- Step 1: Look for updates to your extensions that work with Firefox 3 Beta 2. Visiting the developer's site or support forums can be incredibly useful.
- Step 2: If no update is available, try adding a boolean field "extensions.checkCompatibility" to about:config. (More info here)
- Step 3: Your skin will mostly stop working on installing FX3, so switch to another skin, but hey you can still get Personas for Firefox
- Step 4: Install Weave, create an account, setup an encryption password.
- Step 5: If you are concerned about <a ping> (I certainly am), know that it is on by default in all Firefox 3 builds before Feb 1 (which includes Beta 2). There are no visual cues or warnings on a ping link being clicked. You can disable it from about:config by the following method:
- Set browser.send_pings to false
- Just to be safe, set browser.send_pings.max_per_link to 0
- If you feel paranoid, set browser.send_pings.require_same_host to true
As for the current ping issue, as per send_pings page, this is disabled by default as of all builds of Firefox post 1st February 2008. (Which means Firefox 3 Beta 2 users still have to turn it off manually, current builds are Beta 4)
Addendum: I looked up the post I made on the German Firefox topic at the time on my (now defunct) Yahoo 360 blog and suddenly came upon this nugget of information: I am a Facts Curator. (Whatever that means).
More interesting stuff: Yahoo 360 will soon be gone forever.
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I've been using Beta 4 on a Linux box. Maybe Beta 5 is also out. Haven't checked,
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