Here are a few more extensions I’ve been recommended to install or found while browsing some extension sites…
- ChromEdit
- This adds a link on the options menu to easily edit the user files associated with Firefox. You can change the look of the browser but I use it to tweak CSS rendering on the page, such as removing blinking items and hiding marquees.
- Jon Hicks has written
an article on tweaking Firefox using the user “content files”. Also check out the user comments at the bottom of this post.
Here are the tweaks and customisation that I’ve done to my copy of Firefox to give you an idea. First of all, make life easy for yourself and install Chris Neale’s ChromEdit extension. This allows you to edit the user files from within Firefox. Once you’ve restarted, ‘Edit User Files’ will appear under the Tools menu.
http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/545/tweaking-firefox-with-css
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- If you’re familiar to Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, then you’ll probably be familiar it’s nifty toolbar that appears over images.
Well this extension mimiks this behaviour for the convenience of saving images which appears when you mouseover images. The toolbar looks like this…
- Adblock
- Even though Firefox comes with a built in popup stopper, this extension blocks obvious adverts on websites. You can go to your favourite ad-ridden site and simply right-click and add them to AdBlock. This works with anything you don’t like, such as annoying animations on forums which I’ve come across a lot lately.
- Nuke Anything
- Don’t like something on a page, simply right click and nuke it. Unfortunately the nuked items reappear when the page is revisited. Useful if you’re reading a page and there are annoying banners, with two clicks they’re gone. To get rid of them permantly use the AdBlock extension
- Bookmark Backup
- A great solution to my worst internet fear, losing all my bookmarks! I have a lot of resources and I want to keep them, this extension sets my mind at ease by backing them up everyday for a week at a time. You can also save other information such as passwords and history.
- Weather Fox
- Neatly display current weather information and forecasts in the browser. It intergrates very neatly into the status bar, but can also be placed elsewhere. It is highly configurable such as hiding/showing of days and images also how far ahead the forecast goes.
- Statusbar Clock
- A little extension which adds date and time information to the status bar. This is fairly customisable with different settings for the time and date.
- Minesweeper
- Another classic game!
Still using the archaic and dangerous Microsoft Internet Explorer? If so I suggest reading this website; Stop IE, which gives numerous reason why to switch and plenty of great alternatives.
Renders pages incorrectly. Web designers then need to spend extra time working so that pages work in Internet Explorer. This puts costs up, and slows the web down.
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