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I've been using the Firefox 3 betas for a few months, and now actual release candidates are coming out of Mozilla HQ. I made the switch because Firefox 2 was causing the load on my work PC to spike randomly , leaving the machine useless for a stretches lasting seconds. The performance tweaks for memory usage and the rest seem to have done the trick, and even the v3 betas were better than their predecessor.

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I spent 10 minutes looking for an extension to do this, then found that its, smartly, built into Firefox's bookmark manager.  I'm not sure what this mindset is called, Extension Dependance?  Anyway, if you need to move bookmarks from one machine to the other in Firefox:

1. From the Bookmarks menu, select Organize Bookmarks.

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News to make any Firefox fan sleep a little easier at night.  While Internet Explorer 7 (IE7)  is being installed more widely, its replacing installations of IE6.  That in and of itself shouldn't be that surprising.

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I won't try to duplicate the excellent summary Jason has put up of the new Mozilla releases. I'll just encourage you to go try them out. And if you're still using IE and Outlook, don't make me come over there!

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Some people hate when a blog is just a collection of links to other places but here goes...

You can now support Mozilla projects by buying stuff from the Mozilla activism shop

Why you should switch to Mozilla's

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Looks like Microsoft has given Mozilla, Opera, and other browser makers a small window of opportunity. The recent news leak that that latest IE6 service pack will be the last standalone browser means that if you want to upgrade your browser anytime soon, it won't be IE. ...click to continue reading.

Adot's notblog has a very useful summary of blog postings regarding the growing buzz surrounding Mozilla's Firebird browser

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Came across a number of links today indicating that IE is dead and what anyone who wants a modern browser can do about it.  That's ok though - I've been installing Mozilla and related projects on friend's and family's PCs for a while now to help them upgrade. I don't think you even really need to mention that its not IE, just say - want me to upgrade your browser so that it blocks pop-up ads and gives you tabbed browsing?

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