Firefox 3.5 hits the shelves

After 6 months delay, Mozilla have finally released the long awaited major update to its open source web browser Firefox.
2 x faster than Firefox 3, 10 x faster than firefox 2, numerous new feature’s and upgrades, Firefox 3.5 has a lot to live up to.

Developers should head on over to the developer notes if you’ve not read them already, there is also a blog that Mozilla have setup that explains the new features in more details, its called hacks.mozilla.org i would advise everyone has a quick look over it as there is a lot of useful stuff on there.

Want to know more?

Mozilla’s 3.5 announcement post can be found here

You can download Firefox 3.5 here

Or watch the tour below…

[pro-player width='530' height='253' type='video']http://videos.mozilla.org/firefox/3.5/meet/meet.mp4[/pro-player]

A lot of people dont know about these so thought I would also add a link to the Firefox Tips and Tricks

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HTML Toolkit Add-on

I found a very useful add-on this weekend for use with the open source editor Komodo (both IDE and Edit).
Its built by a chap called Stan Angeloff and is called HTML ToolKit.

What is it?
A growing collection of tools to help you edit & author HTML/XML documents.

What does it do?

  • Auto-complete HTML/XML tags. Knows all about HTML 4/5 and won’t auto-complete invalid tags. Recognises block (<div>, <blockquote>, etc.) and empty elements (<hr />, <embed />, etc.) and completes accordingly
  • Quickly convert word under cursor to a tag by pressing Ctrl+>
  • Default snippets for most common HTML that don’t get in the way
  • Insert &nbsp; entities by pressing Shift+Space
  • Create new list items, table rows, columns, etc. just by pressing ENTER
  • Wrap selection/current line in a tag by pressing Ctrl+Alt+W
  • Navigate around closing tags by pressing TAB/Shift+TAB to go back
  • Preview images in CSS files by holding down Ctrl and moving the mouse pointer over a ‘url(…)’

Why should I install it?
Because it will save you time.. I only installed it this weekend and have found it to become a very useful addition to my development tools.

How can I get it?
Visit the Activestate Community website and search through the available add-ons, alternatively you can clicky here to download

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