The Zoomer extension has been changed

[Updated to include a response from the developer, below. - Peng]

In the past I’ve written about CatThief’s Zoomer extension for Firefox 3, which brought text zooming back to Mozilla’s newest browser. It was a welcome relief to all of us who prefer to zoom our text, not the entire web page. Unfortunately the extension has been updated for what should be the final release of Firefox 3 (no, it isn’t here yet), but something changed on it that may want to make you hold off on accepting the update if you haven’t gotten it yet.

[UPDATED] There may be a fix for the Firefox 3 zoom issue

[UPDATED: Things have changed with later nightly builds.  Details are below. -Peng]

One of the biggest changes coming in Firefox 3 is the switch from being able to switch the text with the keyboard to zooming the entire page, and it’s no secret that this tester is not happy with the change (nor are a lot of other testers). But someone came out with an extension that could make us a little happier.

An opposing view on the Firefox 3 zoom issue

It’s a known issue that I hate the new zoom paradigm in Firefox 3, but someone’s posted a comment in the bug for it that brings up an interesting point. I’d comment there but I’ve done enough advocacy commenting there so I’ll post it here in hopes of getting my comment seen and generating a little discussion.

[UPDATED] Mozilla ships Firefox 3 Beta 2

Mozilla has released the second beta of Firefox 3, and it’s even better than the version I wrote about almost a month ago, but have I changed my mind about it?

Firefox 3 hits Beta, but with a couple of major issues

Tuesday Mozilla released the first beta of Firefox 3,  and while it’s got some really nice improvements this user sees more reasons not to use it than the simple fact that it’s a beta release.