More Helpful Firefox Add-Ons

Well, it’s been almost three years since I made the Maxwell House/Firefox switch. Oh, the times Firefox & I have had. Quiet strolls though the park, pointing at children feeding beard to geese, flying matching kites, holding hands as we spin around in circles atop the hill as flower pedals fall from the trees with a nice overhead panning out view. Ahh, good times.

Now, I’m not one for too many browser add-on. Why people install the AOL, Yahoo, Google or MSN type toolbars is beyond me. Even the fact that people have multiple toolbars installed that do the same fucking things. Dummys. You’re just taking up valuable browsing real estate.

So, on to the add-ons…

[url=https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3199]Link Alert[/url]:
This adds small icons to the mouse cursor when you have over hyperlinks. It indicates links that are new windows, secured sites, email links, javascript, word docs, excel docs, pdf’s, zip’s, rss feeds and such. It’s not hard to read the statusbar but sometimes people clear out the statusbar with javascript. Any ways, it’s a nice feature to have.

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[url=https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4364]Adblock Plus: Element Hiding Helper[/url]:
Now, you’ve already have Adblock, right? Of course you do. You’ve blocked all those ads, well, at least you think you have. You can’t see ‘em, how do you know if they were there to begin with? Yea, I don’t care to know that either. So, sometimes an ad will be blocked but, there’s a giant white space of where the ad was. Best example I know of is on [url=http://www.nfl.com]NFL.com[/url]. Element Hiding Helper allows you to highlight the surrounds element of where the ad was an hide that HTML element also. You could write the rule by hand in Adblock, but whose got time to view the source and find HTML elements. Besides me. This is a sweet Add-on and I’m glad I found it because I was thinking I’d have to write it.

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[url=https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5648]FireShot[/url]:
FireShot adds the ability to take a screen shot of web page, the entire visible part, edit it, add annotations and save (PNG, JPEG, BMP), copy to clipboard, send to external editor or e-mail it. Say goodbye to the days of CTRL-ALT-Print Screen and pasting into some sort of text document only to add all comments under the screen shot. I did use Photoshop a couple times but, it was never a clean way to do things. Toy around with this one, it’s nice.

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Finally, [url=https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3262]DejaClick[/url]:
You can record and bookmark your browser activities, then with a single click, replay the entire sequence all over again. Which is all good if you work QA but, I don’t ever want to QA so I thought I’d ever use this. I decided to keep this Add-on in the back of my head. Then two days later came Friday, and my time sheet is due. If there was just some ways to automatic this mundane task of filling out my online time sheet. Bam! Deja-Fucking-Click. Got to site, click username, enter username, click password, enter password, submit, click “submit hours” link, select the first item in the “which week” drop down, submit, check “submit for approval” checkbox, click “my initials”, enter my initials, click Monday, enter 8, click Tuesday, enter 8, click Wednesday, enter 8, click Thursday, enter 8, click Friday, enter 8, submit. Done. I might find another use for it down the road. The only thing I don’t like about it is that it didn’t come installed into my Tools menu. It likes to be ran from a toolbar and you now how much I hate toolbars. And the toolbar doesn’t have small icons, uggh! The nerve of them making more unappealing to me.

UPDATE: I take that all back. DejaClick is awesome. I has a small button you can add to your existing toolbar to create new scripts and when you finish it adds the script as a bookmark. Kick ass!

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Let me know if you know of another helpful Add-on or just add your review to this thread.