week 3: Thing 7 and 8 - Firefox

I have been using Firefox and extensions for quite a while now. It's ironic, I'm using google's chrome browser to make this post :) It is much lighter-weight and requires less processing from the PC, so I use it for reading. It's not so great for editing, so I tend to edit things in Firefox.

I still use Internet Explorer to read my Outlook Webmail from home as - suspiciously - this Microsoft product only works properly with the Microsoft reader.

The major Firefox extensions I use are:

• Colourful tabs - which makes each tab display in a different colour
  
• Del.icio.us toolbar - lets me tag things instantly for upload to del.icio.us
  
• Evernote web clipper - lets me upload almost anything as a "note" in my private notes database
  
• Greasemonkey - allows me to run a number of little useful scripts that do other things
  
• Meebo - instant messaging
  
• OpenURL referrer - from OCLC - I was fiddling with it for the Web Presence project
  
• Remember the Milk for gmail - puts a "to do" list into my gmail account
• Ubiquity - I press [CTRL] [SPACE] and a command line appears, allowing me to just type a command and look up something on wikipedia or sent a message to twitter or something to gmail, all from one spot
• Zotero - see Thing 8