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This is a guest post by Sumesh.

Bookmarklets are bookmarks whose URLs contain small bits of JavaScript code, that can accomplish specific tasks. These range from the crazy and wacky to useful and time-saving bookmarklets. Since we’re using bookmarklets to save time, we shall leave the crazy and wacky ones for another post.

To save these bookmarks, just right click on the link to the bookmark and save it into your bookmark folder.

Once saved, simply go to that bookmark for the required action. You can see my collection of bookmarklets on the right. I have organized it into a folder placed in the toolbar, so that any bookmarklet can be accessed with 2 clicks. Onto the favelets then.

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Well not everything went good for Mozilla on its planned download day to celebrate the release of Firefox 3. Mozilla had declared today as Download Day, in an effort to set a Guinness World Record for most software downloads in one day. Somehow the plans did not work out that well. The Servers were almost down till 1PM PST, while the event was scheduled to begin at 10AM PST.

Looks like Mozilla didn’t plan well in advance, as one by one their servers went off with the huge number of people hitting the server every minute. Everything is running smooth now, so you can download Firefox 3 right away.

However a question needs to be asked.. Did Mozilla really have to gun for a world record of most software downloads in a day rather than focusing on its natural download/release cycle. Why all this PR? They could have done it the simple way, even if they had done that, we would have seen huge number of downloads today..

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