Software by tag 'Firefox'

LinkBunch – Turn multiple URLs into one

Posted by Dickey on Feb 23rd, 08 | Filed under Cool Stuff, Firefox, Internet | 2 Comments

With LinkBunch, you can save dozens of URLs under one shorter URL and then share with your friends.

LinkBunchThere are a lot of service which can cut a long URL into a shorter one, but none of them can condense multiple URLs into a single URL. But, LinkBunch provides this service and you can condense as many URLs as you one. The result is a single and short URL which look like this http://linkbun.ch/1o4.

LinkBunch main

When you open the link, you can see a list of URLs taht you had included. They provide a button “Open entire bunch” for users to open all URLs in new tab. The developers of LinkBunch also create a Firefox extension so that you can instantly create “Bunch” link for all open tabs in your browser. This is very useful when you want to save all the opened tab page and share with your friends.

LinkBunch | Firefox extension

Manage your Firefox tab pages with these plugins

Posted by Dickey on Feb 18th, 08 | Filed under Cool Stuff, Firefox | 8 Comments

There are few plugins that will help users to manage their Firefox tab pages. If you like to open more than ten tab pages at the same time, i think you need these plugins.

  1. Tab Mix Plus is a Firefox plugin which include a lot of features such as undo closed tabs, tab clicking options, and much more. The main feature that attract me is it enable multi-row tab display. Go to your Tab Mix Plus Options -> Display -> Tab Bar -> When tabs don’t fit width, choose Multi-row.
  2. Tab Scope and Tab Preview show a pop-up on tabs so that you can view the contents of the tab through pop-up.
  3. Vertigo moves the tab bar to the left side of the browser. It is recommended for users who open a lot of tab pages at the same time.
  4. IE Tab let users switch between IE and Firefox engine with single click. Some websites are only compatible to IE, but you may wish to use Firefox to open it. Click on the Firefox icon at the bottom-right corner to switch to IE engine.
  5. Tab Groups is a Firefox plugin that let users organize tab pages into groups.
  6. Send Tab URLs add a File menu command so that you can easily create an email message which contains the list of open tab URL. You can use this plugin to share URLs with your friends.
  7. FaviconizeTab adds option to the context menu so that you can minimize the width of the tab to the size of favicon.

Conclusion

There are too many plugins to manage your Firefox tab pages. But, i don’t think you need all of them. Choose 1 or 2 that suite your needs. Install too many plugins will slow down your Firefox speed and it may crash your Firefox if these plugins are not compatible to each others.

If you wish to have multiple feature in single plugin, go for Tab Mix Plus.

Play around with middle mouse button in Firefox

Posted by Dickey on Feb 17th, 08 | Filed under Tips | No Comments

The middle mouse button has some special features that we may not know, or being disabled by default. Now, i would like to introduce some cool tips to use your middle mouse button in Firefox.

There are few settings that you can make through about:config (type about:config in the address bar and hit enter):

  1. middlemouse.contentLoadURL – If you set this to true, when you click the middle mouse button, Firefox will load the clipboard content as a URL. For Linux, this setting is true by default, but seems like doesn’t work for Windows.
  2. middlemouse.openNewWindow – By default, this is set to true, which will open a new tab when you middle click on a URL.
  3. middlemouse.paste – By default, this is set to false. If you set to true, click the middle button will paste your clipboard content to the text box.

Beside this, you can also close any tab page by use the middle mouse button.

If you know more tips or features of middle mouse button, please leave a comment here and share with us. Thanks.

How to create a random post bookmarklet button for your user?

Posted by Dickey on Feb 16th, 08 | Filed under Blogging, Cool Stuff, Tips, Tutorial | 1 Comment

This tutorial show you how to create a StumbleUpon-like bookmarklet button for your blog, which will randomly choose an article from your blog when pressed.

Do you use StumbleUpon? If you install StumbleUpon toolbar for your browser, you can press the Stumble! button to randomly jump to some websites. Now, i would like to create an button which can randomly jump to any article, from my blog. You can try to drag this button (TechSnack) to your bookmarklet folder.

Step 1

The first thing that you need to do is install Wordpress Random Redirect plugin, and activate it.

Step 2

Now, you can randomly jump to any article by adding ?random to your website’s URL. For example, http://www.techsnack.net/?random.

Step 3

Right-click the bookmarklet toolbar and choose New Bookmark. Fill-in the Name and the Location. In this example, Name is TechSnack and the Location is http://www.techsnack.net/?random.

Step 4

Done, you can now jump to random post by clicking thing button. If you want to add this button to your website. Simply drag the button to your post. Provide this link to your user so that they can always jump to your random post anytime.

Add this bookmarklet button to your Firefox toolbar

[Firefox3] How to set the limit of suggestions for address bar

Posted by Dickey on Feb 15th, 08 | Filed under Firefox, Internet, Tutorial | 3 Comments

This tutorial will discuss on how to set the limit of suggestions for the address bar. It is very annoying if the suggestion list is too long. So, we try to limit the number of suggestion URL.

Steps to follow

  1. Open your Firefox 3 and type about:config in the address bar and hit enter.
  2. Unlike Firefox 2, there is a warning message before you can enter the configuration list. Press the “I’ll be careful, I promise!” button to continue.
  3. Type browser.urlbar.maxRichResults in the Filter bar and press enter.
  4. Double-click the browser.urlbar.maxRichResults and set the value to 3 (you can put any value, this is the maximum suggestions that Firefox 3 will gives you).
  5. RestartFirefox to take effect.

