E-Volution IT

I recommend to all my clients that they use Firefox as their number one web browsing software.

Firefox is free, relatively secure (compared to Internet Explorer), has hundreds of fantastic “extensions” (easily installable add-ons) which bring a wide variety of new features to it should you want any of them, great support for tabbed browsing, and much more.

Using Internet Explorer is in my experience a real chore now that I am used to using Firefox. If you make regular use of the internet then I recommend trying Firefox and the various extensions that suit your needs and wants.

The most generalised Extensions I recommend in list of importance (and generalised through to more specialised) are:

• Mr Tech Local Install
• Tab Mix Plus
• Spellbound (spell checker) — At this time (May 24th 2006) I recommend getting the development version
• PDF Download
• AdBlock — note: AdBlock Plus 0.7.0.1 causes memory leaks with Firefox 1.5.0.3 (and earlier 1.5 versions) so AdBlock (not PLUS) is recommended)
• Resize Search Box (a simple but useful tool that fills a gap in the Firefox feature set)
• Customize Google (if you are an avid Google user—this lets you customise that way Google behaves for you)
• Download Manager Tweak (some handy tweaks for the way FF handles download management)
• GoogleBar Lite (if you use Google a lot and want the Google bar I recommend getting this lite version rather than the full one)
• FlashGot (if you download things this tools makes it easier)
• XE Currency Converter (if you do currency conversions more than now and then. I am not sure where the development site is for this)
• FeedYourReader (if you use a news reader application like Feedburner)
• Gmail Manager (if you use Gmail)
• Send by email (a useful tool if you like to send pages or selected content by email. Presently FF does not have this feature by default. Odd, but true)
• JustBlogIt (if you write blogs but want to use the interface that comes with your blog)
• Scrapbook (for collecting information and organising it)
• Performancing (if you maintain one or more blogs this is a great firefox integrated desktop editor)
• Deepest Sender (as an alternative to Performancing — try them both and decide which you prefer)
• BlogJetThis (if you use the BlogJet desktop blogging program if comes with this nice extension)
• Paypal Send Payment (useful if you often make paypal payments to people.

Those are the extensions I find most useful. There are many others though—get them here.

You can get Firefox from http://getfirefox.com.

Happy Firefoxing…