Thread: Post you favourite or new and useful Firefox add ons here !

Foxmarks has been improved with the ability to use the database to store your passwords as well as your bookmarks. Very handy for me, as I keep on forgetting my Empornium password.

None of my add-ons worked with Beta, and without Cooliris especially, I gave up on it.

The memory problem was eased a little, but reloading FF solves that.

Originally Posted by CharleyFarley

None of my add-ons worked with Beta, and without Cooliris especially, I gave up on it.

The memory problem was eased a little, but reloading FF solves that.

Most of them wont work as its a new code so the extension for it wont have been released yet. There are workarounds.

How to Fix Broken Firefox Extensions and Make Them Compatible With New Version? - Tweaking with Vishal

If youre a geek.

Ive got a password manager called 1passwd and flashblock installed without any geekery.

Mozilla Firefox 2

This is the last update that will be available for Firefox 2, its reached the end of the line and will not be updated any further.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9427

Just found this one. Its a skin/theme that makes FF look like Google Chrome. The idea of this was to give me more real estate in my screen as it cuts out the completely useless titlebar above the address bar, Ive no idea why you need the title up there anymore as page titles are already displayed on the tabs. I cant use it because of a plugin for a password manager I use has a button that show up weird.

This is an experimental add on whic means you need to register and log in to download it. Nice blue colours BTW

Theres a full guide to making it as close to Chrome as possible here.

Extendably.com

All fixed, if I find any more handy tips I'll do more vids on them if this one gets a few views.

I cant try this as its not compatible with my FF version.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4578

Brief makes reading RSS feeds as easy and intuitive as it gets. Designed to have exactly the right set of features, it is powerful and simple at the same time. Feeds are presented on a seamless, interactive page which let's you bookmark and tag items with a single click.

This is also in the RSS thread Ive done.


https://teakdoor.com/computer-news/41...o-use-rss.html

This one has more than defiantly been posted before but to save me going through 8 pages to check I'll just go again.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8153

Spell Checker!!!!!! I've only just found it and wish I'd found it before. All posters on TD should install it before posting.

Foxclocks,

I'm not allowed to post URLs yet but google it and you'll find it. With this tool you can put several timezone clocks across the status bar at the bottom of the Firefox window. It is very handy if you do business or frequently call people in several other time zones around the world. You can pick from major cities to be displayed or change the names to whatever town or city you want in that zone. With the longitude and latitude option you can also have a direct link to Google Earth for that city.

Reminderfox,

This is a calendar/reminder tool that also resides in the bottom bar of the Firefox window and it is very handy to remind you of those birthdays, anniversaries, or appointments.

We all use the mouse at some point on a computer but I prefer keyboard shortcuts so heres a few Firefox tips

If you have a lot of tabs open and close one by accident you can retrieve the tab by using this shortcut

On Windows press

Code:

Ctrl-Shift-T

On Mac press

Code:

Command-Shift-T

And is if by magic your tab re-appears.

Spacebar = page down
Shift+Spacebar = page up

For the following ones if you use Windows substitute the Command key for the Ctrl key

Command + D = bookmark current page
Command + T = open new tab
Command + W = close current tab or window
Command + K = go to search box
Command + L = go to address bar

Theres loads more here

Keyboard shortcuts

Once you start to use the keyboard more for stuff in most applications things tend to get done a lot quicker!

That's great. Thanks. Is there a list of shortcuts for windows xp?

Originally Posted by jandajoy

That's great. Thanks. Is there a list of shortcuts for windows xp?

If you mean for the system then Im sure there are loads, google XP shortcuts.

Ive got a new software toy so Ive done a short video on how to add a keyword to a bookmark for quick access.

View in fullscreen by clicking the four arrows on the player controls.

Viddler.com - adding keywords to bookmarks - Uploaded by melvbot

This might help people on slower connections like dial up. If theres a site thats taking a long time to load because of flash or videos go to

View - Page Style and click No Style

This leaves a stripped out page of text, links and images without the backgrounds etc. This does render sites like youtube pretty useless but for most text based sites like news sites it should work fine.

The URL bar on FF3 seems crowded to me sometimes, at the place where the favicons displayed just to the left of the URL bar theres a popup when you click the favicon. On most sites like TD its pretty small but if you go to this extension page on Mozilla you'll see what I mean, theres is huge and takes up loads of space in the bar

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8758

The reason for the waffling is this extenxsion adds a few buttons inside the URL bar to do stuff like copy the URL etc. Cant use it on mine as it says its for an older version.

This is an extension for advanced preferences. gui:config makes it easier to change preferences that can only be found in the “about:config”.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5523

Gui:config Gives Easy Access to Hidden Firefox Settings

I cant see much thats of use to me with this extension, its a GUI for some of the settings in the about:config. If you like messing with cache sizes and configuring bookmark backups you wouldnt be the sort of user who would need this anyway.

Firefox 3.0.6 released. The usual flurry of things fixed, we've made it more stable etc so head over to here to grab it

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.6 Release Notes

or in Firfox got to

Help/Check for updates.

Originally Posted by melvbot

The usual flurry of things fixed, we've made it more stable etc so head over to here to grab it

I bet they haven't fixed the memory leak though.

I havent been keeping on top of the add ons lately but this one caught my eye. If you have loads of tabs open it can somethimes be difficult to tell whats what as they get reduced and stored in that tab thing next to the + sign on the right of the tab bar.

This extension

Firefox Showcase - Download

give you a preview pane of thumnails when you click the extra tab button next to the + sign. Loads easier to see which tab is which

Updated to 3.0.7 blah blah blah

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.7 Release Notes

I forgot about Songbird as I was on an OS version it wasnt made for, Ive upgraded so I can check it out.

New 1.1 version here

Songbird - Open Source Music Player

I tried Songbird. Not impressed.

Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 released. I'll give it a whirl

Firefox web browser | Help us test the latest beta