Google Firefox Extensions
June 8th, 2006
Google Browser Sync
Google Browser Sync is an official Firefox extension from Google which was released yesterday.
"Google Browser Sync for Firefox is an extension that continuously synchronizes your browser settings – including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords – across your computers. It also allows you to restore open tabs and windows across different machines and browser sessions."
The extension could be useful if you have a laptop and a desktop or you often use Firefox at work, school and home and want to maintain one browsing session between them.
It stores all your browsing session data at Google but Google claims that if you provide a PIN, nobody can read that information without your PIN code - not even Google.
A bit like Session Saver but works for your whole profile.
Googlepedia
This looks like an interesting extension. It splits your Google results page into two columns - the left hand side displaying your search results and the right hand side displaying the result from Wikipedia.
Oh, it removes Google Adwords too. Get it at Mozilla Add-ons.
Via Google Blogoscoped.
CustomizeGoogle
CustomizeGoogle is a brilliant extension. It’s an outgrowth of Mark Pilgrim’s Butler Greasemonkey Script. CustomizeGoogle can do all kinds of things with Google - adding Suggest to the search box, removing adverts, anonymizing your Google User ID (so Google can’t track you), removing click tracking, filtering spam sites, use Gmail over https, make links in Google Images link direct to the image, remove copying restrictions on Google Book Search, and more.
It’s all customizable so you can turn stuff off and on and off again. Everyone who uses Google should use this, even if it’s just to rewrite links in image search and to protect your privacy.