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Post by Chris Lionheart on May 21, 2011 15:01:36 GMT
LessChrome HDURL: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/prospector-lessChrome-HD/Screencast: mozillalabs.com/prospector/2011/05/20/lesschrome-hd-more-space-to-browse/What It Does: This addon hides all menus at the top of the browser (bookmarks/back/forward/addressbar) leaving only the tabs you have open, and the orange firefox menu dropdown button, until you point at the tabs to get them back. My Opinion: Very good for viewing just about as much of the webpage in your screen's real estate as you can without completely getting rid of all menus and their functionality. It's like a more enhanced version of pressing F11 to go full screen, because it still has the tabs at the top of the browser window, and the other buttons like back and addressbar only show up if you hover over the top of them for a second instead of immediately clicking on them. Very useful in my opinion. Notes: It requires a ''Nightly'' build of FireFox (6.0a1 alpha). But this does not overwrite your current version of FF's settings (I am currently using FF3.6.17). I haven't yet tried uninstalling 'Nightly' to see if that would take-away FF's settings like bookmarks/remembered passwords, but remember to always keep a backup and you'll be fine. You also cannot run FF and Nightly at the same time. Three main things to bare in mind in terms of switching between the two, if you plan to do that: - If you remove the 'menu bar' (old school file, edit, view menu buttons) in Nightly to make the new 'orange firefox drop down menu' appear in it's place, then when you go back to FF you will need to re-enable the 'menu bar' toolbar. No big problem, really.
- To use LessChrome HD properly, you must set the 'Tabs on Top' option in 'Nightly', and then re-enable tabs it in FF3.
- When I switch back to FF3 and then load up 'Nightly' afterwards, I simply need to re-install this addon in 'Nightly' for it to work again. I'm guessing this is something to do with it being an addon where you don't have to restart the browser, or what. I'm sure I'll figure it out though. Again not a big problem. Just means I need to have a bookmark to this addon's installation page, but I do that anyway with all the addons I use.
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Post by Shayne Youngblood on May 26, 2011 8:34:31 GMT
CheckPlaces - Checks your bookmarks are valid and the pages still exist. Also checks for duplicates and for empty folders and can restore missing favicons. ShowIP - Shows the IP address of a site. Some sites block access to foreign visitors, not recognized, etc.. However, it is possible in some cases to circumvent the problem by returning the IP address of the site instead of the domain name. Think: Being able to use Hulu's Streaming TV Service even if you live outside the USA.
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Post by Chris Lionheart on Jul 1, 2011 7:28:21 GMT
Soluto Solves PC Crashes and Speeds Up Boot Time.  Download Now! It is free, and I shaved about 3 minutes off my boot time!Troubleshooting an application crash is one of the most frustrating tasks for the everyday geek, but now Soluto has upgraded their already-awesome boot-speed-up application with an application crash analyzer—and it helps disable browser add-ons too. If you haven’t installed Soluto yet, you should grab your own copy right now—if you already have it installed, you should be upgraded at some point today automatically. You’ll just need to restart Soluto to get the new features unlocked. The previous version only helped you tweak your boot speed, but the new version has tools to clean up web browser add-ons, as well as analyze application crashes. 
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Post by Chris Lionheart on Sept 19, 2011 23:10:52 GMT
WizMouseUse: Use scroll wheel on your mouse to scroll whichever window is underneath of the cursor, without having to select the window first. Link: download.cnet.com/WizMouse/3000-18487_4-10907935.html?part=dl-&subj=dl&tag=buttonHow I Use This: I usually have an internet browser on one side of my screen, and a media player on the otherside, playing a film/tv show etc. Now sometimes, before I got this software, I would edit something in the media player window, and then attempt to scroll down the webpage I was reading whilst having forgot to select the internet browser window. This of course turned the volume down on my media player. And eventually I got tired of having to keep double-checking myself. This makes it a lot easier.
