Soon, Keyur and I will be unveiling a Mozilla switch page. We're hoping to target IE users much like Apple has targeted Windows users. I don't know if our page will be as snazzy as their campaign, since they have a somewhat bigger budget than we do. I do guarantee you this: Switching from IE to Mozilla will make the browsing aspect of your life much better. And we all know how important browsing is.
Until then, Mozilla users (2/3 of the visitors to my site) can feast on these cool little add ons:
(credit to Keyur on this one) Ever wanted to quickly look up a word in a dictionary or spell check text from a web page or form? It's not too difficult to copy what you need, find the appropriate bookmark, and paste, then click, but here's a little trick you can use to cut two steps out of that. Highlight the word below, and then click on the lookup link. (hit back to come back afterwards...)
amortize
The neat part is that you can bookmark that link. Anytime you highlight some text and go to the bookmark, it'll take you straight to the lookup for that word at The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Also if you just need to type a word and look it up, leave the page unhighlighted, and then it'll popup with a box for you to enter text into. It doesn't work with text highlighted in forms, so you'll have to copy the text and place it in the Javascript popup.
You can also do the same for spell checking a word or phrase at spellcheck.net by highlighting this text and using the link below. (It only catches the first misspelled word.)
a mispelled word.
Finally you can make it ultraconvenient by placing the bookmark on your personal toolbar for easy access. Hope you guys enjoy this tip, I love it and use it all the time. Even while writing this post...
Posted by ramk at April 18, 2003 10:09 PM