Friday, March 21, 2008

Can't do this... Need an extension...

Extensions are probably the main reason I'm using Firefox primarily as my browser....

You can customize almost any functionality to the browser, and add cool features...

Current useful extensions I use:

CustomizeGoogle - This allows google customisation such as adding results to other search engines on the google webpage, turn on google word suggestions, rewrite links to point straight to images in google image search, remove ads, and other additional features for google.

AdBlock Plus - allows blocking ads on webpages.

Stop Autoplay - This is really useful as it stops any embeded video/audio from playing automatically when u open a webpage. U know how many times u get annoyed when u click a link to a page and a video just starts playing (eg. the stupid police vid i posted a while ago)... This extension is a great fix...

Download Helper - any embedded flash video can be ripped from a site with this tool, and you can customize it to use your own download manager.

Drag de Go - You can highlight a word to drag it to your built in google search box or address bar and other cool things... for eg. someone typed a web address that isn't clickable, instead of copying and pasting, u can drag the address to address bar...

IETab - A webpage only works in IE? dont want to open a new browser? with IETab u can view the current webpage in IE right in the firefox browser with a single click... and only that page and links clicked on it is in IE, the rest of your tabs will still be FF...

Tab Mix Plus - Added functionality to tabbed browsing....

Stumbleupon - Awesome fun tool that kinda works like digg and del.ici.ous.... U create an account where u specify your interested topics and u click the stumble button to get a random page on your topics, and just click "i like it" or "i dont like it"... It works as a social webpage rating and bookmarking tool.

There are a bunch others geared towards web developers, and some widget like extensions... Overall alot of added functionalities that makes browsing the web a blast...

-X tenn shunn!!! jobe

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