Friday, June 24, 2005
Firefox Extension I Like
Some useful Firefox extensions I discovered recently:
Their website explains this best: "Clean up unwanted banners and surrounding 'fluff,' especially prior to printing a page." It has already saved me a good bit of paper and I rarely print out webpages. There is a demo you can try on that page without downloading anything.
An extension that inserts thumbnail previews of websites into Google and Yahoo search results. Thumbnails are provided by thumbshots.org and alexa.com. Very useful for if you can remember what a website looked like and some keywords, but don't remember the title or address. That was the whole reason I downloaded it and I plan on keeping it now.
Adds a buttons bar that lists each word in the searchbox to easily find them in page and gives a highlight button so you can highlight search terms just like Google Cache does. You have to add the toolbar and button where you want them by customizing the toolbar area after you install.
Automatically update the Firefox searchbox when you're searching directly in the search engine, very useful in combination with SearchWP from the same author.
It gives you a visual representation of source code (color coded and blocked) that Firefox actually uses to render a page including javascript generated html.
And some extension I have been using for a long time:
A very simple and small tab extension. Mainly I just use it to allow double clicking on a tab to close it but it can do lots more (and that is just optional). Its not nearly as full featured as some other tab extension, but it does all I wanted and more.
This is a must for anyone who works with HTML or CSS and is still useful for people who don't. This is always the first or second extension I install when I start on a new installation of Firefox.
Shows the current page's Google PageRank just like you see in Google IE toolbar, except without the toolbar and having to use IE.
Makes organizing bookmarks in the correct place from the beginning easier.
Makes editing bookmarks easier by providing access to all the bookmark fields right inside the Bookmarks Manager.
Gives you weather conditions in the status bar and alerts you to severe weather warnings. I have already posted some about this extension. It's not really a necessity, but I like it and we don't even have much weather other than hot and dry most of the time around here.
Aardvark
Their website explains this best: "Clean up unwanted banners and surrounding 'fluff,' especially prior to printing a page." It has already saved me a good bit of paper and I rarely print out webpages. There is a demo you can try on that page without downloading anything.
GooglePreview
An extension that inserts thumbnail previews of websites into Google and Yahoo search results. Thumbnails are provided by thumbshots.org and alexa.com. Very useful for if you can remember what a website looked like and some keywords, but don't remember the title or address. That was the whole reason I downloaded it and I plan on keeping it now.
SearchWP
Adds a buttons bar that lists each word in the searchbox to easily find them in page and gives a highlight button so you can highlight search terms just like Google Cache does. You have to add the toolbar and button where you want them by customizing the toolbar area after you install.
SearchBox AutoUpdater
Automatically update the Firefox searchbox when you're searching directly in the search engine, very useful in combination with SearchWP from the same author.
ViewRenderedSource
It gives you a visual representation of source code (color coded and blocked) that Firefox actually uses to render a page including javascript generated html.
And some extension I have been using for a long time:
Tab Clicking Options
A very simple and small tab extension. Mainly I just use it to allow double clicking on a tab to close it but it can do lots more (and that is just optional). Its not nearly as full featured as some other tab extension, but it does all I wanted and more.
Web Developer
This is a must for anyone who works with HTML or CSS and is still useful for people who don't. This is always the first or second extension I install when I start on a new installation of Firefox.
Google PageRank Status
Shows the current page's Google PageRank just like you see in Google IE toolbar, except without the toolbar and having to use IE.
OpenBook
Makes organizing bookmarks in the correct place from the beginning easier.
Flat Bookmark Editing
Makes editing bookmarks easier by providing access to all the bookmark fields right inside the Bookmarks Manager.
ForecastFox
Gives you weather conditions in the status bar and alerts you to severe weather warnings. I have already posted some about this extension. It's not really a necessity, but I like it and we don't even have much weather other than hot and dry most of the time around here.
