I’ve been putting off upgrading to firefox 1.5 for ages, but my curiosity for this extension finally got the better of me !

Blogger Web Comments for Firefox
Blogger Web Comments for Firefox is an extension that makes it easy to see what bloggers are saying about a page you’re viewing in firefox

I know this isn’t exactly new news , so there are lots of places to find out about it ! I’ve been playing with it a little today, and still am undecided on whether it’s cool or annoying.

Coolness: Visiting sites, and seeing what people say about them gives a good insight into the sites audience, and being able to leave comments on a site that doesn’t support them is also kind-a-cool… where it fall down is there is no default “this post is about this page” on your blogspot blog, so you have to remember to put one in yourself

Annoying: It’s another “pop up”, and people are posting comments about google.com or mail.yahoo.com and I’m thinking, why ? what do I care ? and how is this relevant, there is no intelligent comment that can be made about mail.yahoo’s log in page ! I can think of two improvements I’m going to suggest

1. Filterable: Be able to disable comments for certain sites
2. A side bar: pop ups are distracting, but a side bar (maybe with auto hide) would be less annoying (may be a little more intrusive) and would allow multiple comments to be seen at any one time !

You can check out what I’ve said about websites on my blogger account. I’ve not used it for anything else much, so It’ll be interesting to see if I use it now !

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