FireFox Accessories – Organize Your Google Buttons with GButts
From my experience, many of you seem to appreciate FireFox and what it can do as a browser. Check out the comments in this post: What Web Browser Do You Use and Why? and the opinions of the techies in the Techie Interview series when I asked for their opinion on which browser is best and you’ll get the same idea that I did. For this reason, today I’m starting a series of posts containing programs and add-ons that work with FireFox to make your life easier.
I use many services from Google and sometimes it gets annoying re-entering the website addresses or allowing all of the bookmarks to take over the bookmark bar. Well, someone thought it would be a good idea to combine all of the services that Google offers into one easy to manage dropdown button. They called it “GButts” (sounds a bit crude, but it really stands for “Google Buttons”). The cool part is that you can choose which services you use often enough to be added to the dropdown menu! Here’s the lowdown:
- Head on over to the GButts page on the site hosting the FireFox add-ons: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3576:
- Click the “Add to FireFox” button (FireFow will restart once the download is complete):
- To configure the buttons, go to tools/add-ons in FireFox:
- When the add-ons window appears, find GButts and click the “Options” button:
- From here, you can choose which Google services to have buttons for, how they are displayed (in a row or as a drop-down menu), and how the window opens:
- There you have it! Here’s a sample of how I have my Google buttons organized with Gbutts:
Personally, I have it set as a dropdown menu (as you can see) and so that they open in a separate tag. Those are my preferences. I hope you enjoyed this first of many FireFox posts!
Feel free to leave a comment if you need some assistence or if you just have a comment!
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