Crazy Like A Firefox

November 17, 2004 Meta

A few months ago, I switched from Mozilla to Firefox as my primary browser. You might have seen some news coverage about its latest release, and could contemplate the switch. Aside from being secure and stable, there are several useful plugins to make browsing easier. Some of my favorites:

  • Googlebar – Mimics Google’s own equivalent
  • Adblock – Removes image and flash advertisements from web pages – customizable based on URI
  • Sage – A Firefox based RSS Reader
  • Prefbar – Easy Access to preferences
  • IE View – Handy tool to open up IE exclusive pages and links in an IE window.
  • Spellbound – Works like IE Spell – checks spelling in web forms.

And there are loads more from which to chose. Now that I can do blog spell checking1 from Firefox, I officially have no more use for Internet Explorer other than to handle MS’s own websites.
Vive la revolucion revolution!

1. Yes, I do that occasionally.

About The Author

Josh

Rabbi Yuter has been blogging at YUTOPIA since 2003 and currently lives in Jerusalem.

2 Comments

  1. Reuven

    I was going to post on this – thanks for saving me the trouble. It’s worth using FireFox just for AdBlock alone. Some other extensions I like:

    • Mouse Gestures – how could you forget these? Granted, Mozilla and Opera have them as well, but IE doesn’t. Allows you to navigate and perform other commands using simple mouse motions.
    • ForecastFox (formerly WeatherFox) – displays icons of weather information in the browser bars.
    • Search Keys – puts numbers 1-9 and 0 next to your first ten Google search results; just hit the number to get taken to that result’s web page

    There are plenty of others that may make your own browsing experience smoother.
    I also like the bookmark keywords and quicksearch bookmarks (which allows you to specify that typing, for example, “wp FireFox” should search for FireFox in WikiPedia).

  2. Josh

    Reuven – I didn’t forget mouse gestures, I just find them annoying – esp w/a laptop. I’ve never needed immediate access to weather to take up bandwith and resources. That’s why we have weather.com.
    The Search Keys thing looks interesting – I’m going to give it a try. Thanks!

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