User Agent Switcher as Mozilla Firefox Addon

If you do web development or cannot access a page because it asks for a certain user agent you might want to test how a site reacts to a user agent string other than which your default browser sends a little add-on called User Agent Switcher comes in handy.

If you are using Mozilla’s Firefox as a user agent most likely you are almost aware of its capability to add features through its add-ons. One of the available add-ons is the User Agent Switcher by Chris Pederick. With the add-on which is available for free (donations are welcome!) you can switch the identifier your browser sends on the fly. That way you can pretend you are surfing a site with a mobile user agent if you are still using your regular desktop browser.

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Firefox 3.0.6 available for Windows, Mac, Linux

A new minor release of Firefox has been published today. You can download Firefox 3.0.6 from Mozilla Europe.

Fixed in Firefox 3.0.6

• MFSA 2009-06 Directives to not cache pages ignored
• MFSA 2009-05 XMLHttpRequest allows reading HTTPOnly cookies
• MFSA 2009-04 Chrome privilege escalation via local .desktop files
• MFSA 2009-03 Local file stealing with SessionStore
• MFSA 2009-02 XSS using a chrome XBL method and window.eval
• MFSA 2009-01 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.0.6)

Release of Firefox 3.1 beta 3 postponed

The release of Firefox 3.1 is delayed because there are too many open bugs. The new release date is February 2nd.

The release of Firefox 3.1 is still planned for the end of the first quarter of 2009.

What kind of browser user are you?

12 different kind of browser users

Do you use Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Apple Safari or a completely different browser? Do you consider yourself a newbie, an experienced user or are you an obsessed user? Try to find yourself in the matrix above and let us know in the comments what kind of user you are!

Firefox 3 little features

I installed Firefox 3 as soon as it was available via system updates on my OpenSuSE 10.3 box. That was a couple of days after it was released. So I am using it now for several days.

Today I did uploaded an image to one of my blogs. That was when I discovered the first nifty feature I had not read about before. Selecting an image for upload you get a preview next to the file selectio area. I have always missed this before. *great*

The second nice little feature I discovered for myself is the progress of downloads in the status bar. It shows how many downloads are in progress and how long it will take until these are finished. *nice*

All in all the update went smoothly, the new version feels a little faster (not as much as other people have reported) and all the new concepts seem to be very useful so far.

Have you discovered features you like that are new to Firefox 3? Let me know!

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