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The Completely Redesigned Evernote Firefox Extension

Product updates | By Andrew Sinkov
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Today, the Evernote Firefox Extension gets a major update for Firefox 6. There are tons of exciting new features and capabilities including a completely new popup interface, the ability to search your Evernote account whenever you search Google, Bing or Yahoo, and more.

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Clipping options

The Firefox plugin allows you to choose where your clips should go: to Evernote on your desktop or to Evernote Web. By default, if the plugin detects that you have Evernote installed, it will send clips there. Try both and see which one you prefer. To change your preferences, go Tools > Add-ons > Extensions > Evernote Preferences.

Sending Clips to Evernote Web

The biggest change you’ll see in this update is the completely redesigned look of the popup that appears when you clip to Evernote Web.

Article Clips
The Firefox Extension is smarter than ever. If you’re reading an article or blog post, click the elephant and the extension will automatically highlight the body of the post. Next, click on the button labeled Clip Article. That’s it. If you prefer, you can highlight an area of text and then click the extension. To clip the entire page, click on the arrow next to Clip Article and select Clip Full Page.

Site Memory
All of us have our favorite sites. We tend to return to those sites often and clip the posts we want to save. The redesigned Firefox Extension lets you see everything you’ve ever clipped from a given site—sort of like having your personal Best Of for every site you love. To view your clips, visit the site, click on the extension, then click on the domain name in the lower part of the popup. Snippets of all your clips will show up.

Simultaneous Search
One of the other features that is available when you clip to the Web is Simultaneous Search, which will search your Evernote account whenever you do a Google, Bing or Yahoo search. You can enable this by checking the checkbox on the popup sign-in screen.

Sending Clips to Evernote on the Desktop

The Evernote Firefox Extension also lets you clip directly to the version of Evernote that you have installed on your desktop. This is a great option if you’re looking for a completely streamlined clipping experience. You can select the area that you want to clip, then click the extension. The clipped portion of your page will go right into Evernote and you can keep on browsing. Later, if you want, you can go back and add a tag or move the clip into a different notebook.

Tell us what you think of the new look and feel of the Evernote Firefox Extension.

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  • http://unretrofied.com/ Chris Gonzales

    Looks just like the excellent Chrome-extension update from a while back. I like that you guys are focusing on unifying the user experience across platforms :)

  • http://mcbishop.co.uk Mike Bishop

    The article does not mention that it does not work with Firefox on Linux.

  • 红领巾

    I only concern when can we get the so-called “Completely Redesigned Evernote Chrome Extension”?

    • http://unretrofied.com Chris Gonzales

      The Chrome extension was already completely redesigned like this months ago. The Firefox extension is just really behind.

  • panoptican

    I know Linux is less than 5% of users, probably even less than 1%, but it still must represent thousands of users. Not only that, Linux users are generally influencers when it comes to tech so it baffles me that Evernote continues to leave out Linux support for their software. And anyway, how hard is it to make a Firefox extension that works with Linux?

    • WN

      +1

    • EVpremiunuser_on_LINUX_UBUNTU

      Agree!

      I’m a Premium EverNote user,
      using the Web interface on Ubuntu LINUX.
      (there is no Evernote client program on Linux…).

      I feel cheated by the EverNote mgmt & team,
      and their claim that EV “runs on all platforms, OSes, devices”…

      Someday the FTC will discover this false claim!

  • Bernie Orosz

    Just installed on FF 6.0, but all screen clips default to basic formatting, even though “Keep only the basic formatting” is not checked. My option is set to send clips to “Evernote on your desktop”.

  • Jim

    Thanks for the update.

    Why isn’t the “Article Clip” also available when clipping directly to the desktop?

    • jbignert

      We are working on enabling article detection also for native clipping in a future release. Stay tuned.

  • http://forsit.posterous.com Olivia

    What about making it possible to use it with Linux?

    I mean, I can understand that there’s not a Linux desktop client (I don’t think it’s fair, but I can understand it), but there’s no point in limiting the Firefox extension only for Windows users… I have Evernote on my Android and now I can’t use it with my notebook anymore. Makes it kind of pointless.

  • John Hendry

    What about a Safari extension?

  • Koh

    No support for Ubuntu/Linux !!?

  • http://brendafernandez.com/ Brenda

    Hi! Why is it not available for Linux??? Until now I used the previous version of the extension, running Firefox on Ubuntu 10.10. Now I can’t use that version if our extension because it’s not compatible with Firefox 6 (the current stable release) and I can’t update to the latest version because I get this message:

    Please note: This add-on is not compatible with your operating system.

    It’s very very wrong… I understand that you don’t provide a native client for Linux (anyway, we ave NeverNote for that), but please AT LEAST keep maintaining this extension.
    Linux is my main platform and I became a subscriber assuming that we’d keep this thing working on Linux.

    I hope you can solve this!

    Thanks in advance,

    -Brenda Fernández

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