Though Firefox 3 introduced greater blending with OS themes, the blending is not upto what it should be. Mozilla Links blog has a nice article on how to blend Firefox in Vista Looks using various add-ons like Glasser to make Toolbar area translucent just like title bar, Compact Menu to convert menu bar into a single button and some user styles to give Bookmarks bar a glossy effect just like standard toolbar in Windows Vista Explorer.

Here’s the comparison of looks before and after applying those tweaks.

Firefox community has developed such a large number of add-ons to achieve almost any functionality one could think of.

Below, we have compiled a list of 21 add ons that are incredibly useful to enhance your productivity, keeping you focused and easing routine tasks of surfing the web.

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No doubt Firefox 3 has been optimized a lot for speed but over time with regular usage, it gets a lot slower as compared to a fresh installation. With time, Firefox also starts taking a lot of time to start which is quite annoying.

Here are three simple tricks to speed up Firefox and have a more satisfying browsing experience with your favorite browser.

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Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 is now available for download and if you would like to test the beta version Firefox 3.1, then you can head over here to download it.

This release is focused on gathering feedback regarding various features of Firefox 3.1.

The features for which Mozilla plans to gather feedback are:

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Here’s a nice Firefox add-on FoxTab that lets you switch tabs quickly and elegantly in a cool visual way. Though suitable for everyone due to its eye-pleasing interface, it is designed for users who love to work with large number of tabs open in Firefox.

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With Google Chrome and IE 8 having Private Browsing Mode, Mozilla is feeling the heat and will include a private browsing mode in Firefox 3.1- the next release of Firefox.

In private mode all user activity, cookies, searches etc. are not saved to the disk and discarded once user leaves the private mode.

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There is nothing like firefox, when it comes to the customization of your browsing experience. There are  thousands of addons available to choose from. I have prepared a list of 23 addons that are must for firefox 3.0 users. I have divided them into 5 catogories according to their use which are multimedia, security, comfortness, professional, and other important addons.
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Mozilla today announced winners of its Extend Firefox 3 contest after reviewing over 100 extensions.

One of the grand prize winner of Best New Extensions is Pencil by Dương Thành An, which adds GUI prototyping and diagramming to Firefox using the Firefox’s SVG support for rendering and scripting.

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Jeteye is a powerful Firefox add-on that makes your browsing experience even more better. Jeteye makes bookmarking your favourite URLs just a single drag-n-drop away( and one click thereafter of-course).

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It was expected to be released in early august but it has arrived early. Firefox 3.1 is nicknamed as Shiretoko. The release note says that current users of Mozilla Firefox should not use Shiretoko Alpha 1 but I have found it to be stable. One of the most eye catching features that has been added is the new tab switching interface which  allows for page thumbnails to be browsed when switching. The other major feature is the enhancements to the syntax used for searching in the Smart Location Bar.

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