Firefox, and GoSurf

Some days ago, I happened to use the browser firefox, and found that there are so many good extensions for it. With these extensions, the armed firefox could almost finish any kind of task you can image, such as dragging links, undoing closed tabs, managing tabs etc. The extensions I think much of include:

• Tab Mix Plus - More tweaks added to tabs. Ability to select and open muliple links in tabs, open link in a duplicated tab, merge tabs and close tabs from similar domain…

• Undoclosetab - Allows accidently closed recent tabs to be reopened

• Restart Firefox - Adds “Restart Firefox” menuitem to “File”, and a toolbar button for easy restarting. Great for when you install themes or extensions and need to restart Firefox.

• IE Tab - can open the current page or a selected link embedding Internet Explorer in tabs of Mozilla/Firefox. Very useful for those IE only pages.

• SuperDrag&Go - Drag a link or picture and throw it anywehere on your webpage (content area) and open it on a new tab.

• FlashGot - handles single and massive downloads with several external Download Managers.

All of descriptions above are extracted from the webpage: 50 Best Firefox Extensions for Power Surfing.

Just when I started to get used to the new browser, I get the newer version of GOSURF, which is an IE-based explorer. There are some new features with the latest GOSURF, and the most important is that it improves the memory management. While using the new GOSURF, the management of memory used becomes much more flexible. For example, the process for GOSURF could reallocate the memory each time you switch to other program, so that the memory used by GOSURF can be kept in the low level. The memory hold by the process but not used for the moment can be released, although maybe more workload is added to the CPU. In summary, the first glance on the feature makes it interesting enough. Additionally, GOSURF seems to some other new features including new search bar (just like what it is in the firefox!!). And then I decided to go back to GOSURF that I have been used to for a long while. The firefox is good, but it might not be good enough for me to switch to it.