Last week Microsoft has released the beta version of IE8 which had new features like Activities and WebSlices. Firefox developers were quick to respond to these features and made available a plugin which gives these features in Firefox as well.
1. Activites
Activities is an IE8 feature that lets you select web services to add to your right-click context menu. Michael Kaply released a Firefox Extension to add Activities functionality to Firefox. Once you install the add-on you need to get the activities Microsoft’s web page.
2. WebSlices
Daniel Glazman has released Webchunks, an add-on similar to the functionality of Webslices in IE8 . Webslices allows users add web services like weather updates etc to browser toolbar so they get auto updated without visiting that site. This only works in Firefox 3 version.
Well Firefox developers seems to quickly respond to challenges faced from IE8.
Those Firefox guys are sure working hard to deny any form of IE comeback.
Ha ha ha! True Microsoft haters! Anyway, I still believe that IE 8 will be able to build the image pretty well once again. I just get a feeling, not sure though
More extensions for FF? Trouble, right? It’d be even slower.
But still, I think this is unnecessary for Firefox. Hope that the functionality will be better than IE – support for IE’s features (activities/webslice) is pretty low.
@Mayank,
Well I too believe the same. 🙂
@Sumesh,
I have not tried the extensions.