I just heard the sad news… Xmarks, my favorite bookmark synchronization service, will be discontinued in January of 2011. This has been one of my most important and reliable add-ons for several years, and am not looking forward to searching for a replacement. To learn more about this decision, please read the Xmarks Blog » End of the Road for Xmarks. If you find a replacement that you like, please share it here!

In my opinion, one of the strengths of Firefox as a web browser is the number of  add-ons that can be installed to make the browsing experience more effective and efficient. I am a fan of anything that makes my life easier, so I have explored, installed and tested a lot of add-ons and discovered many that I like. I share them with colleagues when I can but was looking for an easier way to [...]

For those of you, like me, who love to use Firefox, here are some cheat sheets that you might find helpful. Enjoy! Firefox Keyboard and Mouse Shortcuts Source: AccessFirefox.org Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts Tri-fold Source: CHRISdotTODD Mozilla Firefox Cheat Sheet Source: Leslie Franke

While teaching a graduate class on integrating technology into classroom instruction last week, one of the participants asked me how they could take a screen shot of a web site for a project. I know that both Mac OS and Windows XP have screen shot commands, but my answer was FireShot. FireShot is a Firefox extension that creates screen shots of web pages. You can choose if you want the whole page or just part [...]

I just upgraded to Firefox 3 and have been pleased with the browser so far. But there has been one thing that really bothered me – the Send Link… command didn’t work! Since I share a lot of web resources with others, the ability to quickly send a web site is essential. Fortunately, I found a post by Mark Russell on a Firefox Google Group with directions for fixing this problem: In Firefox, type “about:config” [...]

I was working with a small group of teachers recently when the topic of F Keys came up. Since I like to play, I spent some time testing the F Keys in Firefox to see what they would do. Here is what I discovered… F1 – Will display the Firefox Help window. If you have a question or want to learn more about Firefox, this is a good place to start. F3 – Opens the [...]

I have always used multiple computers but only recently has the need to access my bookmarks from different computers become critical. Previously I would export my bookmarks from Firefox on one computer and transfer and upload the file to the next computer. Although it was not a complicated process for me, it was time consuming and I am all about efficiency. Also, the constant copying and uploading presented the danger of moving the wrong file [...]

I frequently scour the ‘Net for resources that I can use or share with other teachers, such as lesson plans, tutorials, instructional examples, etc. Recently, I was on the web trolling for more good stuff when I arrived at a page with lots of great documents in pdf format. I located the first document I wanted to download started to save the file. When that one was done, I moved on to the next, and [...]