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Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Changing Browsers

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I've been using Avant browser for quite some time now. Yesterday though, I moved to Firefox. Why the change? Because Steve changed to Firefox and showed me some of the neat things that you could make Firefox do.

Essentially how Firefox works is you download the basic version of the browser and then after that you go through its list of available additions (known as Extensions) and you add the extra utilities that you want.

Steve and I have totally different utilities installed on our browsers because we find different things useful and/or cool :-).

Things that I added to my Firefox browser:
  1. When you do a search on Google, when you get the list of results, there's also a small preview of what that result's page looks like :-).
  2. On the lower left hand corner, the browser displays the current time in Manila :-).
  3. On the lower right hand corner, the weather for Germantown is displayed. The display also includes a map of the region and precipitation over the area :-).
  4. If you're viewing a page that doesn't look exactly right in Firefox, there's a button that allows you to view the page as you would see it in Internet Explorer, without launching Internet Explorer. You can then save the settings so that every time you view that page in Firefox, it'll automatically give you the Internet Explorer viewed-version :-).
  5. A utility that allows me to click on any part of any web page and it'll tell me what the color information is (this is useful for me because sometimes my laptop displays colors that's different from other screens). The last one's my favorite, though:
  6. I do a lot of internet research. There's this utility that allows you to highlight important text (similar to the highlight feature in Word). THEN you right click on any of the highlights and you copy JUST the text you highlighted :-).


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