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Review and thoughts on Mozilla Firefox 3

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Mozilla Firefox 3 review Now that the much awaited Mozilla Firefox 3 has been released, it is time for a review. I am sure others will have reviewed Firefox already, but I felt that I needed to spend more time with the ‘fox before writing a review.

Sick of Windows XP’s default theme? Get Vista theme for Firefox

Mozilla Firefox 3 has been launched to much fanfare. One of the changes has been a newer interface. However, most people are not particularly fond of the default theme. If you do not like the default theme on either Windows XP or Vista, you could swap out the theme by installing an addon.

Screenshot: Vista on XP theme for Firefox If you are on Windows XP and are looking for a change of pace, try the Vista on XP addon.

Thoughts on my (previous) XP-farewell and Vista-bashing post

Bye Windows XP
Shortly after I wrote the post “Au Revoir, Windows XP, and why you should skip Vista“, there were comments for and against it. Some of them were as comments on the post, while others were via Twitter.

Since there are quite a few points of interest that came up in those comments, I decided to reply to them. There are a few things that left desired to be clarified. My guess is that at least a few of you debate my points, so I hope this helps:

Au Revoir, Windows XP, and why you should skip Vista

Bye Windows XP
Back in 2001, Windows XP was revealed to the world, succeeding disappointing Windows releases. Users of Windows XP hailed it as a new XPerience. The new features that it introduced was quite useful, and the OS as a whole felt solid and stable (more so after Service Pack 2, which improved stability and security).

Use Advanced Search to filter Firefox 3-incompatible addons

Firefox 3 extension search trick With the much-awaited launch of Mozilla Firefox 3, extensions, themes and addons will be a problem.

Mozilla has released many alpha, beta and release-candidate versions of Firefox before the big launch, giving developers time to update their addons. Most extensions work flawlessly, and many more can be hacked to work, but themes and other non-extension addons still remain a problem.

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