Want to hide all the stuff you do not really need on your personalized iGoogle homepage?  Thanks Super iGoogle, a handy Greasemonkey script, you can simplify iGoogle to only show you the content you need to see.

File this add-on under awesome.  The Places’ Tooltip add-on for Firefox adds more detailed information about the bookmarks and links you have saved to your browser. 

Want to store notes you have taken across the Web in your bookmarks? 

Net Notes will allow you to easily store notes on specific sites in your bookmarks.  Once you install Net Notes, you can start taking notes about the active tab you have open.  The Net Notes sidebar can be toggled (shown and hidden) via Firefox view menu, with a toolbar button, or with a customizable keyboard shortcut.  The notes themselves are edited in a simple textbox in [...]

I start every one of my Firefox browsing adventures with iGoogle loaded up as my home page.  However, I would like to check up on my iGoogle page without going to the homepage over and over again through the day.  Can I just load it up into the sidebar?  Yes, we can!
 
How do you make it happen?  Drag this link to your bookmarks bar:

iPhone iGoogle Homepage

Now, right-click the bookmark, and select Properties.  Click the check mark box for loading [...]

You can load up Google News in your Firefox sidebar.  This quick tip and tweak will give you the ability to check out the iPhone optimized Google News in your Firefox sidebar.  This makes scrolling through the day’s news an even quicker and easier experience.
 
How do you make it happen?  Drag this link to your bookmarks bar:

iPhone Google News

Now, right-click the bookmark, and select Properties.  Click the check mark box for loading this bookmark in the sidebar, and [...]

The Tab Sidebar add-on for Firefox does a simple change, but after I can promise you you’ll get a whole new perspective for the way Firefox works.  It acts more like a replacement for the tab bar and includes an always visible thumbnail preview of all the tabs you may have loaded up.
Here are some of the other Tab Sidebar features:

Provides navigation options for each tab including history, stop and reload
Allows you to move tabs around with drag and [...]

Time for another one of those awesome, put “insert web site here” in the Firefox sidebar tips.  This time around, it is the Google Reader iPhone version we are going goofy about.  Open up this link here:
http://www.google.com/reader/i/
After doing so, drag it to your links bar or bookmark it.  Then right-click the bookmark, and select the Load this bookmark in the sidebar checkbox.  Now save and your good to go. 

You should know I love the “Open a Tool in Firefox’s Sidebar” tips by now. 
This one crossed my feed reader, and I couldn’t pass up the chance to send it to all of you.  With a ‘bit of a work around you can now open your “compose a new e-mail” link from Gmail in as a Firefox sidebar.  Here is how to get it done:
You’ll want to login to Gmail, and then click on the “Compose Mail” [...]

Want to separate the Firefox sidebar window that comes up when you browse your bookmarks or history into it’s own separate window?  We all have plenty of desktop space right?  Why not spread things out a little?  If your desktop space is just itching for another window then you too might want to pick up the Ez Sidebar add-on.
Once installed, you can easily undock and unlock the sidebar in Firefox from the Firefox browser window.  You can then move [...]

I got an e-mail from a Firefox Facts reader the other day that wanted to know if I knew of an easy way to add more of the iGoogle startpage tools in their sidebar. After seeing my other various Google sidebar tips and tricks.
Now we all know that iGoogle is probably not the best start page out there, but it does offer some unique plugins and tools that make it handy to have easily accessible. So what do [...]