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Firefox 1.0 releasesNovember 11th, 2004 by Tom Chi :: see related comic |
Although you probably heard from 100 other places, Firefox 1.0 is finally out. It’s like a huge fiery fox that eats our blue, blue world. If you load it up with some extensions it’s like pretty cool.
Forgot to mention that people are discussing it here:
http://www.plastic.com/article.html;sid=04/11/09/20391546
I mean not to divert our traffic or anything…
Alright… here are more good extensions:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1721458,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532
Unfortunately, RadialContext (a great extension) no longer works. It has a learning curve but once you get used to it it’s extremely quick to use, especially for the most common things (open link in new tab or window; copy URL; bla).
It crossed a million downloads on day one.
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/006889.html
BTW, you’ve miscapitalized Firefox in the post title.
Whoops. Fixed the miscapitalization. Speaking of capital… I wonder if this will finally give IE a run for its money, and I also wonder whether the worm/adware writers are watching this as a new ‘market’ emerging.
Chachamu, don’t use RadialContext. Use the easyGestures, is a much newer and improved version of the same extension, and it’s now updated to Firefox 1.0.
The extentions I use on my Firefox PR1 are:
Google Toolbar - Although Moz has a built in search box, I like the image search, translate to english and search within site buttons.
Tabbrowser - this is crucial to ensure you only use one browser window unless you instigate a popup. Lots of options for tabs like undo close tab and ctrl-click to close tab that I use as well.
Sage - RSS reader
Web Developer - so crucial. Has everything from edit CSS on the spot, view stylesheet, outline elements, validate page, etc, etc.
TuringTest: I don’t know why, but I just don’t like it. I’ve tried it on small, but still… ah well.
Kevin, you’re rather behind. 
Well I was hoping somebody would enlighten me with cooler extensions so I wouldn’t be so behind 
A buddy of mine on the PC was asking me about a project, which I told him involved some FTP. He didn’t have a client installed, but immediately says “I wonder if there’s a Firefox extension for that.” Yep. Downloaded, restarted, and boom — he was uploading files.
Firefox is sweet.
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