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Protect Yourself From Drive-By Browser Malware Attacks

4:00AM The How-To Geek | We’ve already shown you that you don’t need to pay for Windows security, but today we’re going to take a closer look at protecting yourself from drive-by malware that infects you by simply visiting the wrong web site. More »
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MinimizeToTray Revived Puts Firefox In Your System Tray

8:00AM The How-To Geek | Windows only: Firefox extension MinimizeToTray Revived puts Firefox in your system tray, and replaces the popular MinimizeToTray extension that has been abandoned and doesn’t support Firefox 3 or later. More »
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Fix Unread Gmail Favicons In Better Gmail 2 And Greasemonkey

12:30AM Kevin Purdy | Firefox with Greasemonkey: Gmail recently made a few tweaks to its message count API, leaving tools like the favicon message indictors by Eric Bogs and Peter Wooley, along with Gina’s own Better Gmail 2 Firefox extension, broken. Now they’re fixed. More »
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CheckPlaces Cleans Up Your Dead Or Duplicate Bookmarks

6:00AM Whitson Gordon | Firefox only: If your bookmarks bar has gotten out of control with dead links, duplicates and empty folders, Firefox extension CheckPlaces will check all your bookmarks and even clean them up for you, automatically deleting anything unnecessary. More »
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Firefox 3.6 Beta 3 Available With 90+ Bugs Squashed

3:00AM Adam Pash | Windows/Mac/Linux: The folks at Mozilla continue their steady march towards the release of Firefox 3.6, today releasing an update to Firefox 3.6 Beta 3. The update addresses 90+ bugs from the beta 2 release. More »
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Configuration Mania Gives You about:config Options In Plain English

6:30AM Adam Pash | Firefox only: If you love tweaking every aspect of Firefox with the browser’s very useful about:config feature, but you get frustrated trying to decipher cryptic configuration strings (what’s a 0 or 2 mean for layout.spellcheckDefault?), Firefox extension Configuration Mania is for you. More »
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URL Tooltip Moves Mouseover Info To The Cursor

1:30AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Firefox: If you’re looking to reclaim screen real-estate from that not-so-tiny expanse of space the Firefox status bar takes up, don’t let concern over missing URL mouseover information hold you back. More »
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My Weekly Browsing Schedule Visits Sites On Given Days

9:00AM Angus Kidman | Some sites you’ll visit every day; others you’ll visit when you get an RSS notification; but some you might want to hit only every Monday. Experimental Firefox extension My Weekly Browsing Schedule lets you automatically open up sites when specified days and times come around. More »
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JetPack Gallery Opens With No-Restart-Needed Firefox Extensions

2:00AM Kevin Purdy | JetPack, the Firefox add-on system that uses only HTML, JavaScript and CSS, has opened up its own gallery of apps. The pickings aren’t exactly plush, but there’s some neat stuff that doesn’t require a restart to try out. More »
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Updating The Better Extensions For Firefox 3.6

7:30AM Gina Trapani | Now that the Firefox 3.6 beta is available for download (portable version is here), it’s time to start updating the Better Firefox extensions. The most popular ones, Better Gmail 2 and Better GReader, are already 3.6-compatible; the rest will come in the next few weeks. As always, join the Google Group to ask questions or make comments about the Better Firefox extensions.