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Friday, August 4, 2006
I live in Firefox most of the day. That and iTunes as well as Entourage (or Outlook, depending which system I’m on.) I’ve been using a Konfabulator widget, iTunes Bar, for most of my interaction with the Apple music client, but it’s not exactly right. Then I stumbled over FoxyTunes some time ago and now with its 2.0 preview, the scales are starting to tip toward this sly little fox for best iTunes controller.
FoxTunes is a Firefox extension that lives on the bottom right of your Firefox browser. Displaying the artist and track name with an ingenious time indicator embedded below the text, you’ll find this information easily retrievable with a simple glance. Right of this information is your controls for playing, pause, skip, and so forth, as well as volume control just right of that. Oh yes, the song note icon is the first button of the play controls and when hovered over, up comes the info panel as seen above. You can also gather much information about the artist and the song by clicking on the song note with jumps to flikr for pictures and searches for lyrics to the song you are currently enjoying. The power doesn’t stop there as many more goodies exist in this small package.
Having ran 1.x for some time, I can tell you there is no noticeable hit on Firefox’s or your systems performance with FoxyTunes running. The 2.0 beta seems fine, as well. And like most things Firefox, this extension runs on both Macs and PC.