I’m sure many of you already use the Google toolbar, but I just want to say how cool I think it is.
It stops pop-ups unobtrusively and in a way that is easy to turn-off.
I set it to ‘open in a new window’ and searches are incredibly easy.
I recently found out you can add an image search button so you can search for images instantly too.
I also discovered that you can type in a whole address like hotmail.com (with the .com) and press enter and (if you’re set to ‘open in a new window’) it’ll open that page in a new window, rather than doing a search - I find this incredibly useful.
Best of all it’s free and easy to download off the Google page.
I hope I don’t sound like an ad for Google, but I just really like it.
The google toolbar is great. I can click the “BlogThis!” button at any time and enter a new blogger entry with a link to the current page already entered.
I’m with the Firefox chorus here. Google (plus a lot of other searches, including “in this page” and “Amazon”) searches from up by the Address Bar, pop-up blocking, plus skinnability and tabbed browsing.
Keep your joint comments to the clock on the wall thread.
Why on earth do you have to keep pushing drug use and being so defensive about it? Paranoid?
I used to like your posts, I probably still do, but you’re just getting to be a pain in the ass. If you want to smoke then smoke, I don’t give a shit. Just remember that you asked the question - NOW POST IN THE CORRECT THREAD! :raspberry:
There’s an unofficial googlebar extension for firefox which has all kinds of handy search features.
By the way, an excellent ‘must have’ extension for firefox is the IE view extension. You know when you occasionally come across a site which FF can’t view properly? Right click and select ‘View this page in IE’. Works like a treat.
I used to use Opera as my primary browser, but this was before it started to bloat out (ie a few years back). I do miss the mouse gestures (the Firefox plugins that do the same suck ass), but overall I’ve found Firefox to be much better. It’s a bit faster, it’s not ad-supported (no banner), and a few of the functions are easier to use (like opening links in new windows).
Firefox is a browser, I take it. So in what way is it better than IE? I really can’t think of anything I’d want to do with a browser that I can’t do easily with IE, except for a few things that the Google toolbar took care of. Not meaning to champion IE here, I jsut want to hear if it’s worht the fuss to try a new browser.
[quote=“Bu Lai En”]Firefox is a browser, I take it. So in what way is it better than IE? I really can’t think of anything I’d want to do with a browser that I can’t do easily with IE, except for a few things that the Google toolbar took care of. Not meaning to champion IE here, I jsut want to hear if it’s worht the fuss to try a new browser.
It’s already pretty good but you might consider waiting until the full release, version 1.0, for maximum peace of mind. I have version 0.8 and the next update I will do will be to 1.0 when it comes out.
Moderator- perhaps all this Firefox stuff could be moved to one of the Firefox threads?
Firefox users – has anyone noticed that when typing information into a form the focus sometimes shifts away from the current cursor position and highlights letters in the page text instead? I often get this when I’m logging into webmail, and it’s annoying.
[quote=“Bu Lai En”]Firefox is a browser, I take it. So in what way is it better than IE? I really can’t think of anything I’d want to do with a browser that I can’t do easily with IE, except for a few things that the Google toolbar took care of. Not meaning to champion IE here, I jsut want to hear if it’s worht the fuss to try a new browser.
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Tabbed browsing.
You haven’t browsed until you’ve used tabbed browsing.
Somebody deserves a Nobel prize, but there ain’t one for browser interfaces.
You haven’t browsed until you’ve used tabbed browsing.[/quote]To be fair, Opera and the actual Mozilla browser have that as well. I know you know this, MaPoSquid, but some reviews of Firefox make it look as if it was the first browser to have have tabbed browsing.
I prefer the bookmark managing functions of Opera to those of Firefox 0.8. I hope later Firefox versions are better in this regard.
