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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2000/XP/Vista
- Date added: August 21, 2009
- Total Downloads: 31,952
- Downloads last week: 690
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 31 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Jessica Dolcourt on October 23, 2009
FastestFox (formerly SmarterFox) is one of the more powerful add-ons to enhance Firefox browsing. It displays a clean-looking bubble filled with customizable search engine shortcuts when you highlight a word or phrase. Type a query into the Firefox address bar, and FastestFox will offer up suggestions as you type. It will also place alternative search engine icons on a results page (like Google, Yahoo, and Bing), and will repeat smaller version of those icons on Wikipedia pages, along with a list of related articles. To open a new Web page faster, there's the qLauncher. One hot-key combo brings it up; tapping a single keyboard key opens Facebook, the New York Times, and whatever else you program in.
FastestFox doesn't stop there. Right-click anywhere on the page to separately download all the links, images, and Flash video content on a page. The endlessly useful Endless Pages feature preloads subsequent pages of multipage sites, so that instead of clicking to advance through, you can just scroll down (and down and down.) Equally useful, but not always as consistent, are the copy/paste features (turned off by default) that copy the text you highlight, and will paste it elsewhere with a mouse click.
Not every feature behaves uniformly at all times. The page scroll has been known to be oversensitive or unresponsive at various times. The alternate search engines are limited in some features, and highlighting text hasn't always copied it to the clipboard. Yet the pros vastly outweigh the cons, making FastestFox a must-try add-on for anyone who spends significant time online.
Publisher's description
From Yongqian Li :SmarterFox is a popular productivity addon. Save your time get faster, parallelized downloads, auto-load the next page when you reach the end, search as you type from the URL bar, search highlighted text with the pop-up bubble, and more.SmarterFox has some more options like Download all links, images, or media on a page in parallel, maximizing the use of your bandwidth,Easily save page media such as Flash videos, Flash games, and Shockwave movies on any YouTube-like site to your hard-drive,Search by selecting/highlighting text and then clicking on the popup bubble,Visit bookmarks quickly with keyboard shortcuts using qLauncher.
Version 2.1.2 includes enhancements and/or bug fixes.
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Version 2.1.2 includes enhancements and/or bug fixes.
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User reviews of SmarterFox 2.1.2
- Average user rating: 3.1 stars out of 31 votes
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: SmarterFox 2.1.2
Pros: A nice add on
Cons: Pop up are annoying at times
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Version: SmarterFox 2.1.2
"Still not as fast loading as Google Chrome"
Pros: Faster than E8.
Cons: Slower than Chome. Faster than previous version.
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Version: SmarterFox 2.1.2
"Decent Features, Bad Privacy Protection"
Pros: Good overall Functionality. I used Endless Pages and Linkification mainly.
Cons: The product collects and sends usage data (website visited, etc) to SmarterFox servers AND third party servers!
Inconsistent behavior for Endless pages.Summary: I used to use it but not any more because of the privacy issue. Now I use Autopager extension for Endless Pages (which is FAR more consistent and covers more patterns) and Linkification for automatic link conversion.
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Version: SmarterFox 2.1.2
Pros: Faster scrolling through Google search results pages
Cons: Not sure if Firefox crashes are being caused by this; sometimes the interface changes are unexpected.
Summary: It does save time; you just have to learn where the changes are.
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Version: SmarterFox 2.1.2
Pros: Easy to use, always there
Cons: Nothing worth mentioning
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