So if you’re on the road, you’ll always have access to your favorites. There’s also a version for Chrome.īack Up Firefox Xmarks syncs your favorites in the cloud (actually, on an Xmarks server) and lets you retrieve them from anywhere. (Okay, I hear the IE crowd gloating I agree, the Mozilla folks should have built it in, but they didn’t.)ġ00 Ways to Use Google There are a dozen or so Google spots I visit often - Accounts, Maps, Web History, and others - and Google Shortcuts gives me a handy way to stack my Google favs in a pull-down toolbar icon. You can find product features and screen caps on the developer’s SourceForge pageĭesktop Shortcut Remember how you have “Create Shortcut” on Internet Explorer’s right-click context menu? Now you’ve also got it in Firefox with deskCut. I like the note management feature that lets me search through my notes and open the search result’s corresponding page. Individual notes stick with the page, have changeable background and text colors, and are easily added or removed.
Web Notes is less intuitive to use than I’d like, but easy enough once you get the knack.Ī smarter note-taking tool, and the one I like best, is Internote, which is still in beta at version 3.0beta2. If you don’t put a note on the page you’re on, the note rolls up.
The note you enter stays with the page, and the little window hangs around if you want it to. Web Notes is handy: Click its toolbar icon and a small Web Notes window appears on the Web page you’ve got open. (No surprise that by the time I’m done for the day, I’ve forgotten about the site and never get back to it. Take a Note! Every so often I’ll feel the need to scribble a note about a Web page I’ll revisit later. I’ve got BetterPrivacy running in the background to dump these intrusive little buggers. Even the Wall Street Journal has taken notice, saying some sites can stick over a hundred tracking components on your computer. They never expire and there’s no way for you to look at them as you might regular cookies. Okay, then, let’s get started with Firefox.Ī New Annoyance: Local Shared Objects LSOs are tracking cookies created by Adobe Flash applications. Also, adding a bunch at a time has been known to cause sunspots and make people faint. You know the reason: If your browser starts acting hinky, you’ll find the culprit pretty quickly with only one new add-on installed. It’s the best way to experiment when modifying your browser with add-ons or extensions. Adhere to the Bass International one at a time rule. So here are a few that I’ve found - and integrated into my browsers. I can’t get enough of the handy-dandy freebies that clump onto Firefox (and Internet Explorer) and make the browsers smarter and easier to use.įinding the right one is sometimes just a matter of saying, “gawd, why can’t I…” and sticking it into a Google search field.
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