SearchWP and Google search

Georges-Etienne Legendre - SearchWP
is a aid to searching from the Firefox search box - it puts your search words available in the search results. They will be listed on the toolbar so you can click to find each word in the pages. Also you can click a highlight button to get them in colour.

Georges-Etienne Legendre - SearchBox Sync
SearchWP only works if you use the Firefox search box - if you use say Google search direct well install Sync.

I did not want google toolbar as it clutters up the browser with features I find hard to see the point of. I do have Google desktop and use the taskbar search box so Sync is most useful.

Both addons work for other search engines

Firefox Running Slow?

Firefox Running Slow? Make It Fast Again Without Re-Installation at Digital Inspiration - Software Reviews, Internet and Technology Guide

Something to Install or use on net ?

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Safari vs Firefox versus MAC

Now that I have a Macbook I started to look at using Apple's Safari browser.

It is reputed to be fast. So I might use for some things. It seemed to handle banking aok.

However I tried to write a blog and found that the edit page only had 2 of the icon functions I get with firefox when using Blogger!!! Just the image and ABC functions

So on a Mac you do need both browsers

Table2clipboard - copy/paste data like a dream

Table2Clipboard :: Firefox Add-ons

means I can cut and paste table formatted data from Firefox into Excel or notes etc with correct format.
In Ancestry.com I bring up a list of people in a census area I only want 3 or so and not all the columns - Table2clipboard means I can

• Select Ctrl and hold.
• Mouse over all the cells that you want to copy, they will be highlighted.
• Right click on the highlighted cells and select "Copy Table elements"
• Now paste into a note - into a spreadsheet - into an html editor.
• I use Frontpage - you will now have an uncluttered table - I often having a table and use paste special with formatted selected
  

This is really an enormous tool - you have to use it to appreciate what a help it is

Pat Geary's site on how to use for Genealogy and in Frontpage

IETab enables a MSIE tab in Firefox

This is a MS Windows only Addon

I wanted to switch to Firefox BUT Ancestry.com have an advanced image viewer that only works in MSIE - you can see census etc images in FF but they are better in MSIE

IE Tab also allows FF to behave like MSIE. Simply it puts an icon on bottom right status line - its Firefox when Firefox and click to make it MSIE.

I also like Table2Clipboard and I use that to paste Ancestry data lists of people in census - so that needs to be Firefox - so I only click IE Tab when I want to look at an image.

IE Tab cannot provide a navigation history

So this is how I use - I leave Ancestry as FF - do not put in IETab list of sites - then I get the navigation history - when I want to see an image - click right on image icon and select Open in IETab - it is wonderful

ReminderFox - a great reminder and todo list

Technical - Addons Firefox and Thunderbird

ReminderFox I really want to get my life under control - and I have been trying lots of Calendar and TODO list programs. At first sight yesterday this is the best. Just the way the little knot appears in bottom right corner and moving cursor over it THE MAJOR items appear.

Note you can have it in Thunderbird and Firefox - you just need to go into options and adjust the File used so as the same in both - full instructions atReminderFox

There are lots of features but for quick calendar and major ToDo stuff this is good

You can have it RF running in both apps but just in one lot of options turn off Alerts else the Alarms come up double