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Remember the Pwn2Own competition in which Chrome was the only browser left standing? Well, Firefox—along with almost every other popular browser—was exploited on the first day.

Firefox 3.5.4 fixes the following issues: Several security issues. Fixed several stability issues. Added the ability to re-submit crash reports (bug 378528) After using Clear Recent History some SSL sites would not load all images and styles without pressing reload (see bug 480619) Please see the complete list of changes in this version. You may also [...]

FoxyURL is both a URL shortening website and a Firefox extension that is fantastically simple to use. If URL shortening was any easier, it would have to be telepathic

Firefox with Greasemonkey: Gmail Compactor replaces Gmail’s standard top-left links-Compose, Inbox, Sent Mail, etc.-with clear icons, while also moving the search box underneath, saving left-hand space for links, labels, and other widgets.

Foxmarks, one of the most popular Firefox add-ons for social bookmarks, is re-branding itself as Xmarks and making significant additions to its functionality. Since Foxmarks has collected so many urls (600 million to be exact), the company is creating a search feature that turns up pre-qualified results. Since Foxmarks’ launch, the bookmark synchronization add-on has [...]

Use Gmail? Get Xoopit! Upgrade Gmail to search, browse & share files, photos & videos. Use Google Search while composing mail in Gmail. Get information about people in a Gmail conversation. Xoopit works for Gmail, Google Mail and Google Apps users.

You can already switch on private browsing in Firefox with Stealther, but in the wake of IE8′s InPrivate Browsing and Google Chrome’s Incognito mode, Mozilla is set to incorporate their own private browsing mode with Firefox 3.1.

Ok now that I have given you some Chrome tips, you may find yourself with the need for Firefox 3.0 tips. You already know about Firefox 3′s marquee new features, but now it’s time to dig deep and unearth the shortcuts, tweaks, and even Easter eggs that Mozilla marketing doesn’t mention.

Google Chrome is Google’s open source browser project. As rumored before under the name of “Google Browser”, this will be based on the existing rendering engine Webkit. Furthermore, it will include Google’s Gears project.