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Firefox 4 vs Chrome

I’ve been using Firefox 4 for about a week and I have found it to be fast and reliable not unlike Google’s Chrome browser. What I’ve found is that the plugins for Firefox are much better. I’m not sure what the problem is but Google needs to work very hard with app developers Read More→

Google Sync Makes Chrome Shine

I’ve been using Google Chrome for my primary browser for about two weeks and I’ve got to say I’m digging it! The speed is great and it’s very clean but just the past two day days I found where it really shines. Read More→

Moving To Chrome

So, I’ve been trying to move to Google Chrome as my default web-browser at least until Firefox 4 comes out. I had one issue preventing me from doing it. For years I’ve used a Delicious plugin to manage my bookmarks. The official Delicious plugin for Firefox is terrific but the of official delicious plugin for Chrome is terrible. Read More→

Readers In Browsers

I found two great RSS readers in Firefox and Internet Exporer. I would not have known they were there but for doing what my father always called piddling around. I was looking at an RSS feed inside of Firefox. I always liked how useful Firefox was in viewing the content of a feed. Read More→

Favorite Firefox Extentions

I love the Firefox web-browser. One of things I like the most about Firefox are the extentions.

Here are some of our favorites:

  • FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers.
  • 1-Click YouTube Video Download – Download YouTube in a single click. Download YouTube videos in FLV and MP4 (both High Definition and iPod compatible High-Quality)
  • Delicious Bookmarks is the official Firefox add-on for Delicious, the world’s leading social bookmarking service (formerly del.icio.us). It integrates your bookmarks and tags with Firefox and keeps them in sync for easy, convenient access.
  • Gmail Notifier – The original notifier for Gmail. Supports checking multiple accounts as well as Gmail Hosted accounts.
  • LastPass Password ManagerLastpass is a great password manager LastPass Password Manager is a terrific companion to this service.
  • Omnibar – Integrates location bar and search bar into one. Shows search and url suggestions. Quickly switch search engine using search keywords. Provides different auto-complete popup styles for compact displays.

Portable Firefox

Yes you can take your Firefox browser with you and use on any computer. With “Portable Firefox” where ever you go, what ever computer your using you will have the same great functionality of Firefox and the Firefox extensions goes with you. You take you homepage, your bookmarks and all of your customizations. Stick Portable on a flash-drive then stick it in your pocket and go!

While your there take a look at the other portable applications

Consolidate Firefox’s Chrome

This tip from Gena Trapani of Lifehacker.

A Firefox Tip

Here is an easy but useful Firefox Tip. If you see a word or phrase on a webpage you want to find out more about select the text, right-click on it and select Search Google for “!@#$%^&*%”. Then a Google search opens in a new tab.