After I switched over to Firefox 3, I noticed that my Firefox used to freeze whenever I was downloading or to be more precise whenever a huge download finished. After few spending some time with the task manager and Google, I came to find that the culprit was the built-in feature of Firefox which scanned the downloads using the already installed anti-virus application in my system. Even though this feature is a good one, in my humble opinion its a drag for somebody who downloads in and out daily. It could be useful feature for a novice or my grandma if she ever wanted to use a computer but not certainly to me. I believe any person who spends more than an hour over the Internet daily would be sensible enough to have a anti-virus application running and update it frequently.  Your own anti-virus application should be able to take care of it instead of the browser taking the load.

So after spending some time with Google, I got lead to gHacks who had a detailed article on it. So here is how you disable this feature, type “about:config” in your Firefox’s address bar and run a search filter for browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone and change the parameter value to false which will disable the automatic scanning.

via [gHacks]

For those who didn’t jump the bandwagon with RC1 release of Firefox 3, now is the time to check it out the all new faster, safer Fox… This is the final release candidate of the new broswer with latest Gecko 1.9 Engine and the public release can be expected any time in June. Watch out for the day since it is called as the “Download Day” and Mozilla Foundation is aiming for a record number of downloads within 24 hours of the release. You can help the cause by downloading FF3 at your home, work and help spread the word.

It’s high time we digged a grave for Internet Explorer… Now that Firefox 3 is here, I am sure that IE can be finally put to rest… I had downloaded the release candidate a week back and was amazed at the speed… esp the Google applications like Gmail, G Reader, G Calendar… Eventhough most of my Firefox 2 add-ons are disabled, I didn’t have the heart to go back to 2.o…

We can expect the final release sometime in June and according to Spread Firefox.com, the launch is going to be celebrated as the download day where a new world record (not that some previous record exists)for the most software downloads in 24 hours.. So please download the software within 24 hours of its release… You can also pledge your support…

Go Firefox…