Moving into Firefox 3

Ive been a Opera fan for years now, and Ive had Firefox as my second choice browser. I never really got around to customizing my Firefox, but 4 days ago i decided to give it a go.

Oh my, have it changed my way of surfing the web. In Opera I got stuck in the old "browse-all-bookmarks-then-find-something-else-to-do" habbit. Now its never boring. Always new things to discover, share and connect information and links. All of this because of Firefox. I never used services like Digg, StumbleUpon, Delicious and such before. Neither did i blog...

The reason beeing Opera and the lack of support for these services.

Anyways, here is my Firefox setup with links and explanations:

First of all (if you havent already...): Firefox 3

Then its time for the extentions, which is the fun part :P

Adblock plus is a must. Get rid of all those ads flashing all over the sites you love

All-in-One Sidebar to get an Opera like sidebar to manage all your bookmarks, downloads, history, and extensions.

Flagfox. Display a small flag in bottom right corner to tell you where in the world the server is located.

Stylish. Get custom styles for your favourite sites. Ive styled my gmail, my google calendar and my google reader so far. Its awsome.



Webmail Notifier to tell you when you have new mail in your inbox.

StumbleUpon (I guess you need an account, which you can get from stumbleupon.com). When bored, press a button and you will get a random site from the categories you`ve selected in your account setup. To tell you the truth I can sit for hours doing this...

Digg Firefox Extension is an extra menu that gives you the top, most popular, latest stories submitted by users at Digg.com. Always new stuff to discover, and I also noticed that I get alot of the nerdy news even before they hit the online publications here in Norway :P

Delicious bookmarks. Save your bookmarks online, so you

1. Never loose them
2. Can access them from any computer
3. Can share them with friends

Dashblog - This is the extension i use when i want to capture a video, an image, some text or whatever and post it right into my blog. The post "It hurts - failblog.com" was posted with this addon.

Google Notebook. Nice when you have temporary text or links to keep for later.

And at last, the theme I use atm. Aero Fox