Hans Across The Interwebs

Yesterday I posted a small notes about the all new Safari 3.1 and why I won’t be using it. Then I received a comment from Doug Richardson, telling me he wrote a Del.icio.us plugin for Safari. Now let me tell you why I won’t be using that.

Reason one: it costs $10. Seriously. (”Get a license and get rid of that stupid reminder”). Well, maybe if you’re a serious Safari guy, you’re stuck with it. And it doesn’t sync, though you can upload your Safari bookmarks.

There is an alternative for the price of free called delicious2safari. It does sync your Safari bookmarks. It was last updated in 2006 though, so it may not work for you.

There’s also a few more generic OSX programs for delicious. They don’t integrate directly, though a smart applescripter could go a long way with that. They’re called Cocoalicious and Pukka. I like Cocoalicious myself and use it a lot for posting to Del.icio.us when I’m not in the browser.

But now for the meat of this post: why is the firefox plugin so cool and awesome. In short: I’ve never bookmarked so quickly and easily, and I’ve never found/recalled old bookmarks so quickly and easily.

Here’s why:

• A big, and easy to find “TAG” button that quickly allows you to post to delicious.
• Complete integration with the Del.icio.us database by suggesting tags that have already been used for this page. This really speeds up your posting.



• Perhaps most importantly, there is the del.icio.us side bar. It features a great search function that works instantaneously on your tags. So if you tag well, you will always find your bookmarks. After all, you made the bookmark so you could go there again.



• Also in the sidebar, you can order your bookmarks in different ways, like ‘last added’, ‘by site’, ‘most visited’, ‘last visited’. A great way to quickly get to your top used bookmarks, for instance.

  

Another reason to Get Firefox.

The Browsers Wars are back in a big way. Wait, no they’re not: no one is using Safari. Supposedly though, it’s really fast, as illustrated by this video:

Which is nice for Apple and for all 78 users of Safari, but I’ve become completely reliant on a few of my Firefox plugins. So I couldn’t switch, even if I wanted to:

• My bookmarks are on http://del.icio.us, through their awesome delicious bookmarks plug in
• I’m at different offices a lot, and I’d be nowhere without Foxyproxy for quickly switching proxy servers to get Internet access.
• And of course AdBlock: creator of the totally easy on the eyes web experience.
• Lastly, there’s DownThemAll, a download manager which I might theoretically use if I wanted to download, say, a list of MP3’s with non-copyrighted materials from a legal download service.

I tried it out too and I must say: I concur. Now update my damn plugins so I can switch already.

- Adblock
- Del.icio.us
- Google toolbar

The 1password plugin already works! Props to them.

iTWire - Firefox 3 Beta 1 is a winner: “Last night I downloaded the latest beta release from Mozilla, Firefox 3 Beta 1, meaning to just have a look-see so that I could pen a few impressions. Since then, I haven’t bothered to load up Firefox 2 because, even though it’s a pre-production test version, Firebox 3 Beta 1 is a mighty fine browser.”