Space Patrol would often find themselves in unknown places, testing unknown technology or dealing with unknown aliens. So, They had to have MORE, More smarts, more power and just plain old more going for them.
We do not rest on our laurels, either. If you're not a Happy Cadet here, or even if you are, then roll the dice and hit the MORE button for a little something MORE. As I say elsewhere, nothing here is "...of last resort". It's all there to use at your own choice. If it's done out of need, it saves the mission, if it is done out of want, it makes a good thing better.
We aren't so proud as to think that we have it all. If we did, we'd have soooo much stuff that it would be impractical. Nor are we so scared as to think that what we have ain't good enough. If there's better out there, we won't be eaten up with envy: We just include it by way of the MORE button.
The Space Patrol philosophy is Have the Best, Get the Best, Do the Best and Be the Best. It's no god to us or the folks at Mozilla if FIREFOX is not the best it can be. In many cases, what you get here are my picks or what I could get. Start with the basics. For example. Taking a trip? We start you with Travelocity, Orbitz and the rest. Then you move on to maps, currency conversion, weather and right to local businesses. Math and scinece? Up front you have a basic calculator with four more to do comon but tedious or difficalt operations; including the coversion of many kinds of units - the Holy Grail of calculators. Hit the Math and Scinece button and get the advanced stuff. Need to use the phone? Send a package? Don't see it here? Hit MORE. Turn FIREFOX into a real workhorse. I could easily load this thing with things that are of interest to me and 5 other perosns. That would not do either, but the DIY subconsole will let you do that. In fact some of the things here I know little or nothing about except that they work in general in FIRFOX.
Beyond all of this. The MORE option makes this console MORE robust. Usually it is a search page of a certain topic. Since we use many external sources. For example, a good freeware statistics calculator/package is impossible to find, so I link to an external site for that. MotionNET is a premier science, math and especially enginerring pro site, and the Resource page links to pro level work. If a site were to go down, either temporarily or permanantly, you would be up the creek and out of the fight. Hit MORE and find a replacement if it exists or, use MORE to give yourself MORE options or delve MORE deeply or because you're just plain greedy and want MORE. What is in here makes the Space Patrol Power Console strong; what is in MORE keeps it strong by making it quick and agile. Once you get the MORE that you like, you can download what is downlodable and save to a special folder what links you want and if you get the Firefox smart toolbar, put them up there to work in concert with this console.
*This was written with FireFox 2 in mind. Some of these are incompatible with FireFox 3-beta and don't even show up in that add-ons folder, so that might be something you will need to look out for. Whether that changes in the future is anybody's guess at this time. At this point in time. The "colors" option doens't even work; but that's why it's "beta" and why I usually avoid things in "beta" unless I know what they do
To really add the finishing touch you'll want the