This is a nice article summarizing some of the best Firefox themes and extensions available to jazz up your browser. There were a few I’d heard of before such as Google Preview (which displays handy little thumbnail screenshots for your Google search results) and a few new ones as well, such as the IE-tab (which allows you to run IE in Firefox). I was hoping that the IE tab would save me from having to use IE on Windows PC to access one of the web applications that I use that requires Active X support, but unfortunately the IE tab doesn’t support Active X either. Still, the extension is handy to view those non-standards compliant but necessary web sites.
I should also mention that this article was found via digg.com, which also happens to be where I’m writing this post from using their very cool ‘blog this’ feature!
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Originally published December 9, 2005 in the Amy@MEdTech blog.
I’m writing this post from the blogging interface of Flock, a new Mozilla-based web browser which integrates social software technologies like blogging, RSS, Flickr and del.icio.us right into the browser interface. Not only can you write blog posts directly from the browser, but you can use the browser to post and view your del.icio.us bookmarks as well as read your RSS feeds.   Although you can do some of these things in Firefox using Bookmarklets and their RSS subscription feature, the added features and seamless integration that Flock provides makes these technologies that much easier to use.
Originally published October 21, 2005 in the Amy@MEdTech blog.
I just installed BetterSearch, a Firefox extension which displays preview images for Google Search results and del.icio.us bookmarks as well as a host of other services. In addition to the thumbnail preview images, there is also the page preview feature which brings up an embedded preview within the results page.
Being a visually oriented person I find that having the thumbnail image helps me remember my own bookmarks more easily (apparently the tags and description aren’t quite enough some days), and having a picture of the page makes discriminating between search results a lot easier.
Originally published June 8, 2005 in the Amy@MEdTech blog.
