Thursday, February 03, 2005

Jybe

I'm sure most of you know I'm a supporter, user, and big fan of Mozilla Firefox. It is the BEST alternative to the mainstream Microsoft Internet Explorer, which I'm guessing 75% of you use. Besides making the switch to Firefox for stability and security, there are some other cool features, like adding plugins.

Jybe is a plugin that I saw introduced recently on The Screensavers. Once you install Jybe, it will put a toolbar on Firefox. There will be two buttons called Create Session and Join session. What this allows you to do is create a session that others who have Jybe can join and you guys can browse the internet together. Any site you go to the other person or people can see, and likewise, if they click links or navigate websites, you see it too. After testing, one drawback that I noticed is that the other person is unable to view secure sites that that host navigates to. I guess that a good security feature though.

Check it out and let me know what you think!

-jw