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Power Up OpenOffice.org with Writer's Tools

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:29:50 GMT

clipped by: RiverRed

Windows/Mac/Linux (All platforms): The Writer's Tools extension adds a useful new menu to the popular, open source office suite OpenOffice.org that bakes convenient tools like Google Translate, an online dictionary lookup tool, email backup, remote backup to an FTP server and more directly into OO.org. To install, just download the extension, then open OO.org and go to Tools -> Extension Manager and click the Add button in the My Extensions section. Then just navigate to the downloaded extension to finish the job. If you're using OO.org as your main word processor, the Writer's Tools extension is a must-have. Writer's Tools is free, works wherever OpenOffice.org does.

Tags: writing, free, software

Bill's Big List of Firefox 2.0 Compatible Extensions

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:17:04 GMT

clipped by: RiverRed
clipper's remarks: This is the mother lode list of Firefox extensions, currently 1,826 listed. Sortable by category and total downloads. Also lists: user rating, total downloads, weekly downloads, last updated, and ranking change. You've got to see it to believe it.

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Bill's Big List of Firefox^® 2.0 Compatible Extensions

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Tags: firefox, extensions

5 Firefox Extensions That Make All the Difference in the World

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 00:24:42 GMT

clipped by: RiverRed

Clip Source: www.friedbeef.com

Link Alert - What happens when you click on a link? Are you going to open a new window? download a file? read a document? Now you’ll be able to quickly find that out. By simply hovering your mouse over the link, your cursor will change to indicate what will happen next.

Tab Mix Plus - Even with Firefox 2.0’s improved tabs, this extension is still powerful. Aside from enabling you to do just about anything with your tabs, I love that it incorporates a session saver where you can save all your tabs for later use.

Download Them All - DownThemAll is the ultimate downloads manager. It features an advanced accelerator that increases speed up to 400% and it allows you to pause and resume downloads at any time.

Stop-Or-Reload Button - You either stop loading a page, or you reload a stopped one. You only really need one button. This extension merges them both and saves you screen space.

User Agent Switcher

Tags: firefox

Top 10 Firefox Extensions to Improve your Productivity

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:13:32 GMT

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Clip Source: www.lifehack.org

Top 10 Firefox Extensions to Improve your Productivity

Firefox is the browser of dreams for many people (myself included). One of the great perks of Firefox is that there are tons of extensions that enhance the functionality of the browser. With over 1500 extensions in existence, there are many that can be used to improve your productivity. The following is my take on the top 10 extensions that will keep you focused, reduce distractions, streamline your daily work flow, and improve your productivity.

Tags: firefox, browsers

Split Browser - Great new Firefox extension.

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:08:45 GMT

clipped by: Godfrey Daniel
clipper's remarks: Edit: new version, already.
This is really helpful when sending sections of webpages in Gmail. Simply drag your selections from the web page onto your Gmail composition field in the adjacent split pane.

Clip Source: addons.mozilla.org

Split Browser

by SHIMODA Hiroshi

This splits the content area of the browser window as you like. It will help you in various cases. For example, to compare multiple webpages, to show a calendar always, and so on.

There is some ways to split window.

* Choose the "Split Browser to" menu in the context menu.
* Choose the "Load in Split Browser" menu in the context menu on link.
* Click popup-button on top/bottom/left/right edges of the content area.

* Drop links, bookmarks, etc. to popup-button on top/bottom/left/right edges of the content area while dragging.

You can split browsers over and over. Status of split browsers are saved, and automatically restored on the next startup.

Works with:

Firefox

1.5 - 2.0.0.*

ALL

Install now (23 KB)

Version 0.2.2007011701, released on Jan 16, 2007.

Clip Source: addons.mozilla.org

Overview (fullsize)

Crazy sample - you can split browser infinitely!

Tags: firefox, extensions, split browser

The 7 hidden pages within your Firefox browser

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:02:08 GMT

clipped by: Scattered_Fusion

Clip Source: www.our-picks.com

about: A simple prompt without any parameter will display the Mozilla “about” information. Since it’s accessible from the top menus as well, it’s not quite a hidden feature.

about:buildconfig Obviously, it will show the build platform configuration and parameters

about:cache Will display info and statistics regarding your disk’s cache, including the name of your cache’s directory and a list of the entries you can find there. By default, Firefox doesn’t allow you to view the cached webpages, so this can be an useful option.

about:config Oh look, many many info. Indeed, it’s the most complex and meaningful of them all. Careful on what you plan to change here, your browser won’t run properly after if you play with the wrong things.

about:plugins Of course, what is Firefox without it’s powerful extensions? This option will display detailed information about all the plugins installed for Mozilla Firefox.

about:credits It’s time to give the credit to whoever deserves it. There’s an alphabetically sorted list of all the people that gave their contribution to the development of Firefox.

about:Mozilla This is a weird thing. It will display the so-called “Book of Mozilla”. Something similar was present in Netscape too. There’s actually no real book although the quotations might give you that impression.