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Post by Chris Lionheart on Sept 28, 2011 13:25:45 GMT
PrefBarURL: prefbar.tuxfamily.org/help/index.htmlAt the tick or untick of a tickbox located on the toolbar (so I don't need to dig around in firefox's options menus); and a reload of the webpage, I can indivually or as a group turn on/off Animations, Color, Flash, Images, Javascript... it's amazing how much each of those can add to a page's load time. Now I pretty much browse with flash off unless i'm on a video's page like YouTube.
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Post by Chris Lionheart on Jan 14, 2012 0:16:37 GMT
Today we are going to get a lesson in how Karl has streamlined and automated many of his day-to-day internet activities. Some are as easy as downloading a FireFox addon and turning it 'on', others require the minimalist of tweaking. Turing a text url link into a clickable linkDownload the firefox addon Linkification (here: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/linkification/)
Back in the day this was used mostly for GameFAQs' forums, which didn't allow clickable links, but they now do.
More recently I have found it usefull for download sites where parts 1-8 of a movie split into seperate .rar files are listed one after the other. You'll see why in the last of today's tips. Turing a text url link to a picture into a pictureDownload the Text-to-Image firefox addon (here: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/text-to-image/?src=search)
Then turn it 'on', indicated by the swirl being green and not red.
This saves us having to copy the link into our address bar to view it.
Once again this is mostly used for GameFAQs, saving us the time of having to open pictures in new tabs. Remove Google 'Everything' Sidebar & Restoring old Google ImagesThese tweaks:
- Removes the 'Everything' sidebar from Google Images and Search results.
- Stop images from popping-out when you hover over them in Google Images.
- Goes directly to the image when you click on it.
Step 1: Search any image in Google Images. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on 'switch to basic view'. Save this webpage on the bookmark toolbar to always launch this version basic of Google Images.
Step 2: Download Greasemonkey firefox addon if you haven't already; and then download the 'REMOVE Google Sidebar' script (here: userscripts.org/scripts/versions/76127 ). Now open 'SIDEBAR' script in GreaseMonkey (this is how the 'Remove Google Everything Sidebar' appears in greasemonkey), and add 'https://www.google.*/*' to the list of included pages.
Step 3: If you use the firefox addon 'Text To Image', go into it's options and set 'google.com/*' as a site blacklist.
Step 4: Download Greasemonkey firefox addon if you haven't already; and then download the 'Google Images Re-linker' script (here: patcavit.com/greasemonkey/girl.user.js ). Now edit the Google Image Re-Linker greasemonkey script so that 'https://www.google.com/search?*' and 'https://www.google.co.uk/search?*' are both included pages. Opening multiple links at once in new tabsDownload the Snap Links Plus 2.2.1 firefox addon (here: snaplinks.mozdev.org/)
What you do is you hold down the right mouse button, draw around the links you want to open, and release. This then opens all the links in new tabs. Tell FireFox to download certain file types automaticallyDownload the MIME Edit firefox addon (here: rapidshare.com/files/4143963472/MIMEEdit_0.601108162000_.xpi)
add media file types to the options menu, and tell firefox to automatically save them to your hardrive. This will prevent you having to click 'save' rather than 'open' whenever you open a download link in your browser. As you can probably tell by now, these 5 tweaks work in conjuction with each other. If I am wanting to download a film, and a download site has it split into 7 or 8 chunks of a .rar file listed in a 'code' box on their webpage instead of on the page as regular links, then 'Linkification' will make all of those links clickable. 'Snap Links Plus' allows me to select all 8 parts in one motion, and as they open in new tabs 'MIME Edit' automatically beings downloading them. Which is a hell of a lot easier than having to do it manually. If I am on Google Images looking for design ideas, and I want to see several pictures in their full size, I use 'Snap Links Plus' to select them and open in new tabs. An the Google Images Classic steps above will mean that in each tab I have the full sized picture, instead of either a preview page, or the default google homepage. |
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Post by Chris Lionheart on Apr 19, 2012 23:50:14 GMT
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