Archive for the ‘Browsers’ Category

The folks at Lifehacker have put together a Google Chrome Cheat Sheet: 10 Tips and Tricks. This helpful post provides brief instructions for how to make the most of the popular browser. Here are just a few of the things you’ll learn by reading this article:

• Configure Multiple Homepages
• Audit Your Tabs
• Convert Webpages into App Shortcuts
• Dig Yourself Out of a Link Hole
• Edit Any Site’s Code (Legally)

The folks at Hongkiat have rounded up 50 Time Saving Firefox Add-ons. This is an excellent collection of browser extensions that’s sure to increase your Web productivity. The add-ons are organized into the following categories:

• General add-ons
• Social networking add-ons
• Browser tabs add-on
• Security and privacy for safe browsing
• Other useful add-ons

Yogesh Mankani at SaveDelete rounds up 18 Amazing Alternative Web Browsers You Should Try. This brief article reviews each list entry, noting specific features which may make it a better choice for browsing, web development, social networking, viewing in 3D, and more. If you’re ready to try a browser besides Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Internet Explorer or Opera, you won’t want to miss this post.

Christopher Ryan at the Apple Blog gathers up 25 Safari Extensions You Can Install Now. The new Safari 5 browser offers support for browser extensions, so check out this post to find 25 useful plugins in the following categories:

• Web & Utilities
• E-Commerce
• Social
• Productivity

If you’re using Google’s Chrome browser, you’ll want to check out this Lifehacker list of 13 Excellent Extensions. Each entry includes a description and screenshot illustrating its usefulness.

Seth Rosenblatt rounds up The 10 best new Firefox add-ons of 2009 for CNet’s Download Blog. Here are his top five recommendations:

1. Personas
2. Jetpack
3. Weave Sync
4. Multi Links
5. FastestFox

Sebastian Anthony at Download Squad provides a guide to Ten must-have Google Chrome extensions. If you’re using the open-source Google browser, you may want to check out this article. Here are his top five:

1. WOT (Web Of Trust)
2. Evernote Web Clipper
3. Feedly
4. Google Wave Notifier
5. Shareaholic

If you’re using Chrome, the open source Web browser by Google, you may want to check out the latest article from Josh Catone at Mashable. 6 Killer Google Chrome Extensions for Social Media Addicts lists popuar and useful plugins for using social media sites as well as lists some of the best places to find other extensions. Here are his recommended six extensions:

1. Gmail Checker
2. Chromed Bird
3. Twitter Ticker
4. Micro Last.fm
5. TPGoogleReader
6. Facebook Notification Checker

Josh Catone at Mashable rounds up 10 Must-Have Firefox Extensions for Students. Here are his top five recommendations for extensions students won’t want to be without, check out the full post for more:

1. Taboo
2. Firefox Environment Backup Extension
3. Reminderfox
4. LeechBlock
5. Trailfire

AN Jay at Smashing Apps blogs about The 7 Time Saving Firefox Add-Ons To Make Your Lives Easier. Firefox users will want to check out this list as well as the previous 21 Amazing Firefox Ad-Ons That You Must-Have In 2009. Here are just a few of the recommended add-ons:

• Shareaholic
• Fotofox
• Tab Sidebar

Gmail users will want to check out this post from Mashable listing 13 Gmail Extensions for Firefox 3. These handy plugins will allow you to sign into multiple Gmail accounts at once, set up dynamic email signatures with links to your social networking accounts, use Gmail as a virtual storage facility for your files, and more.

Educause has published another of it’s 7 things articles, this time filling everyone in about 7 Things You Should Know About Zotero. If you’re doing any sort of research or have a need to create bibliographies of online resources, you may want to check out this article which answers these questions about the popular Firefox extension:

1. What is it?
2. Who’s doing it?
3. How does it work?
4. Why is it significant?
5. What are the downsides?
6. Where is it going?
7. What are the implications for teaching and learning?

Looking to give a new browser a try? If you’re a regular user of Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, or Opera and want to test drive an alternative, the latest article from Web Worker Daily presents an annotated list of six that you might try:

• Camino
• Flock
• K-Meleon
• OmniWeb
• Konqueror
• OffByOne

Both Lifehacker and Micro Persuasion have compiled excellent lists recommending useful bookmarklets to make your browsing experience more effective. These handy little applications are a combo of the bookmark and the applet (a small computer program) and they set up one-click buttons which appear on your browser and perform a specific function. I have bookmarklets installed which let me save webpages as bookmarks in my del.icio.us account, and products to my wishlists in Kaboodle by simply clicking a button. Here are a few more:

Lifehacker’s top 5 picks:
TinyURL
FormTextResizer
Google Mobilizer
View Passwords
All-In-One Video Bookmarklet

Find more in the full article: Top 10 Useful Bookmarklets

Micro Persuasion’s top 5 picks:
Pocket Tweets Pop
Twit This
Map This
Gmail-to-Gcal
Mobilize Me
Check out the full article for 9 more: Bookmarklets for the Web 2.0 Jedi Master

Web Worker Daily comes up with 10 Firefox extensions to enhance your browsing privacy by choosing to control your cookies, surf through a proxy server, and other techniques. Here are their recommendations:

1. Cookie Monster
2. Cookie Whitelist
3. CookieSafe Lite
4. FoxyProxy
5. PhProxy
6. Tor-Proxy.NET Toolbar
7. TorButton
8. SquiggleSR
9. RefControl
10. BetterPrivacy

You may also want to check out Lifehacker’s Top 10 Firefox 3 Features.