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Clippings makes browsing and online shopping easier

Tired of filling out forms and using clunky autofill? Use Clippings instead.

Josh Lowensohn Former Senior Writer
Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote about everything from new Web start-ups, to remote-controlled robots that watch your house. Prior to joining CNET, Josh covered breaking video game news, as well as reviewing game software. His current console favorite is the Xbox 360.
Josh Lowensohn

Clippings is a superhandy Firefox browser extension that allows you to easily paste text from a list of saved clipboards. It may sound boring, but using Clippings for Web forms and multiple e-mail signatures lets you complete those tasks more quickly, saving your keystrokes for something more important, such as actual communication.

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Clippings installs as a contextual menu. Right-clicking an empty form or writing area lets you select a saved snippet from your clipboard. It took me only a minute or two to set up a fairly extensive list of commonly used entries.

The big question: How is Clippings better than your browser's autofill feature? For one, it's far less clunky. I'm constantly finding myself erasing autofill when dealing with address forms and Web site log-ins on shared computers. Likewise, I use multiple e-mail signatures, which Gmail simply can't handle. For some things autofill is enough, but if you're juggling multiple addresses and filling out a lot of forms, Clippings might be a big help

(Source: Lifehacker)