Google Preview is a plugin for firefox that adds a screenshot of the search results next to the links on the google results pages. I think it's one of the better plugins for firefox. You can grab it here. Just thought I'd share this neat little addition that makes google that much better.

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firefox .... google .... fashions of 2004 ... lol
I tried Firefox ... and I am truly trying to figure out is it the HATE TO IE that makes Firefox better or is it really better ? as far as I know after Windows SP2 , I don't see any particular reason to switch to another browser , except for Tabbed browsing and few other things i dont use .

My current favorite ( for over a year and half now ) is Maxthon ( Formerly MyIE2 ) it's built on IE but it's much much more advanced and better , put all those Firefox features add a hundred thousand more + plugins and skins all come in one less than 3 mb package .

thanks but no thanks , Maxthon is my browser .
that netscape gecko thing u ppl using aint for me .

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Of course, if you already have a good browser, why switch?

But I had IE for all my life, until half a year ago someone gave me the link to FF. I tried it once or twice, but quickly got irritated becuz i couldn't get something like 'links' on the adress bar, etc.

I dropped and went on with IE, but I really got annoyed by the fact that some pics wouldn't load and the page crashed, things like that. So I thought i'd give FF another try.

After i got used to it and learnt the h-keys, it became my favourite browser, and i didn't try anything else cuz I'm happily browsing now. It's not that I hate IE, I still use it next to FF!

Each of the browsers has their pro's and con's and we have to live with it... or design a brwoser that fits our needs.

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I wasn't really sharing this to brag on firefox or anything but I see where you're coming from, it's hard to read anything on the internet now without being told to use firefox. I'm also have other reasons to use firefox. I work for the oncampus support for the internet at my school and the first thing I do on most computers I work on is put firefox on there, even if I'm removing it later. The machines I work on usually have ridiculous amounts of spyware and crazy plugins and searchbars for IE. It makes my job a lot easier if I just put on firefox. Firefox is more secure than IE, but if you don't do stupid things IE shouldn't be a problem. I myself use it because of the tabbed browsing, I hate it when I have like 7 tasks in my taskbar and a tabbed browser can help a lot. I used to use MyIE2 but when I heard about firefox, I tried it out and liked it a lot. Firefox is also open source and I'm a huge fan of open source projects. Sorry to rant about this, it's all personal preference in the end, so I hope your happy with whatever you're using and I apologize for ranting so long about firefox again.

 

 

 

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Cool looks neat, i wont try it as im happy to hit every link or open a new tab for them, but can anyone vouch for how useful it is or is it a hog of speed for nothing or does it do what its supposed to do? I hate installing plugins that dont do what there suppsoed to do, or ones that are badly coded, ive made a search plugin though and its pretty easy, anyone else done anything?

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Wow, that plugin looks great! Thanks for telling me that!!!

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