Philoking.comfrom Jason Burns’ perspective…

If you have a bunch of bookmarks meticulously organized on one computer like I do, it’s more trouble than it’s worth to get them all singing the same tune on multiple PCs.

Firefox has an extensive plugin library and you have probably noticed me reviewing several of them over the last little bit. Foxmarks is the latest and it’s super slick.

Once you install the plugin, and create an account, simply install the plugin anywhere you want it, choose your sync settings, and login. Now your bookmarks are everywhere. It’s simple, elegant and works.

http://www.foxmarks.com

Via Lifehacker

If the digital photo you just uploaded looks washed out on Flickr compared to in your desktop image editor, that’s because Firefox 3’s advanced color profile support isn’t turned on. To enable it, type about:config in Firefox 3’s address bar, then click the "I’ll be careful, I promise!" button. Then, in the Filter field, type gfx.color_management.enabled and set that value to true (its default value is false). Restart Firefox. From there on in, your photo colors will be richer than they were. Why isn’t this value true by default? Well, according to Mozilla, you’ll see a 10-15% performance hit using this setting, but if you’ve got a reasonably fast machine, it’ll be worth the better-looking photos. Hit the link below for an extended explanation of Firefox’s color profile support.

Firefox 3: Color profile support (oh the pretty, pretty colors) [dria.org via Joi Ito via Xeni Jardin]

These days you can find just about anything you need with a quick trip to Google. While making my rounds of the feeds I follow, I thought it would be useful for Firefox to have a right-click context menu that allows you to search the selected text to keep from having to select, copy, open a new tab, paste the query and hit enter. Not that it takes a whole lot of time, but this is about productivity right?

So in my quick search I found a browser plugin called Hyperwords. I would probably call Hyperwords a Swiss Army context menu. It’s extremely flexible and highly configurable.

The menu options are split into search, references, translations and conversions. Beyond your usual search engines, which was my intended purpose, I found a great deal more usability for sites like wikipedia, imdb, dictionary, thesaurus, etc.

When you have selected numbers, you get conversions for currency, temperature, weight, distance, volume and speed. With a simple right click in a search box on other sides you can add them to the menu as well.

At first install, it takes over your top right search box, which I personally disabled, but the configuration is nearly endless. It’s a quick painless install and makes your research browsing much more pleasant. I highly recommend the download.