A small Firefox quirk another developer pointed out to me the other day is that Flex applications that make HTTP Service requests, when running in said browser, cause the status bar to perpetually say 'transferring data from yourdomain.com...' after making the request. It only seems to happen in Firefox, and only goes away if you switch to another tab and then return or if the application grabs some other kind of data from the server. I also notice the other day(and haven't seen this documented anywhere), that the 3.1 beta has links in source code view. If you're a developer you're probably already intimate with hitting ctrl+u on windows, or command+u on mac to view the source code of a site. Well now when the site has linked javascript files you can just click on it in the source code and jump to viewing the source of that document. Where previously you would have to copy and paste the links to these files, visit them in your browser and then view source again. You can even use back/forward keybaord shortcuts to navigate the source.

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