Picking Up New Browsing Habits
Arun bhai | Fri, Feb 17, 2006I have also started tagging my bookmarks on Technorati. I suggest anyone who browses often always faces the problem of transferring their old bookmarks. Also, the problem of bookmarks growing much larger than one’s screen height is also a problem 
My browsing habits have become more extensive over the last couple of days. Actually, it has just caught up with the times. I mean, we are talking about a generation who has 1324 contacts in their social networking mini-site (i.e. their profile page in a site like www.orkut.com). I have supplemented my news reading with RSS feeds from most major news sites including Hindu. Other than Slashdot.org, I now also frequent Digg and reddit.
All this is thanks to the amazing open source browser Firefox. Unfortunately for 75% of people out there, Firfox is just a browser that has tabs. But few things which Firefox does, I can’t live without is
- Blocks all kinds of ADs and tremendously speeds my browsing experience.
- Having keyboard shortcuts for everything speeds it even more.
- Takes me straight to ‘Printer friendly’ pages, so no more paging around
- Shows all the downloads in the statusbar
… and much more. Of course all these is because of the extensions
It is so much exciting when websites have sprung up based on simple but strong concepts rather than the all encompassing portal based sites of the dot com days. It is probably what everyone is calling Web 2.0 these days. I welcome this change. Personally, I think has helped budding entrepreneurs like me bring ideas to market thanks to full fledged open source web frameworks like Rails. I have been trying to study Django and Turbogears out there due to my interest in Python (or rather my reluctance to learn Ruby after multiple half hearted attempts).
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I love Firefox just for the clean n neat interface
Krish | Sat, Feb 18, 2006I love Firefox just for the clean n neat interface it offers me…more over, I can open all my favourites in tabs…Google as default search engine…U just need to type something in the address bar..unlike IE, which throws up sick links from MSN search, this opens the page that comes up first in Google search..isnt that cool??.many more reasons like favicons, fast rendering, etal..Firefox rocks!
@Krish: Wow! you have summed up some finer aspects of Firefox
Arun bhai | Mon, Feb 20, 2006@Krish:
Wow! you have summed up some finer aspects of Firefox we (firefox users) take for granted ;)! Really dishearted by the fact that very few know about “another internet explorer” out there. Hope this article inspires some, to make the switch.