Posts Tagged ‘firefox’

Firefox extensions for research

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

One of the benefits of using the Firefox browser is the wealth of creative extensions contributed by the community to make you more productive on the web. Legal blogger Benson Varghese gives his top 20 in two parts:

  • Part I: Find what you’re looking for
  • Part II: Save, Organize, Annotate, and Cite Your Search Results.

Toolbars need more than 0MB of cache for Firefox install

Friday, March 28th, 2008

If you’re a Firefox user having trouble installing one of the JEFFLINE toolbars, check the cache settings under the Network tab of the Advanced options. The install may fail if it’s set to 0. Try increasing it to 50 and restarting Firefox before installing.

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Toolbars provide a quick search of library resources like the catalog, journal list, Access Medicine, etc. without having to come to the JEFFLINE website. Here’s a demo.

Thanks to Mike for reporting this.