Everyone should have their own must-have plugins for Firefox, but Hyperwords is one of the must-have product to aid the browsing experience has really gotten my attention. Hyperwords is so much more than the traditional context search while giving users a number of choices whenever a text is selected/highlighted.
Features that include in this plugin likes searching various engines by looking up text in wikipedia, dictionary.com, Google, news, shopping, maps, and so forth. But the most powerful feature here is the translation to 13 languages – Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish directly on the page.
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People do not really like to put their hands away from keyboard while concentrating in typing but they still been forced to use the mouse to click on something. If you learn the available shortcut keys or create new ones for frequently used commands, you can work around these obstacle by saving quite lots of times.
First, you may notice some webpages have really small font size to read on, and the slowest way to zoom in or out of font size quite not efficiency while doing work like the image shows below:-

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Opera 9.23 for Windows just updated not long ago and for those who haven’t try on Opera. I do encourage you to try it and it’s probably worth the result. Or you may get interested on my previous post about why I am encouraging of it.
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After I tried out some feed readers and sometimes may have trouble login own username. The way out of this situation, I found Sage which I would like to called the winner of software RSS readers. What’s the best way to integrate RSS news feeds and the Web? Don’t use a separate RSS reader. That’s the secret behind Sage, which integrates directly into Firefox (but not Internet Explorer). Using it is simple: click the Sage icon in your toolbar; Sage will then drop down on the left. Whenever you visit a page that has a RSS feed, you click the Discover Feeds button to add the feed. The rest of the Firefox window then becomes your reader. Sage lets you organise your folders, search through feeds, and import and export feeds lists.
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There are several reasons why I use Opera more often than Firefox. Of course, the one very point of them is browsing time. I do a simple google search on ChemstudioWEB.COM with Firefox to give me result in 0.17 seconds whereas Opera resulted in 0.03 seconds and that comes to almost 6 times faster than Firefox. Besides, 9 new features added in Opera 9 are more beneficial. Click to learn more after jump.


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Firefox add-on is not just an enhancement plug-in tool anymore, in fact, I found The Retro Extension or Pacman Extension I should name it correctly. Of course, this is nothing to do with the classic pac-man 2D game but just another clone game. As a matter of fact, it does entertain me for a few minutes to finish eating all the ‘dot’ bun and recall my memory back from many years ago.
Is it strange that when there’s a pacman extension on Tools option?

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Just as Mozilla Firefox commands a minuscule market share compared to Internet Explorer, so the Mozilla email client lags way behind Microsoft Outlook. Lacking the maturity of Outlook and the host of “beyond email” calendaring, task and personal information management features, Thunderbird has a lot of catching up to do if it’s to be taken seriously. While Mozilla is working on just such a beast, it’s some way from completion.

That’s not to say that Thunderbird hasn’t made progress in this release, though. The new message-tagging feature replicates the categories function of Outlook, bringing the ability to flag individual messages as being work-related, personal or anything you decide to create a tag for. Tags are coloured, and once applied to a message, it too is coloured in the mail folder for easy identification. Coupled with filtering rules that can automatically categorise email upon delivery, it brings some much-needed order to Thunderbird.

Similarly, the find-as-you-type-feature from Firefox has arrived and adds the same type of instant discovery as Outlook 2007. Talking of which, you can save searches to a folder containing a view of the messages rather than the messages themselves. Remote image blocking works well, plus there’s an improvement to message notifications, which adds sender detail and text to the preview.

But that’s where the similarity ends. There are still no calendaring or task functions, and the contacts section is a striped-down shell of the Outlook equivalent. More seriously, the junk filtering is very poor indeed. Messages are flagged with a symbol denoting them as spam. The trouble is, Thunderbird doesn’t learn well, and the false-positives keep flooding in, as does the spam itself.

The availability of numerous free add-ons to extend its features is Thunderbird main attraction, and this might just be enough to sway the casual user. For business use, though, it’s unlikely you’ll be ditching Outlook anything soon.

If you still thinking Thunderbird works fine for you,
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Currently, I’ve been notified to an updated Firefox 2.0.0.4 the latest version on 30th May, 2004. In fact, Firefox is still my favorite internet browser with the powerful add-ons recently and I will stick to it with no question. Here’s a post why switch from another browser to Firefox.

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What’s new:

Security Update: The following security issues have been fixed.
Windows Vista Support: More enhancements and fixes for Windows Vista are included, with the following caveats.
New Languages: Afrikaans (af) and Belarusian (be) are now available. Beta releases for several new languages are also available for testing.
Earlier Changes: For information about previous changes, please see the Firefox 2.0.0.3 Release Notes
Firefox 2 Features: For an overview, please see Firefox 2 Features.

I have another post about 10-Must-Have extensions for Firefox, view after jump.

Yoono? It’s like a big question mark in my mind once I came across to this title. Yoono is for everyone – immediate take-up with no learning. Well, it’s just like notebook or scrapbook style if you are familiar with these. In fact, the rich Web 2.0 experience “Buzz It” is available for Internet Explorer and Firefox plugin that allows you to add notes, reminders, links, favorite pictures and videos without leaving your current webpage.

Don’t have Firefox?

On the left side is the Buzz Editor, opened sidebar that allows you to build a note grabbing web pages content in one click. While you are surfing, Yoono instantly reveals what others have discovered: websites, people and articles. Create a rich scrapbook of your favorite stuff with the new “Buzz It!” feature, one-click grab and share videos, photos and texts from any web page which means Yoono shows you the stuff that others have discovered – similar web sites, people interested in the subject, articles about the site.

Adding sites or notes with Buzz It is as simple as highlighting text or a page, then press “Buzz It” button on the toolbar or using the right click menu. The plugin pulls images and videos from any site being viewed and then displays those results in the Buzz It sidebar, empowering drag and drop functionality into an entry.

The coolest features I like is that if having a blog seems too complicated or too demanding for you, publish it in just one click on your Yoono personal blog without changing windows! Grab what you like and add comment on it to share with others or keep it private.

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I used to be wondering to have enough extensions for myself as supporter of Mozilla Firefox, I totally agree that it built to be more than itself. According to lifehacker.com, they have tried out in the past 2 years and finally come out with the top 10 must-have. I guess this would be helpful and share some opinion with me as well. Read the rest of this entry »