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Linkwad is exclusive! No, I am not talking about its features here. By ‘exclusive’ I mean that the services of Linkwad are provided exclusively to the Mozilla’s Firefox web browser users. It’s a social bookmarking website which allows you to bookmark your favorite webpages, save them and then gives you the option to retrieve them once again whenever you feel like. And by now I am sure you know that there is absolutely nothing new about this website.

However, one can’t really deny the fact that some of its present features are really helpful for the users. But, on the other hand, its users even wish that there was something more to Linkwad.
The Linkwad sneak peek

The name of this website can be best understood if we divide the same into two halves. ‘Link’ obviously means your ability to link your favorite webpages together and be able to save them and ‘wad’ means a group of links that are saved under a single name. The credit for the creation of this website goes to Nick Fridrich. The website was first launched on August 28, 2006 and since then it has constantly evolved to make itself better. For this very purpose, nearly five different versions have been launched, each better from its previous one. But as they say- “there are many more miles before you sleep”. Linkwad surely needs to go a long way before it can actually outrun its competitors.

The features

A few of the features of Linkwad surely make it worth an install! As soon as you register yourself at Linkwad, an additional toolbar is added to your Mozilla Firefox window. It is using this toolbar that you can work on multiple tabs at once without having to switch between your favorite websites’ windows. When you across a page that you wish to save, just simple hit on the ‘save’ button on your Linkwad toolbar, and your job is done.

Another interesting thing about this website is that you get to access the results from search engines like Google and Yahoo as well. Moreover, this search shall not only give you links related to your keywords entered but shall also give you links related to those results found as well.

You can customize your keyboard shortcuts and can easily drag and drop tabs between different wads. You are also free to rate different wads according to your opinion. Feel free to see other people’s wads and make them your own if they interest you. Share with the Linkwad users, your own wads, if you wish to. And just like any other site, this one too allows you to access your bookmarks through any computer with Linkwad.

The defects include that people wish to install just a button and not an entire toolbar. Moreover, they feel that if others are offering the same things and more to them (like compatibility with other browsers like Internet Explorer etc.), then why should they stick to this one.

Whether this site is worth an install, you decide!