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Five Reasons to Wait Before Installing Firefox 3

By Rick Broida

June 17th, 2008 @ 12:59 pm

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Categories: General, Web Tools

Tags: Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Web Browsers, Internet, Rick Broida

Much as I’m enjoying Firefox 3’s zippier performance, Smart Location Bar, and other newfangled features, I’m shocked to discover that many of my favorite extensions aren’t yet compatible. Indeed, for me this upgrade was also a downgrade, and I’m now wishing I’d waited. Here are the add-ons I need developers to update now: 

  • AutoCopy
  • FireFTP
  • Google Toolbar
  • Meebo
  • PermaTabs

Seriously, I didn’t realize how dependent I’d become on these extras. What about you? Did you install Firefox 3 only to discover some of your favorites were out of commission? Hit the Comments and we’ll all cry together.

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    chill37

    06/17/08 | Report as spam

    google browser sync

    liked google browser sync~
    foxmark bookmark does similar, but does not have password auto-save, tabs sync and etc.

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    jamostew

    06/18/08 | Report as spam

    FireFTP - already updated!

    The developer of FireFTP (also one of my beloved addons) has already updated it and it runs on my FF3!!!

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    BizHacksRick

    06/18/08 | Report as spam

    RE: Five Reasons to Wait Before Installing Firefox 3

    Yep, and both Google Toolbar and Meebo pushed out updates this morning. Hallelujah! Now I just need Auto Copy and PermaTabs (arguably more than any of the others) and I'm back in business.

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    Sam Ross

    06/18/08 | Report as spam

    I miss auto-copy

    I really, really, really miss auto-copy.

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