This is similar to HandyFind, but it adds a toolbar with buttons for additional features. As you type into the Find box, the next occurrence of the word or phrase is highlighted. You can highlight all occurrences and match the case.
Opera has long had the ability to respond to the flick of the mouse and it’s a handy way to access common functions. This utility adds the capability to IE. You can even define your own mouse gestures and assign actions to them.
Google Notebook for Firefox lets you browse the web and store useful bits of information that you come across. Just right-click text, images or links and add them to the notebook. You can make notes, label them, organise them and so on.
It’s frustrating when your web browsing gets interrupted and you need to go and do something else. This handy utility lets you save your browsing session in Internet Explorer so that your windows and tabs reappear just as before. You can also carry sessions on a USB flash memory drive.
It’s easy to close a tab in Internet Explorer and then realise it’s the wrong one or that there was something you wanted to see on the page. Install this add-on and you can just press Alt+X to reopen the tab. It’s simple but useful and remembers up to 200 tabs. You can view the tab history, clear it, and even see thumbnail images of the tabs you have recently closed.
Although IE7 added a search box to the top-right hand corner of the browser window, this isn’t as convenient as Firefox’s built-in search-alike to IE, which lets you quickly search a web page for a word or phrase.
Clipmarks lets you gather, store and share text, photos and videos you find on websites in the form of ‘clips’. It’s available for Firefox and Internet Explorer, and has an online community that lets you view and comment on other users’ clips.
This add-on lets you download and save videos from YouTube, Google Video, Metacafe and other online sources. It works with IE, Firefox and Opera - simply right-click the video on the web page and choose the download option from the menu.
Zamzar converts a wide range of files from one format to another. When viewing video on sites such as YouTube, Google video, Metacafe, MySpace, Revver and others, click the Zamzar button in the toolbar to convert the clip and save it to your hard disk. It’s compatible with IE, Firefox and Safari.
This lightweight, easy-to-use download manager integrates with both IE and Firefox. It lets you schedule, pause and resume downloads, scan files for viruses, and shut down your PC automatically once downloading is complete.