For whatever reason, designers have decided for the masses that tiny fixed text is a good idea for content. Well, it's not. I have 20/20 vision, and often struggle to read text on web pages. What good does it do to have a 20+ inch monitor when you need a magnifying glass to read the text? That's right, none at all.

Annoyed with the lack of user defined controls for the zoom capabilities of Firefox, I did a quick search for add-ons to see what answers were out there. I came across an extremely useful little add-on called NoSquint. NoSquint allows global, and per page zoom levels. And as the title of the add-on would suggest: No more squinting to read text!

I've been using a search tool for the last year or so that I absolutely love. Goosh is an Ajax tool that behaves like a *nix shell. You can find and use this tool at goosh.org.

Favorite features:

• No ads.
• Quick readable results.
• Wikipedia search.
• Superior image search.
• Firefox search integration.

Tips:

• Type "help" at prompt for all commands.
• Type "addengine" at prompt for Firefox integration.
• Use tab complete for related searches.
• Use the alternate search keywords, by using the keyword followed by your search string. Here are some examples:
  
  1. > i test
  2. > p corvallis oregon
  3. > t english spanish test

I haven't looked closely into what configuration options that are available. I think having color themes would be nice.