Customizing Google

For those, like me, who are some­what pri­vacy-ori­ented, and use Fire­fox as their browser, I recom­mend using the Cus­tom­ize Google exten­sion. I set it up to use https for access­ing Google docs, read­er, and cal­en­dar, and to anonym­ize the Google ID for search­ing. You can also anonym­ize the Google ana­lyt­ics cook­ie, which I’m not doing for the time being. It has a bunch of oth­er fea­tures that might be of interest as well, such as set­ting vari­ous pref­er­ences or tak­ing selec­ted sites out of search res­ults (e.g., adult sites for your kids). I’ve been using it for a month and have had no prob­lems with it.