Comments on: Goodbye IE, hello Firefox

By: AffiliateLaunch.co.uk

AffiliateLaunch.co.uk — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:32:17 +0000

Have been using Firefox for several years and strongly recommend the Web Developer add on, we use it all the time when developing sites. Some other nice add on’s recommended in the comments. Thanks for those

By: Jesse

Jesse — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:09:01 +0000

Wise choice, once i’d moved to Firefox from IE I never looked back (still need to use IE for testing etc but Firefox all the way).

Would recommend FireFTP as a plugin - allows you to easily upload /download files to your website inside firefox.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:34:31 +0000

Acckkk….how could I forget to mention FireFTP and SearchStatus?!? Good call, Nils!

By: Nils

Nils — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:09:43 +0000

Firefox is great, welcome on board. I use the following addons:

British English Dictionary
Danish Dictionary
FireFTP - Great simple FTP client
SearchStatus - Search tool, you can do a quick who is and see if an affiliates name in the network is the same as the owner of the domain. Also display Alexa ranking and PageRank
McAfee SiteAdvisor - Makes a lookup on their site and displays a warning if they have force download etc.
Flagfox - Shows where a site is hosted
RankChecker - Tools for checking your rank on keywords
Domain Lookup - You can right click a word and see if it is available to buy.
Foxtrick - Addon to http://www.hattrick.org

By: Kieron

Kieron — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:02:11 +0000

Some great suggestions there guys, I’ll certainly look at them all. Thanks to everyone who contributed.

By: Andrew Mason

Andrew Mason — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:40:52 +0000

Just go the whole hog and replace Windows with a Mac. It makes sense. You, as I, rely on our computers for our incomes and I would never place that trust in Microsoft (and I am a qualified Microsoft engineer!).

Also, I hear Mac’s come in white

By: Sid Savara - Personal Development

Sid Savara - Personal Development — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:15:44 +0000

Ok, I’ve seen Foxmarks mentioned a few times, but I still think delicious is superior. It’s automatically synced constantly, tagged, and available even on computers you don’t install the delicious plugin. It also tracks which bookmarks you visit most frequently, so you can easily find sites in a litte “most visited” folder that’s created dynamically.

I don’t work for them or anything, but I really love delicious. I would never go back to anything else for bookmarking.

By: Winston

Winston — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:12:08 +0000

I actually went through a similar excercise. Of course everyone has their own preferences but I found Firefox to be one of the weaker alternatives. In a way it’s a shame that there seems to be only one accepted alternative. The ones worth testing are summed up here: http://www.wistop.com/list-best-web-browser.html

I still keep coming back to IE though. They all have their ups and downs but when IE works it’s my preferred browser! On my home PC it works without any probs. At work I have to restart it maybe 10 times a day :(.

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:05:04 +0000

Just use the awesomebar (aka address bar) to its best, along with tagged favourites; so, wanna go to any page you’ve been to previously but can’t remember the URL? Try typing keywords, or meta title words, or the URL…

By: OLBG

OLBG — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:12:50 +0000

Foxmarks is great if you have several PCs and want to have your bookmarks synchronised across them