Archive for the ‘Browsers’ Category

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.

Web Worker Daily has 7 tips for us to increase our Firefox efficiency:

1. Bring Back That Tab
2. Bring Back That Site
3. Delete Bookmarks
4. Customize Your Toolbars
5. Customize Your Tab Handling
6. Disable Password Manager–if You Want!
7. Get More from Your Mouse

Terry at SEONOOBs comes up with 20 Amazing Firefox Shortcuts to Save You Time and Money. The browsing tips include instructions for how to accomplish each of these tasks in a more efficient manner:

1. Search Sites With Keywords
2. Assign Keywords to Bookmarks
3. Navigate Tabs
4. Type Quicker URLs
5. Quick Word Search
6. Drop-Down Bookmarks
7. Delete Addresses
8. Get Instant Downloads
9. Launch Multiple Homepages
10. Caret Browsing
11. Save Audio and Video Clips
12. Quick Google Search
13. Viewing Images
14. Speed Up Firefox
15. Make a Live Bookmark
16. Stop Animation
17. Open New Tabs
18. Close Tabs
19. Customize Firefox
20. Find Words and Links

The LibrarianInBlack gives us a great list of add-ons for the Firefox browser in Sarah’s Top Ten Firefox Plug-ins and Extensions, which actually provides thirteen items if you count the bonus extensions. Three from the list which caught my eye are:

• Column Bookmarks
• Autofill Forms
• Facebook Toolbar

The LifeDev blog has compiled an annotated guide of 25 Firefox extensions for productivity. Here are their top five picks:

1. Autocopy
2. Better Gmail
3. Better GReader
4. No Squint
5. Remember the Milk for Gmail