Firefox 3 has been released for months. This new browser features many useful functions and a more user-friendly interface. Having said that, the extra large Back button on the tool bar looks odd and out of place. If you are a stickler for balanced proportions and regular sizes, let’s minimise the Back button so that it doesn’t stick out like a sore thumb:

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Live Bookmarks is a useful feature which allows users to keep track of the latest update on their favourite website. It can indicate to users when mydigitallife publishes or adds a new post, or notify users of the latest news from CNN. If users are familiar with Live Bookmarks, they would have noticed that the Firefox browser refreshes or reloads its Live Bookmarks every one hour by default. However, 60 minutes to do the updating is probably not frequent enough for your requirement.If that is the case, you can make some amendments to about:config by adding a new and unlisted preference.

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If you like to do web surfing during office hour in an exposed cubicle like me, there could be a chance that you may get caught by your boss. Occasionally it should be alright but when you are surfing some sensitive websites such as job hunting or social networking websites, it may give a bad impression to him. I searched around and found this tool to be very useful in avoiding such scenarios. Named as Panic 0.3.3, it is a Firefox add-on program that prevents you from getting panic by able to switch your existing sensitive web browsing activities back to normal preprogrammed website with just a single hotkey click.

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When viewing the Flash video streaming content in Firefox 2 (FF2) and Firefox 3 (FF3) on video hosting sites, such as YouTube, MetaCafe, DailyMotion, ToDuo, YouKo, Vimeo, 56.com, Veoh, Revver, imeed, iFilm, GoFish and many more, or on web pages that embed code from these video sharing sites, the streaming video is not playing, or stop playing after one or two or three seconds.

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Firefox users who are used to Firefox Version 2 may feel uncomfortable with the changes in the size of the toolbars, menu text and page content after upgrading to Firefox 3. The larger text size looks a bit awkward. To restore your Firefox 3 back to normal size, you can reconfigure or reset your Firefox 3 according to the steps here:

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Firefox can zoom in and zoom out on a web pages by pressing Ctrl-+ or Ctrl– keys combination, or by selecting appropriate command in View -> Zoom menu. In Firefox 3, zoom features now magnifies or reduces the size of both text and images.

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In Firefox 3, by default, when user click on an email address or a URL link location that starts with mailto: protocol, the default email client, such as Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express or Windows Mail will be opened to allow user to compose and send email to the specific recipient’s mail address.

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Firefox 3 has the new icons for Back and Forward web pages button which assembles the keyhole style, some may says it looks like an arrow on steroids. The Firefox 3 new button style has the Back button a slightly bigger size than the forward button.

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