20 Mozilla Firefox Extensions for Doctors !
Firefox is more than a browser as if we calculate the time we uses the computer in , we may find its the most used application we use so far , its also the portal for the user and the services he uses , regarding this mission , firefox has great extending capability for extending its features and functionalities through add-ons which developed and contributed by the community .
In this article i collected the most used and needed extensions doctors may need to extend their Firefox with . If any other extension suggested please drop it in a comment .
1 -Google Toolbar :
is customizable and powerful web surfing tool for advanced web users who are willing to make complete usage of web2.0 area . Google toolbar allow the user to fast access to google services , as well as their favorite websites by making buttons for them . google toolbar allow the user to share , and translate his favorite web pages through Translate and Sidewiki features . and it comes for firefox and IE .
2 , 3- Wikipedia extensions :
Wikipedia is a powerful source of knowledge for humanity so
search , wikipedia firefox tools are useful and usable as they are covering the aspect of searching wikipedia for certian articles in different languages .
Wikipedia lookup add-on , and Wikipedia firefox toolbar .
4-BBC news :
5-Life Science Dictionary Tool . Download For firefox .
6- Biobar – A toolbar for browsing biological data and databases ,easily search and retrieve data from over 45 bioinformatics services .
, download For Firefox , Customization .
7- PubMed firefox / mozilla search plugin .
8- OpenMedSpel medical spelling dictionary : is an open source USA English Medical spelling word list avaiable for Firefox , Mozilla Thunderbird , SeaMonkey , OpenOffice and Portable Openoffice edition . its also has another revision for Australian English . Download the firefox extension .
9- HealthVisit Search Engine – The site to visit for medical & health related information. . download for firefox .
10- HON Toolbar 1.0.10
Search and navigate the medical web with complete confidence thanks to the thousands of HONcode websites certified by the Health On the Net Foundation, and the features of this toolbar.
11-Eccellio Web – Search Engine : is a google based search engine , allow the users to search by topics . science , health , sport etc . Download .
12-PeoplesMD is a social bookmarking for health and medical topics . add to firefox .
13-BioMedCenteral Firefox search :
14-Delicious.com is one of the most usable social bookmarking services , it has a very useful and powerful extension . which allow adding , sharing bookmarks and searching , navigating through the saved bookmarks .
15- Cooliris : is very useful interactive and powerful multimedia firefox extension , it turns your firefox to online multimedia streaming browser through searching and browsing social multimedia services as youtube , flickr , preview the results in an interactive way , and share them as well .
16- Download Helper : Download Online Streaming Flash Video from online video sharing services as youtube , facebook , yahoo videos , ..etc
17-For Twitter users : Twitterbar .
18- Google Shortcuts .
19- Feedly : is an RSS reader which relay on google reader feeds / accounts .
20 -Empowering Twitter : adding Functionalities to Twitter by 30 Boxes .
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