Comments on: Sparky – the official Alexa toolbar for Firefox

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:02:39 +0000

Just FYI, when I installed the update for Firefox, it said that Sparky was incompatible with the update. I followed the bouncing ball and let Firefox disable it.

Then I went back to Alexa and reinstalled it and it seems to be fine! No worries!

By: Meg

Meg — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 02:22:17 +0000

I have SS sitting up the top so I see the rank there anyway, of course it doesn’t provide the trendline (but I reckon I can live without it). According to their page, SS DOES count site visits. Might just wait a bit on this one…

By: Alister Cameron

Alister Cameron — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 02:13:50 +0000

@Meg – since I have the Google toolbar, it seems that 1/2 of what SearchStatus shows is no longer needed (I look up for pagerank, not down!). And as for Alexa, this add-on shows the trendline, which SS doesn’t. Plus it does what the Alexa toolbar does, counting my site visits as Alexa data, which I assume SS did not. Does that help?

By: Meg

Meg — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 02:01:49 +0000

Do you think that it has any benefits over SearchStatus?

By: Alister Cameron

Alister Cameron — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:06:51 +0000

Hey Snos…Thanks for that! I postponed the FF update tonite coz it was getting in the way, and I’m glad I did Eventually I’ll have to tho, but I’ll wait a few days to see what happens with Sparky.-Alister

By: Snoskred

Snoskred — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:51:04 +0000

And within two hours of installing it, Firefox told me it needed to update – and guess what was the only extension that wasn’t compatible with the update? Sparky.

I had Alexa for the grand total of two hours..

Snoskred
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