"We’ve had some pretty close races lately in our Lunchtime Poll feature, which got us thinking of the obvious question: which one of these contestants would win in a fantasy fight? So we decided to pit some of these services and software head-to-head in a knock-down, drag-out cage match. There may even be jello involved. We’re asking you, dear readers, to cast your vote for the ultimate winner in this 1 v. 1 battle each week, for as long as we can keep the worthy contestants coming. Read on to vote in this week’s match! No poll was closer than the Favorite Web Browser question earlier this month. The two victors far out ahead of the long tail were incumbent favorite Mozilla Firefox and relatively new challenger Google Chrome. This week’s Faceoff pits these two browsers against each other for ultimate fame and glory."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
Firefox is currently winning the vote on Mashable btw. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
If they can iron out the bugs currently spoiling the fun of Chrome on the Mac then it's a winner for me, as long as it supports plugins and extensions like Firefox. Very useful those, couldn't really live without them.
- Gilbert Harding
if Chrome support firefox extensions, i think a lot of peoples move Chrome :)
- Selim Selçuk
chrome is really fast but it sill have a lot of bug.. and browser never crashed scenario is a big lie.. and yes no extensions. Still firefox has leadership for 1-2 year
- Furkan Tunalı
"As we’ve mentioned here before at Make Use Of, bookmarklets are easy to use additions to your web browsers that add functionality to websites or make it easier to perform tasks such as bookmarking to social sites or changing the way websites appear in the browser. Run with Javascript, these useful lightweight pieces of code can make your online life a lot easier. Backup your bookmarks – and bookmarklets – and use these bookmarklets across all platforms. All bookmarklets were tested on Firefox 3.5 and Safari 4."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
I just disagree with the term "must-have"..."useful" is what I would choose...these bookmarklets are nice, but hardly necessities.
- brainno722 (Peter)
I agree and would add 'TwitThat, Diigolet, Press this, Share on Posterous,...' in fact all bookmarklet for all social platforms one has an account on.
- lelapin
my Share to friendfeed is my most used one
- johnpiercy
I use "ShareThis" from sharethis.com, but their website doesn't give a bookmarklet...I forgot where I found it. But it lets you share the web page across various platforms (twitter, digg, delicious, etc) I also use "clip to evernote"
- brainno722 (Peter)
from NoiseRiver
Thanks Peter for sharing sharethis. It may conveniently replace many if not all my other bookmarklets. [I googled 'sharethis.com bookmarklet' to actually find it].
- lelapin
from email
NP. I actually like Bookmarklet more than the actual addon (especially if it's not yet supported by the browser). Other ones I've used are: Diigolet, PrintWhatYouLike, Download PDF, Diggbar (all can be google'ed). In Firefox, I combine the bookmarklet with Xmarks, and they instantly become available through all my pcs (or any place with Internet via portable Firefox)
- brainno722 (Peter)
from NoiseRiver
i also suggest WebNotes, aardvark, pdfmenot, kwout screenshot, tineye, zemanta, pdfdownload.org
- Alessandro
"While statistics put Internet Explorer clearly ahead as the most widely used web browser, it’s clear to many people that it is not due to the excellent programming. Subject to more than one official inquiry in Europe, and numerous columns, both online and in print, the practice of ‘bundling’ the infamous browser with the every copy of the operating system represents the primary reason behind its crushing dominance."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
My pizza comes with tomato sauce so other tomato sauce makers can sue that the pizza company is not giving their tomato sauce along with the pizzas? What kinda logic is this?
- TrafficBug
I am not supporting IE or FF, but the only reason I use FF is that IE is slow when opening new tabs. Try scrolling past a youtube video in FF with your mouse over the video and the scrolling will lock up.
- TrafficBug
sofarsoShawn, that quirkiness you pointed out, has nothing to do with "safe". Just some undercooked add-ons that do not properly use the MaxVersion attribute.
- Pandu ● IT Optimizer
Lol yeah I was just pointing out that w/o the working add-ons it becomes unsafe, it's been corrected now...it was only a problem with Mac Fx Pc
- sofarsoShawn
"The Worldwide Lexicon is an open-source project that exists to eliminate language barriers using a combination of human and machine translation techniques. ReadWriteWeb reviewed the company in an article on open translation projects. In its latest Universal Translator effort, the group helps translate entire web pages automatically within the browsing experience. The Firefox tool enables project members to create, curate and share translations."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
It sounds like it might be useful for FriendFeed, assuming that it's still around, by the time the project has produced something useful for everyone...
- Tyson Key
"Firefox 3.5 — code-named Shiretoko — is set to launch on Tuesday, June 30th! How cool would it be if we could set off fireworks worldwide to celebrate? We'd light up the night country by country, town by town, to show the world just how amazing Firefox is. Just like New Year's, only better — since you get to see who "launched" the fireworks. We're going to make a big bang by spreading Firefox with Social Media. And, we need your help!"
- LouCypher
from Bookmarklet
Because insulting people is TOTALLY the way to convince folks to switch to their side.
- Miss Elle
Safari on Mac, set the user agent to IE8 and off you jolly well go.
- Gilbert Harding
Do chrome.exe --user-agent="Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) ; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)" if you want to use this in Chrome.
- Niranjan Tulpule
They should be trying to get their enterprise users to upgrade from IE6 to IE8 and then once they get their enterprise users to like it they may install it on their home pcs ;)
- Nicholas James
Mozilla has launched a new video section on mozilla.com to help bring some of the many great features of Firefox alive. The feature-specific videos are narrated by the people who helped bring them to Firefox. The new video section even includes a walk through on how to install Firefox — perfect to help people make the switch.
- LouCypher
The holiday season is in full swing! Here are some tips to bring Firefox in the mix and spread the joy! You can customize Firefox with a holiday theme, give the gift of Firefox this holiday season, and use Firefox add-ons to simplify your online shopping.
- LouCypher
Here is a fun collection of Mozilla holiday graphics to decorate your web pages and desktop featuring the logos of Firefox, Thunderbird, and other Mozilla products available as wallpapers, animated snow globes, and Christmas tree ornaments. Enjoy and continue the tradition of spreading holiday cheer by sharing this page with others.
- LouCypher
On top of today’s exceptional news about Firefox surpassing 20% worldwide market share during the month of November, we have further good news to share. After Firefox reached the 50% market share milestone in Indonesia back in July, we can now say the same about two more regions: SLOVENIA AND MACEDONIA.
- LouCypher
"Things like that don’t happen very often. It looks like 3 months data of broken sites reports is officially gone. You might reconsider to report those issues again. This data is being used “to find the top sites that are “broken” to help prioritize fixes to the browser.”"
- Ray Metzen
from Bookmarklet
“asks is their a working Greasemonkey script that increases the thumbnail size of Flickr images on Google Reader and FriendFeed?” - http://beta.friendfeed.com/e...
“asks how many greasemonkey scripts in Firefox is too much? As soon as I turn the addon off Firefox runs like a dream... so far” - http://friendfeed.com/e...
Mozilla received the official Guinness World Record certificate for the “largest number of software downloads in 24 hours.” - http://blog.mozilla.com/blog...
Note: Firefox 2.0.0.x will be maintained with security and stability updates until mid-December, 2008. All users are encouraged to upgrade to Firefox 3.
- LouCypher