Read posts faster & save post input in crash

Coursedesign wrote on 11/1/2006, 10:18 AM

Firefox 2.0 rocks. Download and install takes only a few minutes on a reasonable internet line. Safer than IE7, and significantly improved from FF 1.5.

When done installing, it leaves a page with link to recommended plug-ins.

Get Cooliris, takes a few seconds, of course free.

Now when you go to any web page with links on it, such as the top level of this forum, you can just hover the cursor over the end of each link, this opens a "virtual window" with the content of that link, such as a complete thread. You can scroll inside the thread, if it's FYI only you just hover away from the virtual window and it disappears, and you can move on.

Effortless, and works for other things too, including for links to PDF documents, etc.

Pretty good time saver, IMHO.

Comments

Coursedesign wrote on 11/2/2006, 3:27 PM

Another cool thing about Firefox 2.0.

If you are writing a long post or web e-mail as your computer crashes, then when you restart Firefox after rebooting, it asks if you want to restore all window tabs to exactly where you were when the crash happened. If you say yes, it even comes up with any input fields filled in as they were at the time of the crash...

Not bad, saved my ass when I had a RAM problem on one of my PCs.

Paul Fierlinger wrote on 11/2/2006, 4:03 PM

Thanks so much for this tip. Cooliris is an amazing little trick!

SHTUNOT wrote on 11/3/2006, 5:56 PM

Coursedesign thank you. I've downloaded and installed both both firefox 2.0 and cooliris and am loving it. I'm using the cool metallic theme as well.

Any other cool apps like cooliris I should use too?

Ed.

jrazz wrote on 11/3/2006, 6:35 PM

I like the stumbleupon plugin, but it is addictive and can be a big time waster. Basically, you click on topics that peak your interest when you first set up your stumbleupon account and then you click the stumbleupon button and it cycles you through webpages that have been tagged under that category that other users with your interests have found. You can also add websites for others to "stumbleupon" and give sites you stumbleupon a thumbs up or down.
I have found some very interesting websites this way, but I have also wasted countless hours clicking the button.

j razz

TheHappyFriar wrote on 11/3/2006, 6:49 PM

watch out for some of those theme's... some don't have certain dialog boxes working correctly (iFox metal doesn't have the "view page info" window spaced out correctly)