Nobody expects the cross-browser Inquisitor!
| Monday, October 27th, 2008 | --Sean |
It's so rare that we develop applications only for Safari users over here -- usually we forget they exist and then have to frantically rework features to eventually get them a functional product (sorry, drag & drop users in Fantasy! :P). So I'm sure you guys were loving Inquisitor, a cool Safari-only browser plugin that ties together standard autocompleting search with common results personalized especially for you. Finally, Yahoo! giving you the exclusivity that you expect as a Mac user!
Well, so much for that. Inquisitor has now opened up for Firefox and IE as well, letting all of the rest of us into your little club. It's actually really cool to be able to finally try it out -- kind of creepy when it starts making recommendations based on sites I've visited (it knows all!), but really useful, too (and I think it's all local, so hopefully no weird privacy stuff going on). In Firefox 3, it'll have to fight it out with the Awesome Bar, which seems to have more extensive history matching but doesn't include web searches, but it seems like a no-brainer utility for Firefox 2 and IE.