Firefox has its extensions, Internet Explorer its plugins and Opera has Widgets. They basically mean the same: addons for your browser of choice that add functionality to it. I don’t think that Opera deserves to take the third place in the ongoing browser war, it’s fast and resource friendly and many users who rely on Firefox or Internet Explorer should at least take a look at it and evaluate it for themselves. They might be surprised about Opera after all.Widgets for Opera come in all colors and shapes and you can compare them pretty much to the excellent list of extensions that are available for Firefox.

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A new update for Firefox has been released and can be downloaded from the official Mozilla website or by using the upgrade option in Firefox directly. Just click on Help, Check for Updates to download the latest build which adds some improvements to Firefox. The release notes state that the developers fixed seven security issues. Other improvements include Windows Vista support and the addition of several new languages.

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Auto Copy is one of those Firefox extensions that are small and add new functionalities to the Mozilla Firefox. Did you ever receive a email with a link that breaks the line and uses two lines to be displayed ? It is not possible to just left-click the link to visit the website because the link is cut off after the first line. The website can’t be displayed. This happens often in mails that require a confirmation after a forum registration for instance.

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You now the drill. The mozilla team populates the ftp servers and global mirrors before they make the official announcement that firefox 2.0.1 has been released. You may however download the new update of firefox prior to the announcement. It probably does not make a lot of sense for many users to update using one of the ftp mirrors instead of waiting one or two days to download it from the official site or the update function.

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A new version of the (not so popular but great) browser Opera has been released and can be downloaded from the main ftp site for windows, mac and linux. The official website has not been updated yet which means you should have enough time to download the file you need before the masses slow down the servers.

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