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Thanks to Annie, who commented on my last post about Firefox 3.0 and told me about a post at Mashable. It lists 30 updates to Firefox Add-ons, which is great! Check out http://net-proinfo.blogspot.com/ for that information.

Only problem is… Still no Tab Mix Plus.

Get with it, will ya, people?

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve lost material because I just opened something and forgot that Tab Mix Plus wasn’t there to open that new tab for me. It really sucks when you’re listening to a training audio and lose your place.

GRrrrrr…

If anyone spots an upgrade to that one, we’ll be friends for life.

I’m still liking Firefox 3.0 in every other way, though. Pretty sweet.

One other thing that was brought up to me was that Firefox 3.0 is incompatible with Roboform.

Untrue!

I use Roboform. Just go to the Roboform Website, and upgrade to version 6.9.09 and it works pretty well. The only issue is that it sometimes doesn’t recognize the site I’m on. No big deal. Right clicking and using “Fill forms” works just as well as the toolbar, if need be. I totally couldn’t live without Roboform.

4,000+ passwords and counting. And yes, I have the pro version.

What’s cool is that I’ve had that for a long time and it doesn’t expire. It’s well worth the cost.

But not true with Software 995. When I got this new computer with Windows Vista, I had to get a new version of pdf995, and when I tried to use my key, they told me something like, “Well… You didn’t actually think that your key would last for.ever, did you?” or something snarky like that. So, I bought it again, not realizing that Word 2007 has a plugin to use that creates .pdf docs and I didn’t have to spend the extra cash. Oh well… what’s $10?

Not even a decent lunch these days, eh?

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So, I’ve been using Mozilla’s Firefox 3.0 for a couple of days and I really like the look and feel of it. It’s more 2008 and has some cool features.

For example, when you type a URL into the address bar, it drops a menu down that makes seeing what you’ve typed in before pretty easy. You see the site’s name, the URL and the favicon. I’m easily amused, you know.

Another cool feature is the “back” button. It’s all gelled out and looking calm, like. You know, it’s like gellin’. And there’s a new icon for “Most Visited” sites. That makes it easy to get to the sites you’ve just been to more than few times.

But even better is an add-on called “Speed Dial,” which works with 3.0. I love it. Shows me all the sites I program into it that I have to look up all the time, which now, I don’t because I have Speed Dial. Nifty.

Here are things I hate about 3.0, OK, Mozilla?:

Some of my add-ons won’t work anymore. Grr. This is unpleasant in many respects. I’ve also lost ColorZilla, which helps me to get the HTML and CSS color codes when I’m trying to match something. Grr..

AND, Tab Mix won’t work. Every time I click a URL, it opens in my current window. That makes me nuts! I changed the setting in Options, but it doesn’t seem to be the option I need. Grr… Do you know how exasperating it is to be in the midst of a streaming .mp3 because you’re trying to fill in a transcript blank and you get sent to another site in that tab, against your will! Well…

You have to frickin’ start all over again! You have to fast forward that puppy and hope to God you land in the general area where you were before. I mean, people send you IMs and tell you to go to other sites during the day. It’s not even me goofing off! CRipes.

OK… So now that I’ve ranted about that…

I have no other rants, really. I like Firefox 3.0 so far, especially the Twitter plugin. It’s easy to see whenever someone I’m following tweets, and I can tweet from there, too. Pretty cool.

I haven’t read all the tech stuff that probably tells you to stay away from Firefox 3.0, but I just saw that Paul Colligan likes it.

So do I, Paul. So do I.

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