StumbleUpon 3.16

Publisher's description of StumbleUpon

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StumbleUpon is a Firefox extension lets you channelsurf the best-reviewed sites on the web. It is a collaborative surfing tool for browsing, reviewing and sharing great sites with like-minded people. This helps you find interesting Web pages you wouldn't think to search for.

Version 3.16 is a bug-fixing release.

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Editor's review of StumbleUpon

For such a small Firefox plug-in, StumbleUpon wears a lot of hats. Random Web site surfer, social networker, social bookmarker, site reviewer--it's a powerful little app for 170Kb.

Installing and removing it is just as simple as any other Firefox add-on, and we struck no snags when we used it with other plug-ins or programs. Once activated, one click is all it took to get going. The "Stumble!" logo that's part of the proprietary toolbar whips the user around the Net at the user's pace, based on categories selected during installation. Hundreds of topics are available and can be updated at will, with no selection limit.

Other StumbleUpon functions are just user-friendly. A click on the toolbar's "thumbs-up" and "thumbs-down" icons make ratings a cinch, and another click is all it takes to share sites, to update the friends list, to view the rated pages list, to read reviews of the page, to peruse the menu, or to search the StumbleUpon database.

Sometimes, "stumbling" would take us to a StumbleUpon page that reminded us to upload a profile image or some other annoying-but-trivial nonsense. Another "stumble" would whisk us to our next random Web page.

If Web surfing is the new channel surfing, then StumbleUpon should be your remote.

User reviews of StumbleUpon

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  StumbleUpon

  Fun tool with a catch.

  by: IE7Hate on 24-Apr-2008 08:07:29 AM

  Pros: Ok

  Cons: Having to give so much personal info( I made mine up and used a separate email add. ) plus the factor they track your use of sites you visit. Kind of creepy and weird.

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  StumbleUpon

  downloading great sites

  by: hanspetertrode on 11-Jul-2008 09:51:37 AM

  Pros: the best yet...more entertaining than instant watch movie sites!

  Cons: difficult to find/get help with issues

  is downloading an application possible? i can only download/send e-mail of the links...any suggestions?

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  StumbleUpon

  great extension

  by: gonhop7 on 31-Mar-2008 05:08:35 PM

  Pros: I love the ease this simple add-on gives the user. It almost learns what you like or not and opens the door to many other sites you may like based on what you and other people who like the same things as you recommend.

  Cons: It may direct you to sites you may not like.

  p.s. it usually doesn't.

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  StumbleUpon

  Not For Everyone

  by: RobTehUnknown on 13-Mar-2008 10:05:01 PM

  Pros: Its a neat software

  Cons: For the bored type

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