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An Essential Firefox Add-on

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
at 11:43pm

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What page do you use in your default Web browser as your “start” page? Have you bothered to change it from the browser’s start page? As you know, Firefox 3 was officially released on the day this video is being posted. Now that you have it, what are you doing with it? Are you doing more than just browsing the Internet?

There’s a new application for Firefox 3 called Feedly. This is a plugin that integrates seamlessly with Firefox 3. It gives you the ultimate start page, but then again… it’s so much more than just a starting place. You can manage and DO so much with it. There’s a Twitter integrator, an Annotation tool, summaries of the most relevant content, and even a wall with an overview of articles recommended by your friends.

The welcome wizard can learn from your existing personalizations - bookmarks, My Yahoo!, Bloglines, Netvibes, Twitter, Yahoo Mail, Gmail and Friendfeed - and apply them to your feedly. feedly is an attempt to use everything which is good in cloud service, RSS and social connectivity to create a more social and magazine-like start page. Think MyYahoo meets Digg meets Wired.

You’re going to be able to browse and read your feeds right from within the Feedly interface. This will save you time, and get you more information faster. It’s a more social and magazine-like start page, made just for Firefox 3.

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17 Comments

helmecj01

June 18th, 2008
at 7:05am

I have Mozilla Firefox 3 installed on my computer and add-on I use is British English dictionary , IE tab.

IE tab enables you to use the embedded IE engine within Mozilla FireFox then you can use Microsoft Update web site on Mozilla Firefox.

British English dictionary is a spelling checker on line when type up words it check if they are wrong.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3366
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3653

Keith

June 18th, 2008
at 8:08am

must have plugin for firefox
fireftp.

Thanks for the tips.

Keith

cananito

June 18th, 2008
at 12:29pm

Well, I did download firefox 3, and I love it.

I tried feedly, I didn’t like it.

Iit didn’t gave me the whole experience

First of all, I couldn’t remove categories, I mean, what the hell? I chose a couple of them, then I couldn’t get rid of them.

Second, my google reader got really messed up, and it added lot’s of feeds, is that bad? to me, yes, because the feeds I got are like the only ones I want at the momment, I don’t really have time to keep up with more.

I don’t know I might be like not giving good arguments, but I just didn’t like it. I rather stay with iGoogle, and Google Reader is much cleaner in my opinion.

webguygary

June 18th, 2008
at 12:30pm

feedly is ok, but I find the version of Firefox called Flock, to be a better alternative.

Commodore256

June 18th, 2008
at 8:31pm

Chris, you should let your parents try the “Speed dial” plugin for Firefox. It looks like the speed dial feature for opera.

OzTech

June 19th, 2008
at 3:41am

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gavin

June 21st, 2008
at 10:24am

stumble upon is a quality add on

joey jones

June 21st, 2008
at 7:27pm

thanks to you chris. i use feedly every day for up to the date news and tech information. thanks chris

modman

June 21st, 2008
at 7:28pm

Well for my start page i have google.A addon i use is Foxytoons it rocks and i love it

BasementPro

June 21st, 2008
at 8:40pm

I don’t really subscribe to rss feeds so i don’t feel a need to download it

Bowler4Ever

June 21st, 2008
at 9:59pm

I got it recently. Not bad! Just need to toy around with it a bit and look more into it, ,otherwise, it’s great!

Pure

June 21st, 2008
at 10:20pm

Thanks for the video, Chris! I’ll have to check out this addon and try to give Firefox another chance. I dropped it for Opera because it seemed faster and had speed dial. But Firefox has seemed to come back a bit, but still a bit buggy. Thanks for all the other comments, as well guys. I’ll check out those other addons.

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Alex Sorlie

June 24th, 2008
at 5:32am

Nice, but I wont use it yet, FF3 is’nt compatible with my other addons =/ I’ll stay on FF2 until that gets fixed, but.. Will it be able to work with PicLens?

helmecj01

August 6th, 2008
at 1:13am

You must have McAfee SiteAdvisor to be safe when you are searching on the Internet.

http://www.siteadvisor.com/download/ff.html

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