Posts Tagged ‘add-on’
OpenDownload: Add a run option to the Firefox Download dialog
Last Updated on Thursday, 3 April 2008 05:29 Written by richardcqz Thursday, 3 April 2008 05:29
When you want to download file from Internet Explorer, you should click on the link and there will be a popup screen prompt out for asking you whether need to open the file using win32 application of save the file. When you click open the file, the Internet Explorer will automatic save the file into temporary folder and run it without cluttering up your default download directory. Now Firefox also can do the same task as Internet Explorer.
OpenDownload is a Firefox add-on that adds a run option. When you select "Run," the file will be downloaded to a temp directory and then launched. 24 hours after the file is downloaded, it will be automatically deleted it. Aside from keeping your download directory clean, the main benefit of the Run box is that you can now download and run files with a single click instead of two clicks, thus saving you a valuable fraction of a second.
Supported: Any version of Firefox
Website: Here
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Add download folders to Firefox with FavLoc
Last Updated on Monday, 24 March 2008 11:57 Written by richardcqz Monday, 24 March 2008 11:57
FavLoc is one of those FireFox extensions that should really have been built into the web browser. What it lets you do is create a list of download folders that is easily accessible from the right-click menu in Firefox.
Normally when you want to download a link or file you can either just download it to your default folder or click "Save Link As" and browse to a folder. With FavLoc installed, you can choose from a list of predefined folders, no browsing necessary. For example if you always download programs to one location, music to another, and videos to a third, you can create three favorites and save yourself a lot of time.
Support: FireFox 1.5 – 3.0a2
Website: Here
Configuration Mania reveals hidden Firefox settings
Last Updated on Saturday, 15 March 2008 04:02 Written by richardcqz Saturday, 15 March 2008 04:02
Firefox has a ton of customization options. So many, in fact, that listing them all would make the Firefox Tools menu resemble War and Peace. So Mozilla hides some of the options you might not need to change as often away so that you can only access them by typing "about:config" into the location bar. The problem is that many users don’t even know about about:config, and once you discover it, it’s still not clear what all of the settings do.
Configuration Mania is a Firefox add-on that organizes and displays many of the options that are normally only available through about:config. Here are just a few o the things you can change using Configuration Mania:
- Location bar auto-complete behavior
- Default domain guessing behavior (should Firefox add www or .com when you type a word into the location bar?)
- Tab behavior (where to display the close button, default tab width, etc)
- Hide the Go button next to location bar
- Change your user agent
- Adjust cache settings
Configuration Mania is available for Firefox: 2.0 – 3.0b4
Website and Download: Here
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Organize your Firefox tabs with Tab Kit
Last Updated on Wednesday, 12 March 2008 10:20 Written by richardcqz Wednesday, 12 March 2008 10:20
Tab Kit is an add-on for Firefox designed for the sort of person who likes to keep a ridiculous number of tabs open. If you’ve ever tried open a few dozen tabs, you’re probably well aware that Firefox tends to cram the tabs closer and closer together each time you open a new window until it’s almost impossible to tell which tab is which.
Tab Kit makes tabs more efficient for power users, bringing comprehensive tab grouping, and tweaks such as multiple rows of tabs or displaying tabs as a tree.
- In which case it can become a tree
- Resizeable with a splitter
- The sidebar can also be moved
- By domain
- By opener (parent) tab
- Groups are colored
- Useful commands, e.g. bookmark an entire group
- Groups can be collapsed to the size of one tab
- Fully integrated with session restoring
- And choose which tab to select after closing the current tab
- Scrollwheel tab switch (while mouse is over tab bar and/or while holding down right mouse)
- Click left while holding right to go back in page history, and vice versa
- A scrollbar instead of scroll arrows in the Bookmarks and All Tabs popups when they get too long
- Easy adjustment of minimum tab width
Download Tab Kit from the Mozilla Addons Sandbox (requires login – though you can use username "bugmenot@mailinator.com", password "bugmenot" if you can’t be bothered to create an account).