My main concern was the new tab bar – what the + sign was all about, and how it would impact on my standard way of opening new tabs, and closing them. In fact my concerns are somewhat alleviated – although you don’t get a close x for the first tab, it appears when more tabs are opened.
Tabs in Firefox 3.5
I have found overall that it has improved my browsing – I can click the + for a new tab, and with the Google Toolbar providing the 9 most popular pages I have visited recently, I can bring one of those up with one additional click. This added functionality gained by installing the latest Google Toolbar mimics one of the features found in Google’s own browser, Google Chrome.
Google Chrome is coming – today if the reports are right (US timezone though!)
What is Chrome? Google’s answer to Internet Explorer and Firefox to put it in a nutshell. It is pretty big news actually – too large to know the implications of this move at this stage, but the entry of a new, major internet browser is going to give a lot of IT people kittens I’m sure.
You can read more about it here, and a comic by Google about the decision, and the process they went through is available here, or as a downloadable pdf.
The web is a very dynamic place, with some web pages changing by the day, hour, or even minute. Constantly typing the in address of each of the sites you want to check (or at best clicking on a bookmark for each one) quickly becomes a chore.
There is a better way, as this short video details.
This add-on for Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari (ie it works under Windows and OSX) is a way of presenting images and videos in a new way that makes searching through a stack of images and videos very quick and easy.
It is using a similar concept to Cover-Flow in iTunes (and on the latest iPods) to present the images / video thumbnails that you can then zoom in on to get the higher resolutions.
Hard to explain in words – so watch the video and see just how powerful the web is becoming!
As an added bonus, you can also use PicLens to view directories of your own images.
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