Use StumbleUpon in any web browser without installing a toolbar

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Use StumbleUpon in any web browser without installing a toolbar

by Brad Linder Feb 11th 2008

StumbleUpon is a web discovery service that makes it easy to find cool and interesting web sites. All you have to do is install a browser toolbar and start hitting the "stumble" button whenever you're bored. The service also begins to get a sense of your tastes as you give various pages a thumbs up or down.

But there's at least one problem with StumbleUpon: There're no toolbar for Opera, Safari, or any web browsers besides Internet Explorer and Firefox. So what's a bored Opera users to do? Well, fortunately StumbleUpon has a nifty demo feature that lets you stumble pages using a virtual toolbar. All you have to do is enter http://www.stumbleupon.com/demo/#url= into your browser's URL window, and then add the site that you want to start at. For example, http://www.stumbleupon.com/demo/#url=http://www.downloadsquad.com/.

You should now see a virtual toolbar with all the features of the regular StumbleUpon toolbar. But since this is just a demo, you can't actually vote on sites or submit new sites. And there's no way to enter your account information. But you can hit the stumble button as many times as you like.

[via Digital Inspiration]

Tags: firefox, internet-explorer, opera, safari, stumbleupon, toolbar

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

David Chartier said 7:24PM on 2-11-2008

Have the not heard of bookmarklets yet? Do we need to send them a "Javascript and Frames for dummies" book?

dre said 7:45PM on 2-11-2008

WHY IS IT THAT ONLY IE AND OPERA offer a good web browser for windows mobile smartphones. no touch screen! every new beta even the mini mo from firefox is for touchscreens. any suggestions?

Comacozi said 7:54PM on 2-11-2008

Oh yeah.. and there is a limit.

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