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Thumbstrips - great way to see and track your search results
ThumbStrips is a Firefox add-on which allows you to see your search results in the form of a filmstrip at the bottom of your screen. This is way handy since the alternative is peeling your eyes on your history view and stabbing at a string of single line text results, which for whatever reason, don't get you what you were looking for.
When you download ThumbStrips, it loads an icon in your toolbar and your status bar. When you want to start using ThumbStrips, you just click on the icon and it will load.
While it doesn't take a lot of page space, you can hide ThumbStrips (and it will still record your search results) by clicking an arrow icon. You can also press a button to make ThumbStrips stop recording your search results (which will keep it a little more private).
There's a way to share your ThumbStrips on the web -- just choose the "share on innovation.intuit.com" option when you save a ThumbStrip, and then anyone with a web browser can see what you saw and saved.
ThumbStrips has a tendency to slow down Gmail, as well as some other Ajax sites. There is a quick fix for Gmail by going to https://www.gmail.com/ instead of http://www.gmail.com/. It's a nice little work-around, since ThumbStrips ignores secure sites (https instead of http), and because Google allows you to see Gmail both securely and unsecurely. While you're there, you can update your bookmarks to do the same.
Developed by Intuit's Innovation Labs (think Quickbooks), ThumbStrips system requirements are Firefox 2.0 or later, PC or Mac.
Download and let us know what you think of Thumbstrips - thumbs up or down?
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Joel McKinley said 3:29PM on 6-14-2007
Looked interesting, but did not work when I tried it. I guess it has issues with another F.F. extension, and as I have no plans to lose any of them. I am afraid I uninstalled. Hopefully further releases will address these issues. Then as Schwarzenegger says " I'll be back! "
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HollyS said 6:12AM on 6-18-2007
Joel - Do you have an idea which FF extension was affected? We'd like to troubleshoot and see if there is an issue going on...
Thanks,
Holly - iLab
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