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Start Google Plus Combines Google+ with Facebook and Twitter [Downloads]

Start Google Plus is a great extension for Chrome and Firefox that lets you update Twitter and Facebook from within Google+, also adding feeds from both social networks onto your main page. We mentioned it in our Facebook to Google+ migration guide, but felt it deserved to be highlighted on its own because it’s so useful. More »







Start Google Plus Combines Google+ with Facebook and Twitter [Downloads]

Start Google Plus is a great extension for Chrome and Firefox that lets you update Twitter and Facebook from within Google+, also adding feeds from both social networks onto your main page. We mentioned it in our Facebook to Google+ migration guide, but felt it deserved to be highlighted on its own because it’s so useful. More »







Scrollbar Search Highlighter Colorizes Firefox’s Scrollbar when You Search on a Web Page [Downloads]

Firefox: If you use Ctrl+F to sift through long web pages often, Scrollbar Search Highliter saves you from constantly clicking “next” by highlighting, on the scrollbar, where every instance of a word is found, Google Chrome-style. More »







Widen the Active Tab in Firefox to Make It Easier to Read [Firefox]

Opening a lot of tabs in Firefox can compress them so small that you don’t know what each one is. This CSS tweak will enlarge the active tab, so you can at least always see what page you’re working on. More »







Set Bookmarks to Open in a New Tab [URL Hacks]

If you have a few sites that you visit particularly often but you want them to open up in a new tab every time you visit them, reader Java-Princess shows us how to make them do so. More »







CueThat Adds Netflix Movies to Your Queue from Any Web Page [Downloads]

All Browsers: Say you’re reading an article, tweet or review of a movie online and want to add it to your Netflix queue. With CueThat, all you need to do is select the movie title and hit the bookmarklet or extension. More »







Exclude Spammy Sites from Google with This Custom Search Engine [Search Tip]

We’ve shown you how to create site-specific search engines in Chrome and Firefox, and reader isaaclyman reminds us you can also use that to exclude spammy sites from your search results. More »







InvisibleHand Alerts You When It Finds Cheaper Airfare [Downloads]

Browser extension InvisibleHand has long been great at subtly showing you the best prices for product searches, but now it can suggest cheaper alternatives when searching for airfare as well. More »







Bookmark Bar Switcher Lets You Cycle Through Multiple Bookmark Bars in Chrome [Downloads]

Chrome: While there are a lot of ways to save space in your browser’s constantly space-starved bookmark bar, extension Bookmark Bar Switcher lets you have multiple lists of shortcuts that you can cycle through whenever you want. More »







Perfect Browser Adds Tabs, Gestures, and More to iOS, Is the Ultimate iPad Browser [Downloads]

iOS: Safari is an okay browser on the iPhone, but it’s surprisingly unsatisfactory on the much larger-screened iPad. Perfect Browser completely changes the iOS browsing experience, bringing tabbed browsing, user agent control, touch screen gestures, and hyper fast scrolling to your fingertips. More »







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