When you paste a URL in the location bar or some text in the search bar, you most likely want to visit the URL or search for the terms you just pasted. So, why not paste and go to the web address, or paste and search the pasted terms? In Firefox 4 you finally can.

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On a short note, Scott McGregor, Thunderbird lead engineer, announced that on October 12 he will leave the Mozilla Corporation to pursuit other career interests. He plans, however, to continue his role as module owner for Thunderbird as a volunteer. This is definitely no good news for the nascent Mozilla Internet communications subsidiary, announced last

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It’s not clear at this point whether Firefox 3 will include an option to save web pages as PDF files. It is in the PRD (product requirement document) but it could get cut for time constraint reasons. Fortunately, the backend necessary to make this happen is already in place and Firefox 3 will be able

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Instantbird is a new instant messaging application that merges two powerful open source projects: XULRunner, the stand-alone version of Firefox browsing engine; and libpurple, the library that gives Pidgin its ability to connect to most of the existing instant messaging networks. The first development release, 0.1, provides the very basic functionality of what we have

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During this and last week Mozilla developers and drivers had a run of meetings to discuss Product Requirement Document (PRD, a list of what Firefox 3 should include) released some weeks ago. Requirements have been shuffled, some added, some removed and most, better defined. Regarding Gecko more tweaks for better standards support have been confirmed.

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After slightly more than a year in development, Firefox 3.5 is finally here. As planned, it is an evolutionary update that builds on the significant performance enhancements and features introduced in Firefox 3.0, to deliver a still more responsive experience, more private, and extending the possibilities of the web by supporting a new set of

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Mozilla has released the sixth alpha of Gran Paradiso, Firefox 3 development name. This release comes with a very short delay to the original schedule which is an important achievement considering Alpha 5 was delayed for about a week. Some minor but nice updates have been added like a cleverer close dialog. In Firefox 2

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From Mozilla Development Center: “First designed at the 2006 Firefox Developer’s Summit by Sean Martell based on an idea from Chris Beard, this graphic became a smash hit at the SWSW conference in 2007. Now available as a desktop wallpaper in a variety of sizes.” 800x600 pixels 1024x768 pixels 1280x1024 pixels 1440x900 pixels 1680x1050 pixels

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A bug in just released Firefox 2.0.0.10 affecting an important HTML element interface (.drawImage) has prompted Mozilla developers to rush a new update that fixes this bug that affects several web sites and extensions (FoxSaver, Fotofox) that rely on it to deliver the intended experience to their users. The bug has already been fixed

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The latest Gran Paradiso nightly brings an important improvement to the Add-ons Manager. Along with themes and extensions, now it’s possible to see, enable and disable the installed plugins, those small applications that allow Firefox to show special content embedded in many web pages including Flash animations, video and audio in a variety of formats

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Recent Firefox 3 nightlies now includes support for HTML contentEditable property.This property allows a user to edit sections marked with contentEditable = “true” of the local copy of a web page to better suit his needs. Other browsers including Safari and Internet Explorer already support this feature but I verified that Firefox provides more editing

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On today’s Firefox 3 status meeting, the need for a second release candidate was confirmed and it has been tentatively targeted for early June. RC2 will fix about a couple dozen bugs including some top crashers, some affecting performance and localization related. Most of the bugs already have patches waiting for review or landing and

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As planned, milestone number eight in Firefox 3 development has been reached around mid-September. Not surprisingly, it is not a beta but another alpha which is really a good thing since there are a lot of new features and improvements that need very extensive testing. Download Manager The download manager has received a lot of

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So if you haven’t updated yet, there goes another reason to do so now. According to a report released by Ken Kovash from the Mozilla Metrics team, Firefox 3.6 has not only seen a 40% stability improvement since its initial release (from about 6.5 crashes for every 100 users, to around 2.5), but it has

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Hunspell, an open source spell checker engine has been added to Thunderbird 3 development code replacing previous MySpell engine that currently ships with Thunderbird 2.x and Firefox 2.x. Hunspell also replaced MySpell as OpenOffice.org’s spell checker last year as it provides some unique and welcomed advantages including support for Asian languages, Unicode support, morphological analysis

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One of the most active areas during Firefox 2 development was tab browsing. From tabs behavior to overflow handling there has been much improvement, but for some long time Firefox users some of them may be annoying, so here’s a set of tips for customizing tab browsing in Firefox. By default, when you close a

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XiTi Monitor has released the latest numbers on browsers utilization in Europe and the rest of the world, announcing it has reached about 29% in March 2008. Finland, Poland and Slovenia keep leading the pack with 45.9%, 44% and 43.7% respectively. Considering other browsers including Safari and Opera probably have a strong presence in Europe

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A useful feature that is already available in Gran Paradiso Alpha 3 that I haven’t noticed before is the ability to make multiple discontinuous selections. As of Firefox 2, selections are limited to continuous areas only. With this new option you can make an initial selection as usual and then keep adding text chunks by

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Hunspell, an open source spell checker engine has been added to Thunderbird 3 development code replacing previous MySpell engine that currently ships with Thunderbird 2.x and Firefox 2.x. Hunspell also replaced MySpell as OpenOffice.org’s spell checker last year as it provides some unique and welcomed advantages including support for Asian languages, Unicode support, morphological analysis

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With every Firefox release comes change, and Firefox 3.5 is no exception. While the changes are always well intentioned and aimed to make our web life easier, it’s not always like that for everyone, hence, there’s always something new to tweak. Accessing about:config through the location bar, checking some setting, updating a file, or installing

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