Free software for Bible College Students: Part 2

After a good 5 month break, it’s about time for Part 2 in this series.
You know Firefox. It’s a web browser, and like all browsers it allows you to get around the Internet, search google, walldrop on facebook, do banking, and everything else you want to do on the net. There’s probably no reason to prefer one browser over another
except…

for the extension system that firefox uses. No longer is a browser a browser, but it can be a music player, an Internet Relay Chat client or enable you to interact with files on a server.

But this is useful for anyone. I want to draw your attention to two extensions that are particularly useful for bible college students, and finally an essential extension for anyone.

1.) Search the bible directly through your search bar using BibleGateway.com (this link shows you how). A quick way to look up a bible verse, or search for a particular word whilst online.

2.) A much more powerful extension for Firefox is Zotero. Zotero is a library/bibliography management system that makes putting together references and bibliographies in essays a breeze. Go ahead a give it a try, but it’s such a great piece of software for students that it’s worthy of its own post (probably also in 5 months, so don’t hold your breath).

Finally, there’s Adblock Plus. Ads on the internet are not only annoying (and often inappropriate) but you pay for the privilege of being advertised to, as these ads cut into your internet usage. Adblock Plus is a handy utility that blocks ads – mainly ones with lots of pictures. It doesn’t seem to be able to remove the ‘text only’ ads that Google runs (like on gmail), nor the ads on facebook, but any ads it blocks is a good thing (TM) on my account.

Do you use firefox? What’s your favourite extension?