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Remove All Color from a Page with the No Color Extension
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.
Create Your Own Custom Buttons (FF, TBird, Sunbird)
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.
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.
Use AutoPager For Continuous Scrolling Of Web Pages
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.
Automatically Change The Size Of The Firefox Searchbox
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.
Preview Open Tabs With Tab Scope For Firefox
Form and function meet with configurable previews for open tabs. Just hover over a tab and it’s contents will show in real-time in any size you’d like.
Clean Up Old and Duplicate Bookmarks (Firefox)
While we’ve always been a fan of AM Deadlink to check out bookmarks for dupes and errors, CheckPlaces for Firefox is fast becoming one of our favorite utility extensions. CheckPlaces will also look for new favicons.
Check4Change Monitors a Webpage By The Minute
When we were looking for a Wii a couple of years ago, we enabled this Firefox extension for Amazon’s Wii page and were able to buy one the moment they became available that week. Maybe it can help you this holiday season?
Love Greasemonkey? Greasefire Finds All Scripts On Any Page In One Click
Twitter.com for instance has 379 user scripts available to tweak the page. Right click on the Greasefire statusbar icon and you’re shown the results from userscripts.org, ranked by positive reviews and just a click away from installation. Both Greasemonkey and Greasefire extensions are required.