If you needed a reason to switch to Google Chrome, I just found one more. Go to your chrome history by typing Ctrl+H or going through Tools -> History. Type in any text you remember reading throughout your viewing history and chrome will do a regular google search through your history. I’ve always wanted to build this feature into Firefox, but now I don’t have to. Now the only thing chrome needs for me to be a full convert is Tree Style Tabs.
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If you haven’t heard about Ubiquity, I advise you to check it out. It’s a great Firefox plugin that allows basically any service to be at your disposal. The basic premise is you highlight some words, start typing an action, and it will find a service that meets your needs. Check out the video below for a better explanation. Watch out for a Grooveshark command later on.
This movie requires Flash Player 9
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One of my biggest pet peeves about Firefox was the inability to see the entire title attribute of a DOM element. The title attribute is the text you see in a small pop-up box when you hover over an image, link, or anything on a page. It allows the site to give further information about any element on a page.
The developers at Firefox decided to truncate that text to 60 characters so the user won’t get a huge text box covering their screen whenever they hovered over an element with a long title attribute. In most cases, this would be just fine but I happen to be a big fan of xkcd, a geeky internet web-comic which uses the title attribute to add funny quips.
Using the Long Titles extension, you never have to dig around to read the entire title attribute again. Being such an open browser, I find it rather annoying that Firefox developers refuse to make it an option in about:config to change the cutoff limit for title attributes.
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Firefox is the best browser out there. That’s one argument nobody will ever convince me otherwise. Sure Opera uses less memory, Safari renders pages faster and IE isn’t even in the conversation. In the end, Firefox provides the best experience for the less technically inclined to the most advanced users.
Being a web developer, Firefox has some of the best tools out there for testing forms, debugging Javascript and interactive HTML/CSS editing. If you are a web developer and haven’t heard of Firebug, then you really aren’t a web developer. Other great tools include the Web Developer’s Toolbox and FasterFox.
Recently, Jay mentioned Firefox 3 Beta 4’s release and I really wanted to try it out. I had to keep Firefox 2 for testing purposes so I did a google search and discovered this post showing how to run both versions without them clashing (they can’t run at the same time) on linux. Now I’m running a much improved Firefox with better memory management (not THAT much better), faster page rendering and the best developer plugins possible. Talk about having your cake and eating it too (that saying makes no sense).
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