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· 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.
· September 18, 2007 at 6:20 am · Firefox Usability
Who doesn’t want to have a map in their Firefox sidebar?
Ok, sure maybe I had never thought about doing that either, but for the mobile person I could see where this might be handy. While checking up on the latest CyberNet News I found this neat extension - Mini Map Sidebar.
Here is a little more about the extension from the developers.
This extension comes with two mapping components, the main and most powerful one being a minimap sidebar. In this sidebar you can drag and drop addresses or locations you find on web pages and they will be automatically located, and added to your saved address list. The sidebar is launched from the toolbar icon (customize toolbar and drag in), a statusbar icon and the view sidebar menu.
It is a map, it lives in the sidebar… what else is there to say?
· June 8, 2007 at 7:09 am · Tabbed Browsing
Want to navigate your tabs via a menu selection in the top menu bar in Firefox?
Usually folks are trying to figure out ways to make their menu bar shorter and not longer. I guess in this circumstance though adding the option to your toolbar might be increasing Firefox’s usability to some. The extention to help you get this job done is called Tabs Menu.
Adds a Tabs menu to the main menu that lets you easily change between tabs. Adds a Tabs menu to the main menu bar that lists all tabs in the current window. You can see the full titles for each tab and you can see more tabs in this vertical menu than in the standard horizontal tab bar.
Tabs Menu might not an extension on everybody’s top ten list - but I think it is well worth checking out.
· 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!
· February 19, 2007 at 5:10 am · Tabbed Browsing
Now we all knew that you can open a new tab by hitting the Ctrl key plus “T”, but did you know you can change the tab you are looking at by hitting the Ctrl key plus one of the number keys?
For an example, lets say you have four tabs open. If you click Ctrl and “1″ you will go to the first tab. If you hit Ctrl and “2″ you will go to the second tab. As you can guess - this goes on and on till you go all the way to 9.
Now switching tabs back and forth is what I do a lot during the day in my day job (working sales support). Hopefully this newly found tip will be helpful for you as well.
· February 6, 2007 at 8:18 am · Firefox Usability
I know some people hate it, I try not to worry myself personally over it - but it is something we all have to deal with on a day to day basis. Scrolling up and down can be a workload that our index finger just does not need. Think if your index finger could talk, what would it say?
It would probably tell you to download the Back to Top extension for Firefox!
Back to Top helps navigate long pages. Go to the top or bottom of a page with a single click. Using right clicks and control clicks you can scroll a page or line at a time. Version 4.0 allows you to map the clicks any way you like. With drag and drop, the statusbar icons can be ergonomically arranged.
+ Download and Install the Back to Top Extension for Firefox!
· January 29, 2007 at 8:18 am · Firefox Usability
The Yuku service is pitching itself has being message boards for the Web 2.0 world. Do they live up to that hype? Not really sure. They seem popular, but that is not the business I am in. They do have a mighty nice Firefox extension though.
The Yuku Firefox Extension is an add-on that alerts Firefox users with the latest updates on their Yuku profiles! Get notified when you receive a New Message, a New Comment and when you recieve a New Friend Request!
This extension also claims to make it easy to switch between profiles and navigate the Yuku Web site with quick navigation links. Sounds good to me, what do you think?
+ Download and Install the Yuku Extension for Firefox!
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