Posts Tagged ‘extensions’

The Wearing of the Green – St. Patrick’s Day Theme (Firefox)

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This new theme by the Brand Thunder project looks absolutely marvelous. One caveat, their Privacy policy which they spell out clear as a bell on the install page:

PRIVACY:
We respect your privacy. We do track some data – but it’s only numbers. We follow the total number of active themes, clicks on the extension buttons and themes using our search partners. That’s it.
Nothing is personally identifiable and nothing is on an individual basis. The full legal description is at brandthunder.com/eula if you’d like extra assurance.

St. Patrick’s Day theme and extension v1.0.2 via Firefox Addons

Flagfox Shows the Country Flag of a Website’s Server, WHOIS and much more (Firefox)

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Firefox extension Flagfox will show a map of the current page’s web server, it’s WHOIS information, Alexa rank, translation, reputation and a great deal more (Sverige above).

Flagfox v4.0.2 Firefox extension

Tiny add-on Tabberwocky replaces most of the Tab Mix Plus feature set

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Recent problems with Tab Mix Plus led us to look for a replacement extension to handle our basic tab opening needs. We came across Tabberwocky, a small but powerful alternative and will probably not look back even when TMP sorts out their (our) issue.

Tabberwocky v1.1 extension for Firefox

Support forum for Tabberwocky

Searchload Options extension for Firefox

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Searchload Options allows you to reset your search engine to it’s default settings or clear it completely after a period of time. A very tiny but very handy tweak for your Firefox searches. 

Searchload Options v0.5.7

Increase Productivity with Windows Explorer Add-ons

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Windows Explorer is probably where you spend a lot of time while working on your computer. Unfortunately, it’s not really as robust as it should be. Check out this article for five Windows Explorer add-ons to increase your productivity.

5 Windows Explorer Addons

Remove All Color from a Page with the No Color Extension

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With one click on a button, make viewing dark pages easy. If you ever need to see a page in white with no background image, try the No Color extension for Firefox.

No Color 0.2.8 extension for Firefox

Create Your Own Custom Buttons (FF, TBird, Sunbird)

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The Toolbar Button Maker extension gives over 100 button choices for Firefox, Thunderbird and Sunbird. Want a button to ‘hide all images’ on a page? Just click from the list and restart Firefox, Go to Customization and drag the icon to a toolbar and you’re all set.

Custom Button Maker

Original Toolbar Buttons Add-on 0.6.0.8

Cool Extension KwiClick Gives In-Tab Search Results

In this case, we highlighted the Metropolitan Museum of Art address and a small map of the Upper East Side of Manhattan appeared. This would be a great tool if just for that but there’s more. See Google, Bing, Amazon, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook (and more) results without leaving the page you’re on. KwiClick integrates with FireGestures and is completely configurable. For a description of additional features, see the links below.

KwiClick v2.4.1 extension from Firefox Add-ons

KwiClick Home

Use AutoPager For Continuous Scrolling Of Web Pages

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Tired of clicking next on an article that you’re reading? AutoPager, an extension for Firefox, alleviates that task. Also available as a Greasemonkey script.

 AutoPager add-on v0.5.3.5

AutoPager homepage

Automatically Change The Size Of The Firefox Searchbox

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The Searchbar Autosizer changes the size of the searchbar based on the length of the query, a predefined length or by keeping it the same size all the time. Very handy if long searches needed to be seem in their entirety. You can also set minimum and maximum pixels. 5 star rating review at the add-ons page.

Searchbar Autosizer homepage @ MozDev

Install Searchbar Autosizer v1.4.5 @ Firefox Add-ons




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