UnPlug

UnPlug is an extension which lets you save video and audio which is embedded on a webpage - it's a video download tool.

UnPlug scans web pages and tells you where media players are getting their data from, and displays it as a simple hyperlink: in most cases, you can then follow the simple download link to save the media file.

UnPlug works for lots of sites including youtube.com, ifilm.com, current.tv, revver.com, peekvid.com, video.google.com, mobuzztv.com and lots, lots more.

Unlike many other extensions, UnPlug scans the page, and if it doesn't know there the data comes from it can guess - correctly most of the time.

UnPlug your Plug-Ins and view media however you want!

More details at http://unplug.mozdev.org

Small tip for quick download in Firefox

Instead of right-clicking on a download link, choosing "save to target" and pressing enter, just drag the download link to the "downloads icon" in the toolbar. The download will start automatically.

You can actually drag download links to either the Downloads icon (which needs to be added to the toolbar manually through the Customize... option) or directly to the Downloads manager.

Alternatively, try Alt + Click on the download link. It works for me ;)

Mozilla Firefox 3, Portable Edition

Shortly after Firefox 3 beta 2 available to download, there have been several portable versions of Firefox made available, so you can try out Firefox 3 safely even if you don't have the benefits of virtualization (yet)

Option 1: From portableapps.com (click to visit the download page)

your browser, your way... in your pocket™

Mozilla Firefox®, Portable Edition is the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser bundled with a PortableApps.com Launcher as a portable app, so you can take your bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords with you.

Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition is an integral part of the PortableApps.com Suite™.

Like Firefox Portable? You'll love having Firefox on your PC: or

Features

Mozilla Firefox is a fast, full-featured web browser that's easy to use. It has lots of great features including popup-blocking, tabbed-browsing, integrated search, improved privacy features, automatic updating and more. Plus, thanks to the PortableApps.com launcher bundled in the Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition, it leaves no personal information behind on the machine you run it on, so you can take your favorite browser along with all your favorite bookmarks and extensions with you wherever you go. Learn more about Mozilla Firefox...

Option 2: Portable firefox @ Sourceforge

Related: Firefox 2 portable

Consider this a Happy New Year gift too :)

Firefox 3 Beta 2 now available for download

New features and changes in this milestone that require feedback include:

• Improved security features such as: protection from cross-site JSON data leaks, tighter restrictions on site-specific content using effective TLD service, better presentation of website identity and security, malware protection, stricter SSL error pages, anti-virus integration in the download manager, version checking for insecure plugins.
• Improved ease of use through: better password management, easier add-on installation, new download manager with resumable downloading, full page zoom, animated tab strip, and better integration with Windows Vista, Mac OS X and Linux.
• Richer personalization through: one-click bookmarking, smart bookmark folders, location bar that matches against your history and bookmarks for URLs and page titles, ability to register web applications as protocol handlers, and better customization of download actions for file types.
• Improved platform features such as: new graphics and font rendering architecture, JavaScript 1.8, major changes to the HTML rendering engine to provide better CSS, float-, and table layout support, native web page form controls, colour profile management, and offline application support.
• Performance improvements such as: better data reliability for user profiles, architectural improvements to speed up page rendering, over 330 memory leak fixes, a new XPCOM cycle collector to reduce entire classes of leaks, and reductions in the memory footprint.

Get it here

Firefox 3 Beta 1 - 429,000 Downloads

Source: Paula Rooney- ZDNet

The Mozilla Foundation reports that nearly 500,000 copies of Firefox 3 beta 1 have been downloaded since its release last week and two more beta test versions will follow before its final release next year.

During a brief meeting Monday, developers said Firefox 3 Beta 2 will be released by the end of the year and beta 3 will follow in early 2008.

The Firefox team said more than 429,000 copies have been downloaded to date and that roughly 100,000 of those are active beta testers.

The next beta test versions will incorporate the visual user interface redesigns for Windows Vista, Linux and Mac OSX, which gives the browser a more appropriate look-and-feel depending on the operating system used. Users who load beta 1 on Mactinosh are currently invited to test a protoype of the Firefox 3 theme for Mac OSX, dubbed Proto., which is also in beta testing as an add-on to Firefox.

The firefox counter

Curious about how much times firefox was downloaded? Add a counter from one of those location

html counter

The Firefox download counter is now also available as an RSS feed that updates each minute. This counter does not include upgrades of Firefox initiated through the application update mechanism, and we believe it to be an accurate measure of downloads since the 1.0 release in November.

The community has created a number of tools to enable you to syndicate this number with ease through a variety of mediums:

• PHP (and here)
  


• Flash (and another)
  
  


• C#
  


• Script
  


• Simple HTML via button images (also here)