Firefox 3 will be open for download TODAY. Take the pledge, and help set a Guinness World record. It’s suppose to have more than 15,000 improvements.

Photo: Kalyan Varma

Couldn’t help but post this picture. Got this from Gizmodo, finally drilled down to the original photographer Kalyan Varma. From his blog…

While coming from Mysore, we suddenly saw a big Firefox logo pasted on a bus. We stopped the car and and stopped the bus which was about to leave and took these photographs. I wonder if the artist knew where the logo came from :)

Well, Mysore is a place close to Bangalore, the technology hub of India. I’m not sure if the bus owner or the artist is aware of Mozilla Firefox. But then any publicity is good. Rediscover the web ;)

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In the never ending feud between designer & accessibility advocates. How many times have you experienced your design coming back, with comment of Color Contrast test failed. Not that designers are heartless biased people with no concern.

While there are lots of resources on the web to check color contrast. I’ve compiled a few, though I use Vischeck & Colour Contrast Analyser (Vision Australia) quite often.

• Colour Contrast Check
• Colour Contrast Visualiser
• Colour Contrast Analyser Firefox Extension
• Colour Contrast Analyser (Vision Australia)
• Vischeck

Mozilla announces the release of the Firefox 3 codenamed Gran Paradiso. This in no way represents a finished product.

There are still major issues. I haven’t had any stability problems, but there are bad memory leaks. Gran Paradiso, as Firefox 3 is code named, launches using about 33mb of RAM; after ten minutes of browsing that number jumped to 100mb and after a couple of hours it was close to 400mb — and that’s with no extensions installed.

Gran Paradiso Alpha 2 is being made available for testing purposes only, and is intended for web application developers and testing community. Please use at your own discretion.

Great plug in for Firefox, to switch between different version of Flash players. A must tool for any web developer.

I face some initial hiccup but after a while its smooth sailing. Sometime, it takes a little while when changing Flash player versions. And it normally work after restarting the browser. So please use it at your own discretion.

Download Switcher here