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All of you know wordpress 3.0 is released and is available for download. Now it’s the time to upgrade your wordpress blog to the latest version but before this you make a complete backup of your wordpress blog before up-gradation because if something goes wrong then you can easily backup all the data.

Now, here comes the step by step guide on upgrading your wordpress blog.

Login to wordpress admin panel, at the top you will see a notification which says “WordPress 3.0 is available! Please update now”.

Click on the “Please update now” and you will see the upgrade option like this:

Click on the upgrade automatically button and if everything goes good you will see successfully upgraded to wordpress 3.0 like this:

Now go back to your wordpress admin panel and you will see that it is running on wordpress 3.0

WordPress automatic upgrade made upgrading wordpress very much easy even a newbie will easily upgrade it.

Caution

I recommend you to take complete backup of your wordpress blog before upgrading to wordpress 3.0. If you think that you can’t upgrade to wordpress 3.0, then take a help from me in upgrading your wordpress blog.

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In the meanwhile do let us know that you upgraded your wordpress blog to 3.0 or not?

Mozilla Firefox, a well known browser and most powerful tool at present and by using right add-on, certain things becomes easier for web designers and web developers, like finding errors on pages sometimes will be quite time consuming and pretty painful process and these add-ons comes as a real time saver, stress reliever which might help you out and few of them will be helpful in measuring dimensions, choosing colors, and optimizing the web pages.

There is a plethora of add-ons and extensions out there that can enhance your browsing experience and make your workflow productive and quicker. Now the question arises, how you will choose the best add-on out there from the huge list of library of add-ons? No need to worry, this article will provide you the list of most used and valuable add-ons needed for web designers and web developers.

Adblock Plus

Aardvark

ColorZilla 1.0

Cooliris

CSS Viewer

Console²

Codetch

ColorSuckr

CSS Validator

Code Burner

Dummy Lipsum

Edit CSS

FireShot

FirePHP

FoxyTunes

FireFTP

Firebug

Font Finder

Fasterfox

GridFox

Greasemonkey

HTML Validator

IE Tab

IE View

Image Zoom

IE NetRender 0.9.5

iMacros for Firefox 6.3.1.1

JS View

JavaScript Debugger

Live HTTP Headers

Link Checker

Load Time Analyser

MeasureIt

NoScript 1.9.9.30

Paletter Grabber

Poster

Platypus

Pixel Perfect

PageDiff

Pencil

RSS Validator

Server Switcher

ScrapBook

Screengrab

SEOQuake

SEOForFirfox

Shareaholic

Tab Mix Plus

Total Validator

Window Resizer

W3C Offline Page Validator

Web Developer

X-Ray

YSlow

This list will help you out in selecting the best add-on according your needs and requirements and in the end i must say that “Firefox is more than a browser, it’s a toolbox waiting to be filled with tools (i.e., add-ons) and they will make you love to play with them“.

Note

These add-ons will be helpful but using too many add-ons will slow down the performance of the browser. So, it’s a suggestion that you use only selective add-ons as per you needs.

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