This has been one of my favorite Firefox tools. 
It was a tough call, but we decided to phase out support for Browser Sync. Since the team has moved on to other projects that are keeping them busy, we don’t have time to update the extension to work with Firefox 3 or to continue to maintain it.
Link to announcement from Google.
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Mashable has a great list of ways to integrate these two great technologies.
I’ve never been a big fan of using different themes in FireFox because it was always necessary to restart the program to see how the new theme would look. Now, there is an option that doesn’t require a restart. Check out FireFox personas.
Mashable has a list of 30 pretty good themes for Firefox. Okay, some of them are hideously ugly, but most are pretty decent.
Here are some pretty good recent finds. I usually put these in my shared blog, so you might want to take a look there. You can also subscribe to the RSS feed for my shared items. If you have your own shared blog, let me know and I’ll check it out!
There. That helped to clean out some of my starred items. Hopefully some of those will help you in your quest to conquer the world.
Start Slide Show with PicLens Lite If you are a Firefox user (and you should be!) here is a great list of tools you should investigate.
I keep seeing more and more people using FireFox, and that is a good thing. On the other hand, I have been testing IE7, and Microsoft has made some nice improvements.
Start Slide Show with PicLens LiteBoth Firefox and Safari are seeing their highest numbers for the year, apparently at the expense of Internet Explorer. Firefox passed the 10 percent mark just under a year ago and has been enjoying continued success on Linux, Windows, and OS X. It has even become the browser of choice for many savvy users. Safari, while holding much smaller numbers than IE and Firefox, is also becoming nothing to sneeze at. A year ago, Safari had less than 2 percent of the browser market but has almost doubled its numbers since then. Netscape and Opera both carry under 1 percent of the market and Mozilla is dead last, just above “Other.”
Very cool, but it just goes to show that some people have a lot of free time.
Here is a great article on the evolution of web browsers. They aren’t just for surfing anymore!
Start Slide Show with PicLens LiteThe major Web browsers are getting facelifts as they increasingly become the focal point for handling business transactions and running programs over the Internet rather than simply displaying Web sites.
The upgrades are the latest skirmish in the browser war that started in the mid-1990s and led to Microsoft’s triumph over Netscape. The battles reignited in 2004, when Mozilla’s Firefox launched and revealed new avenues of development.
On Tuesday, Opera Software ASA is releasing its Opera 9 browser, while Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Firefox are in line for major overhauls later this year.
Today, e-mail, maps, word processing and other traditionally standalone applications are migrating online. Major Internet companies such as Google Inc., Yahoo Inc. and even Microsoft are devoting tremendous resources developing these Web applications and browser developers want them to run well.
Opera 9 sports “widgets” Web-based applications that run off its browser but appear detached as standalone tools. Anyone knowing Web coding can develop widgets for Opera to check weather, soccer results or the status of eBay Inc. auctions; others can download existing ones.
“Most end-user applications being developed today have at least part of their functionality running on the browser, which is completely different from the way it used to be 10 or 15 years ago,” said Christen Krogh, Opera’s vice president of engineering. “In the old days, browsers were like printing presses” displays for static pages.
IE continues to dominate, but I still love Firefox! (And I’m warming up to Opera)
Amsterdam - May 15 2006 - OneStat.com, the number one provider of real-time web analytics, today reported that Microsoft’s browsers have a total global usage share of 85.17 percent. The total usage share of Microsoft Internet Explorer decreased 0.65 percent since January 2006. The total global usage share of Mozilla is 11.79 which is 0.56 percent more than at the of of January.
I must admit that this comes as a complete surprise. This is from the Microsoft Team RSS Blog
Start Slide Show with PicLens LiteThis seemed like a very good idea, so in November, Amar and I took a visit down to Silicon Valley to meet with John Lilly and Chris Beard from Mozilla to get their thoughts on it. We all agreed that it’s in the user’s best interest to have one common icon to represent RSS and RSS-related features in a browser. And the winner is…
I’m excited to announce that we’re adopting the icon used in Firefox. John and Chris were very enthusiastic about allowing us (and anyone in the community) to use their icon. This isn’t the first time that we’ve worked with the Mozilla team to exchange ideas and encourage consistency between browsers, and we’re sure it won’t be the last.
We’ll be using the icon in the IE7 command bar whenever a page has a feed associated with it, and we’ll also use it in other places in the browser whenever we need a visual to represent RSS and feeds. Look for more details on the look and feel of IE7 when we post the public pre-release build next year.
Thanks again to the Mozilla team for making the icon available and helping us do the right thing for all browser users. Many thanks to everyone who gave feedback on our earlier post; your comments and thoughts were very valuable!
