If you’re still keeping up with the browser wars, Percy Cabello has a nice list of Planned features for Firefox 3. For an unedited list, you might also want to take a look on the Mozilla Wiki.
S3 Firefox Organizer is a Firefox extension that will let you transfer files to and from your Amazon S3 account. The UI is pretty simple and works quite well. My only beef with is that the extension does a poor job of representing folders on your S3 account. Otherwise, the extension works as promised. For those of you not familiar with the Amazon S3 service, it is a great and cheap way to store/backup your data offsite.
Joe Hewitt has just released a Public Beta of Firebug 1.0. Firebug is a kick-ass tool that every web developer/designer must have in his or her toolbox. If you have used Firebug in the past you will absolutely love some of the new features like JavaScript profiling, live HTML and CSS editing, and CSS metrics visualiztion. My favorite new feature is the one that lets you open Firebug in a separate window (perfect for those of us with more than one monitor).
A new feature that was quietly added to Firefox was support for Microsummaries. Microsummaries are regularly-updated short summaries of web pages. They are compact enough to fit in the space available to a bookmark label, they provide more useful information about pages than static page titles. Microsummaries are represented using an XML document that could be created dynamically. They are associated with your page by adding a link element to your page and specifying the URI to your microsummary.
Are you color challenged? If you’re wife puts out your clothes for you in the morning, you might want to check out Palette Grabber. It’s a simple extension that will convert the color palette of any web page into a palette file that you can import into Photoshop!
Here is a comprehensive Firefox Extension Development Tutorial. The tutorial covers the following topics:
Nathan Smith has a solution for a Firefox quirk that displays dotted lines around links. In Removing Dotted Links he shows us how to apply some simple CSS to remove this behaviour while at the same time retaining the accessibility feature of the dotted outlines when appropriate.
Cybernet has a tutorial that will show you How To Tweak Firefox 2.0 Beta 1. They offer suggestions like removing the red “X” from each tab or maybe only placing a red “X” on the current tab and will show you how to prevent the scrolling tab-bar.
Mozilla Firefox 2 Beta 1 has just been released. Several new features include anti-phishing, browser session restore in case of a crash or restart due to installing extenstions (whoohoo), support for client-side session and persistent storage, undo closed tabs, JavaScript 1.7, new microsummaries feature for bookmarks, new search plugin manager and better support for previewing and subscribing to web feeds.
This beta will likely not work with many of your existing extensions, but installing the Nightly Tester Tools will more than likely fool Firefox into making them work!
