The Cascade Firefox Extension Goes Native
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011 at 10:00am -- Bradley Wagner
The Firefox Extension
Our popular Cascade Server Firefox Extension saves users time by allowing them to quickly navigate to actions for assets without navigating to view the asset first.
We introduced the Cascade Server Firefox Extension a little more than 3 years ago. It’s had over 2800 downloads and been a staple for many of our clients and members of our own services team who work in Cascade every day.
The New Context Menu
A lot has changed in the browser world since 2008 including the rise of Google Chrome and Apple’s revamped Safari browser. To keep pace with the rapid browser development and to give people flexibility when choosing a browser, we added most of the Firefox extension’s functionality directly into Cascade 6.8 as the Context Menu.
Now, every asset link has a dropdown menu that appears when you hover your mouse near the link allowing you to quickly act on that asset. It's available pretty much everywhere including with links to administration area components:
and home area assets in the left-hand navigation:
These are the same actions that your user would have access to if they were to navigate directly to the asset:
The best part is that the Context Menu works in any browser now and will continue working with future browser updates.
If you haven’t used our Firefox extension before, you’ve got to check this out in Cascade 6.8 -- it’s a huge timesaver. If you’ve used the Firefox extension and have been thinking about switching to Chrome, you’re in luck!
The Context Menu is part of our continued effort to make Cascade’s interface richer and more user-friendly. Stop by our help community and leave us feedback, questions, or comments.
Happy browsing!
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- Product Upgrades