Rather than hunting down the X to close your current tab, what if all you had to do was wish upon a star, and then right click anywhere on the tab you wish to shut down? I will let you know how to get that done, without the need of the “wishing upon a star” part.
The History Submenus extension for Firefox is here to make thumbing through the browser’s history easier.
Looking for a way to keep your eye on your stocks?
Sure, there are a number of different web sites that will do this, but adding this functionality to Firefox would be even cooler. StockFox is the best lightweight stock ticker you can integrate into the Firefox browser.
Do you find yourself typing the same snipits of information over and over again? Maybe it is a form you need people to answer, or perhaps it is just your e-mail signature. With Clippings, an extension for Firefox, you can quickly archive all your most used blocks of text to be used anytime.
Once you have this add-on installed, you can save frequently entered text for later really easily. All it takes is two mouse clicks and your text is there. Just right-click in the textarea, select clippings and then select the name for the text you wish to paste in.
For those of you who don’t keep a miniature English teacher on your desktop to help you with your writing woes, there is After the Deadline. Now, I have already told you before about the great bookmarklet they provide to help you with your spelling and grammar errors, but now they have a Firefox extension too.
Tree diagrams are awesome.
Firefox is even more awesome.
What happens when you mix together this much awesomeness?
You get the History Tree add-on for Firefox. What does it do to your browser? You can use it to find any page you have visited quickly and easily. It also shows your browsing history as a tree of tabs, with thumbnail screenshots of the web pages in every tab you have opened.
Usage Note: This is an experimental add-on, only for Windows at this time. So you will need to login to the Firefox Add-ons site to grab it or click the check mark box next to Let me install this experimental add-on.
This is a great Firefox add-on if you spend a lot of time navigating through the pages you just visited. Pickup the History Tree add-on for Firefox and check out a different view of the pages you have visited.
The extension, NetVideoHunter, promises you a world of easy to download videos and music from any YouTube-like video sharing web site. With it, you can download media from places such as YouTube, MySpace, Google Video, Metacafe, Dailymotion and more.
One more nice feature that comes with this add-on is that before you download any video or music, you can play it in a built-in media player. It has both fullscreen and video smoothing capabilities too, to make your viewing experience just that much better.
Here is a video tutorial on how to get the most out of NetVideoHunter:
Now, truth be told – there are a lot of extensions out there that promise to make content downloading easy and painless, however many fail in a number of ways. NetVideoHunter however, has yet to disappoint. If you have your own favorite media downloader for Firefox, feel free to share!
Want to remove all the clutter from your favorite site to read, and get right to the text? TidyRead, an extension for Firefox, removes all the extra stuff from a web page or article that can make reading on the Web difficult at times.
This browser add-on does a simple, yet effective, job of stripping away the extra content from news or blog article pages, leaving you with nicely formatted text to enjoy. Since the new version is overlaid on top of the old version, switch between the two is very easy. You also have the options to customize it to suit your own reading style too (white on black, black on white, white on green, ect).
Well worth trying out, if you find some of the content on the Web a little hard on your eyes. You can pick up TidyRead on the Firefox Add-ons web site.
In need of shortening a long URL into a short one? Now, I don’t have to tell you that there are a plethora of services out there to do this for you, however I think I may have found my new favorite way of doing so in Firefox.
Shorten URL, an extension for Firefox will do this for you. From the context menu, you can quickly shorten any link or web page’s URL into one that is easier to share. Once installed, you can launch the link shortener in a number of different ways. Right-clicking any link will give you the “Shorten this link URL” in the context menu. Also right-clicking on any page will do the same. You can even even launch the link shortener for a specific frame too.
Here are some of the other Shorten URL features:
To learn more or to install, be sure to check out their Google code profile or their page on the Firefox Add-ons site. It has become my new favorite way to shrink a link.
Want to discover great web sites without the work of searching for them? SimilarWeb, an add-on for Firefox, will do the searching for you. Its job is to suggest similar web sites you might enjoy as you browse around the Web.
I am always looking for new ways to find new and interesting sites out there so this is an add-on I really enjoy. There are several ways to customize the way you view the similar sites too, that are displayed as a sidebar on the left of whatever web site you might be browsing at the time.
Here is a rundown on the various cool features:
For more information on SimilarWeb be sure to check out their web site at SimilarWeb.com. Right now the extension is available for both Internet Explorer and Firefox.
