The second developer milestone of the next release of Firefox - code named Shiretoko Alpha 2 - is now available for download. Shiretoko is built on pre-release version of the Gecko 1.9.1 platform, which forms the core of rich internet applications such as Firefox. Please note that this release is intended for developers and testers only.

The new build includes "support for the HTML 5 video element" and the ability to "drag and drop tabs between browser windows." ComputerWorld is running a related story about benchmarks shown by Mozilla's Brendan Eich which indicate that Firefox 3.1 will run Javascript faster than Chrome.

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JavaScript has been very broadly used to add pizzazz or flexibility to Web pages over the years, but in recent years, it's also become the plumbing for many rich Internet applications....

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Pencil is a free and opensource tool, released under the GPL version 2, for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use. it makes use of “SVG support in Firefox 3 to implement the shape rendering.

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...thanks to Dion Almaer and Google, you can now use served-off-googles-infrastructure versions of your favourite JavaScript libraries, including Prototype and script.aculo.us.

• jQuery
• prototype
• script.aculo.us
• MooTools
• dojo

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A small utility to let developers run multiple versions of Firefox side by side is MultiFireFox 2.0, which lets you run up to 5 versions of FireFox side by side.

If you're a web developer you probably want to check your work in FireFox 2 as well as 3?
MultiFireFox also lets those of you who don't want to jump into the new version of FireFox

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PicLens provides an immersive full-screen experience for viewing photos and videos by using the bandwidth and processing power of the GPU.
Cooliris' Piclens browser plug-in borrows a page from Apple's Cover Flow and renders both online photo and movie searchers into a giant, full-screen wall of images you can scroll through.... [wired.com]

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FlickrSender is a Firefox Extension that allows you to right-click on any image and instantly send it to your Flickr account.

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