BuzzBox Fast Forward adds smarter "Stumbling" to Firefox

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BuzzBox Fast Forward adds smarter "Stumbling" to Firefox

by Lee Mathews Dec 1st 2008

First off, let me clarify: I'm not saying that StumbleUpon isn't a very complex, smartly built addon. It's just that I don't go stumbling off to a (somewhat) randomly selected site all the time. Sometimes I'd like walk a path that has been trodden by others searching for the same things I am.

Fast Forward by BuzzBox is an excellent alternative, suggesting possible destinations based on where other surfers clicked through. The addon installs as both a drop-down menu in the main toolbar and as a simple button in the status bar.

The dropdown presents the top destinations for you to choose from, while the status bar icon zips you off to the most popular one with a single click. Two other nice features of Fast Forward are its small size (the .xpi is only 69kb) and the fact that no registration is required.

There is a privacy policy that you may want to read - this is, after all, a recommendation engine and it needs to gather information about your browsing. According to the policy, "BuzzBox does not attempt to determine the identity of any BuzzBox user by analyzing Web usage paths. "

With only 245 total downloads from Mozilla's site, it's going to take a little while before you start seeing suggestions on every site you visit, but Fast Forward has tons of potential and is well worth a download.

[ via TechCrunch ]

Tags: addons, browsing, firefox, site-recommendation, suggestions

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Lars said 7:59AM on 12-02-2008

FastForward is just a total ripoff of linkaround.net

Lee Mathews said 8:00AM on 12-02-2008

Really? They were founded in May 2008, and Linkaround didn't register until June.

Either way, FF is for Firefox, Linkaround is for IE.

Toufique said 2:17PM on 12-07-2008

It's funny how surprisingly similar this looks to our More button functionally. If you like this concept, you should definitely try our search enhancement at http://www.youlicit.com/download/

We've been aggregating data for a couple of years now, and we generate results w/o requiring a large userbase. So I think you'll be pleasantly surprised with our recommendations. Would love to hear what you think.

Thanks!

Toufique
http://www.youlicit.com/

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