Cool Firefox Extensions

This past weekend, I downloaded and installed two very cool extensions for Firefox. The more I use Firefox, the cooler it gets, honestly.The first is the Colorful Tabs extension, shown to me by the very intelligent and tech-savvy Nikki Kauffman. This extension gives different colors to each successive tab you've opened in the browser, allowing you to find where you were by color as well as by title. The other neat thing it does is it renders the new tab in italics until you've visited that tab. Nice feature. It is very useful for people who are visual in their approach to things, as well as people who are into color-coding.

The second extension only works on Windows, but it is also very VERY useful. It's called IETabs, and it allows you to open an IE page from within Firefox itself. It works because the IE code is part of the operating system. You can view pages as they would appear in IE, and even run pages that are only "usually" available and working in IE right within Firefox. For example, I was able to launch and play Toontown (Active X controls required) without ever touching IE. I also finally was able to pay my Verizon Wireless bill online without switching browsers (there is usually an error on my PC in Firefox when submit time comes).

Both extensions can be found at https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions.php