Glen Scott - Keeping it simple, since 1977

Using Firefox 3 is really a different experience from using OS X. It’s not Windows, it’s not OS X and it’s not Linux. It’s something else.

• Firefox 3 brings Ugliness to the Mac
• Firefox 3 download

Today Yahoo are entering the world of Web desktops (”Webtops”) with BrowerPlus, a plugin for your browser that makes building rich applications a lot simpler.

Included is an example Flickr uploading application that allows you to drag and drop files from your desktop onto the browser.

BrowserPlus

Inquisitor is a fantastic search add-on for Safari, and it’s recently been updated to version 3. Basically, it enhances the Safari search box by suggesting results and allowing searches on sites other than Google. Pretty essential, I would say.

Inquisitor

It’s been about a year since I last looked at Flock, the “Social Web Browser”. In that time it’s matured into a very stable and useful application, perfect if you are into social networking and blogging. Some of the sites that it integrates with are:

• Facebook
• Flickr
• Twitter
• Youtube

Flock

To make it easier to navigate pages using the keyboard, go into Safari Preferences and under the Advanced tab, turn on “Press Tab to highlight each item on a webpage”. Now you can use tab to go forward through links and form elements on a page, and shift-tab to go backwards. Follow a highlighted link simply by pressing return.

Haven’t used the validator for a long time, I must confess, so was pleasantly surprised when I visited today and noticed a revamp:

The W3C Markup Validator Service

Okay, so it’s not the full-monty, but for general procrastination purposes it’s mighty fine:

stumbleupon.com/demo/

I happened to notice that Netscape have released version 9 of it’s browser. Does anyone still use this? The fact that Netscape will end all support for their browsers on 1st March makes this release seem completely pointless.

(Oh, and since when did the browser re-gain the “Navigator” suffix?)

Netscape Navigator 9