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DejaClick – Manage Repetitive Tasks

Oct/04 in Usability

Record Your Browser Doing the same thing over and over again sucks. Being repetitive sucks. If the Web is all about making my life better, why do I have to keep doing the same things over and over again? DejaClick, an extension for Firefox, looks to end my repetitive ways.

Here is a little more about the extension from the developers:

DejaClick is a web recorder and Super Bookmark utility designed exclusively for Firefox. You can record and bookmark your browser activities, then with a single click, replay the entire sequence all over again.

Now where does this come in handy? Well think of the tasks on the Web that you must do where you have to click through several links to get to the spot you need. DejaClick can record your browser’s actions and replay them as many times as you need.

Some of the other features include:

One-button recording and bookmarking
Toolbar with full record/replay controls
Sidebar with replay results and property editing
Statusbar with record/replay status information
Action and Event keyword validation
Optional AlertSite Business Transaction Monitor integration

So if your wanting to cut down on your clicks and let the browser do some of the work for you – this is definitely a neat extension to at least try, to see if it will do the job for you… literally!

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Turning a Bookmark into a Search Tool

Sep/03 in Firefox Support

Bookmarks in Firefox have a very powerful feature that most people don’t know about. Let’s take a look at this:

Click on Bookmarks.
Right-click on any bookmark you have there.
Choose properties.

Now, third from the top, there is a text box called “Keyword”. Most likely, this is blank because by default it’s not used at all. Welcome to the wonderful world to keyword bookmarking. Let me show you how to use it.

Say for instance that you wanted to create a keyword bookmark for the search on firefoxfacts.com. Ok, lets go to that page. After using the Firefox Facts search using the words “test”, I come to the page:

http://www.firefoxfacts.com/index.php?s=test

If I bookmark it, it will look like any other bookmark.

Then, if I look at the properties of my newly created bookmark, I can make a few changes to it to transform it into a keyword bookmark:

Notice that the my search term “test” is in the address in the location field.
Replace that with the string “%s” to get http://www.firefoxfacts.com/index.php?s=%s.
Add a keyword to the keyword field. I chose “fxfacts” but anything will work. Use something short and you can remember.
Press OK.

Yay, now we have a keyword bookmark. This is how to use it:

Type the keyword of the bookmark in the address bar. (In my example “fxfacts”)
Type any search terms after that. (My example: “fxfacts bookmarks”)
Press the enter key.

Firefox will now take me to the Firefox Facts search for bookmarks just like that. Let’s see IE7 can do that!

Post by Samuel Brisby – Sam is currently a student majoring in computer science who loves and supports anything open-source especially the Firefox browser. Questions or comments can be sent to spamuel42 (at) gmail.com.

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How Can I Manage My Firefox Bookmarks?

May/28 in Bookmark Help, Firefox Support

After you have been on the Web for a while, you collect a ton of bookmarks from Web sites you have visited and want to visit again. Now organizing these and putting them in places where it is easier for you to find them is another task that some might hate to do. So how do you manage your Firefox bookmarks?

To get to the Bookmarks manager click on “Bookmarks” in the menu bar and then click on “Manage Bookmarks…”. A new window should come up with your Bookmarks Manager loaded inside.

Now this is where all the magic happens as far as bookmarks go. You can add new bookmarks from here. You can organize them into new folders. You can drag and drop them around to where you need them to be.

In the Bookmarks Manager, if you click File and then “Import” you can import your bookmarks from another browser or from a file. If you want to export your bookmarks to back them up or take them to another browser, all you need to do is go to File and then hit “Export”. You can then save them anywhere you wish as a “.html” file.

One more neat feature that people don’t pay much attention to is the “View” option in the Bookmark Manager’s menu bar. Clicking on that will allow you to sort your bookmarks in any number of ways. If you are looking for a specific one – this would be the way to find it.

How do you add things to the Bookmarks Toolbar? All you need to do is drag and drop bookmarks or folders into the folder called “Bookmarks Toolbar Folder”. If this name is a little too long for you – you can also rename it and you shouldn’t be hurting anything. I renamed mine to “Links”.

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AdaptiveBlue Interview

Oct/11 in Interviews

Now there is no saying that the adaptiveblue Firefox extension is not one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a while. The folks behind the magic are pretty awesome as well. I just caught wind of this interview with Alex Iskold and I thought it gave a pretty good insight on what it takes to create such a project.

+ Read Alex Iskold’s Interview with eHub!

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Google Browser Sync

Jun/08 in Add-ons Reviews

The folks at Google released a new Firefox extension. What is its name? Google Browser Sync. What does it do? Take a guess!

Google Browser Sync for Firefox is an extension that continuously synchronizes your browser settings – including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords – across your computers. It also allows you to restore open tabs and windows across different machines and browser sessions. For more info, please visit our FAQ.

To use the extention, all you need to do is configure the extension on all computers for which you’d like your browser settings automatically kept in sync.

[Learn More About Google Browser Sync!]

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