Have fun browsing through your browser’s internal features.

Tags: firefox, internet, web, technology

Bookmarklets for Firefox et al

Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:04:26 GMT

clipped by: ghiberti
clipper's remarks: There's a dozen plus extra little bokkmarklets (snippets of javascript) to do various useful site customizations for you at the source.

Clip Source: tech.cybernetnews.com

A bookmarklet is a small JavaScript program that can be stored as a URL within a bookmark in most popular web browsers, or within hyperlinks on a web page. Because Internet Explorer uses the term favorites instead of bookmarks, bookmarklets are also less commonly called favelets by users.

Bookmarklets can be saved and used like normal web page bookmarks. Therefore, they are simple “one-click” tools that can add substantial functionality to the browser. For example, they can:

Modify the way a web page is displayed within the browser (e.g., change the font size, background color, etc.).

Extract data from a web page (e.g., hyperlinks, images, text, etc.).

Jump directly to a search engine, with the search term(s) input either from a new dialog box, or from a selection already made on a web page.

Submit the page to a validation service.

There are all kinds of services that provide bookmarks, especially for browsers that don’t support extensions or add-ons, like Opera. The problem is trying to find ones that are actually useful to you. Below I have categorized the different bookmarklets depending on what you are trying to do. I have quite an extensive collection of bookmarklets that I have gathered over the years with my two primary sources being SquareFree and OperaWiki. I’ll be mashing the two sources together to bring you my favorites, and each one will have images signaling which browsers they work with (Firefox 2 , Internet Explorer 7 , and Opera 9 ).

Note: To use any of the following bookmarklets just hold down the left mouse button and drag the hyperlink to the bookmark toolbar in your browser.

Color code links
Makes all internal links on a site red, external links blue, and links pointing to the current page (internal bookmarks) orange.

Hide visited hyperlinks
Removes all hyperlinks that you have already visited on a site, therefore making it easier to see which links you still need to open.

Tags: browsers, bookmarklets, firefox, customization, flock, opera, ie7, javascript

27 Of The Most Useful Firefox Extensions

Sat, 16 Dec 2006 14:22:59 GMT

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Clip Source: www.thanassis.com

