Firefox 3 To Set A Guinness World Record: Download Day 2008

Want to witness a Guinness World Record or, even better, to be part of it? People at SpreadFirefox.com can give you this opportunity, as they have announced the Firefox Download Day 2008.

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Now you can take place in a world record by helping out your favorite browser to set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours.
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Open RAR And ZIP Archives Without Downloading Them: ArchView

Sometimes it might have happened that you found yourself downloading a big ZIP or RAR archive, and realized it didn’t contain what you expected after you waited hours for it. Wouldn’t it be better to have a way to actually browse what’s inside an archive before downloading it?

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ArchView is a Firefox add-on that you can use to get a look inside any RAR or ZIP archive without downloading it, so that you can see and select which files you want.
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Add Clocks To Your Firefox Status Bar: FoxClocks

Are you someone who travels a lot and needs to keep an eye on any nation’s time? Are you just curious to know what time is it where your friend or fiancee lives?

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Photo Credit: Lars Brinkman – Edited by Nicolo’ Canali De Rossi

FoxClocks is a Firefox extension that adds regional clocks to your browser’s progress bar, with as many clocks as you want, of any city you can think of.
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How To Rename Tabs In Firefox: Tab Renamizer

Fed up of people looking at your tabs’ names? Need a way to better organize tabs with new names and images to recognize them better and make your work easier?

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Tab Renamizer is a Firefox add-on that allows you to automatically or manually rename tabs, whether it is for privacy or productivity reasons.
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Open Right Click Menu Upon Text Selection: Auto Context

One of those people who can’t stand slow ones? Are you someone who loves fast actions, and even a click more can mean slowing down for you? If you like extensions like QuickTranslation and AutoCopy, which respectively translated and copied text on selection, then I have what you are looking for today.

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Photo Credit: Nicolo’ Canali De Rossi

AutoContext is a Firefox extension that automatically opens a custom right click menu when a text is selected.
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Export Log-In Passwords In Firefox: Password Exporter

Passwords, secret authentication data used to control access to a resource, are used worldwide for any purpose: mobile phones, strongboxes, luggage…but specially computers.

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Anyone of us who has an email address, a blog, or anything with protected access, knows how important passwords are. So important, that eventually we also forget them!

Password Exporter is a free extension for Firefox that exports all of your saved passwords in XML or CSV formats, so that you can import them back if they get deleted or you simply need to format your PC and reinstall everything.
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PicLens Adds YouTube And Firefox 3 Support

We have already seen and maybe fallen in love, as it is in my case, with this wonderful extension called PicLens.


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Previously, back then when we reviewed it, it allowed you to display images from a research on an endless 3D wall for better browsing of the results.
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Rotate Images On Webpages In Firefox: Rotate Image

Have you ever felt the need to rotate an image when browsing the Internet? Maybe when searching for a product or simply looking for an image, isn’t it better to see it in the right way, without having to twist our necks for a better vision?

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Rotate Image is a free extension that makes it easier to rotate images with one click, so that you don’t have to save it before you can see it regularly.
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Scroll Tabs With Your Mouse In Firefox: Tab Wheel Scroll

Tabs are a very great feature for Firefox, that even Microsoft’s Internet Explorer had to copy and implement in version 7. They are so good that now no one can do without them, and we keep opening more and more tabs in a few hours. But what do you when they are too many, and you need a fast way to scroll them and select one?


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Tab Wheel Scroll is a simple but essential extension that enables you to scroll tabs with your mouse.
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