Browser news

If you don’t like the looks of Firefox 3’s new location bar (I hate it), then try the Oldbar addon. It keeps the functionality of the new Firefox 3 url bar, but makes it look more like Firefox 2.

Get it here.

Apple have just updated Safari for Windows to v3.1. Yet another browser that we’ll all need to check our sites with.

If you’ve recently installed a new version of Firefox (a fresh install – not an update), then you might find that the “check spelling as I type” feature no longer works. This is because some of the newer releases of Firefox don’t come with a dictionary. If your Firefox download didn’t come with a dictionary file, you can download one here. Or you can jump straight to the English dictionary downloads here:

• Australian English dictionary
• British English dictionary
• American English dictionary

InFormEnter is a great little plugin for Firefox that adds a drop down list of ‘pre-filled’ fields to help you fill in forms more quickly. It saves heaps of time when manually adding your site to directories, and it’s so intuitive to use that you can zone out completely and work zombie style.

Apple have just released a new beta of Safari for Windows – which means yet another browser we’ll all have to test our sites with. Safari for Windows blurs the text just a bit too much for me, but I guess somebody at Apple thinks rounded blurry text is better than crisp clear text.

Daniel Vine, creator of the excellent iCapture Safari preview tool has added an IE7 version called ieCapture – so now you can preview your sites in Internet Explorer 7 without having to install IE7.