Google Chrome is one of the top famous search engine and ChromePlus is built on top of Chromium, open source project behind Google Chrome.
ChromePlus has all features that Google Chrome has, but it adds extra functionality such as Mouse gestures, Super drag, double click to close page, IE Tab and download tools supported in context menu.
docx is Microsoft Office 2007 Word documents extension. Now, you can view docx files using Firefox by installing OpenXMLViewer, which is available for Windows, Mac and Linux users.
The picture above shows the architecture of OpenXML Viewer. After installing the Firefox plugin, you are able to open any docx files using Firefox.
It is an useful extension for users who haven’t upgrade to Microsoft Office 2007. Basically, the extension will convert docx documents into HTML format so that web browsers can render and display to users. So, the extension is not able to shows embedded objects.
Source: Digital Inspiration
Some of us installed and use more than one browser on our system. For example, i am using Opera, Firefox, IE, and Google Chrome. So, managing my bookmarks across different browsers bring a lot of trouble to me. Luckily, there is an free application called Transmute, which can copy your bookmarks from one browser and then export it to another browser.
Simply choose the source and target browser and click the Export button. Currently, Transmute support Google Chrome, Firefox, IE, Opera and Safari. the advance settings allow you to create a backup for your bookmarks and append timestamp at your export file.
This application require .NET Framework to run. Before performing any conversion, remember to close all browsers, else you will get error messages. It is because your browsers will lock the bookmarks database and prevent any write action on it.
Download Transmute
Source: Manage Bookmarks between Different Browsers with Transmute
Do you think that it is possible to edit and modify website within your browser, just like editing a wiki website? Yes, it is possible!
Edit current website is a bookmarklet button. When you press the button, you can start edit the website, within install any other plugin or extension.
The modified website will stay until you press the refresh button. It is very useful when you want to take a print screen of certain website, but you want to modify the content. Instead of edit the content thrpugh image editing software, you can now do it within your browser.
In the example above, i had modified the radio button’s text to “Search this planet?“. Cool? So, how to add this bookmarklet to your browser? Simply drag this “Edit current website” and drop it to your browser’s toolbar.
Enjoy!
Bookmarklet: Edit current website
RAMBack is a Firefox extension that can clear the internal cache memory for Firefox 3, release the unuse memory space for other applications.
A lot of Firefox 2 users complain the memory usage for Firefox 2 is too high, which cause other applications to run slowly. Although Firefox 3 seems to be load faster and consume less memory, but it still can’t fully release the unuse memory. For example, closing unwanted tabs doesn’t fully recover the memory.
So, we need extension which can clear those cache memory. After install the extension, you can press the “Clear Cacher” options from the “Tools” menu.
I wonder why Firefox developer don’t include this feature in Firefox 3? Although RAMBack extension does help us to free up the unuse menory, but we still need to manually press the “Clear Cache” button. I hope that the extension author can try to make this automatic clear the cache whenver any tab being closed.
Firefox 3 had been released at 17 June 2008. It include a lot of cool new festures. You can easily find and install new addons in Firefox 3.
I am sure most of the Firefox users will install some addons or themes. But, do you know that Firefox 3 allow users to search addons within the Addons Manager?
As you can see in the screenshot, You can browse to the Get Add-ons tab and Firefox will show some recommended addons. There is also a searchbox so that you can search your favorite addons. The searchbox allow you to search for both extensions and themes. I am not sure whether you can search plugins or not.
Firefox will set around 3 seconds delay when you try to install any addons/plugin. It is to ensure users have enough time to read the information before install any addons. But this feature cause some users feel annoying.
So, we are going to remove this feature through about:config.
You can now install any addons without waiting.
Source: Daily Gyan
Hooeey is a personal web application which let you to manage and organize your internet activities, bookmarks, and lets you use them in a fun and productive way.
Few days ago, i talk about how to retrieve your Firefox bookmark from the Firefox’s daily backup folder. If you feel that it is troublesome, you can install Foxmarks, which will automatic synchronize your bookmarks with the web. Now, you have another choice – hooeey, which will record your internet activities and save them to your hooeey account.
Hooeey is more suitable for you if you are using more than one browser. You can share your hooey profile within IE or Firefox.
All your internet activities will be saved on the server, you can then access them through the toolbar. They provide a dashboard for you to manage your activities and account. You can share your links with other users. If you want to analyze your activities, you can use the charts and graphs provided by them.
Bookmarks are very important for everyone. We use it to store important URL and a lot of interesting websites. Without bookmark, i can’t imagine how we are going to remember the URLs.
So, what happen if our Firefox’s bookmarks suddenly disappear? One of my friend’s bookmarks suddenly disappear (i am not sure the actual reason, but i suspect is cause by improper PC shut down). So, how are we going to restore the bookmarks?
Firefox actually do the job for us. So, where are the backup bookmarks and how we restore them? Follow the steps below and you can easily retrieve them:
ReadBag is a useful service which similar with Firefox’s Read It later plugin. You can save any stories and read them when you are free.
ReadBag runs on the new Google apps engine, so you just need an Google account in order to use this service. It provides user a javascript bookmarklet button so that users can add new stories quickly and easily.
To save a story, simply provide the title and URL. You can turn on the “auto archive” function, so that all stories read will automatic go to the archive folder.
There are some other features such as mobile access and API. Furthermore, Firefox users can direct posting or access ReadBag through extension, while Google Reader’s users can add stories in ReadBag by using greasemonkey script.
Another similar service is Instapaper, which is much straight forward than ReadBag. If you need extra features, i would recommend ReadBag, else go for Instapaper.
