Firefox & Extensions

I understand that it is often difficult to maintain an edge on rapidly changing technologies...so I have tried to ease the process by sending e-mails like this to help you stay current with technology.

I am sure most of you have heard of Mozilla's open source browser named Firefox. If you haven't downloaded Firefox, you are missing out on the best way to browse the Internet. Some of the features include: popup blocking, tabbed browsing, enhanced privacy & security, enhanced searches and hundreds of extension that enhance day-to-day web browsing. My favorite extensions are listed below.

• Adblock - blocks unwanted advertisements (including flash) through content filtering
• BetterSearch - enhances Google, MSN Search, Yahoo Search, A9, Answers.com, AllTheWeb, del.icio.us bookmarks and Simpy.com by adding previews (thumbnails) and Amazon product images and info (type, price, rating) as well as "Open in New Window", "Site Info", "Wayback Machine" links and a Quick Preview feature to the search results
• CustomizeGoogle - enhances Google search results by adding extra information (like links to Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, MSN etc) and removing unwanted information (like ads and spam)
• e-WebMail Color & Graphics - Enables Color and Graphics for Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail and MyWay composition in Firefox
• Favorites Converter - easily export Firefox's Bookmarks into IE Favorites format
• Flat Bookmark Editing - edit bookmarks in the bookmark manager, without opening the properties window
• ForecastFox - displays weather information on any toolbar in Firefox - includes multiday forecasts
• Hotmail Tabs - Microsoft, for some reason, changed Hotmail's link handling so that it was done entirely through JavaScript. In lay man's terms, this stopped everyone (any browser) opening new windows or tabs for their mails etc. This extension is the solution
• Image Toolbar - single-click access to common actions for Images (e.g. saving and copying)
• IEView - adds "View page in Internet Explorer" links to the content and link context menu. Handy for previewing pages in IE, loading up IE-only pages when you run across them in Mozilla, etc
• MiniT - adds tab dragging with drop place indicator
• ScrapBook - save web pages and easily manage collections. Key features are lightness, speed, accuracy and multi-language support. Major features are: Save Web page; Save snippet of Web page; Save linked Web page; Organize the collection in the same way as Bookmarks tree; Full text search and quick filtering search of the collection; Editing of the collected Web page; Text/HTML edit feature resembling Opera's Notes
• Super DragAndGo - drag link in webpage to open in new tab, drag words to search in new tab, drag graphic to download image
  
• BugMeNot - bypass compulsory web registration via Firefox’s right-click context menu