Sarah

I have added the ‘Hyperwords‘ extension to firefox and it has made browsing the web and information finding even easier. You can click on any text in on web page, and find information out instantly wiithout searching in google or opening up a new tab, Say I click on the word “Alaska”, the pop-up menu brings it up instantly in wikipedia, google, a dictionary, a map, photos in flickr. You can also translate in page into a variety of different languages and currencies.

You can highlight a word on the page and it will highlight every other instance of the word.

In the settings, you can add your own commands. you can enter in your delicious and wordpress accounts and set up to send urls instanly to a specific email.

One command I found especially efficient, but is not set by default, is the ‘Auto content’. You click on the far left of any page and it indexes the content for you, and acts as achor links.

Lots of other features, too, and customizable.