Monday, November 10, 2008

Tab a licious

I truly believe that the FireFox browser and all of their wonderful Add-ons were built specifically for me. First of all, let's just begin by saying that FireFox is the superior browser. If I ever had to revert back to using only IE, I might abandon surfing the Internet. I am not kidding. So what makes FireFox so special? Well, it's kinda of like really tasty burger, where plain, it tastes wonderful, but throw on some bacon and blue cheese, well then, you got yourself a damn good burger!

So, let's dress up FireFox:

1. Colorful Tabs - Now, if you ever looked over my shoulder, you might be a little discombobulated with the amount of tabs I have open. I usually have 3 FireFox windows open each with about 7 tabs (all in different colors). So folks, that equals to about 20-25 websites that I am monitoring. Let's just say I am not a minimalist.

2. Delicious Bookmarks - As much as I surf the Internet, I must have an easy way to bookmark and tag all my favorite sites. FireFox has a lovely little app that lets me bookmark any page to my Delicious from the toolbar. Handy freakin dandy!

3. Cooliris - Here is another nice little app that I have found very handy, and sometimes annoying. Cooliris allows you to preview webpages before you actually commit to a click. So for all you commitment phobes out there, you will love this app. Why annoying? Well, as much as my mouse runs wild on webpages, it often hovers over the icon that deploys the webpage preview, unintentionally of course, therefore annoying me. But...I do love Cooliris!

2 comments:

pagedCat said...

As far as color tabs go, firefox isn't alone on that. Actually I think IE might have beat firefox (for once). IE8 Beta 1 released in March had that feature. Firefox 3 wasn't released until July.

I'm not being biased here. My favorite browser is Opera, so coming to work and having to use IE is a bit annoying for me.

Matherita said...

I am completely biased -- I will always be a devoted FireFox user. :-). Haven't used Opera in ages!!!