The Firefox browser has exploded on the scene. At the time of this writing there have been 23 million downloads of this innovative competition to Net
Explorer. Minor drawbacks aside, most who use it love it – myself included.
One stand out feature is the customizable search bar that’s built into the Firefox menu bar. As a long time AOL user I had 10 hot keys set up for sites I visited all the time. With Firefox all I did was set the search bar up with those really same links. Suddenly what seemed like a reason to mourn the loss of AOL vanished.
Then there’s tabbed browsing. This is a new way to use a browser as you can access much than one page in a single browser window. Which does it easy to switch back and forth among multiple web pages. Does for a great time saver.
But a big benefit is the ability to install little applications that perform specific tasks. In the FireFox earth these are called “extensions”. If you’re like me you’ll find extension are sorta like potato chips – you simply can’t have simply one.
So let me share my 7 favorites. I believe they wish save you time or effort spell enhancing your FireFox experience.
Favorite Extension #1: Automotive vehicle copy
Auto copy is a killer keystroke saver. You’ll ne'er
Ctrl-C again. Just highlight the desired text on the web page with your mouse and it’s instantly traced to the clipboard. Jump over to whatsoever
application you want to paste that text into, paste it and you’re done.
Favorite Extension #2: Album
How many an times have you book marked a site only to return and find it changed? Or worse it’s vanished? That does the Album
extension the web researcher’s indispensable friend. It lets you take a photo of any page. Or you can grab simply a chunk it. ScrapeBook keeps such snapshots organized and even as lets you add comments if you like.
Favorite Extension #3: TinyURL Creator
How often do you want to sent a friend a URL only to discover it’s a mile long? Like this one for instance?
Wouldn’t it be easier to send thing
like this: http://tinyurl.com/427gg?
Good news. There’s a handy extension that wish cut any unwieldy URL it down to size victimisation TinyURL. Even as better it wish likewise inventory those you’ve created in case you want to use any of them again.
Favorite Extension #4: Popup Obstruction
Okay so this technically isn’t an extension. It’s much of a killer built in feature that wish finish pop ups dead in their tracks. I mean there’s nothing like seeing this message “Firefox prevented this site from opening a pop up window” to give you a warm glow inside
Favorite Extension #5: Google Pagerank
Want to cognize the Google PageRank of a page? Sadly the Google Toolbar only runs in Net
Explorer. But ne'er
fear. If you like to eyeball PR, say to check out potential link partners, the Google Pagerank Status extension displays pagerank. Even as better it’s likewise in numeric form so you don’t have to mouse over to see the PR. .
Favorite Extension #6 LoremIpsum Content Generator
Whenever you need several quick content to check a web page layout this is your tool. You can tell it to create so many an characters, words or paragraphs. Giving you a variety of “Latin-like” content like this in the blink of an eye:
Favorite Extension #7: Copy URL
Instead of repetition a snipping
from a page and then going back and grabbing the URL you can do it all with one tool. Copy URL. Another habit-forming
research tool.
All of these flyspeck apps can be downloaded from here:
https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions
Or if these 7 have whet you craving
for more, you can nose about there for else extensions to enhance your FireFox experience.
One else tip
To check your extensions go to Tools>Extensions
There you’ll see all extensions you’ve installed. Freshly downloaded ones wish typically display this message:
“This item wish be installed after you RESTART Firefox “
Do so and you’re set.
Anyway, these extensions alone are seven reasons to love FireFox. At the risk of sounding like a shill, I can’t urge you powerfully
enough to try it. I’m sure you’ll like it.
