Firefox is the ultimate browser for your customizing pleasure. You can change themes, add search engines, and install various extensions to improve its functionality and look to meet your needs. Here are some of my favorite Firefox Add-ons.
StumbleUpon is a social bookmarking extension that makes surfing the web fun and exciting again. When setting up your account you select from a list of things that interest you. Then all you have to do is click on the “Stumble” button and it takes you to sites that contain those things you like.
RoboForm is a must have for any web browser let alone Firefox. Briefly, this toolbar doubles as a password manager and form filler but does so many other things. In addition it saves you lots of time and headaches by making sure you have instant access to all your online accounts. For more information see Security & Speed With Password Managers: RoboForm & 1Passwd.
StockTicker is a very simple, clean-cut extension that does exactly what it suggests. That is, it runs the current prices of your chosen stocks in a ticker in the menu bar of your browser. It also allows you instant access to the latest info on your stocks with one click on the ticker.
RSS Ticker lets you add your favorite RSS feeds and then runs the article headings in a ticker on Firefox’s menu bar. It’s the easiest way to catch the latest info from your favorite sources as you browse.
Google Send To Phone lets you send text messages to anyone’s phone from your browser. If I’m at my desk and I need to text someone it is much faster and easier to use my pc keyboard versus the tiny keypad on my phone.
Googlepedia displays relevant Wikipedia articles based on the keywords you enter in Google search. When a relevant Wikipedia article is located, the search results are set to the left of the screen with the wikipedia article set to the right.
More of my favorite Firefox Add-ons include Update Notifier, NoScript, Email This!, All-in-One Sidebar, Advanced Bookmark Search, Clipmarks, FoxMarks, Colorful Tabs, Firebug, YSlow, and ShareThis.
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I actually love the RoboForm software myself. I use it all of the time and it takes all the menial everyday tasks that I have to perform on my computer daily and shortens them extremely! What once took me fifteen minutes to complete now takes me only one second because RoboForm does the same task with just one click. In fact I wrote a Report about a lot of RoboForm’s capabilities for use that aren’t even touched on in the User’s Manual for RoboForm. You can get that Report here:
http://www.booksbonkers.com/TheRoboFormReport!1.html
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Kevin reply on July 12th, 2008 12:20 pm:
Omarra, I totally agree. I think people tend to think of it just as a password manager and don’t realize how it saves them time from logging into all the sites they visit on a daily basis as well as filling forms. It’s by far one of the best web tools around and one of my favorite.
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