Nuno Silva

Firefox 3

It’s public. Almost every blogger made the announcement. A request was made by the mozilla team in order to beat up the world record. 8 million Downloads in 24 hours. In a few days we will no if the world record was beaten up or not.

Firefox 3 is really good. Fast, a lot faster than it’s previous version both in it’s load time and loading the pages.

But it has a huge drawback… Seams like the the mozilla team changed something with the plugin engine. Maybe that was part of the strategy to speed up the load time. One thing is true. The plugins i use most don’t work any more:

• Firebug
• Colorzilla
• Google Browser Sync
• Javascript Debugger

In fact the most important plugin above is, without doubt, Firebug. I hope an update is released soon because if that’s not the case, i must make a downgrade into Firefox 2.

UPDATE: Looks live there are several updates that i didn’t noticed.

For Firebug there is a beta release available. Get it here (Thanks Mário for the reference).

For colorzilla there is also a beta version. as far as i tested it works fine. Get the beta here.

Google sync unfortunately doesn’t have an update. I hope i comes out soon.

Finally Javascript Debugger has already new version updated for Firefox 3. I really don’t know why Firefox didn’t updated this plugin automatically.

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