One of the beauties of Firefox as a browser is the fact that you can tailor it to your own needs with a huge variety of plugins, extensions, add-ons – call them what you will. The choice in enormous but I have a favourite, do I ever have a favourite. I wish I could remember who told me about it because I owe that kind soul – big time! So what is this joyous thing that makes my life so easy, Cool Iris – cool by name and cool by nature.
What does it do, just hover over a link and a little white spyglass in a blue square pops up – click on that and you have a ‘window’ into the site without having to leave your original page. You can stack ‘windows’, print from them, work in them – pretty well most things. It is just the biggest time saver on the planet when you are doing research or just need to cast a quick eye over a site. I love it. I don’t waste countless hours cursing as I find my way back to the point I started from when I get sidetracked – which we all do. And it’s free!
Whoever it was who told me about it – Thank You a million times. To the guys at Cool Iris – you are the best! To the rest of you – go get it… click here
If you are one of those poor, benighted souls that still uses IE – you can get a version for that too – but do yourself a favour, switch to Firefox
