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Use Google’s "I’m feeling lucky" from Firefox’ address bar [OpenDNS]

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July, 2008 ()
Posted in Firefox, Google, The Web (5 Comments)

This trick enables you to regain the ability to use Google’s “I’m feeling lucky”-functionality on the fly from Firefox 3’s address bar, as was natively possible in Firefox 2. To accommodate this, we’ll use OpenDNS’ network shortcuts. Once configured, you’ll be able to type stuff like “goto drupal” and be taken to drupal.org right away.

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Firefox 3 and 3.1 Coming Soon

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May, 2008 (, )
Posted in Featured, Firefox, Tech News

Firefox is all over the news with its upcoming release of Firefox 3. According to reports, Mozilla is already in the planning stage for the next major update to the FF franchise, i.e. Firefox 3.1. It will incorporate features that were cut from the RC1 build that was pushed out a few days ago.

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Firefox 3 Beta 3 Released

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February, 2008 Posted in Firefox

The third beta release of the eminent Firefox 3 web browser has been released today, boasting approx. 1300 incremental improvements over previous betas. Improved in Beta 3:

Stability
Performance
Memory usage
Platform-specific enhancements
UI improvements

Word goes around that there will be one more beta-release, before Mozilla will be issuing Release Candidate versions. It looking like FF is finally nearing completion. [...]

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Firefox Addon: TinyUrl Creator

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November, 2007 (, , , )
Posted in Firefox (1 Comment)

TinyUrl.com is a website that takes long URLs and transforms them into cute little buggers like http://tinyurl.com/2uhxg4. It’s useful when one would like to send on, um, long links or when one is interested in social networking sites like Twitter where typing space is fairly limited. The service has been turned into a handy-dandy Firefox [...]

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