I love the link shortner in windows, right click on copy goo..gle link , quick and dirty http://goo.gl/HoAor

Or highlight a text in a web site, e.g. making the effective devaluation 6.7 percent right click google search and it takes you there , no cumbersome switching of windows.

http://zzhc.org/shortly/

Thanks but it works only with Safari, I use FIrefox and Chrome

i dont know about FF .. since Safari is far quicker and more stable ...

but here is all you need: hhttp://goo.gl/j4Iga

safari ??? Interesting ,because safari comes never up when the talk in publications about browsers, it's Firefox or Chrome or the Microsoft thing

i even have tested safari quite some time on Windows (in the office everything (exept my Workstation) runns on Windows .

well its not a beauty at all but performs like hell even on very complex website.

well Chrome has also some Major advantages, but i cant sync Bookmarks over Mobileme (cross-browser usage) .. which makes it little unattractive ...

and some websites can't really interact correctly with Chrome ..

but chrome is defently my secound choice.

safari ??? Interesting ,because safari comes never up when the talk in publications about browsers, it's Firefox or Chrome or the Microsoft thing

interesting you never talk about it, since nearly all mac users use it...

i even have tested safari quite some time on Windows (in the office everything (exept my Workstation) runns on Windows .

well its not a beauty at all but performs like hell even on very complex website.

well Chrome has also some Major advantages, but i cant sync Bookmarks over Mobileme (cross-browser usage) .. which makes it little unattractive ...

and some websites can't really interact correctly with Chrome ..

but chrome is defently my secound choice.

Firefox lacks polish on the Mac, IMO - it's just so ugly, I can't use it.

Chrome is looking very good though. I am currently trying RockMelt, which is based on Chrome, also very nice. everything is instant. The only problem is that it crashes from time to time - Safari on the other hand is rock solid.

On Windows, for all my attempts to like Safari, it seemed out of place. Better to go with Chrome or Firefox.

from yesterday's NY Times

TIP OF THE WEEK Some Web pages are crowded with so many graphical elements that it can be hard to locate the text you went there to read in the first place. The latest version of Apple’s Safari browser might help clear things up. When visiting a busy page, check the browser’s address bar to see if a small gray “Reader” button is visible. If so, click the button to get an version of the page that is free of everything except the text and accompanying photographs.

In the Reader view, you can zoom in and out of the page, e-mail it or print it in its simplified form using controls that appear on screen when you move the cursor over the page. To return to the regular Web page, click the Reader button again.

An add-on for Mozilla Firefox, Readability (bit.ly/ffbUWQ), offers a similar function, as does the Readability Redux extension for Google Chrome (bit.ly/a1my4U). The iReader extension (bit.ly/dD8tkM) is another option for Chrome users. J. D. BIERSDORFER

Personal Tech invites questions about computer-based technology to QandA @nytimes.com. This column will answer questions of general interest, but letters cannot be answered individually.

These addons only require one click and it copies using Googles shortener. It's what I use on my Mac. Doesn't get any quicker than this.

Firefox

Chrome