Introducing Firefox

Today I installed Firefox 0.8 - formerly know as Firebird (apparently it was getting mixed up with another open source project - Firebird database). So far it's not looking awfully good - I managed to download the installer after couple of tries since Mozilla.org servers seem to completely stuffed with all enthusiastic Firefox fans trying to get a hold of a copy. But because the servers are down this also means that although I have the browser itself, I can't download my essential extensions (because old ones don't of course work in the new version), like the Tabbrowser extension that has made browsing bearable.

Tabbrowser extension offers features that I've always wanted in a browser, and I find really quite strange that they are not included in Firefox by default. I hate having million windows open - that's why I prefer to use tabbed browsers, where I can have all sites I want open in the same application but in different tabs. But Tabbrowser extension extends this concept by allowing for example you to define that all new windows (including windows opened from other applications, like Thunderbird) are opened as new tabs, together with javascript windows. So now I'm just waiting for the traffic to die down so I can get my hands on it again. It's all part of the excitement of using a beta browser.

Later: Ah, Mozilla Extension Room has saved me. I now have my Tabbrowser extension, and the new version is even more full with wonderful wacky features. There are in fact so many, I think some of them are either overlapping or duplicate... Could be that something has been lost in translation. Oh well, I'm not complaining.