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According to my poll about 1 in 4 of you readers have already switched to Firefox 3 and almost everyone else will switch after their extensions are compatible. I am considering switching myself but before I do I need to tweak the heck out of it like I tend to do.

Now after a bit of searching I really couldn’t find any good resources out there for tweaking Firefox 3 stuff so I thought I should create one and share it with you!

Reader Chuck recently asked about enhancing new labels for Thunderbird:

I’ve been trying to figure out how to change some of this stuff for a long time. My one question though – how do you change the label backgrounds for additional labels you have added(other than the default 5 that come with Thunderbird).

I realized that this is probably more common than one might think. So I’m going to share my answer with all of you.

This customization goes back to Personalizing Thunderbird’s chrome, but note that you can also do this with the Stylish Add-on for Thunderbird. In this case it’s not necessary to dig into your userChrome.css file, but if you want to than here are instructions.

First I wanted to mention that one of our brilliant readers, erlando, has made a nice suggestion for Highlighting Search Results script that makes it even better! It really is quite brilliant so you should check it out!

Also, I have been busy adding a few new features here which you probably noticed. I thought I might give a quick overview of new stuff you’ll find around here that might be useful to you:

• New contact form
• You can now register and login with your OpenID
• Security upgraded for login and spam blocking
• Upgraded search, of course