Filed under: Internet, Utilities, Mozilla
Thumbstrips: remember where you've been
Let's set the scene for you: you're browsing the internet. You're surfing the web like you've never surfed before. You've got 12 different windows open, alt-tabbing (can that be a verb?) like it's going out of style. Empty non-descript cola (we don't play favorites) cans all around you. You may or may not be looking at pornography, but it's ok, we're not here to judge. So you're flying through all these sites, and you see something you like on one of the windows, and you go to minimize it so that you can cross-check something in another window (read: shut down the other classy clip you're watching), but instead of minimizing it, you accidentally SHUT DOWN THE WINDOW! What now? That page is lost forever! Sure, you could check the history, but you've been through hundreds of sites today, and it'll take you forever. And you obviously don't have time for that, you're a busy man.
Over-dramatized stories aside, it's a pain when you want to revisit a site in a window that you've closed. There's a cool new Firefox plug-in called Thumbstrips that takes care of this. It creates a filmstrip of screenshots of the sites you've visited, and allows you to revisit them, along with sharing them with others. Admit it, you need it. Go get it now. GO!
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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rauz said 2:47PM on 7-13-2007
Or, you know, just Undo Close Tab with Ctrl+Shift+T :)
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ezekielninuutsu said 2:44PM on 7-13-2007
Yeah, or you can use Opera browser, which is incredible and does that without any extensions, and is lighter and faster than firefox.
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alex said 7:13PM on 7-13-2007
Yeah, or you can use Opera browser, which is incredible and does that without any extensions, and is lighter and faster than firefox.
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Tony said 3:30PM on 7-13-2007
Meh, this is standard in Firefox and Opera, and also in several browsers for Linux. Yup, just one more reason to switch. lol
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1 said 2:45PM on 7-13-2007
whoever write this article is a noob :)
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Peter White said 2:46PM on 7-13-2007
"whoever write this article is a noob :)"
Best. Comment. Ever.
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Bryan Price said 5:15PM on 7-13-2007
The extension stinks. It was taking minutes (and 100% CPU) to get Firefox to close.
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Mysterius said 10:41PM on 7-13-2007
@alex: Or you could, you know, *not*, since Opera doesn't have scads of easy-to-install extensions like Firefox does, and which means Opera isn't as customizable.
Seriously, I love Opera (used it as my main browser for over a year), but once I learned to keep my number of extensions in Firefox under control, Opera was relegated to secondary browser.
My point is that there's no need to post (or copy) the *same* comment about Opera twice in comments for a *Firefox* article. Especially since the comment about Opera was already the first comment. ;)
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