Streamline your searches
FastestFox is back with a new version and a brand new name. Previously known as SmarterFox, the developers obviously felt that their tool adds functionality that will make searching and researching online a much faster endeavor, hence the change. Luckily for them, it does!
Version 3 of FastestFox Is just as useful as it was the last time we took a look at it. It works by adding a range of extra search functions to your browser - when you highlight a word or phrase a pop-up bubble appears with extra search options. If you click one, FastestFox will automatically search for the terms in question using the service you chose - from Twitter to YouTube and OneRiot to Bing - and display the results in a new tab.
FastestFox also allows you to download all links or images on a page in one click, although you can't pick and choose - it's all or nothing. Another nice touch is the endless page option, which allows you to view multiple results pages (on Google, for example) as one long, scrollable page. FastestFox has plenty of configuration options that will help you get the most out of the tool. The only weak point is the qLauncher, a sort of search-within-a-search option. It didn't make much of an impression last time and, unfortunately, nothing has changed.
If you do a lot of research online, FastestFox will definitely speed things up.
New in this version:Added definitions featureMinor tweaks and bugfixes
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New in this version:Added definitions featureMinor tweaks and bugfixes
User reviews about FastestFox
by Anonymous
Some issues, butover all makes Firefox the ultimate web browser.
I use this on every firefox installation, including Mac and Windows 7 (64 and 32 bit). The only issue I have noticed thus far is when downloading page links, it will not save the full file name and extension if it is over so many characters long, leaving you to have to go back and either rename them, or delete them and just download them normally. Interface is pretty slick, but the default option to popup the Popup Bubble gets severely annoying after a while although it can be disabled.The ability to load multiple pages at once instead of having to click on or find the <next> <previous> page is by far the most amazing feature this has, although it has its limitations in 32-bit operating systems (seems to have something to do with memory consumption).If you love firefox, you are going to love this!
Pros:
This is like the swiss-army knife of firefox. So many useful features all built into one.
Cons:
Some bugs still need to be worked out with the ability to download page links. If it were able to download more specifically like just .zip, .mp3, etc., it would be a 10/10. More