Over the past few days, this blog has gone Firefox crazy with several posts on the popular web browser, today I help you make another decision with your browser.
Twitter has exploded over the past year and mainly over the past few months, as mainstream media, celebrities and techies slowly embrace Twitter, there comes the issue of using the right tools to make use of this network. With their handy API, several twitter tools are developed each day, be it for usual tweeting with the features provided via Twitter Web with a few additional supplements to make it worth a primary client or other tools to track content or users on the network.
The ability to perform as much tasks as possible from within your browser using addons is what makes Firefox a lot more productive and handy over its competitors. Thus, being able to tweet with a fully featured twitter client from within your browser is a lot more efficient than using an external client or Twitter web.
There are a handful of Twitter clients for Firefox which lets you perform all or some of the functions of Twitter, a while back I was sieving through the Firefox Addons database and after much testing and researching figured that Twitterfox was the best client for Firefox.
Looking at some of the popular addons, there’s Twitkit, Twitbin, Twitterbar and of course Twitterfox which I picked at best. While Twitkit and Twitbin are also pretty good, I prefer a floating window or extension rather than a sidebar addon which cripples the width of the interface. Other available addons have crippled features or aren’t compatible with the latest Firefox builds (like Tweetbar).
First up, looking at Twitterfox, it’s pretty much a counterpart of Twhirl in terms of interface as well as features which is one of the primary 3rd party twitter clients. Twitterfox is compact (separated into tabs) and expands when the Twitter logo on your status bar is clicked. It offers extensive features, update, reply, retweet, shorten URL, multiple accounts, etc.
The latter feature, multiple accounts is one of the easiest things to manage with Twitterfox, just right click the icon and switch to another account. It also display optional notification balloons for updates, replies, etc. (which can be annoying for some while surfing).
As it’s part of the browser, there’s no need of wasting time copying items to the clipboard, shortening the link and pasting them into your client when sharing useful websites, just one click and the URL in the active tab will be shortened and appended to your tweet, thus making tweeting a lot more faster and easier.
One of the main issues with Twitterfox is memory usage, when tweets ‘build up’ and you open the timeline it could momentarily freeze Firefox, with their latest build this got worse, with Firefox momentarily freezing each time the timeline updates even if you don’t open it. The latest build has a better interface with trandparency and colors to choose from for the interface however resulted in more memory strain.
Apart from that it’s pretty much perfect and still the best Twitter client around, if you beg to differ on which is the best, please leave it in the comments below.
Download an older version (1.7.7.1) of Twitterfox (before memory issues as stated above)
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wow i’ll try yoono see if it works as great as you al lsay.
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