Getting The Most From Firefox For Writers
February 19, 2008 by Anne Wayman
Filed under Jobs
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been using Firefox as my browser for years. I don’t much like the way Bill Gates and Microsoft ran Netscape out of business by bundling Internet Explorer way back when and I always tend to favor the underdog. Of course, Firefox is hardly an underdog, but…
I’ve also known Firefox has nifty bells and whistles, but I rarely take time to explore them. Fortunately, someone’s done a lot of the work for me. LifeDev, a personal productivity blog, created a post called: 25 Firefox Extensions to Make You More Productive Although several of the extensions are aimed at gmail, which I don’t use, there are several I’m really looking forward to trying, including:
Read it later
Scrapbook
Googlepedia
These seem made for writers, but there are others I’ll explore as well. Which intrigue you the most?
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Thanks for sharing. I haven’t used Firefox to its fullest, but these extensions are likely to change that.
Hey,
So I use firefox a lot, and I think my favorite extensions have to be:
Adblock Plus – Sorry to all you guys making money off ads, I do too, but some of them are just annoying.
Advanced Dork: – This is fantastic, it allows you to use all of google’s advanced search features
BlogRovR – See any posts any of your favorite blogs have made on any site you are currently visiting – know if someone has talked about it already!
Flashblock – I hate messy flash aps
Full fullscreen – enough said
Google Global – lets you trick google into thinking you are anywhere in the world you would like to get you search results from
JumpKnowledge – let’s you create a permanent copy of a site as-is on their server, with your own notes on it
Save text area – lets you easily save a text file from any text box (like the one i am typing in now) easily
Foxmarks – lifesaver, backs up all your bookmarks automatically so that you don’t loose them, and you can even temporarily download them to any firefox you are working on at the time!
FireScribe – handy text box that pops up at the bottom of the browser window so you can write about what you are reading in real time
I use a load of others as well, but those are my favorites for writing.
Quick piece of advise: loads of popups = really, really slow browser. I keep Opera’s browser as an ever present backup, because it is the fastest browser on the planet by far (i am a web developer and have 8 browsers installed on my pc)
Hope this helps.
Mike