Over a year ago, I began a post on my favourite FF add-ons. Here, I continue to list them, in no particular order.
1) Cooliris: Stunningly smooth. It is just SO bee-yew-ti-ful. I think it beats iPhoto aesthetics, which is saying something. It's great for scanning images on Google Images & now it even allows me to look at pics on my hard disk.
2) Locationbar: One of those really tiny but really awesome add-ons. It 'linkifies' your url, so that one click directs you to the home page of the site you stumbled upon.
3) Copy Plain Text: Copies the selected text as plain text saving you from the formatting nightmare. (Copy>Paste in Notepad>Copy>Paste in Word). You can even make it your default copy function.
4) UnMHT: If there was anything I missed about IE/Maxthon, it was this. When you save web pages to your hard disk as .html, each page creates it's own folder with all the embedded graphics blah blah. And the page won't open independently. This can be bypassed by saving it as an MHTML file, which saves the whole web page, all baggage included, as ONE file. This option wasn't available on FF for very long. Finally someone got around to make an add-on that works. :D
5) Xmarks: Previously known as Foxmarks. You are probably using it. Non-invasive, seamless backup + syncing of your FF bookmarks across computers. (It has some social bookmarking feature too now, but I just inactivated that). Saved me a panic attack many a times. I get palpitations at the very thought of what I'll do if my bookmarks get erased. The reason being, I save all my research work as bookmarks. I don't use Zotero/Google Notebook and the like. I simply save all relevant tabs (>Bookmark all tabs) in a separate folder lets say "Synthetic Biology". Next time I want to refer to it> Open all in tabs. As Xmarks syncs across OS, I don't have to bother about whether I surf on the PC/Mac.
6) Screengrab: Takes a screenshot. Period. Nothing very spectacular unless you are a Mac user (because Mac has a harebrained scheme of saving screenshots as .tiff).
7) Firesizer: I cannot believe I took so long to find this one. I resizes your screen. I use it especially to make sure my blog works fine on the 800 X 600 resolution.
8) Stylish: To quote, "Stylish is to CSS what Greasemonkey is to JavaScript". What I loved about this is that it allows you to preview the styles before you install. I am new to Stylish myself, but I found three neat uses:
- about: blank brushed: Simply gives you a nice grey brushed background for about: blank. There are dozen similar styles available, one even lets you choose you use your selected picture as the background.
- Google reader OS X Style: Finally, I found a great Greader theme. I know a lot of people use the Better Greader themes. I am a big Lifehacker fan, but the 'Better' add-ons are pretty lousy in my opinion.
- Add to Bookmarks Plus: Very useful. It displays 'keyword' and 'description' field in the 'Add to Bookmarks' box.
That's all. I know I should make it 10, a nice, contented, round number. But I don't have a 10th one. Any suggestions?
3 comments:
About Number 3 (Copy Plain Text),another option could just be to paste only the unformatted text- Paste Special>Unformatted text.
A great thing about Screengrab is the ability of taking screenshots of only parts of the screen- instead of taking a screenshot of the entire page and then cropping it.
Some other great addons- Define Word, DownloadHelper, Fast Dial, Firebug (for the geeks amongst you), Foxytunes great to control your music player without having to leave Firefox, Hyperwords (VERY useful), Integrated GMail (you might like it, you might not- it's sort of buggy, but maximizes your screen real estate), TwitterFox (for those of you who, you know- tweet) and User Agent Switcher (VERY useful)
Chrome ftw
absolutely adorable!!!!!!!
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