Are you tired of how your Gmail looks? Do you think that Google’s own mail client’s interface is nice and clean but you still want to give it a new more futuristic look?
All you need to have to do so, is an extension called Stylish: it is a simple add-on that imports a CSS file and applies it to any site you want, so that any page can be redesigned at your wish.
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Let’s continue with our travel through the world of copying! We have already seen how to automatically copy a selected text, and also how to copy tab URLs with one single click.
What I want to show you today, is how to copy all the links present on any webpage…Is it difficult? Nothing easier!
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Copy Links is a free Firefox extension that aims to help anyone who has to copy a list of links from a webpage with a click.
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Bookmarks are important! Yes they really are, and many people want to know how to manage them.
But many of you also want to know how to better browse them, maybe with a thumbnail view so that you can recognize by sight what you are looking for.
Bookmark Previews is a powerful extension that adds an album view and a thumbnail view to your Bookmarks Organizer. It works in both Firefox 2 and Firefox 3, although it may act a little different between Firefox versions because each has a separate bookmarking system.
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Sometime ago we covered a really interesting argument that can be very useful and productive for many of us, and it was about auto-copying selected-text in Firefox.
Today our subject is always copying, but this time I am going to show you how to copy tabs URLs in one single click.
Tab URL Copier is a really simple but also useful extension that makes it easier to copy the URL of any opened tab.
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There’s a Firefox functionality that I have always wondered about and also wished for: it is the “Open With” function that you can use in the Internet Explorer’s download manager, but not in Firefox’s.
So everyone who has used both browsers to download and fie, might have noticed that with IE you can download a file to your Temporary folder, run the program, or document, or whatever that is, and deleted automatically afterwards, and I always wanted this feature in Firefox.
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Luckily, I discovered an extension called OpenDownload, that does exactly what I wished for: it integrates the “Open With” functionality in Firefox.
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This morning I received an interesting email, pointing to a website which reminded me of Digg, the popular sharing site which lets you vote for news you like, but completely about Mozilla and Firefox.
I liked it so much that I decided to integrate the latest updates in the right sidebar, and to include a button in my posts that lets automatically post articles to it.
FoxieWire is a website completely dedicated to Firefox, in which people can post news, reviews, add-ons, and everything concerning Mozilla Firefox from other blogs and sites.
With a Digg-like interface, users can then vote for posts, which can increase their ranking place and visibility.
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I like working with Firefox, but I need my add-ons/extensions installed inside it: that can improve and make your browsing experience way better, and not having my add-ons installed makes me feel naked, or more like I miss a part of my self.
Thankfully, there is an extension called FEBE (Firefox Environment Backup Extension) that can help you to backup your extensions easily.
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Febe lets you to backup Mozilla Firefox extensions and settings so you can restore it anytime and anywhere you want to
It does not only backup extensions: in fact, it can make backups of themes, bookmarks, profiles, cookies, passwords and just about anything inside Firefox.
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Firefox users might have had the problem of having too many bookmarks on their toolbar. After you add more than 15 tools, your Firefox toolbar begins to be overpopulated, and everytime you look for a site, you just go crazy looking for it.
Luckily a new extensions called Smart Bookmarks Bar will cut out the names of those sites, just leaving the icon for you to recognize that site, and so that you will be able to have up to 50 items on your toolbar.
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Sometimes all of us need to take a screenshot of some part of a web page, whether to catch some text, images, or even videos. Sure there are many softwares, free and none, that can help you do this.
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But there is also a free and simple one, that completely integrates with Firefox.
It’s called FireShot, and it is a free Firefox add-on that anyone can use to take screenshots of any region of your browsing space.
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Email, RSS feed reader and calendar are some of the things no one can do without. Nowadays these services have started to be used in a web based way, and no more with some specific software.
We have already seen how some extensions, like MorningCoffee, can open them up for us automatically in separated tabs.
But sometimes, specially for those who use millions of tabs simultaneously, it might happen that you accidentaly close one of your “vital tabs”.
PermaTabs is a Firefox extension that locks and keeps tabs open, without letting you close them. Plus, when Firefox starts, those tabs will also open automatically.
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