Over the years, I have used many including the following: Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Opera, Konqueror and many other smaller editions.
For many years, my favorite was Mozilla Firefox. Last year I switched to Google's Chrome browser for much of my browsing. Like Firefox, Chrome is standards based, secure and very very FAST. Chrome wasn't perfect and I really missed some of the extras that Firefox offered. My biggest quip was the lack of an easy way to email a link to a webpage I was viewing. Sure, I could copy the link, open an email and paste the link into the body etc.... but what a pain compared to Firefox. With Firefox, you could just click an icon or do a File - Send... There was nothing like that for Chrome.
Eventually I figured a way to create a custom bookmark to do it but even that lacked finess.
Which brings me to three extensions for Chrome introduced quietly last year. I say quitely because no one seems to know they exist.
All of these extensions are easy to install in Chrome and are highly rated.
The most highly rated are provided by Google itself. The extension allows you to email a link, from within your browser, to either your default email client or to gmail.
- This extension adds an email button to the toolbar which allows you to email the page link using your default mail client or Gmail.
- This newer extension makes Gmail your default email application and provides a button to compose a Gmail message to quickly share a link via email. Perfect if you only use gmail in a browser.
- This third party extension offers a couple of extra features and allows you to email the link to your email client OR gmail. The newest of the three, this extension also allows you to send the link by clicking a button on the toolbar OR from the right click context menu using your mouse.
Just this one add-on means I now use Google Chome browser nearly 90% of the time.
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