:: Fox Fixes ::
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On Jayvee's suggestion, I'm allowing my geek tendencies to come to light once again and writing about technical, computer-related stuff. You have been warned - this entry is for geeks, specifically tech geeks, and most definitely not for technophobes.
Anyway, Jayvee's suggestion was this: write about my top Firefox extensions. If your idea of extensions involves lengthening hair (or other parts of the human anatomy), then I suggest you click away to another page - you won't find what you're looking for here. If you don't know what Firefox is, go get it. Get it now! If, however, you know what I'm talking about, then good. Here they are.
1. Tab Mix Plus
Think tabbed browsing is cool? This extension will make you wonder how you ever managed to get any surfing done on IE. TMP will let you really take advantage of those tabs. Lock or protect them, move them around, duplicate them, basically customize them. Did you accidentally close a tab? Just re-open it, or any of the tabs you recently closed. Think of anything else you can do with your tabs? This will probably do it.
What's with the plus? Did you accidentally close Firefox? Did your system hang? Were you juggling some 34,252,827 tabs at the time? You don't have to re-open every little link. The session manager lets you restart Firefox right where you left off, or if you choose, at a previously saved session.
2. Show Image
Don't you just hate it when you load a page, and some of the images are missing? Normally, you'd be able to right-click on the image and load it. This should be the case with Firefox, right? Wrong. You have to reload the entire page just to get the missing image (or images) to load. This little extension is a feature that should have been built into Firefox. Good thing somebody came up with it though.
3. IE Tab
Some sites, unfortunately, simply don't work in Firefox. Most banking and financial sites don't. This lets you keep a tab (or more, if you'd like) running Internet Explorer in your Firefox window. Never open IE again - well, sort of.
4. DownTHEMall
Find a bunch of links you like on a page? How about several pictures? Download them all! Enough said, right?
5. Restart Firefox
I install, remove, and update my extensions. A lot.
I'm also lazy - too lazy to close Firefox (1 click), find the shortcut to it (a few more clicks) then re-open it (2 more clicks). Restart Firefox lets me, well, restart Firefox in 3 clicks. Tops.
Honorable Mentions
SwitchProxy Tool, Download Embedded, FasterFox
Well, that's it. Jayvee, if you're reading this, it's your turn.
17:02 | view comments
On Jayvee's suggestion, I'm allowing my geek tendencies to come to light once again and writing about technical, computer-related stuff. You have been warned - this entry is for geeks, specifically tech geeks, and most definitely not for technophobes.
Anyway, Jayvee's suggestion was this: write about my top Firefox extensions. If your idea of extensions involves lengthening hair (or other parts of the human anatomy), then I suggest you click away to another page - you won't find what you're looking for here. If you don't know what Firefox is, go get it. Get it now! If, however, you know what I'm talking about, then good. Here they are.
1. Tab Mix Plus
Think tabbed browsing is cool? This extension will make you wonder how you ever managed to get any surfing done on IE. TMP will let you really take advantage of those tabs. Lock or protect them, move them around, duplicate them, basically customize them. Did you accidentally close a tab? Just re-open it, or any of the tabs you recently closed. Think of anything else you can do with your tabs? This will probably do it.
What's with the plus? Did you accidentally close Firefox? Did your system hang? Were you juggling some 34,252,827 tabs at the time? You don't have to re-open every little link. The session manager lets you restart Firefox right where you left off, or if you choose, at a previously saved session.
2. Show Image
Don't you just hate it when you load a page, and some of the images are missing? Normally, you'd be able to right-click on the image and load it. This should be the case with Firefox, right? Wrong. You have to reload the entire page just to get the missing image (or images) to load. This little extension is a feature that should have been built into Firefox. Good thing somebody came up with it though.
3. IE Tab
Some sites, unfortunately, simply don't work in Firefox. Most banking and financial sites don't. This lets you keep a tab (or more, if you'd like) running Internet Explorer in your Firefox window. Never open IE again - well, sort of.
4. DownTHEMall
Find a bunch of links you like on a page? How about several pictures? Download them all! Enough said, right?
5. Restart Firefox
I install, remove, and update my extensions. A lot.
I'm also lazy - too lazy to close Firefox (1 click), find the shortcut to it (a few more clicks) then re-open it (2 more clicks). Restart Firefox lets me, well, restart Firefox in 3 clicks. Tops.
Honorable Mentions
SwitchProxy Tool, Download Embedded, FasterFox
Well, that's it. Jayvee, if you're reading this, it's your turn.