Make Menus Stay Open!

Comments · April 4, 2008 at 7:03 am · Firefox Usability

It can become a nuisance when you want to click on multiple items in a menu inside of Firefox and right before you get to click that second or third link, the menu disappears and you have to go hunt it down again. If you want to make your menus stay open then you need to pick up the Stay-Open Menu add-on for Firefox.

With this addon you can lock your menus in place so you can go in and select multiple items before you are ready to close. Here are a few additional notes from the developer:

• Middle-clicking each Bookmarked item in the Bookmarks Menu will open it in a tab, while leaving the menu open for further selections. (Left-click the desired menu to open it, find the items you wish to open, then middle-click each desired item to open it in a tab.) When you are done making selections, click somewhere outside the menu (or press ESC) to close the menu.
• Also works in the same way with the Bookmarks Toolbar. This applies to the new ‘Smart Bookmarks’ as well, since by default it is a folder residing in the Bookmarks Toolbar.
• Same functionality in History Menu (added in version 0.5).
• The Bookmarks Sidebar stays open by default even without this extension, but I prefer the Bookmarks Menu because I like the way the folders automatically open when hovered.

You can pickup Stay-Open menu on the developer’s web site or if you have a login to Mozilla’s Add-on site you can pick it up there too.

Tags: help, history, live-bookmarks, menus, navigation, stay open

LiveClick

Comments off · June 7, 2006 at 5:00 am · Firefox Usability

Live bookmarks are great. They make RSS feeds just a little easier for folks that might not have a feed reader of choice. There are a few things lacking from the experience though. Thankfully though there is now a Firefox extension that fills in the holes when it comes to live bookmarks and how they work.

[Learn More About LiveClick!]

Tags: extensions, firefox, live-bookmarks, rss

OPML Support for Firefox

Comments off · June 5, 2006 at 10:16 am · Bookmark Help

OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language) is usually used in feed readers to pull all of your RSS feeds either in or out of the system. It is a very nice and organized way of keeping track of all that data, and it makes it a quick and easy job to backup. OPML Support is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox Web browser that adds OPML import/export functionality to the Firefox Bookmarks manager.

[Learn More About OPML Support!]

Tags: Bookmark Help, extentions, firefox, live-bookmarks, opml, rss

One Button Live Bookmarks Reloading

Comments off · May 22, 2006 at 8:59 am · Bookmark Help

How would you like to reload all of your Firefox Live Bookmarks by just hitting one single button? If this sounds like a dream come true for you, then you need to install the Reliby extension.

Reliby is a Mozilla extension that provides you with Reload all Live Bookmarks functionality. You can access it using the Bookmarks menu or by adding a button to your toolbar. Live bookmarks are RSS feeds inside your browser.

This is a real time saver, and almost makes Firefox feel like a real RSS reader.

[Learn More About Reliby!]

Tags: Bookmark Help, firefox, live-bookmarks, rss