year and is on target to have 120 employees this year.

Web Developer Extension

Sweetness. The Web Developer plugin just went 1.0

The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools. It is designed for Firefox, Flock and Mozilla, and will run on any platform that these browsers support including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

Daisy - Your Personal Web Assistant

This looks very intersting.

Daisy’s Feature List

Daisy aims to make your web surfing experience simpler and more productive. Daisy:

* Indexes HTML, CSS, PDF, Atom and RSS documents
* Can recreate any web page viewed as it existed at that point in time
* Provides a simple search interface
* Stores all data on your local machine not on third-party servers
* Is scriptable via a API based on HTTP and XML

Windows 0-day exploit found on Web

A previously unknown vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows graphics rendering engine is being exploited by several malicious Web sites to infect visitors’ systems, security experts said on Wednesday.

If you’re still using IE, think about making the switch
Firefox users on Windows aren’t completely immune, but they at least get a dialog asking if they want to run the external program.

Pearl Crescent Page Saver

Mac and Windows only at this time. Linux support is planned for January 2006.

Pearl Crescent Page Saver is a free extension for Mozilla Firefox that lets you save an image of a web page to a file in PNG format. Options let you control whether images are saved at full size or scaled down to a smaller size (by default, images are saved at 25% of the original page size). The Page Saver extension uses the new canvas feature that was introduced in Firefox 1.5.

RoundCube Webmail Project

Cool looking email client with lots of ajax. I’m definitely going to give this a look.

RoundCube Webmail is a browser-based multilingual IMAP client with an application-like user interface. It provides full functionality you expect from an e-mail client, including MIME support, address book, folder manipulation and message filters. RoundCube Webmail is written in PHP and requires the MySQL database. The user interface is fully skinnable using XHTML and CSS 2.

SynchroEdit

Cool open source colaboration idea.

SynchroEdit is a browser-based simultaneous multiuser editor, a form of same-time, different-place groupware. It allows multiple users to edit a single web-based document at the same time, and it continuously synchronizes all changes so that users always have the same version.