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Learn to Manage Your Search Engines in Firefox

Manage Your Search Engines in Firefox

I got an e-mail from a reader of Firefox Facts, and they wanted to know  how can you re-organize your search engines in Firefox’s search box that lives in most people upper-right hand corner of Firefox.  This can easily be done via the built in search engine manager. Click …

Add a Cloud to Yahoo or Google Searches

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Is there much you can do to improve on the modern search engines?  They all do the same thing, so it comes down to who does it best – but is that the end of it?  Maybe not.  Inserting a cloud of search terms may help make even the best search engine out there even …

Hide Firefox’s Find Bar After the Job is Done

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Firefox’s find bars (yes, there are two of them) are often classified as the good one that is hard to remember, and the not so good one that is easy to remember.  The good one nobody remembers, is hitting the “/” key while browsing a page.  If you hit Ctrl+F you get …

Add Live (Suggesting) Search to Firefox

Live Search in Firefox

Ever wanted to add Microsoft’s Live Search to your Firefox browser? No, me neither – but they have released and add-on to help you do just that.  The Live Search add-on is a little late to the dance, however I am not going to totally shoot them down.  At …

Searching Inline with Select-n-Go

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Want to be able to browser for information from a page without leaving that page to go to a new tab?  If you want to save space or have easy access to a slew of search tools – you may want to look into adding Select-n-Go by Cleeki to your own Firefox installation. To …

Add More Tools to the Awesome Bar

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Wish to extend your already awesome bar (otherwise known as the address or location bar) with some really neat tools?  By default you can check out an RSS feed from there, and bookmark a web page.  For those looking for a few more perks, you need to try UrlbarExt. This add-on for Firefox extends …

Xoopit for Gmail

Xoopit for Gmail

Need a personal assistant for your Gmail account?  It might not make you coffee, but Xoopit is the next best thing.  Xoopit for Gmail gives you the ability to get a lot more out of your e-mail inbox.  For example, you can quickly browse photos, files and videos.  That is the …

WebMynd for Google

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What is WebMynd?  It is all about personalizing your search – with colors.  Ok, now before you think this is some new age hippy thing, hear me out.  This add-on for Firefox will help find and keep track of information from a number of different sources.

What sources does it support?  We have:  YouTube, Wikipedia, …

Ditch the Next Link with AutoPager

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Tired of hitting, “Next” to see the next part of any page?  No matter if you are looking through search results on Google or reading through a series of articles, the “next link” has become such an annoyance, somebody has developed an add-on for Firefox to get around it. AutoPager is an extension that …

Quicker Web Searches with Searchy

Searchy add-on for Firefox

Need a quicker way to search the Web?

Searchy, a new experimental add-on for Firefox will allow you to do that in a very stylish and unique way.  Once you get it installed, just hit Ctrl+Shift+K to bring up the Searchy search box, then type in what you are looking for.  You will get the results …

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