Dec14

Get Firefox…please

by JamesonH

I’ve been using Firefox for over a year now and I can’t begin to express how much happier I am compared to my days with IE. It’s not just the inherent features such as tabbed browsing, better CSS rendering, and the lack of crashes that are nice. The things that I really love are the wide array of extensions that people have built for Firefox. Maybe it’s because I like toys and the ability to tinker, but regardless, my web experience has been greatly improved by some priceless extensions. Here are just a few that I can’t live without:

  • MeasureIt - This extension allows you to measure any space on a page in pixels. I use this all the time to check out our page layouts and element sizes.
  • ColorZilla - This is an eye dropper tool that let’s you pick out any color on a page and copies the value straight to your clipboard. I often times see great color palettes when I’m surfing so enjoy picking up the colors that I would like to use in the future.
  • Mouse Gestures - This extension allows you to execute browser commands such as back, forward, refresh, new window, etc. with a simple move of your mouse. I have commands, bookmarks, javascript commands, you name I’ve got a mouse gesture for it.
  • Sage - This is one extension that I can’t live without. It’s a simple yet effective RSS reader built right into the sidebar of Firefox. The nice thing is that you can customize the look and feel of your reader or you can just use one of the many templates that they offer on the site. Aside from email this is how I keep in touch with the rest of the world.

About 38% of our visitors are on IE. I’d like to get that number down below 10%. I’m pursuing this because not only are Firefox users generally happier people (not scientifically proven), but MochiBot also works much better when playing in Firefox. With that said, if you’re not already using Firefox then please go out and get it. *Using the link below also helps feed us for another day* :P


As an added treat I thought this was pretty clever. Firecat

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4 Comments so far (Post your own)

  1. 1. DarkLordFoxx says

    December 17, 2005 2:11 pm

    Hey, I use firefox to check my stats because Opera gives me an odd dialog box with some nonsense info in it.

    I don’t know if you can fix this.

    I love both Firefox and Opea…and I hate IE :)

  2. 2. JamesonH says

    December 18, 2005 11:01 pm

    We don’t support Opera so that’s why you get the dialog with nonsense. We don’t have any plans of supporting Opera at this time, but that may change in the future.

  3. 3. Binary says

    December 28, 2005 11:27 am

    Unfortunately, My firefox often dosen’t seem to like mochibot, and crashes out. Luckily this is the only site that happens on, strange though. IE seems to work fine though. I prefer FF for everything else though.

  4. 4. adi4x says

    January 13, 2006 5:08 am

    I like Opera (and it doesn’t works wit mochibot)
    but this doesn’t stops me to use it … I make this effort and i launch iexplorer

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