Just a few weeks after the final release of Firefox 4, Mozilla released final build of Firefox 5, which is now available via company’s ftp servers and expected to be available officially on June 21, as scheduled. Unlike previous builds, Firefox 5 has undergone a faster development and I think Mozilla is trying to be like Google’s approach in Chrome for releasing updates and new versions.
Music and video embedded in a webpage is nice. It will start playing when you enter the page. But, it will also unnecessarily increase your broadband usage, takes long times to load the page (on dial-up), and utilize more memory. For Firefox browser, the extension ‘Stop Autoplay’ helps you solve this issue.
FlashResizer is a handy Firefox extension designed to resize flash player available on sites like YouTube. You can resize flash player window (and also flash game window) at any size by just dragging. This is quite useful, especially on some sites that does not even allow to switch to full screen mode.
Mozilla has released Firefox 4 beta 2 for Android devices. Built on the same technology platform as Firefox 4 for desktop computers, it’ll give smarter browsing experience on your Android device with Awesome Bar, tabbed browsing, one-touch bookmarking, etc. Firefox for Android is compatible with Android 2.0 and above devices.
Url Security is a useful extension for Firefox that shows you the security level of a web site you are visiting. It turns the URL bar into green on secure sites and yellow on partially encrypted sites.
Of course Firefox has security indicators (it displays https in the address bar and a lock icon in status bar), but not big enough to grab a user attention.
Mozilla’s Add-on Builder is an online coding tool that helps you build your own extension or add-on for Firefox using common web technologies.
Building an extension for Firefox is not a big task as you believe (Read this e-book to learn about building an extension for Firefox). If you have little knowledge about JavaScript and XML, it is very easy.