Shallow Praise of Mozilla Firefox

[dlgood]

I like Mozilla Firefox - which I downloaded awhile back. It seems to be only marginally annoying, inasmuch as it seems unable to overwrite old bookmarks with new ones, instead leaving duplicates that need to be cleaned up. Otherwise, it seems a vast improvement over IE in terms of speed, pop-up-blocking, pass-word management, and the general coolness of tabbed browsing. And then general absence of crashing and suckitude.

Current Extentions Used:
1) Adblock
2) Feedview
3) ForecastFox
4) Linky
5) MapIt!
6) Smoothwheel
7) Tabbrowser Preferences

And Yay! Tonight I'll be going to the Maryland-Virginia Tech basketball game with my buddy (and former college roommate) Matt. Which means I'll finally be able to give him the birthday presents for my little godsons Brian and Jack. Like many parents of very young children, Matt and Julie have been ridiculously busy and I never get to see them nearly enough. Or really, even get ahold of them on the phone. So this should be nice.

Comments

[hjcallipygian.livejournal.com]

By far my favorite Firefox/Mozilla add-on is mouse gestures.

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

Intriguing. Must consider the utility of this plugin, considering the 8-button mouse I use at home.

[hjcallipygian.livejournal.com]

Eight-button? Wow.

I love it. It's great for clicking a link, checking out the page really quickly, then going back to where you were before.

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It was part of an exciting wireless mouse-keyboard combo upgrade I treated myself to this winter. May try out the plugin at work though.

[hjcallipygian.livejournal.com]

It clicks, rolls, and even makes jullienne fries. I have no idea how to spell that word, obviously. I just went ahead and did it phonetically.

Actually, come to think of it, I'm a pretty horrid speller.

What type of computer do you have at home?

[ludditerobot.livejournal.com]

Y'know those people who who read books by keeping a finger under the word they're reading? I don't do that, but I highlight words on the screen that I'm reading. That always activates mouse gestures. I hate them.

[hjcallipygian.livejournal.com]

You can change your mouse gestures to be activated by the right click instead of the left -- that's what I do. I could never use them if it was a left-click activation. That would drive me insane.

[ludditerobot.livejournal.com]

I might have to give it a shot. Until I saw this post, I only had Sage and Deepest Sender set up. I like the weather one most, I think.