Comments on: Firefox Add-ons for Higher Education Web

By: cmlawson

cmlawson — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:31:57 +0000

Small things like words can have a big impact no matter what age we are. Emotional literacy exercises with An Exercise in Happiness™ helps children identify and deal with their own emotions as well as others. It takes only minutes a day to foster your childrens’ core strengths and values.

By: microsoft point

microsoft point — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:36:18 +0000

I’ve found to get around this is to set up 2 separate Firefox profiles, one for casual browsing and one for SEO/web development work. To ease the transition between profiles I use an (unverified, sadly) extension called ProfileSwitcher.

By: yudha16

yudha16 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:48:36 +0000

great list.Sounds interesting. Thanks for sharing about it.

By: Criminal Defense Lawyer

Criminal Defense Lawyer — Tue, 12 May 2009 20:41:42 +0000

Knowing about theses extensions makes my life easier. Thanks for the information.

By: Florida Horse Adoptions

Florida Horse Adoptions — Fri, 08 May 2009 01:59:55 +0000

Toolbars are great to have when looking for something quick. I especially like the benefits of the quick back link checkers and other similar tools.

By: USA Trucking Schools

USA Trucking Schools — Fri, 08 May 2009 01:58:45 +0000

What new ways are people utilizing other toolbars these days?

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Is Google Analytics Installed Properly? - Octane-Sia.Com — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:04:52 +0000

[...] mentioned WASP in my Firefox Add-ons post months ago. WASP will show you which analytics tracking code, if any, is on a page. WASP is [...]

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By: Rob S.

Rob S. — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:52:03 +0000

One of my new faves: Read It Later

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7661

By: Renting Textbooks

Renting Textbooks — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:04:15 +0000

Toolbars are great to have when looking for something quick. I especially like the benefits of the quick back link checkers and other similar tools.

By: Houston Web Design

Houston Web Design — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:02:18 +0000

I agree – toolbars aren’t going to give you a competitive edge – they are meant to be very quick top level resources.

By: Firefox Addons

Firefox Addons — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:05:27 +0000

I don’t need some fancy-schmancy toolbar to tell me about SEO. The only SEO related addon I have is SearchStatus which displays pagerank, alexa rank, and compete rank.

By: Rob S.

Rob S. — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:53:21 +0000

The add-ons do seem to bog things down a bit. Plus there is the syndrome of browser as OS – one tab crashes, everything crashes.

FF3RC1 has been very stable for me, though one obscure Web-based program I use doesn’t play nice with it at this point.

And if you are itching to try out FF3 but are dependent on some “incompatible” add-ons, you can either override the incompatibility check within Firefox (at which point the add-ons will work) or check the add-on coder’s own site for the latest development build, which is typically compatible

IE8 Beta 1 has crashed on me a couple times, but it is a beta 1, so that tends to happen more. I have that running on a personal computer and not a work computer.

Both offer improvements over previous versions, imho.

IE8s prominent displaying of a Web site’s main domain in the address bar is interesting. For some colleges that use outside vendors for FAQs, personalized Web sites, discussion forums, etc., it looks more obvious that the student isn’t on the college’s Web site.

By: Kyle James

Kyle James — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:55:52 +0000

Good to know, thanks for the update Rob. I’m so ready for FF3. FF2 continues to seem like it’s getting slower and slower… but maybe that’s because of all these crazy add-ons i’ve got installed.