Category Archives: Add-Ons

Add A Notepad To Firefox: QuickNote

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Bloggers and PC geeks usually copy lots of line while working, and maybe use clipboard managers to organize all of their copied text. Well, if you are a Firefox user, a really useful extension may be what you are looking for.

It is called QuickNote, and as the name suggests, it is an add-on that adds a simple notepad to Firefox in which you can copy and annotate everything you want.

Installing QuickNote is really simple, and can be done just by visiting the add-on page and, after this has been done, you have various ways of using it:
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Add Search Features To Firefox Address Bar: Quick Search

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Firefox’s address bar is almost perfect, but sometimes we would like it to do more: for example, if I want to search something on Ebay I have to type “Google item“, then browse the Google’s search page and find a page from Ebay.

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Quick Search is a Firefox add-on that enhances the address bar’s functionality, as well as adds search options to the right click menu, allowing you to easily make researches on Google, Amazon, Bing and Yahoo.

Let’s see how it works:
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Display Google Services At A Glance: Google Shortcuts

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What do you do if you need to make a research online? You type Google.com! What do you do to read your mail? You log into Gmail! What do you do when you want to read some RSS feeds? You open Google Reader!

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Everything we do, there’s always a way to do it with Google: whether you want to save bookmarks, create documents, organize pictures, create and read RSS feeds, look up paces on a map…and I could go on almost forever!

But does it not bother your to have your toolbar full of favorites pointing at any Google’s service you know, or even worse having to type the URL every time you need a specific service?

Google Shortcuts is a Firefox extension that displays all Google’s services in one single toolbar or, even better, in a small drop down menu next to the address bar, which can show only the places that you use more frequently, and that can behave as you wish.
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Increase The Readability Of Any Web Page: TinyRead

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While reading news and articles online, a lot of sites pay very little attention to the readability of their text, format and display. Instead, the reader’s eye is constantly drawn to other UI elements, ads, and widgets, which tend to make the content seem bad while it might be very good.

So what to do to prevent this and improve pages readability?

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TidyRead is a Firefox extension that renders web pages for better readability, giving them a look similar to eBooks, by accurately extracting the context text and removing the cluttered materials, so that you can read what you should and nothing else.
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Schedule Refreshing Web Pages: RealoadEvery

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Tired of hitting the refresh button for hours until the page changes and you see what you are waiting for? Wish it could refresh itself automatically on a time schedule?

Today on Lifehacker they presented a very useful extension that does just that: you select the time interval (or decide a custom one) and it’ll reload your page after a specific amount of time has passed.
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How To Turn Firefox Into Google Chrome With Two Add-Ons

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We already showed how to make Firefox look like IE 7 using a theme. Well maybe you could prefer Google Chrome’s look to IE’s, but you cannot live without your Firefox?

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To transform Firefox into Google Chrome, all wee need to use is two things : a full theme which will give the look and feel, and an extension that’ll move the tabs and make them look like Chrome’s ones.

Are you ready to start? Let’s begin!
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Display Your Browsing History As A Tree: History Tree

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Wish you could remember all the sites you browsed easily, without having to deal with the standard and not very useful browser history? Tired of not being able to return to a certain page that you visited just two minutes before?

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History Tree is an add-on for Firefox that displays your browsing history as a tree, so that you can easily know in which order you visited pages lately.
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How To Sync Your Bookmarks: Mozilla Labs Weave Project

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Today I want share with you a new way to sync your favorite bookmarks. Last month I told you about Backup And Sync Your Bookmarks And Your Password For Free – Xmarks. Today I’m going to introduce Mozilla Labs – Weave Sync

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The Weave Sync add-on lets you securely take your Firefox experience with you wherever you go. You can now surf the Web on your PC, get up and go, and have everything waiting for you on your phone: your history, open tabs, bookmarks, the Awesome Bar – just as you had left it.
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Easily Change Your Firefox Theme With Personas

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More than an year ago, we presented a plug-in called Personas: it was all about you Firefox theme, as it allowed to change your theme on the fly, from a huge list, without restarting your browser.

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Today I just want to show how Personas works, and why it is a great plug-in to have if you like changing your browser’s appearance often.
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Take Screenshots Of Web Pages in Firefox: Talon

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In the past we have covered some Firefox’s plugins that enabled you to take screenshots of web pages’ regions on the fly: their names were Screengrab and Fireshot.

There’s also a new extension that I’d like to share with you, which has been launched by Aviary.com, a suite of web based products for image and audio editing.

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Its name is Talon, and it is a Firefox plugin which lets you capture regions of your browser with the click of a button, edit them online, and then save them as PNG files on your computer.
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