PDF Viewing for Firefox 3

Daryl — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:00:47 +0000

I really like Firefox 3 and have always used it as my default web browser on both the Mac and PC platform. However, the way that Firefox handles PDF files is some what of an annoyance. If you are like me you too will find it rather odd then that when in Firefox and you click on a web link to a PDF file it will automatically download the file and then open the PDF up in Apple’s default Preview.app. Now the easiest way to solve this problem is the go ahead and start using Safari. However, one of the reason I use Firefox is for the amount of add-ons, extensions and customization you can do in it. So as usual their is a Firefox extension which adds this feature. (I believe their is an extension for pretty much everything) This simple extension adds the ability to view PDFs directly into Firefox. You can download the Firefox extension here.

Google Adds Video Chat to Gmail

iChris — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:48:59 +0000

Google has (finally?) added video and voice chat capabilities to their gmail service. To enable the service, just visit this site and download and install the plugin. You’ll have to quit your browser once it’s downloaded before you can install it — but don’t worry, it will prompt you if you accidently leave Firefox open.

Then, it’s just a matter of waiting for one of your contacts to have installed it themselves so you can try it out!

You can tell one of your contacts has the video plugin installed because they’ll have a little video camera icon by their name in your contact list like this:

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PDF Viewing for Firefox 3

Google Adds Video Chat to Gmail