Simple Button; Quicker Access; Off You Go
Jeff Grosse | June 4, 2007
How do you get into Salesforce.com? Do you have it bookmarked? Is it saved on your desktop? Do you just type it each time? Is it on your Google Homepage or maybe on My Yahoo? Any way you get there, how quickly can you get yourself logged into Salesforce to do your work?
Here’s what I’ve found to be the easiest, and it’s just one click away from any web page I’m on.
It looks like this 
and it sits on my Google Toolbar. Apex Platform marketeer Jager McConnell created this little button and I use it every day. Kudos to Jager!
The Google Toolbar is a productivity powerhouse that takes up just a little screen real estate, but packs a whopping punch. It’s configurable and gives me access to things I need quickly, across browsers. (Naturally, easy customization appeals to most users of Salesforce)
Here’s what Google Toolbar does for me
- Gives me one click access to iGoogle, my information portal
- Lets me search any search engine (including Salesforce) from any page
- Lets me make one set of bookmarks across PCs and across browsers
- Lets me add buttons to my own applications or search pages
- Lets me translate web pages
- Brings spell check to the browser
Now somebody might say, “Yeah, but Firefox can do most of that.” And I’d respond by saying that it not only does translation, spell checking and more, it actually does it better than the Google Toolbar does in some respects. But for those who really want or need to be on IE, there is help out there by using the Google Toolbar.
For those hesitant to leave IE, I should let you know that there’s a Firefox plugin that puts the IE rendering engine in Firefox so saying that some application you use can only use IE so you can’t switch isn’t entirely true. I’ve got a few web apps that require IE 6.0, but now I can work on them right inside Firefox.
Bottom line, if you want to boost your productivity, give these four steps a try.
- Get Google Toolbar for Firefox or Internet Explorer.
- Get Jager’s Salesforce Login Button
- Get Sxipper (Firefox only) Read why I use it
- Add Salesforce search to your toolbar search
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