Archive for February, 2007
· February 28, 2007 at 12:28 pm · Firefox Usability
The other day, my sister said that the only reason she was using the Yahoo! toolbar with Firefox was for the auto-fill function that my brother-in-law liked.
At the time I did not know of a separate extension that would do the same thing. Well, I am happy to say after a little searching - I have found one.
The InFormEnter extension promises to save all of your important information so you can enter it into Web forms as you need or desire to.
InFormEnter adds a small, clickable icon next to every input field in a web form, from where you can select the item to be inserted - no typing required. You can configure it to display your frequently used information such as name, email, address and whatever else you want to be available from the form menu.
I might have to add this to the short list of extensions I use on a daily basis. It makes it really handy when you have a lot of Web forms to fill out.
+ Download and Install the InFormEnter Extension for Firefox!
Tags: auto, easy, extensions, fill, fill-out, firefox, forms, saved, tools
· February 27, 2007 at 9:03 am · Entertainment
When viewing photos or pictures Online, there has to be a better way to do it. I don’t want to have to scroll down the page looking at thumbnails.
That is so 2001! There has to be a more efficient way of getting this simple job done.
There is and it’s name is AutoSlideshow. The AutoSlideshow extension for Firefox allows you to view graphics on a Web page in a little “photo player”. Here is what the author of the extension has to say about it.
AutoSlideshow allows you to view slideshows of images of web pages or images linked to from web pages. This is mainly useful for viewing images of a page with no possibility for image browsing.
Right now it has special support for: wikipedia, google, yahoo, facebook.com and studivz.net. As time goes by I could see a lot of areas where this simple extension could expand and get even better.
+ Download and Install the AutoSlideshow Extension for Firefox!
Tags: extensions, firefox, graphics, photos, pictures, slideshow, viewing
· February 26, 2007 at 8:20 am · Most Wanted
This week, Roman writes in and wants to know of a way to do quicker searching via Firefox and not have to start at the beginning of the document to do it.
In IE, because it doesn’t search as you type, you can highlight a piece of text, and then press ctrl-F and have it search below your selection first, then it gets to the bottom of the page and searches the part of the page before your selection. in firefox, i find that the search as you type feature always starts at the top of the page. Is there a workaround?
For the quick searching that you need, I have found that using Firefox’s quick search would be the best way to go. It isn’t the same as the search that you get with Ctrl+F though. For this one all you need to hit is the / key.
This one will give you the search you need to start where you are on the page. Also after you are done with it, it disappears out of sight. Hope that helps!
Have another feature request or suggestion you’d like to see built into Firefox by default or added by an extension? Let me know about it and I’ll feature it on Firefox Facts and maybe even find you a solution to your problem (if you have one).
Tags: browser, feature, firefox, quick, request, searching, wanted
· February 26, 2007 at 8:00 am · General Posts
Now it isn’t very often that I interject any of my other projects here on Firefox Facts, but I hope this time around can be a small exception. I am very proud of the fact that I have been podcasting for two years now via my Web hosting podcast - the Web Hosting Show.
I just posted my two year anniversary show, and I would love it if you would listen to it and let me know what you think. Think of it like Firefox Facts, but it is about Web hosting and there is a lot more talking and silliness involved.
+ Download and Listen to the Web Hosting Show 2 Year Anniversary - Podcast 97!
Tags: anniversary, domains, Firefox News, hosting, podcast, radio, talk, two, web-hosting
· February 23, 2007 at 5:00 am · Firefox Themes
I have not really seen many religious Firefox themes come and go - not really sure why not. I mean, it makes fore as good of a theme as any other out there. Need an example? Check out the Bible Fox extension.
No matter which faith you might belong to or believe in, you have to admit this theme is pretty darn slick. The thing I like about it the most is it isn’t another Apple or Vista themed mess.
Yes another beautiful theme for your Firefox browser.
+ Download and Install the Bible Fox Theme for Firefox!
Tags: bible, brown, extensions, firefox, Firefox Themes, religious
· February 22, 2007 at 6:00 am · Firefox Usability
Feel like your tools menu is running out of space after that 30th extension you installed the other day? There is no doubt that your Tools menu in Firefox can get a little crazy if your not careful. The More Tools Menu hopes to solve that little issue though.
It’s rather common for Firefox extensions to want to let the user trigger an action. The way to do that is the menu bar. With the default menus in the menu bar, the tools menu is usually the only choice that makes any sense, so most all the extensions seem to stuff their commands inside the tools menu. Pretty quick, with the default and all the additional items, that menu is way too big to deal with.
This simple extension just takes all “new” tools menu items, and moves them into a new “More Tools” menu.
If your tools menu is getting a little hard to use, try picking up this extension - it really works!
+ Download and Install the More Tools Menu Extension for Firefox!
Tags: extensions, firefox, help, menu, more, more-tools, navigation, tools
· February 21, 2007 at 5:10 am · Firefox Usability, Most Wanted
Well I got my first request, and I am going to do my best to get it answered. Chris in Georgia writes:
When I’m forced to use IE, I use a ’skin’ called Greenbrowser. It includes a great feature that allows me to hotkey it to minimized, using “CTRL `” I’ve searched and searched for something like it for Firefox (including searching on Firefox Facts). I’ve also searched for the ability to set up custom hotkeys in FF, to no avail. Do you know if this exists? If not, where could I put this as an extension suggestion for those out there who do extensions?
Yes, this can be done with the Firefox extension MinimizeToTray. Install this into your browser and you will be able to send Firefox down to the system tray to keep it from taking up task bar space. How can you bring it back up? Well you could use your mouse and click on the icon or you could use the keyboard combo Ctrl+Shift+M.
Have another feature request or suggestion you’d like to see built into Firefox by default or added by an extension? Let me know about it and I’ll feature it on Firefox Facts and maybe even find you a solution to your problem (if you have one).
Tags: extensions, features, firefox, hotkey, minimize, questions, request, shrink
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