Comments on: What’s in My Browser: David Pierce

By: stefanstudysuccessfulcom

stefanstudysuccessfulcom — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 07:17:50 +0000

David, I should just stop loving Chrome so much and start using Firefox right?

By: David Pierce

David Pierce — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:39:51 +0000

For a while, I used Mozilla's Weave, which does actually sync your whole Firefox. I gave it up for being buggy, but it just got an upgrade and might be worth another look. Check it out! http://bit.ly/4F9nm6

By: Bryan Hickey

Bryan Hickey — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:43:15 +0000

Great blog David, I happened across it last week and have been mining its riches since,

You mentioned that your browser setup is synced across all your computers. Did you mean just your bookmarks (via Xmarks) or have you found a way to keep extensions synced across multiple computers? It would be a super cool tool to have all my firefox browsers (PC, Mac & Ubuntu) the same (extensions, themes & bookmarks)!

By: Jason Mitchell

Jason Mitchell — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:32:45 +0000

I agree with Stephen, I use AdBlock Plus to hide all those annoying ads, and Echofon for my Twitter feed. I also use Facebook Fixer in Greasemonkey and Firebug (being a software/web developer, it's *SO* helpful).

Apart from those I also use the following (and David, I think you're right about wanting to minimise your extensions, as it can become unwieldy!):

IE Tab - simple extension to allow you to use IE in your Firefox window, which is handy if you want to see what a page looks like in IE.

Gmail Manager, Yahoo Mail Notifier and Webmail Notifier - for access to my Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail accounts, respectively (Webmail Notifier can do all 3, but it's not the prettiest; it is, however, the only extension I've found to check hotmail).

Google Redesigned - puts a nice skin on Gmail, GCal & GReader.

Flashblock - prevents Flash from loading until you click it, which speeds up browsing if your internet connection is slow.

Those are my Favs, and while the list is long, they're all really helpful in my day-to-day browsing. But when I'm installing Firefox for other people, the only extensions I always install is AdBlock Plus. I hate ads! (Sorry David!) =)

By: ashpags

ashpags — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:21:06 +0000

Thanks for the XMarks link – that's a great program! I knew something like that had to exist.

My Get YouTube Video script (originally recommended by the Google Operating System blog) has stopped working — hopefully Dave will share his with us.

I'm finding that I much prefer using Bookmarklets to extensions/add-ons. They work in all my browsers (I bounce around between Firefox, Safari, and the relatively-stable developer preview of Chrome for Mac) and don't slow things down like excessive add-ons tend to do.