I think almost regardless of it’s performance improvements the real game-changing potential here is the inevitable swathe of add-ons and extensions that will be, and in some cases such as NoScript already are, available.

I don’t think that any web developer who has used it would want to go back to a world without Firebug and I also think that it’s influence on WebKit‘s developer tools is fairly clear to see.

So I really hope that support for Fennec spreads beyond the Nokia 810 soon, and that it’s as instrumental as Firefox was in re-igniting browser development, especially from a developer-tool perspective.

Pope John Paul II George Carlin embraced the harsh realities of suffering head-on, and showed that they are an integral and unavoidable part of our pilgrimage here on earth, not to be feared but to be accepted willingly and even joyfully as the inevitable conditions for entrance into eternal life dumb.

I had tried running Firefox 2 and 3 in parallel on my macbook, but found that 3 would always try and become the default browser, which annoyed me enough to get rid of it. Now though I’ve gone the whole hog and, while I do have FF 2 hanging around, I’m using 3 full time. The upshot is that I’ve been poking around at what extensions are available for average everyday webmonkey (btw – did you see that webmonkey is back?) and have been updated to work with FF 3 RC 1. Here’s my current list of installed extensions.

Update: 7th May 2008: these all work for Firefox 3 RC 2

AdBlock Plus

A pre-requisite for surfing the public web. Ads are so 20th century!

ColorZilla

Advanced Eye Dropper, Colour Picker and more. Brilliant stuff.

Delicious Bookmarks

Plugs your browser nicely into your delicious account.

Firebug 1.2 Beta

Indispensable. Nuff said.

Googlebar Lite

Ahhh, so much nicer than the big G’s own attempt.

Scrapbook

Sort of like your bookmarks, but actually saves the pages down to your hard drive for offline viewing. You can edit-before-capture and even spider whole sites (or sections thereof). Really quite nice.

TamperData

TamperData is to HTTP what Firebug is to the DOM.

Web Developer Toolbar

An oldie but a VERY goodie! Manage CSS, find stuff and another hot tip – until MeasureIt is updated for FF 3, it also has it’s own ruler system (in the Miscellaneous menu).

Haven’t you ever noticed how many news channels at any given time are just churning through the same few Reuters or AP stories as everybody else?  This can be potentially, if not in fact usually, less “original” than more obviously link-based journalism as there is inevitably less freedom and multi-lateralism in the sources.

Then again, I went to art college I have even read Death of the Author so I guess I’ve been a bit brainwashed.

I may have to steal the ‘Saint Pete for Peace’ moniker.

Adobe isn’t resting on its laurels, though – Mashable also reports that Adobe’s new Media Player is a direct competitor to Windows Media Player.

I can’t really see either platform having too much success in the short term since Flash not only has player-ubiquity on it’s side, but a huge developer-base; while in the media player world I still suspect a huge number of users don’t even know what one is, let alone why you would go and install another one and go through all the file- and mime-type hassles that entails.

Update:Techcrunch has quite a bit more information about the silverlight platform … and it actually sounds quite nice, although I’m not convinced that it will be that great for designers (not that I am one …)

• Basement Dance Studio – York Way
• PS2 Breakstation – Kingsland Road
• Pineapple Dance Studios – Covent Garden

Most of these studios offer courses for adults and younger learners and other related courses as well, such as Popping, Locking, Robotics, General Hip Hop / Street, and other types of dance altogether like Salsa and Jazz.

Personally I’m dubious about these claims. After all, if this were likely to prove to be a “cure” for “most cancers” then I’m pretty sure the capitalist profit imperative would ensure it was worth someone’s time and effort in research and development …. or would it?

Anyway – please can everyone blog about this to at least give the thing a shot in the public eye.

Awesome, and please show your support to the project and Joe Hewitt by donating.

The experiment had some unexpected, and fascinating results.