The Firefox add-on Prospector Speak Words adds that feature to Firefox. But more about that later. More interesting than that probably is the fact that it can be installed, disabled and removed without browser restart. That’s a first, at least for me.

Back to the add-on’s functionality. Prospector Speak Words adds Google Chrome’s auto-suggestion feature to Firefox. Just enter a few letters of a website’s name and the add-on will suggest the first matching Internet address by filling out the rest to complete the word.

The add-on is word-based, not url-based which means that it will only suggest words and names and not urls. Still, those words and names have to be part of a website’s title or Internet address to be suggested in first place.

The add-on abides by the rules set for the Firefox address bar. I have for instance set it to only suggest bookmarks when typing in the first words. This add-on in this case uses only bookmarks to auto-suggest a word or name.

The default setting IIRC is to search in the browser’s history and bookmarks.

Prospector Speak Words speeds up opening known websites in the web browser. The best case scenario is that you only need to enter the first letter and the enter key to load a website.

The add-on is an official Mozilla Labs add-on, which means that it may find its way into the core browser eventually. The add-on is only compatible with Firefox 4.0b4 – 4.0b8pre, and available for download at the official add-on site.

LibraryThing, a great online book catalog essentially, helps you a lot because it allows you to manage your bookshelf virtually, but also to give and get recommendations and a whole lot of other info. LibraryThing of course knows all the default things about each book, writer, title, ISBN, publishing info and so on, but it ads  an extra layer by providing social information.

People can review a book, tag it, and even have conversations about it, making book choosing much more productive. Actually this time, you may not spend less time, since this is such an absorbing experience, but at least you will choose a good book every time.

LibraryThink also supports group creation, private and non-private groups, bookstore info with GoogleMaps integration and a load more. I’ll be cataloging my book collection soon, and I hope to find the most awesome books, interacting and sharing my knowledge. I think I’m going to spend a lot more time here than I thought…