firefox browser and the scrapbook plugin
It’s probably obvious from the title of this post that I’m a Mozilla Firefox user. Actually, I use both Firefox and Internet Explorer 7 because I have a few custom applications that don’t run 100% right on Firefox. I think it’s ridiculous that software developers let this happen. I think over 40% of people now use Firefox (I don’t have the data to confirm that statement available right now). When I do use Internet Explorer, it seems my anti-virus software is always catching some sort of attack on my system. When I run Firefox, that just does not happen. It’s a much safer surfing environment.
One of the nice features about Firefox is that you can customize it with plug-ins. I’ve found a few I like and I want to let you know about one in particular today. It’s called Scrapbook. With the Scrapbook plug-in, you can save web pages on your computer. This is NOT the same a bookmarking. The software actually saves the page and you can view it when you are offline. It saves links within the pages as well, but of course you need to be connected to the internet for the links to work.
It wasn’t long ago that I was flying home from Virginia and I saved a bunch of pages before I departed for the airport. Then later, when I was on the plane, I was able to pull up the pages using Scrapbook and read them. That was cool.
The way I use Scrapbook is to save pages that I want to look at later but may not want to keep permanently. I also save pages that are valuable to me and I want to preserve them in case the site goes down or the page is removed.
You can do much more with this software that I haven’t even played around with. I know you can delete any part of the saved page you don’t want and I’m pretty sure you can highlight and change formatting of the page.
I highly recommend downloading this plug-in for Firefox, and by all means give Firefox a try if you are still stuck with Internet Explorer.
If anybody knows about other awesome Firefox plug-ins, I hope you’ll leave a comment. Thanks.
Tags: firefox, Marketing Tools, mozilla