27 Of The Most Useful Firefox Extensions

1. AI Roboform Toolbar : http://www.roboform.com/

2. All-In-One Sidebar : http://firefox.exxile.net/

3. Colorful Tabs : http://varun21.googlepages.com/main.html

4. CoLT (short for "Copy Link Text") : http://www.borngeek.com/firefox/colt/

5. Optimise Google : http://www.customizegoogle.com/

6. del.icio.us Extension : http://del.icio.us/

7. Digg This : http://j.domaindlx.com/diggthis/

8. DOM Inspector : http://www.mozilla.org/projects/inspector/

27 Of The Most Useful Firefox Extensions

1. AI Roboform Toolbar : http://www.roboform.com/

2. All-In-One Sidebar : http://firefox.exxile.net/

3. Colorful Tabs : http://varun21.googlepages.com/main.html

4. CoLT (short for "Copy Link Text") : http://www.borngeek.com/firefox/colt/

5. Optimise Google : http://www.customizegoogle.com/

6. del.icio.us Extension : http://del.icio.us/

7. Digg This : http://j.domaindlx.com/diggthis/

8. DOM Inspector : http://www.mozilla.org/projects/inspector/

9. Duplicate Tab : http://twanno.mozdev.org/

10. Fasterfox : http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/

11. Firefox Extension Backup Extension v.3 (FEBE) : http://customsoftwareconsult.com/extensions/index.html

12. Fission : http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=370248

13. Google Preview : http://ackroyd.de/googlepreview/

14. IE Tab : http://ietab.mozdev.org/

15. Mouse Gestures : http://optimoz.mozdev.org/gestures/

16. Mozlab : http://dev.hyperstruct.net/trac/mozlab

17. MyPortal : http://myportal.mozdev.org/

18. Performancing :http://performancing.com/

19. RanQuest SEO Toolbar : http://www.rankquest.com/

20. Reveal : http://aluminum.sourmilk.net/reveal/

21. Rite of Tongue : http://hashcolouredtabs.mozdev.org/riteoftongue/

22. RubNub : http://www.rubnub.org/

23. Sage : http://sage.mozdev.org/

24. Search Status : http://www.quirk.biz/searchstatus/

25. StumbleUpon : http://www.stumbleupon.com/

26. VideoDownloader : http://videodownloader.net/

27. WebDeveloper : http://chrispederick.com/work/webdeveloper/

Tags: tips, firefox, extension

About:config entries - MozillaZine

Sat, 30 Sep 2006 14:23:36 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes

Clip Source: kb.mozillazine.org

About:config entries

about:config is a list of preferences that you can change. This article is meant to be a partial documentation of those preferences. Alternative lists can be found at the Preferential project, Mozilla's networking documentation, and Mozilla's embedding documentation. See also Editing configuration and User.js file.

Tags: about:config, about, config, firefox, customize, mozilla, ff, hack, help, tip, trick, howto

27 of the Most Useful Firefox Extensions

Tue, 18 Jul 2006 02:07:36 GMT

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Clip Source: www.thanassis.com

27 Of The Most Useful Firefox Extensions

Firefox has already more than 1200 extensions. Which ones are useful? After indulging in installing few hundred of them, I choose the 27 best, based on how much I use them every day. I've been impressed by many, but these 27 are the ones I use daily. The order is alphabetical.

1. AI Roboform Toolbar : http://www.roboform.com/

2. All-In-One Sidebar : http://firefox.exxile.net/

3. Colorful Tabs : http://varun21.googlepages.com/main.html

4. CoLT (short for "Copy Link Text") : http://www.borngeek.com/firefox/colt/

5. Optimise Google : http://www.customizegoogle.com/

6. del.icio.us Extension : http://del.icio.us/

7. Digg This : http://j.domaindlx.com/diggthis/

8. DOM Inspector : http://www.mozilla.org/projects/inspector/

9. Duplicate Tab : http://twanno.mozdev.org/

10. Fasterfox : http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/

11. Firefox Extension Backup Extension v.3 (FEBE) :

12. Fission : http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=370248

13. Google Preview : http://ackroyd.de/googlepreview/

14. IE Tab : http://ietab.mozdev.org/

15. Mouse Gestures : http://optimoz.mozdev.org/gestures/

16. Mozlab : http://dev.hyperstruct.net/trac/mozlab

17. MyPortal : http://myportal.mozdev.org/

18. Performancing :http://performancing.com/

19. RanQuest SEO Toolbar : http://www.rankquest.com/

20. Reveal : http://aluminum.sourmilk.net/reveal/

21. Rite of Tongue : http://hashcolouredtabs.mozdev.org/riteoftongue/

22. RubNub : http://www.rubnub.org/

23. Sage : http://sage.mozdev.org/

24. Search Status : http://www.quirk.biz/searchstatus/

25. StumbleUpon : http://www.stumbleupon.com/

26. VideoDownloader : http://videodownloader.net/

27. WebDeveloper : http://chrispederick.com/work/webdeveloper/

Tags: firefox, extensions, tools

Clipmarks | RiverRed's 'extensions' clips

Power Up OpenOffice.org with Writer's Tools

Bill's Big List of Firefox 2.0 Compatible Extensions

Bill's Big List of Firefox® 2.0 Compatible Extensions

5 Firefox Extensions That Make All the Difference in the World

Top 10 Firefox Extensions to Improve your Productivity

Top 10 Firefox Extensions to Improve your Productivity

Split Browser - Great new Firefox extension.

Split Browser

Overview (fullsize)

Crazy sample - you can split browser infinitely!

The 7 hidden pages within your Firefox browser

Bookmarklets for Firefox et al

27 Of The Most Useful Firefox Extensions

27 Of The Most Useful Firefox Extensions

27 Of The Most Useful Firefox Extensions

About:config entries - MozillaZine

About:config entries

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27 of the Most Useful Firefox Extensions

27 Of The Most Useful Firefox Extensions

Bill's Big List of Firefox^® 2.0 Compatible Extensions