{"id":19275,"date":"2010-12-08T09:20:57","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T14:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=19275"},"modified":"2010-12-08T09:20:57","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T14:20:57","slug":"techbite-12-smart-firefox-and-ie-add-ons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/techbite-12-smart-firefox-and-ie-add-ons\/","title":{"rendered":"TechBite: 12 Smart Firefox and IE Add-Ons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/08\/techbite-12-smart-firefox-and-ie-add-ons\/\" show_faces=\"true\" width=\"450\"><\/fb:like><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/stevewp.jpg\" alt=\"steveb\" class=\"attachment wp-att-7167 alignleft\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By Steve Bass<\/p>\n<p><strong><a name=\"fix\" id=\"fix\"><\/a>Fix Up Your Browser<\/strong><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t get enough of the handy-dandy  freebies that clump onto Firefox (and Internet Explorer) and make the browsers  smarter and easier to work. <\/p>\n<p>Finding the right one is sometimes  just a matter of saying, &#8220;gawd, why can&#8217;t I&#8230;&#8221; and sticking it into  a Google search field. So here are a few that I&#8217;ve found &#8212; and integrated into  my browsers.<\/p>\n<p>One thought, though, before you  start. Adhere to the Bass International <em>one  at a time<\/em> rule. It&#8217;s the best way to experiment when modifying your browser  with add-ons or extensions. You know the reason: If your browser starts acting  hinky, you&#8217;ll find the culprit pretty quickly with only one new add-on  installed. Also, adding a bunch at a time has been known to cause sunspots and  make people faint. No, seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, then, let&#8217;s get started with  Firefox.<br \/>\n  &#160;<br \/><strong><a name=\"Firefox\" id=\"Firefox\"><\/a>A New Annoyance: Local Shared Objects <\/strong>LSOs are tracking cookies  created by Adobe Flash applications. They never expire and there&#8217;s no way for  you to look at them as you might regular cookies. Even the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703977004575393173432219064.html?KEYWORDS=new+tracking+industry\" rel=\"nofollow\">Wall  Street Journal<\/a> has taken notice, saying some sites can stick over a hundred  tracking components on your computer. I&#8217;ve got <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/6623\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">BetterPrivacy<\/a> running in the background to dump these intrusive little buggers. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Take a Note! <\/strong>Every so often I&#8217;ll feel the need to scribble a note  about a Web page I&#8217;ll revisit later. (No surprise that by the time I&#8217;m done for  the day, I&#8217;ve forgotten about the site and never get back to it. But that&#8217;s  another story.) <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/af\/firefox\/addon\/226345\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Web Notes<\/a> is  handy: Click its toolbar icon and a small Web Notes window appears on the Web  page you&#8217;ve got open. The note you enter stays with the page, and the little  window hangs around if you want it to. If you don&#8217;t put a note on the page  you&#8217;re on, the note rolls up. Web Notes is less intuitive to use than I&#8217;d like,  but easy enough once you get the knack. <\/p>\n<p>A smarter note-taking tool, and  the one I like best, is &#160;<a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/2011\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Internote<\/a>,  which is still in beta at version 3.0beta2. Individual notes stick with the  page, have changeable background and text colors, and are easily added or  removed. I like the note management feature that lets me search through my  notes and open the search result&#8217;s corresponding page. You can find product  features and screen caps on the developer&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/internote.sourceforge.net\/internote3-info.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">SourceForge<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Desktop Shortcut <\/strong>Remember how you have &#8220;Create Shortcut&#8221;  on Internet Explorer&#8217;s right-click context menu? Now you&#8217;ve also got it in  Firefox with <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/66\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">deskCut<\/a>.  (Okay, I hear the IE crowd gloating; I agree, the Mozilla folks should have built  it in, but they didn&#8217;t.) <\/p>\n<p><strong>100 Ways to Use Google <\/strong>There are a dozen or so Google spots I visit  often &#8212; Accounts, Maps, Web History, and others &#8212; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.googleshortcuts.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Google Shortcuts<\/a> gives me a handy  way to stack my Google favs in a pull-down toolbar icon. There&#8217;s also a version  for Chrome.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bassfiles.net\/googletoolbaricon.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"296\" width=\"273\"><br \/><strong>Google &#8212; your way.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Back Up Firefox<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xmarks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Xmarks<\/a> syncs  your favorites in the cloud (actually, on an Xmarks server) and lets you  retrieve them from anywhere. 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Unfortunately, you&#39;ll need <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/3102\/\" target=\"_blank\">Email This!<\/a> to  do it.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a name=\"0.1_internet\"><\/a>Free Internet Explorer Add-ons<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  I don&#39;t know why, but developers  aren&#39;t nearly as interested in creating add-ons for Internet Explorer. It&#39;s  probably because they use IE only when they have to &#8212; or it could be that  Internet Explorer 8 is notorious for becoming unstable when too many add-ons  are installed. <\/p>\n<p>If you have trouble with any  Internet Explorer add-on, Microsoft has two spots to give you a helping hand.  The first explains how <a href=\"http:\/\/windows.microsoft.com\/en-us\/Windows7\/How-do-browser-add-ons-affect-my-computer\" target=\"_blank\">browser  add-ons<\/a> can screw up your computing experience and gives you instructions  for disabling them. Okay, no, the Microsoft folks don&#39;t use my descriptive  language, but that&#39;s essentially what they&#39;ve said. The other page supplies a  more comprehensive <a href=\"http:\/\/windows.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows7\/Internet-Explorer-add-ons-frequently-asked-questions\" target=\"_blank\">FAQ<\/a> about add-ons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Back Up Internet Explorer <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backsettings.com\/internet-explorer-backup.html\" target=\"_blank\">BackRex  Internet Explorer Backup<\/a> does what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xmarks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Xmarks<\/a> does (there&#39;s an IE version), but backs up favorites locally, on your hard  drive. BackRex also stores IE&#39;s security zones, cookies, history, and any other  customized settings. I&#39;d use BackRex as well as Xmarks, just for the extra  stuff it saves.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nice Gesture<\/strong> Move your mouse this way and move back a page. 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