One of the tools that I use daily is the Firefox add-on Firebug. If you’re dealing with web development in any way, Firebug will give you an enormous wealth of information and tools:

monitor how long it takes for each component of your web page to load;
edit css and html with a live preview;
debug javascript errors;
analyze [...]

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The Mozilla team has announced that Fiirefox 3.1 will come with native support for Theora and Vorbis media. So, this means that:

open source media can become a bit more mainstream (finally moving away the proprietary mp3 monopoly);
no longer will we have to install Firefox plugins to see embedded audio and video files (as long as [...]

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The Firefox add-on Gears, formerly known as Google Gears, allows you to use web applications as if they were installed on your computer. Consider it as a fancier offline browsing.
So, basically the data instead of being completely stored on the web is actually stored in your computer. You’ll have access whenever you want. The number [...]

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The folks at Mozilla will be giving us the full stable Firefox 3 in a bit more than 24 hours. A really really nice improvement from the 2.0 release which now seems pretty ancient for all of those already testing beta releases and release candidates.
Mozilla is even trying to set a new world record for [...]

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Firefox, our favorite web browser, is coming closer and closer to its version 3. I’ve been using Firefox v3 beta 5 for quite some time now and I can say it is working amazingly fast and more stable.
Today Mozilla released Firefox v3 release candidate 2. Compared to the old Firefox v2, the new release is [...]

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