I’ve tried a few off and on without any keepers. Yahoo. Google. . .
(Seems they usually take up too much window real estate, usually a whole icon row, which costs two text rows inside the window)
But they keep making more add-ons, so somebody must like them.
Any you can recommend?
Do you use Firefox? It is well built around the concept. My two favorites are spell checker for any web object and StumbleUpon (a brilliant channel clicker that lets you specify your interests and then randomly takes you to sites that were voted to be good and interesting by peer voting. You just click a button and you get another cool site based on an interest).
The only thing I use (Firefox) is the del.icio.us add-on. It lets you tag pages you want to keep, giving you an online, searchable database of all of your bookmarks. That makes it handy if you go between computers a lot (as I do), and it’s also neat to browse through the site’s “recently added” or “hot” links–they catalog everyone’s links and you can see how many people have added them to their personal lists. A pretty basic popularity contest, but effective.
I like AdBlock for Firefox.
I was developing a site for a client that incorporated a LOT of REALLY annoying Flash ads (ok, 2, but they were the “move down and cover your screen” type.) I got so sick of changing code and refreshing the page and re-seeing the ad that I got AdBlock.
The only thing I don’t like about AdBlock is that it puts a little “AdBlock” tab at the top of every Flash movie and possible ad so you can easily click it to turn the ad off. There might be an option to turn this off but I haven’t bothered.
Oh, also it doesn’t intrude too much in your toolbar. Just puts a button to the right of the HOME icon.
One other thing I like is the spellcheck feature that comes with FF 2. You can find spellcheck plugins for almost any browser. I never knew how handy it’d be until it just appeared (in FF 2) and now it makes me look 10% smarter on the Dope.
Yes. If you’re not using Firefox, I highly suggest it. It’s much more secure than IE, and it revolves around addons.
I use AdBlock, mentioned above, and FlashBlock, which takes care of all of the ads AdBlock doesn’t. If you want to watch the flash item, you just click on it.
I also use Performancing for my blogging.
~Tasha
I got StumbleUpon based on your recommendation and I love it. There are so many interesting sites that I’ve found with it. Cool add on, thanks!
I like Undo Closed Tab. Sometimes I’ll close a tab and then want it open again, and with Undo Closed Tab I don’t have to look through the history. I find it convenient.
Seaking of history, I wish they would put it back where it was.
I used to be able to just check the history and find a site I’d visited today.
But now they don’t let you restore the order. They force nesting by domains. Often on searches I can’t recall what the domain was so I either wade through a whole day’s history, popping each domain folder open, or give up on History.