Firefox 3.6 vs 8.0

Re:Firefox 3.6 vs 8.0 by ck2 on Tuesday December 06, 2011 @04:48AM (#3318688)

I made the 3.6 to 7/8 switch only a few months ago.

Here are some extensions I found critical to my sanity to keeping things somewhat familiar:

   Status-4-Evar   <<<<<<------------ a must
   Add-ons Manager Dialog Returns
   Back/forward dropmarker
   Restore View Source for Firefox 6+

and

   Firefox 3 theme for Firefox 4+ (v2.0)

Then once you are in FF8 treat yourself to extensions you can only running in FF8+ like Font Information which shows you what fonts are being used on the page in the page info dialog.

Now my FF8 looks a lot like 3.6 but works several times faster.

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Re:Firefox 3.6 vs 8.0 by tete on Tuesday December 06, 2011 @04:54AM (#3318696)

This has been fixed in Firefox 10 (or 9?). Until then you could use this extension:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-on-compat...

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Re:Firefox 3.6 vs 8.0 by ck2 on Tuesday December 06, 2011 @07:05AM (#3318969)

If you are responding to "only can be used in FF8" the font information extension only works in FF8+ because of the api hooks needed are not available in previous version. It's not a min/max versioning issues.

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Re:Firefox 3.6 vs 8.0 by jerhewet on Tuesday December 06, 2011 @09:05AM (#3319270)

Link is broken (server taking too long to respond). Any alternatives to this URL?

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