If you are one of those who’s always on the look out for new domain names then the Domain Lookup Firefox addon should come in very handy for you.

The domain lookup firefox addon adds a domain name search option to the right-click and let’s you select a text on a web-page and immediately search the availability of the related domain names. It’s options include almost all the prominent domain name registrars and the existing domains like .com, .org, .net etc. You can configure the options accordingly.

A while back I wrote a post which showed how you can sync Firefox across different computers with Mozilla Weave . Today the Google Operating System blog reported that this tool has been updated to the version 0.2 and now has some new features.

Mozilla Weave is a browser sync tool which lets you sync firefox on multiple computers by storing your browser preferences at a centralized location online. According to the release notes, here are the main features of the new version :-

Mahesh was worried because after upgrading to Firefox 3, he didn’t see his bookmarks and hence asked me if there is any way to get them back.

The answer is yes. You can definitely get back your bookmarks because Firefox has a backup of bookmarks through which you can restore them

So here are the steps to restore lost bookmarks in Firefox 3 (only for Windows, sorry Mac guys )

For Windows XP

1: Click on Start- > Run

2: Type - > C:\Documents and Settings\YourWindowsUserName

I have to admit that I am loving the final version of Firefox 3. I finally got it downloaded yesterday, after the initial hiccups when Mozilla’s servers went down.

You’ll find more articles on Firefox 3 and its cool features going forward on Jeet Blog and this cool tip is the first in that series. Now let’s say you have a login id and password for a particular website but you don’t remember that. Now what do you do? If you’ve saved it previously in Firefox then you’d go and access it through Tools-> Options->Security->Saved passwords and check it.

But with the new Firefox 3, it’s much more simple.

For those who still don’t know, today is the Firefox 3 Download Day. Mozilla, the makers of Firefox are aiming for a world record of the most software downloads today.

Digital Inspiration reports that Firefox 3 will be available at 10 AM Los Angeles Time. Ghacks reports that Firefox 3 final version has already been uploaded to the Mozilla ftp site. However, I could only find the Firefox 3 release candidate 3 there, so am not sure. Moreover, downloading from their ftp site will be counted in their campaign or not, is a question.

Sometime back, I wrote a post on 3 useful methods to backup your Firefox preferences. However, if you use Firefox on different computers, like your home and office computers, then keeping all the data in sync which includes cookies, history, bookmarks, passwords etc could be a daunting task.

There are some extensions available like the Foxmarks add on which allows you to sync your bookmarks across different computers easily. But there is another such browser plugin by Mozilla ( the makers of Firefox ) themselves through which you can sync all of your bookmarks, history, cookies, saved form data, and now even passwords.

Martin at ghacks wrote an interesting post on how he uses a different Firefox profile for logging in to his netbanking and other secured accounts. He also mentioned about some add-ons which he uses in that particular profile.

Using different firefox profiles can be useful and you could do it for various purposes. For example, recently there was a problem in my Firefox and even after removing all the add ons, I couldn’t resolve it. So then, instead of uninstalling and reinstalling Firefox ( which is time consuming ), I just went ahead and created a fresh profile and started working in that.