Firefox and Bookmarklets

I downloaded Firefox and played around with its feature which lets you place Bookmarks on the opening screen toolbar. It's one less click to get to your favorite sites. I can't really tell if Firefox works any faster than Internet Explorer. But my daughter in library school loves Firefox. She figured out how to change its icon to a horse which starts running as you open a site. I think someone may have done that on the Children's Desk computer also.

Bookmarklets are an interesting concept. It's neat that you can just highlight a phrase anywhere on a web site and click on a Bookmarklet to search for more information. But I agree with other GCL bloggers that I might not use them much. I did download the "More Info About" bookmarklet in my Firefox Bookmarks section. The long list of other Bookmarklets gave me ideas of other places to search for information when we get challenging questions at the Reference Desk.