➠ May 28, 2009
Firefox: Most Popular Search Engineā¦
I stare at this caption, and I can’t even begin to work out what they THOUGHT they were saying. Every time you think you work it out, you realise it’s still wrong.
➠ April 15, 2009
Tree Style Tab :: Firefox Add-ons
Ooh, this I like. Moves your browser tabs to the left pane, and groups them by the tab that launched them.
➠ January 27, 2009
FoxTab
Best Firefox extension I’ve seen so far in the “attractive tab-switcher thumbnailing” category.
➠ December 28, 2008
Lazarus: Restore lost forms with a single click
Firefox extension to help avoid “crashed browser/lost textarea” syndrome.
➠ August 27, 2008
Mozilla Labs: Introducing Ubiquity
Nifty new Firefox extension, taking the quicksilver shorty-cutty app-launcher approach to the web. Looks very promising.
➠ August 24, 2008
YouTube Comment Snob
Firefox extensions which hides the most blatantly idiotic YouTube comments. Favourite filter: Uses Firefox’s in-built dictionary to hide comments with too many spelling mistakes.
➠ July 16, 2008
DEFENDER of the favicon
The classic arcade game Defender, implemented as a Firefox favicon! A bit of a silly hack, but the idea of updating favicons dynamically (to alert users when they’re looking at a different tab) has some milage.
➠ June 23, 2008
firefox-mac-pdf
In ye olde days, displaying PDF documents in the browser drove me nuts. You’d unwittingly click on a link, and your entire web browser would freeze up for 30 seconds while Adobe Reader started. But since PDF is baked so closely into the OS X system, this Firefox plugin is wicked fast, and thoroughly helpful.
➠ January 17, 2008
Occam's RazR > An Ounce of Prevention
Avoid being Rickroll’d with this anti-rickrolling firefox plugin. A great example of Firefox’s extensions making the internet a safer place to be.
➠ December 17, 2007
Mozilla Labs Blog : Personas for Firefox
Lovely lightweight theming for the Firefox UI — Easy to design, and easy to apply.
➠ December 9, 2007
Autocomplete Manager :: Firefox Add-ons
Dead handly location-bar-autocomplete-expander for Firefox 2 — It matches against all parts of the URL and page title, so it’s easier to find pages from your history.
➠ November 10, 2007
“Blog” bookmarks
From my Firefox bookmarks: The folder containing all the blogs I followed regularly by hand, in the days before I discovered RSS.
Of the lists, blogdex, daypop, Haddock, Aaron Swartz's "Google Weblog" and Sassypants are the ones which have completely died, and of the rest, bloggerheads and "Nifty News, Decent Deals" are the ones I don't still subscribe to in Google Reader.
➠ August 19, 2007
VeriSign's OpenID SeatBelt Plugin
Firefox extension to bring OpenID into the browser’s chrome. (Also, Verisign’s OpenID provider now support using their PayPal Security Keys as a second-factor for authentication)
➠ August 1, 2007
Polar Rose
Firefox plugin which collaboratively identifies faces in photos all over the web. There’s no smart matching yet, but that’s promised for the future. Creepy, inevitable, and awesome.
➠ July 25, 2007
The Wesabe Firefox Uploader
Cool solution to the problem of automatically download bank statements from the gazillion different financial institutions out there: Easily scripting Firefox to download them for you. Well played, Wesabe. Well played.
➠ May 9, 2007
NoSquint: Firefox Extension
Superb Firefox extension, which remembers which sites you had to change the text-zoom level for. This should be baked into Firefox by default, if you ask me.
➠ April 27, 2007
Opera's Speed Dial for Firefox
Opera’s latest feature, implemented as a Firefox extension within a week!
➠ April 18, 2007
Lifehacker Code: Better Gmail (Firefox extension)
Bunch of handy GMail Greasemonkey scripts bundled up into one tasty Firefox extension.
➠ April 17, 2007
Port 25 : Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin - Download
From the “about bloody time” file, a plugin from Microsoft for Firefox which allows WMV files to stream in your browser. This has been broken (and required lots of DLL copying) for years.
➠ April 3, 2007
FireGPG - use GPG easily in Firefox !
Firefox extension to enable GPG encryption/verification in GMail. Need to give this a shot.