Nice Firefox Extensions – Part 2
Last time we listed down some Nice Firefox Extensions, most of it was for developers use. Here is another set of cool extensions, most of it suitable for all.
- Snapper: For editors who like to take snapshots of the web all the time. This tool makes it easy to specify the area you want and SNAP the picture.
- VideoDownloader: What started as an over night quick and dirty stream downloading, had quickly become one of the most famous Firefox extensions. This plugin allows you to download the streaming videos from sites like Google Video, YouTube and others. Really cool I strongly recommend it.
- URL Fixer: Fixes common typos errors that you write in the address bar. For example, corrects .cmo to .com or .con to .com. If you are worried it will make invalid assumptions, you can set it to ask you first.
- SessionSaver: Microsoft should have come up with this long ago, as they are the ones who desperately need it. This extension saves your session tabs in case of Firefox crashes (God forbid) or if you frequently open the same set of tabs, you can save under a session name, say News. A definite must.
- Server Spy: Well this is just for fun, if you want to know what is the server kind of the site you are visiting. For example you want to know if he is Microsoft fan or not. My server for example shows Apache/1.3.37.
- Google Notebook: If you don’t already know it, Google Notebook is a web based notebook that you can write your notes in it, copy snippets from the web there and share them. This service doesn’t seem to be booming so far, I use it to gather my favorite quotes. You can get a Google Notebook extension to easily open the Google Notebook popup from your window and update it.
- Google Browser Sync: This is a very nice powerful feature. Allows you to sync your browser settings, tabs, favorites, history, cookies and all across different computers. So your computer at work will be similar to your home computer. The reason why I stopped using it is that it requires the Google signin, and it might become annoying at every Firefox startup when it attempts to do Syncing. If you are OK with this, and don’t mind waiting few seconds, it’s very powerful.
- Chickenfoot: This one is a bit advanced extension, yet gives you unlimited possibilities. You can use this extension to manipulate pages and automate web browsing, programmatically ofcourse. For example, you can have it to automatically fill in the login details to your email account and login, go to your inbox, simply by visiting the email address url. This is useful if you do a certain task repeatedly. Say if you use a site all the time, but the login session timeout fast. You can have it to automatically do the login for you. The point to take care of is not to store confidential data like your bank account login, especially on a shared computer. This is suitable for very personal computers.
I hope you find the list of use for you. Good day.
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