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If you to want export and save all of your Firefox passwords here is a nice free add-on quite easy to use. Its name is Password Exporter and does exactly what it says. As a matter of fact, it exports (or import) all the passwords available in Firefox. You can export by using either XML or CSV format. In this way, next time your computer crashes, you will have all of your passwords with you! If instead you want to use something more complete meaning that you want to save your entire Firefox profile including passwords, cookies, bookmarks then MozBackup is the right add-on. In fact, it lets you backup or restore your profiles in a couple of steps. Reading from the website: “It allows you to backup and restore bookmarks, mail, contacts, history, extensions, cache etc. It’s an easy way to do Firefox backup, Thunderbird backup …” If you want to download it for free or you want to know more, click here.

If you want to take the new Firefox 3 everywhere you go, here is an interesting application which can be useful to you. As a matter of fact the guys at Portableapps.com, right after a few days from the release of the new Firefox 3, have managed to release their own portable version of this famous browser. I want to point out that this version is the same as the original one. The only difference is that it doesn’t require to be installed. This makes it a good companion of those people who like having everything in their USB pens. The technology behind it is very sophisticated and assures that no data will be left on the computer you will stick your USB dongle into. As a matter of fact all the data concerned your surfing, passwords, sensitive information and such will be written in the pen drive itself leaving the host computer completely clean. The size of Fireofx 3 portable Edition is 8.0MB (download), 27-77Mb (installed, depending on features like anti-phishing). To Run, it requires 2000/XP/Vista, Wine on Linux/UNIX. The software is completely freeware and open-source. Download it now.

Ok, the title here is pretty long and quite self-explanatory, but that’s the deal! In fact every now and then some Firefox add-ons won’t uninstall through the Uninstall button because the aforementioned button is disabled or doesn’t want to work properly. This issue seems to affect add-ons and themes all the same and most of the times the only solution users have to solve it, is to uninstall Firefox and delete all of its keys in the registry. Anyway, there are other simple fixes and tricks which work and save from a lot of stress. Here is the list:

First Method

When everything seems to be lost, try to uninstall an add-on through the uninstall feature available in Windows Vista. Here is how to reach it:

1. Click Start.
2. Click Control Panel.
3. Click Programs and Features.
4. Pick  the add-on you want to uninstall and and double click on it.

Second Method

Try to uninstall a stubborn add-on by putting Firefox in safe mode. To turn Safe mode on follow these steps:

1. Close Firefox.
2. Click Start.
3. Open All Programs.
4. Find Firefox folder and open it.
5. Click Safe Mode.
6. Try to uninstal the add-on.
7. If you want a simpler way to access the Safe Mode click on Start and type in the Search Bar the following command: firefox -safe-mode

Third Method

If the aforementioned methods didn’t work for you, here is another trick which is not very easy to apply but assure you to remove all the unwanted add-ons from your Firefox once for good.

1. Click Start.
2. Click Computer.
3. Click your Local Disk.
4. Click Programs Files.
5. Click Mozilla Firefox folder.
6. Open Extensions folder.
7. To identify which add-on the folder is representing, go to each folder and perform the following steps: 1) Use a text editor (e.g. Notepad) to open the install.rdf file. 2) Now search the following text: em:name 3) Locate the folder with install.rdf file with the name after the “em:name” corresponding to the extension you intend to remove or delete. 4) Delete the folder of the extension.

After some months’s waiting, finally Firefox 3 is available for you to download. This new Firefox version promises to be the fastest browser of ever, thanks to its new features and its brand new architecture which lets you download web pages three times faster than the previous Firefox versions. Here is a list of the most important features:

• Click on the website’s icon to learn more about the website you are visiting. Among the other things you will now be able to know if a website is secure, if your connection is protected from eavesdropping, if the site uses Extended Validation (EV) SSL certificates.
• Now Firefox warns if the site you are browsing is infected by viruses, spywares, malware etc.
• Are you afraid the website you visiting may cheat you? Now Firefox 3 contains the new  Web Forgery Protection page. Stop fake sites right away!
• If you like adding to Firefox tons of add-ons, now you won’t have to check them to see if there are new versions available. Firefox will do it for you!
• Firefox 3  can communicate with your antivirus to warn it if you are downloading any executables in order to scan it.
• More features to play with: new download manager, new full page zoom, optimized open in tabs behavior, better text selection, integration with Mac and Linux etc
• If you want a complete list of the new Firefox features, visit this page.

If you want to download the new Firefox 3, click one of these three links: - FTP Mirror, Windows Version, Mac Version. During the official download day, which was on June 17th 2008 the Mozilla team tried to set the Guinness World Record as the most downloaded software in a day. If you downloaded the software during the Download Day, you may be interested in downloading the Firefox 3 Download Day certificate, certifying that you participated to the event. Download the certificate now.

If you used Google Toolbar for Firefox, one of the first things Firefox 3 did, was to disable it since even the latest version namely  3.0.20070525L is not compatible with it anymore. Anyway Google has already released a new Google toolbar whose version is  3.1.20080605W. This new version is already available for you to download. Here is the link for Windows, Mac and Linux.

No, I didn’t get crazy all of a sudden. You read it right! As a matter of fact, thanks to a nice add-on you will be able to play with the most famous Nintendo games on your Firefox browser! To tell you truth you will be able to play with all of them, since we are speaking about more than 2500 games here! All you have to do is to download and install the add-on and…that’s it! No need to download anything (no emulator or roms needed). What you are waiting for? Change your Firefox into a powerful emulator. Download the add-on now!

Google has just released a nice API application that lets you display maps and all the nice functionalities available on Google Heart directly on your preferred browser. Here is a brief excerpt: ” The Google Earth Plug-in and its JavaScript API let you embed Google Earth, a true 3D digital globe, into your web pages. Using the API you can draw markers and lines, drape images over the terrain, add 3D models, or load KML files, allowing you to build sophisticated 3D map applications. If you have an existing Maps API site, you can 3D-enable your page with as little as one line of code.” To download it, visit this page

Firefox 3.0 RC2 has just been released. This new release is a further step toward the final version which will be officially launched somewhere this month, hopefully. This version doesn’t have many evident improvements nor new features. As a matter of fact the Mozilla team has tried its best to fix some of the most important and dangerous bugs which affected the previous release. If you want to read the release note of Firefox 3.0 RC2, click here. If you want to download this great freeware browser, just follow this link here.

Before downloading it, take into consideration the usual recommendations:

• This version is not the final one but a release candidate, so no wonder if there is some bug. By the way, if you find a bug, you can report it to the Mozilla team by following this link.
• This version is not intended for the final user. In fact it is a released for testing purposes only. My advise is not to be too greedy. Don’t download it right away because it could not work properly and could disappoint you a little bit.

Ok, the title is pretty self-explanatory but that’s the deal! In fact somewhere in June, Mozilla will announce the Download Day where all you will have to do is to download Firefox 3 to help set the record for most downloaded software in 24 hours. If you can not wait, you can visit the Download Day Headquarters and pledge to download Firefox 3 when the date will be set up. So what are you waiting for? Become part of the Firefox community now!