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Andre’s mentions dumping Google Chrome because of lack of extension support, especially Ubiquity, and lists 15 useful Ubiquity commands. If you haven’t seen Ubiquity, you should. It’s a great extension that transforms your browser into an Internet command prompt. It is modelled on the Enso Launcher, which is a great piece of work by itself. I wasn’t quite prepared to let go of Chrome that easily. On Task Manager, seeing 10 Chrome processes, the largest of which takes up 60MB, is a lot more comforting, psychologically, than 1 Firefox process taking up 300MB. (I rarely hit my 1GB RAM limit, so it shouldn’t matter either way. Yet, the spendthrift in me keeps watching.) ...

Using the Google Browser Sync extension for Firefox, you can access your bookmarks, tabs, history, saved passwords and cookies from any machine. You can browse from office, go back home, and continue browsing where you left off. Gina Trapani of Lifehacker says Google Browser Sync is not a privacy risk after all.

Reducing your memory usage in Firefox.

If you move the mouse over a link, a popup appears, showing the most popular tags on del.icio.us for the link. Click on the tag to visit all related links on del.icio.us. Comments Sathish 15 Apr 2005 3:56 am: What is this post related to? Did try out the new “big del.icio.us post” script? or are you talking of something else? S Anand 15 Apr 2005 4:02 am: If you move your mouse over any of my blog posts, a tooltip pops up. Did you notice? Sathish 18 Apr 2005 5:05 am: I notice it now.. I notice it on the right hand side corner of the page.. I am using firefox to view.. is it how u planned to show it or is there a problem? S Anand 18 Apr 2005 6:03 am: Looks like a problem. I will check it out. sathish 20 Apr 2005 3:59 am: it works now..

lickr: Flickr, without the Flash. Flickr is a popular photo hosting service that uses embedded Flash files as part of their interface. On every page, there will be a little delay while a new Flash file loads. Lickr removes the need for Flash. It runs within the web browser Firefox, stripping the Flash before the user can even see it, and replacing it with an equivalent interface in pure HTML and Javascript. ...

Firefox prefetches Google results.

When I use the URL http://www.geocities.com/root_node/?200531 to view my site, it doesn’t show the Yahoo! ad bar on the right. But when I use any other number, like http://www.geocities.com/root_node/?200530, or load it plain, like http://www.geocities.com/root_node, it doesn’t work. I suspect the 200531 is related to today’s date (2005 Mar 31), that it changes every day, and that this feature is used by one of Firefox’s ad blockers. Comments Jetru 31 Mar 2005 9:15 am: Cool! Jetru 31 Mar 2005 9:25 am: Hey, your search searches the html. S Anand 1 Apr 2005 3:51 am: It does use dates. On April 1, I have to use 20051 instead of 200531 S Anand 1 Apr 2005 3:52 am: Yes, Jetru – the search box does a regular expression search of all HTML