If you use FireFox on a regular basis you have probably run into the problem where a website will not display or work properly unless you view it with Internet Explorer. Once the cursing has subsided you probably reluctantly open up IE and resign yourself to using “the browser that shall not be named”. There is a solution to this problem, the IE Tabs Add-On.
After installation, IE tabs allows you display a page in FireFox with the Internet Explorer rendering engine. I have tested it out on three or four sites I frequent (designed for IE) and they have worked/displayed perfectly. You can even specify which sites you want to launch in the IE rendering mode. IE Tabs is also useful for developers as you can see what your page/blog will look like in IE and FireFox without opening up another browser.
Xmarks is a plug in I wrote about a while ago (see Xmarks post here) and offers a great way to synchronize your bookmarks across multiple computers.
Are there any FireFox plugins/add ons you have found useful?
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Just curious, but have you played around with Google Chrome at all? If so, how do you think it stacks up against IE and FireFox?
I use Google Chrome quite a bit at work and like it a lot but all of the add ons and plugins for FireFox still make it my favorite. I like both Chrome and FireFox more than IE. What do you use?