In early 2008, the company WebMynd released a Firefox plugin that archived screenshots of your browsing history so you could visually navigate through your history to find pages you have visited.  I tried it out and thought it was a nice idea, but I didn’t find it useful enough to make it worth the large amount of disk space it was clear those screenshots would take up because I don’t generally like to keep a browsing history.

Today, however, WebMynd has released a new version of its plugin which incorporates a sidebar into the major search engines containing information from various sites such as Wikipedia, Twitter, and YouTube.  The ability to see YouTube videos and the beginning paragraph of Wikipedia articles next to your search results is invaluable.  I had been using the Google Extra GreaseMonkey script to do this but I will probably switch to WebMynd, and I highly recommend one of the two for everyone.

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