2 great Google firefox extensions
I’m not sure how far behind the times I am, but I just discovered 2 really amazing and useful Firefox extensions from Google. They have 2 others, 1 of which I think is neat and 1 of which I’m not really interested in.
The two that impress me are Notebook and Google Sync. Both take advantage of your gmail account to store information on google’s servers. The Notebook extension allows you to save a note on any web page you are visiting. Highlight some text, right click and select “Note This” and the text you highlighted gets saved as a note with the link in the notebook. There are so many times when I want to make a note of a page I’m on. I either don’t, and forget about it. Or, I bookmark it and never look at it again. This is like a bookmark where you can remind yourself why you are bookmarking it. The really cool thing is that since it uses Google’s servers to store the info, you can check it from any computer. This leads to the functionality of Google Sync - this one saves your history, cookies, saved passwords and bookmarks (encrypted) on google’s servers. It syncs all these settings from as many computers as you have the extension installed on. Finally, I can bookmark something at home and have it show up at work… This is really cool.
The other extension is more midly interesting - it shows you any blog entries that link to the page you are currently viewing.
Source: http://samfw.blogspot.com/2006/11/2-great-google-firefox-extensions.html