Posted on 05/22/2012 9:18:49 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Been using Chrome as my primary browser for a couple years - since going to W7. Works great. Faster than the others and never crashes or has performance issues. Even managed to switch my wife on an old XP pc to Chrome - the performance improvements over IE8 were enough that I could postpone upgrading for another year. Not sure if anyone needs chrome though if all you’re using is FR - this site seems stuck in 1996 ;-)
One of my favorite extensions/add-ons is called AutoCopy. Just highlight the text and it is copied. Used in conjunction with a clipboard history app like Yankee Clipper to save up to 200 clipboard entries...it is indispensable.
Yes, AutoCopy is useful, and was included in my extn links, although what is missing among freeware for Windows is an autopaste feature. Years ago i came across the best replacement for WordPad, called TextShield (written by a teenage Christian), and it had it, but on my PC the autopaste feature does not work right under XP, and it is no longer supported.. http://download.cnet.com/TextShield/3000-2079_4-13288.html
But i forgot one of the most useful FF extns, SessionManager: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/session-manager/
You can save multiple sessions.
I have also used Yankee Clipper, but due to the limit i used http://clipdiary.com/ and http://ditto-cp.sourceforge.net/
Another neat app is PhoneTrayFree (http://www.phonetray.com/phonetrayfree.htm) It uses CalledID if you have it, and a modem to tell you who is calling, which you can keep as a record, and also zap telemarketers.
And AutoHotKey is very useful for launching services and apps, even web sites, etc. http://www.autohotkey.com/
I remapped my CapsLock key to ctrl+c, and Esc to ctrl+v, and NumLock to Esc, among other tweaks
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