Mozilla SoftwareThe newest version of Firefox (version 3) includes a "smart" address bar that more often than not guesses your intention when typing a URL (the "awesome" bar"). Other features include one-button bookmarking, native spell-check, smooth-zoom, and excellent anti-phishing features. Using Firefox makes it possible to use some of the excellent browser extensions listed below on this page. The widely used email client from Mozilla. Thunderbird 2 features many new enhancements to help you better manage your unruly inbox, and stay informed. Thunderbird 2 scales to the most sophisticated organizational needs while making it easy to find what you need. The Mozilla site that categorizes and recommends browser add-ons the extend the power of Firefox. There are thousands of Firefox Add-ons. Below is a list of some that we have used and have found useful and reliable. "AddThis for Firefox is the best add-on to make sharing and bookmarking simple. Have all your favorite web 2.0 social networking, bookmarking, blogging, and e-mail services at your fingertips. Share any page, anytime, with anyone." This extenion is GUI Front-end of "about:cache". Allows searching and sorting memory and disk cache files. "With ColorZilla you can get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it into another program. You can Zoom the page you are viewing and measure distances between any two points on the page. The built-in palette browser allows choosing colors from pre-defined color sets and saving the most used colors in custom palettes. DOM spying features allow getting various information about DOM elements quickly and easily. And there's more...""The intent of Download Manager Tweak is in the name. It "tweaks" the Firefox download manager with small changes and doesn't completely redesign it. It makes some optional changes to its appearance and allows it to be opened in a separate window, a new tab, or the sidebar. Additional features beyond appearance include deleting a downloaded file and re-downloading a mistakenly deleted file. The various appearance changes can be disabled, if you don't like the look and just want it to open in a tab or sidebar." "Contextual unit, timezone, and currency converter on any web site; custom conversions for offline text also supported." "FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers." "Helps you perform google image results quickly by allowing view of the full size images directly..Can open any image from the search result directly in full size or open all the images of the search result in full size...support for Yahoo and Bing too." "Adds zoom and rotation functionality for images..." "Free, easy-to-install "skins" for Firefox. Choose from over 60,000 cool designs, including art from Harry Potter and Bob Marley. Join over 8 million people from around the world who are asking themselves: 'What Will My Browser Wear Today?'" "Extends the function of the drag-and-drop mouse gesture so that it can be used to load URLs, do a web search of selected text on a page, or save an image on a page. The successor to Super DragAndGo."
"Instantly share any photo from any web site on Twitter by right-clicking on the photo and clicking "Share photo on Twitter using TwitrPix" -- while you surf and without having to leave the site you are on." "Xmarks is the #1 bookmarking add-on. Keep your bookmarks, passwords and open tabs backed up and synchronized across computers and browsers. Search smarter with website ratings and reviews displayed with your search results." "Zotero [zoh-TZotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, cite, and share your research sources. It lives right where you do your work—in the web browser itself. AIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, cite, and share your research sources. It lives right where you do your work—in the web browser itself. " |
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