Sunday, March 14, 2010

Posts Tagged ‘firefox-extension’

Textarea++ Gives Firefox Users Control Over Textareas On Websites

Do you know a website that you like to participate in, e.g. a forum or a blog, only to be turned down by an abysmal small comment form textarea? Maybe one that is good for a small sentence which essentially means that it will only show a few lines of the text that has been written at a time

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Textarea++ Gives Firefox Users Control Over Textareas On Websites

Greasemonkey To Firefox Add-On Compiler

Some Greasemonkey scripts can really improve the usability on specific websites. We have reviewed several popular scripts before including Greasemonkey scripts for IMDB , Twitter , 4Chan , Youtube or Google Search .

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Greasemonkey To Firefox Add-On Compiler

Vacuum Places Improved Firefox Database Optimization

The first Firefox add-on to optimize the SQLite databases that are used to store data like bookmarks or history was a Russian add-on that worked but did not please non-Russian speaking users. Vacuum Places Improved is a relative new add-on that features internationalization and additional options that make it a recommended add-on for users who want to optimize their Firefox databases to experience faster startups and better performance and response times. The Firefox add-on basically offers two options to optimize the SQLite database

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Vacuum Places Improved Firefox Database Optimization

Block Websites from appearing in Firefox History

There are many users that like to use history of the web browser as it provides them the fastest way to access to a website as well as the website that they have opened it before. There are also some users that would like to block their history as to protect their privacy.

Firefox users have another possibility in the form of the Firefox History Block add-on. This add-on allows to specify websites or domains that should not be added to the Firefox history. Every other website and domain is added to the Firefox history normally.

Using the extension is really quite simple—just right-click on a page, choose Block This! from the menu, and pages from that domain will no longer be stored in your history. Since there’s no UI to see all of the sites that are being blocked, you’ll have to manually unblock the site using the extension’s options panel and manually typing in the domain of the site—but it’s worth the trouble if you simply want to hide a site from being stored in your history.

HistoryBlock is a free download, works wherever Firefox does and no matter what version.

[Via Ghacks]