Firefox Gear !

Firefox Gear !

It's a kinda range with non-superstitious-internet-geeks to flag a getfirefox banner in web pages, portfolios, support forums, RSS feeds etc.,. Seems they've taken a public oath to spread firefox like a wild fire ! It's true and agreeable in the era of Ajax & rapid Rich internet applications, where IE still sucks to the core in handling them. But surely there're loyal followers of IE. Most of the applications and web based UI's are preferably meant for IE only. Conventionals are those who're blessed ! ( Old is gold-proverb is strictly prohibited in the context of browsers ! ;)

Since, web is under heavy metamorphosis both in presentation & speed, the need of the hour is updated version of IE in tandem with W3C recommendations. I'm still wondering, with such a tight & monopolistic business model, what cause MicroSoft to be stagnant in updating Internet Explorer. After loosing significant portion of user ratio to Mozilla FF, IE has finally woken up to update its version to beta 7 for xp service pack2 OS, it's out for developers review.CSS2 is a rage, and w3C is on anvil to roll out CSS3 recommendations in very short span of time. It's hightime for MS to come up with stable, secure & CSS supportive browser rendering engine since major ratio of conventional users still depend on it or atleast to counter the wildfire firefox !

Since the inception I'm kinda addicted to Firefox ( A compact, lithe browser available on planet ;) In less than 2 years it has seen 7 builds !. I think firefox experience is obsolete without extensions & themes attatched to strippped version. In the era of customization, Firefox surpassed its peers allowing user community in creation of extendable plugins which flexes FF to esteem level of browsing experience.

My favorite list of extensions for Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1 :

• Deli.cio.us (Open Source social bookmarking service)
  
• Web Developer (a toolbar with various web developer tools)
  
• IE Tab (Embedding Internet Explorer in tabs of Mozilla/Firefox)
  
• SessionSaver (Restores browser -exactly- as you left , every startup)
  
• Downthemall ( Downloader, but i use IDM v5.2)
• Flashblock (Blocks swf in frames, iframes and standalone Flash swf files)
  
• Adblock ( content filtering plug-in )
  
• Aardvark (CSS Developer tool)
  
• stylish (To manage CSS rules to change the appearance of web sites)
  
• MyStickies (To place sticky notes all over the web and organize them)
  
• PDF Download (To view a PDF file inside the browser, as PDF or HTML)
  
• Sage ( For RSS feeds)
  
• Deepest Sender ( Blogging extension)

My current FF theme:

Whiteheart ( simple & clean: the way i like it !)