Today I wanted to check which version the flash plugin I have installed in my Firefox 3 browser.
I found a very interesting hidden page that Firefox has and lists all the installed plugins.
to view this page you have to write about:plugins in the location bar and you are done.
You will get a list with all the installed plugins like this:
Firefox 3 got out and it’s great, but I noticed that a lot of people does not like the new location (URL) bar.
What they don’t like is when they type the URL in the URL field a list of previously typed urls appears under which contains a lot of information and makes it very unreadable and too complicated.
For everybody who doesn’t like the new design there is a solution. There is a plugin that makes the Firefox 3 location bar to look the same as the Firefox 2 location bar, that shows only the URL, without the extra information.
You can find the plugin here.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6227
The people from Mozilla set a world record for a most downloaded software in 24 hours.
On June 17, 2008 they got more than 8 million Firefox 3 downloads in 24 hours, and with that they set the Guinness World Record for a most downloaded software in 24 hours.
When I wrote this post there were 16,314,714 downloads.
As a big thank you for everybody who helped Firefox to set the record, Mozilla is giving thank you certificates.
Get one for you here
This is the official Firefox page for the world record
If you install Yahoo Messenger 8.0, you’ll notice a very annoying animated ad at the bottom of the main window.
How to get rid of the ads?
1. Close Yahoo Messenger.
2. Save this .bat file and execute it.
You won’t be able to enter the chat rooms, so if you use this feature, don’t run the patch.
The original post can be found here. There are updates for yahoo messenger 9 there also.
