Firefox How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count My Add-Ons

Foxkeh Mozilla annouced today that FireFox 3 Download day was a success.  A world record was set with 8,002,530 downloads in a 24 hour period.

The much hyped download day was not without its problems as we remember.  But the record was set and FireFox 3 is great.

If you do not use FireFox click the button above and download it now.  I will admit I was a little late to the FireFox party.  Although probably still qualifying as an early adopter I did hesitate switching from IE.

The reason to switch is addons.  The FireFox wealth of browser extensions make it the must use browser for Windows.

The following is my everyday list of addons that I run.  If I had to pick one and only one it would be Tab Mix Plus.  I can not run FireFox without it. Tab Mix Plus gives you total control over your Tab behavior.

Here is my list of the current addons I am running.  Info Lister does a great job of listing the extensions and plugins you have installed.  As a result it was very easy to produce this list.

I love FireFox 3 but unfortunately some of my favorite extensions from the list have not been updated yet.  FireFox without the extensions is still a great browser but the addons make it the only one I ever use.

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Firefox 3 Goes Live and Mozilla’s Site Goes Down

This is Firefox 3 live day. They have been promoting Download day for a while. At this time though it looks like the mozilla’s website has gone under due to the traffic volume. I can not get the site to load. I will try later. Download here.

Update: I got the site to load but the download link is still for Firefox 2.

Update 2: Try this direct download link for the Windows version of firefox 3Bwana McCall posted links over on FriendFeed for Linux and MAC as well.

Better Google Reader

Better GReader is a Firefox extension by Gina Trapani of Lifehacker. This Firefox extension combines many Google Reader Greasemonkey extensions into one easy installable package.

I updated to the newest version 0.2.5 that includes a Greasemonkey script with enhancement to the feed icons.

The addon uses each sites favicon as the feed icon. Pretty cool. You can download the Greasemonkey script only here.

Finally here is a link to the Lifehacker post about Better GReader.