I have been waiting to write a post on one of the best browsers I have known. I am a great fan of open source and even bigger of Firefox; most people also call it mozilla which is pretty ignorant because mozilla is much bigger an umbrella which also has Firefox. But I'd safely be able to say without any offense to anyone that today Firefox is much bigger a brand has overtaken the mozilla brand. I can boast of the fact that I am a pretty old user of Firefox. Actually since Firefox 0.6 version and today it's 2.0.0.6. Of course 2.0.0.6 is the public stable release release. However there are alpha versions of Firefox available; code name Gran Paradiso. Earlier this project was code named minefield. Wow I remember the details :).
For all those who have little idea about what Firefox is; Firefox is an open source browser just like Internet Explorer (Actually much better than Internet Explorer from Microsoft). Let me not even bother to compare the two because Firefox wins it with no competition. However, Firefox is open source that means it's free and it's source is open for you to modify and customize. I won't do that coz of my sorry incapabilities to understand the world of coding. However, for coding challenged people like me, Firefox has something very unique called as extensions. I love extensions coz they make Firefox a unique and powerful platform to rediscover web. I also can boast that I have some experience in writing Firefox extensions. I have written one when I was in Google. Let's not discuss the details as it is deemed classified :).
Let me tell you something that there are thousands of extensions out there at:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:1
and it is impossible to test and try each of the extension unless you are crazy and have reached the state of being obsessed. Let me also tell you that your favorite list of extensions will keep changing as per your needs. Right now my favorite extensions (not in that order) are:
Long live Open Source and the power of Community....Amen!
For all those who have little idea about what Firefox is; Firefox is an open source browser just like Internet Explorer (Actually much better than Internet Explorer from Microsoft). Let me not even bother to compare the two because Firefox wins it with no competition. However, Firefox is open source that means it's free and it's source is open for you to modify and customize. I won't do that coz of my sorry incapabilities to understand the world of coding. However, for coding challenged people like me, Firefox has something very unique called as extensions. I love extensions coz they make Firefox a unique and powerful platform to rediscover web. I also can boast that I have some experience in writing Firefox extensions. I have written one when I was in Google. Let's not discuss the details as it is deemed classified :).
Let me tell you something that there are thousands of extensions out there at:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:1
and it is impossible to test and try each of the extension unless you are crazy and have reached the state of being obsessed. Let me also tell you that your favorite list of extensions will keep changing as per your needs. Right now my favorite extensions (not in that order) are:
- Google Browser Sync
- Google Notebook
- Greasemonkey
- Live Page Rank
- Real Player Browser record Plugin
- Scribefire (I am using this to blog this post)
- ShowIP
- StumbleUpon
- Zotero
Long live Open Source and the power of Community....Amen!
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2 comments:
how could you forget mouse gestures
Sorry Nik :). But right now I am using my laptop and have got used to using the pointing device i.e. the touchpad. I am not using the mouse and hence am not used to mouse and mouse gestures :). But I must agree to Nik that mouse gestures is one of the best and probably the earliest of the extensions I've tried and there was a time I could not live with out it. With change in the way you work your needs change as well. But I cherish the good old days and good old extensions :)
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