Monday, October 8, 2007

Grab and Drag

Firefox extensions are what keep me from using Safari. I love the look and feel, not to mention the speed, that Safari has over Firefox on a Mac, but the extensions just get me. Here's what I mean...

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Although Safari has wonderful RSS support that Firefox couldn't hold a match to, I just can't have my Facebook bar with buttons for sharing links or getting notifications when someone messages me. I can't have a built in downloader that works like a dream (DownThemAll!). I can't have the weather forecast(ForecastFox Enhanced) in my status bar for me to check at any time. I sure as hell can't use StumbleUpon features, or even my latest addition... Grab and Drag.
Grab and Drag This extension lets you physically drag the screen up and down just like how the iPhone uses multi-touch. You can even turn on momentum features so when you drag and let go the screen will keep going and slow down to a stop with a friction that you set. You can alter how and where Grab and Drag works, for instance you can set it up so that whenever you click and drag only where there are no links or text the screen will move with the curser, this way when you highlight text the screen won't move around on you. So if you fancy Firefox, check this out and you'll find yourself trying to scroll with ease in tons of other applications wishing the feature was available there too!

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