Like Glydo, Red Panda is a browser extension for Firefox that guides you to additional relevant content based on what you are currently reading. Red Panda can uncover Wikipedia entries, blog entries, tweets, news stories, items from Digg and more.
There are a couple of differences between Glydo and Red Panda. First, Red Panda is a sidebar, while Glydo sits on the bottom of your browser window in your status bar. Second, Glydo is always on, while you have to toggle Red Panda’s sidebar on and off using the “View sidebar” option on your browser’s menu.
While I like the way Glydo is set up much better, Red Panda offers a more comprehensive selection of information. In addition to the sidebar, you can right-click on a page to bring up a menu that lets you easily search Wikipedia, Google, the IMBD movie database and more. You can also use the right-click menu to find locations on maps and translate words, phrases or even entire web pages.
Plus, Red Panda does a better job than Glydo of pulling relevant, recent information from Twitter (Glydo is often a few days behind-not exactly “real-time.”)
Red Panda is a little bit more of a hassle to install-instead of going through the normal process for installing a Firefox add-on, you have to save the file, then drag it into an open Firefox window, and then go through the normal installation process.
In my opinion, Red Panda would be easier to use if it sat on top of the bottom status bar like Glydo, or at least if there were a quick keyboard shortcut to bring up the sidebar when you need it. Still, the right-click menu is handy enough that I’m planning to keep it installed (although I’d prefer if it opened new pages in a new tab instead of a new window).
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