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Top ten Firefox extensions

Here are my ten favourite Firefox extensions. Firefox is an excellent web browser, but its best features are the ones that aren’t included: the huge number of add-ons that can make this good application even better.

6 July 2007 | By Bennett | Topics: Tools, Web | Comments (7)

Mozilla Thunderbird email

Everybody loves Mozilla Firefox, the open-source web browser du jour. But there’s nowhere near as much attention being paid to its sister application, Thunderbird, an email and news client and RSS reader. I use Thunderbird for all my email: it has a lot of excellent features, but somehow doesn’t have quite the same mojo as [...]

26 April 2005 | By Bennett | Topics: Tools | Comments (6)

One-click “To Read” list

I often stumble across intriguing web pages when I’m busy doing something else. Now I can save them with a single click, and easily come back to them later on, whether I’m at work or at home. Now you can do this too.

25 April 2005 | By Bennett | Topics: Tools | Comments (4)

Multiple Internet Explorer versions in Windows

You can install several different versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer concurrently on Windows. Finally I could see how awful my site looked in IE5 — and the truth wasn’t pretty.

11 April 2005 | By Bennett | Topics: Testing, Tools | Comments (11)
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