[Applications] Tabs in IE Now

Foixe is a plug-in for Internet Explorer that has been designed with two things in mind. Firstly they want to give IE the look and feel of Firefox , so to do this they have added Tabs, a Search Bar and GroupMarks to IE.  The search bar uses the AskJeeves search engine and I saw no quick way to change this to google.

Secondly they describe Foxie as a Complete Privacy, Security and Productivity Suite with Ad Blocking, Popup blocking, Flash blocking, Privacy Cleaner, Firewall, Spyware remover etc etc.

It will be interesting to see if this will take off.  I personally use the open source browser Firefox and really like it, its simple clean functional and with Firefox Extensions fully customisable. It also runs on Windows, OS-X and Linux.

If you have not tried Firefox then you should definitely give it a try.  In Firefox you use extensions to add extra functionality.  Here are a list of the main extensions I use:

• BugMeNot – A simple right click brings up this menu option which will check the BugMeNot database for a known username and password for the current site, this is great for sites like Time Magazine which often require you to sign up to see the full article but offer free logins. 
• Sage – A great way to stay on top of all your blogs you check.  When you visit your blogs and favourite websites you can check them for RSS and Atom Feeds. Sage can then be manually refreshed or automatically configured to go and check these sites for you and will conveniently show you in bold any of the sites that have been updated since your last visit.  This save having to visit a site just to check for any new content.  Sage is also a reader and will display the feeds for you.
• IE View– This provides a right-click menu option which opens the page up in Internet Explorer.  Some websites are developed with poor coding standards and are better viewed in IE this helps with that.
• Image Zoom – This provides a right-click menu option which you can zoom in and out of images in a page.
• AdBlock – A customisable Ad Blocker
• BlogJetThis – I want to write more about BlogJet and this extension in another article

Those are the most common extensions I use.  On writing this article I notice that there are a lot of new extensions on Firefox Extensions Top Rated page so I must go see what is new.  But let me know what are your must have extensions for Firefox.