While I am on the subject of Firefox Extensions, Google has pushed some more goodies into their ‘technology playground’ they call Google Labs. With two Extensions released yesterday, Google is continuing to promote Firefox as the web browser of choice – surely simmering rumours of a possible Opera acquisition. Google Safe Browsing and Blogger Web Comments have hit the Beta stage of testing, the point where Google has found that people make the most fuss about them, and are freely available to download.
While Google Safe Browsing builds on already sound security features in Firefox, it’s designed to aid in the discovery of phishing sites often created to make you reveal your online banking details for example. By checking addresses for with a blacklist of sites and regularly scanning pages for content and structure that could be deemed suspicious or misleading it could be a strong fight against these undesirable sites.
More interesting and certainly more entertaining is the ‘Blogger Web Comments’ extension that builds on Google’s Blog Search utility. Comments, left by bloggers on each page you visit, appear in the bottom right hand corner of the screen and act as a personal guide as you navigate through the web and tend to add more relevance to the web pages that you view.
It will be interesting to see how Google deals with splogs, which Blogger has become synonymous with, as Blogger Web Comments will inevitably will be a target.
