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I wonder why the Firefox 2.0 Beta – download page takes me to the download of Firefox 1.5.0.6 at the moment … anyway … The binaries of Firefox 2.0 beta 2 release candidate 2 can be found on the mozilla ftp server.

The webdeveloper extension is not only useful to webdevelopers.

Show password displays the password in password-fields. So you can see what you type. (If there is nobody standing behind you, there is no need to hide characters behind asterisks.)

If you use the firefox default settings and you search google and use a link provided by google to visit the found page, the google search-parameters (e. g. the keywords) are sent to the computer hosting the visited webpage. The same applies to link-collections.

Disable referers protects your privacy. The webpage you visit is not informed from which webpage you come from.

You can also disable meta-redirects, Java, JavaScript, the popup-blocker, css, …

You can convert post-forms to get-forms. Many websites supports get-parameters although they use posts. Int his case it is easy to create an URL to a webpage that can only be reached by submitting a form.

Most of the many other features only make sense to web-developers I think.

The Tunderbird extension Mailbox Alert seems to be really useful. I think: It internally adds a folderListener and and let the user define an external program, that is called every time the number of unread messages has increased. At the moment Mailbox alert does not allow to define actions for virtual folders. But I fear there are other problems, too:

When “Mailbox Alert” is installed and activated I get a message-box containing the following text:

Warnung: Nicht antwortendes Skript
Ein Skript auf dieser Seite ist eventuell beschädigt oder es antwortet nicht mehr. Sie können das Skript jetzt stoppen oder fortsetzen, um zu sehen, ob das Skript fertig wird.

Here is the translation:

Warning: Script unresponsive
A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now or you can continue to see if the script will repeat.

The process of fetching the mails from my pop-servers and moving them to the right folders using the thunderbird filter-rules slows down dramatically.

I observed the described behaviour on a high-end dual-core PC running the german version of Windows XP and Thunderbird 1.5.0.5. For testing I disabled all other Thunderbird extensions I use. The dom.max_script_run_time was set to its default value 5.