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Firefox 3 beta is (almost) out

Firefox 3.0b1Mozilla doesn't plan to officially launch Firefox 3 beta for another few days. But the crafty folks over at Digg have umm, dugg up a few download links for anyone who can't wait to get their hands on the newest version of the popular web browser.

As usual, Mozilla is releasing Mac, Linux, and Windows versions of Firefox. And the developers have put a handy little Read Me note up on the FTP site stating that they'd really prefer if you waited until the official announcement to download the browser so that their servers don't get hammered. Thanks to Digg, it's probably too late for that, so we went ahead and downloaded a copy of Firefox 3 beta anyway.

At first glance, you won't notice many changes from Firefox 2. In fact, Firefox 3 beta will import all of your settings, bookmarks, add-ons and plugins from Firefox 2, so at first you might think you've opened the wrong program. We even installed Firefox 3 beta using Sandboxie so that it wouldn't overwrite our old settings, and all the data was easily imported.

Update: Mozilla has posted a note making it clear that the Firefox 3.0b1 is a release candidate of Firefox 3 beta, which was not meant for general consumption yet. If you can hold your horses a few more days, there should be an official release soon.

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Flagr, bookmarking the real world

FlagrWhenever I visit a new restaurant, I think wow, this place is pretty cool, I need to remember this. Then what do I do? I forget all about it. Ever had the same problem? Flagr to the rescue. Flagr is an application built using RadRails (which for this post is unimportant), but more importantly integrates Google maps and your flags in a Flickr-ish way. Flagr will let you tag locations from your mobile phone, by sending a quick email. You can also add video to a location for that meta-vodcast-blogging-meets-real-world you've been itching to do. You'll never forget where something is or what you found there again. Flagr is of course a social "flag" sharing site, so you can find places based on other peoples tags and flags. That has a nice ring to it. Run the flag up that pole Johnny.

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Filed under: Internet, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Mozilla, Open Source

Firefox 2.0 to ship without Places

FirefoxOne of the most-touted feature updates scheduled for Firefox 2.0, Places, has been axed from the Bon Echo roadmap and instead rescheduled for Firefox 3.0. In a post to the Mozilla development newsgroup, developer Michael Schroepfer announced the delay of the "complex and exciting feature which changes the way people use bookmarks, history, and navigate through their private space of the web," saying they "do not have time to complete an implementation of places that lives up to our standards of user experience and quality." Many users and developers have expressed disappointment and some are even arguing that without the Places feature, Bon Echo no longer deserves the "2.0" label. Lead developer Ben Goodger has posted a blog entry responding to the criticism and justifying the change.

[Via Ars Technica]

Featured Time Waster

Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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