Posts Tagged ‘extensions’

If at first the page doesn’t load, Try, Try Again (Firefox)

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Firefox extension Try Again attempts to connect repeatedly with the server when a website is down.

TryAgain v3.3.0

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Easily Add Fun Animations for Icons in Firefox

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Once enabled, Cute Buttons for Firefox adds animations when you hover or click. Rotate your Reload (or any) button, blur out unavailable options in menus or simply add ‘cute’ buttons where Firefox icons didn’t exist before. We’ve used this for a couple of months and truly enjoy the results.

Cute Buttons Crystal SVG v0.2.5

Extend Safari with Extensions

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We all love Firefox because it can so easily be modified and molded by using extensions. Safari 5 supports extensions now and already has nice collections of useful add-ons. Check out the gallery below.

Safari Extensions Gallery

Spell check whole pages (Firefox)

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Spell Checker highlights spelling errors on whole pages, not just text boxes. A simple click on a the Spell Check icon will reveal any mistakes found on a page. Dozens of downloadable dictionary languages available here.

Spell Checker v1.3.2

Text to Voice Adds Speech to Highlighted Text (Firefox)

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Highlight some text and choose your spoken language, Text to Voice will speak the copied words in either a female or male voice. You can even download the dialog in .MP3, pretty cool indeed.

Text to Voice v1.03 Firefox extension

TinEye Reverse Image Search browser extension (Firefox/Chrome)

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Ah, one we’ve been waiting for. Right click on any picture on the web and TinEye will scan over one billion images for a match. The results will even include a URL good for 24 hours so you can share. Brilliant idea !

TinEye Firefox addon

TinEye Chrome extension

TinEye homepage

Capture Entire Webpages With This Chrome Extension

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A cool extension for chrome that can help you capture the screenshot of an entire webpage in one click.

Webpage screenshot chrome extension

Hyperwords addon (Firefox)

Choose any word in a text and add powerful features like search, translate, research, copy and shop.

We love this extension !

 

Hyperwords v6.5.1 addon

Hyperwords User Guide

FoxClocks adds World Times in your Statusbar (Firefox)

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Firefox extension FoxClocks adds country or city times directly in your statusbar or by hovering over an icon. Quite handy if you have contacts from around the world or simply need to know where Happy Hour is occurring.

FoxClocks v2.6.17 download via Firefox Add-ons

Use Quick Translator to Translate Text in 50 Languages (Firefox)

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Just highlight some text, right click and choose your language. Quick Translator will translate over 50 languages and quickly and accurately. Weighing in at a tiny 55kb, we have and use this add-on regularly.

Quick Translator v.0.3.1 from Firefox Add-ons




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