Below is the screenshots for both before and after the configuration change:

Firefox 3 serach address

Firefox 3 serach address modified

As you can see, the address suggestion become 3. I don’t know how they sort the suggestion list. If you want to have more control over the suggestion, you can try Autocomplete Manager.

Enhance your Firefox address bar with Autocomplete Manager

Posted by Dickey on Feb 12th, 08 | Filed under Firefox, Tips | 2 Comments

Autocomplete Manager is a Firefox plugin which provide advance features for your Firefox address bar.

The original Firefox address bar will try search from the history when we type. For example, when i type ‘tech’, it may shows me a list of URL which start from ‘tech’. But, it can’t provide me the URL that contains ‘tech’ in the middle of the string. With Autocomplete Manager extension, you can do so.

Autocomplete Manager

As shown in the screenshot above, when i type ’snack’, the address bar will get a list of URL that contains ’snack’, when the ’snack’ is in the middle of URL. Beside this feature, Autocomplete Manager allow users to search from bookmark, change the sort criterion, and also how the pop up list look like. You can access the settings through Tools -> Autocomplete Manager, and then choose Enhanced Component Options.

This extension is very useful especially for those websites which don’t have an easy-to-remember URL. But i personally feel that the better way to remember such URL is put them in the “Bookmarks Toolbar Folder” so that you can access them in just one-click.

Autocomplete Manager extension page

Firefly – Turn your firefox into Windows file manager

Posted by Dickey on Feb 11th, 08 | Filed under Firefox | 3 Comments

Firefly is a Firefox extension that can turn Firefox into Windows file manager.

There are many features which Windows file manager can’t provide. For example, Firefly allow user to split/add the view for more comfortable work. You can use Firefly to copy, paste, and cut your files from one folder to another folder. Rename/create new folders can also be done through Firefly.

Firefly

Firefly allow user to preview audio/video, pdf, and image, but you need to install the VLC player plugin. You are not advised to open more preview because this will crash your Firefox (VLC player problem).

I like this plugin because i can use Firefox to perform more tasks as i don’t need to open another window (file manager) for just to manage my files. But, this plugin’s size is quite big (more than 2MB). Such a heavy plugin will crash your Firefox if your system memory not enough. So, i advice you to create another profile before you install this plugin, so that you can switch to your original profile if anything happen to your Firefox.

Firefly extension page

FireShot – Best Firefox plugin to capture website snapshot

Posted by Dickey on Feb 10th, 08 | Filed under Design, Firefox | 3 Comments

FireShot is a Firefox plugin which let you capture any website shapshot and you are able to perform simple editing to it.

I had go through SuperScreenshot, which is a screenshot generator for website. But, if i want to add some text or comments on the image, i have to download the image and use any image editing tools, which take longer time for me to perform such simple works. So, i try to google any Firefox plugin which can capture website screenshot and perform simple image editing features. Finally, i found FireShot, a great plugin but simple to use.

FireShot

First of all, you can choose either capture the visible area or the entire page. After that, you can start edit the image capture using the tools provide. For example, you can draw lines or add text. The other editing tools which provided are Crop, Fill, Blur, Glow, Invert and much more.

The screenshot can be saved into PNG, JPEG, or BMP formats. Furthermore, you have options to export this image to your external image editing tools or email it immediately.

Note: If you like Firefox plugin which can capture screenshot without perform any editing tools, you can refer to Screengrab! and Pearl Crescent Page Saver

FireShot extension page

gDocsBar – Firefox sidebar to manage Google Documents

Posted by Dickey on Feb 4th, 08 | Filed under Application, Cool Stuff, Firefox, Internet | No Comments

gDocsBar is a Firefox extension which add a sidebar so that user can access their Google Documents instantly when needed.

gDocsBar gDocsBar add functionality to your Firefox browser so that you can always access your Google Docs instantly. You can search through all your documents and filter them by type. You can also browse your documents by type, which means you can select only word documents or spreadsheets. Furthermore, you can sort the documents by title, date, or author.

The uploading process is pretty simple. You can drag-and-drop your documents from your computer to the bottom of the sidebar and these documents will automatically upload to your Google Docs account. Still remember the DocList Uploader which i introduce before? Both of them support drag-and-drop uploading, but i prefer gDocsList, as it can integrate with my Firefox.

Once installed, an icon will appear beside the address bar, which let you launch your gDocsBar. You can set the sidebar to open automatically when Firefox start (go to Tools -> Add-ons -> gDocsBar -> Options and then check Open sidebar when Firefox launch). Similar with other web applications, you can set gDocsBar to remember your account and password.

Some users may have concern about the security and privacy. Don’t worry, the credentials are sent using SSL, which is a secure connection. Your username and password will be stored in Firefox password manager. If you still worried about your password, uncheck the remember me checkbox.

I had try with Firefox 2.0.0.11 and it works perfectly. But, some users complain that gDocsBar is not compatible with Firefox 3 Beta. If you are Firefox 3 user and found any issue, please let us know.

gDocsBar

13 tips to boost your firefox speed

Posted by Dickey on Nov 15th, 07 | Filed under Tutorial | 10 Comments

There are a lot of tricks and tips that can make your firefox run faster. But some of them are quite confusing. So, i would like to compile a list of useful tips which can really help firefox users to increase the browsing speed.

First of all, you need to go into firefox configuration by enter about:config in the address bar.

Tip 1:
Type network.http.pipelining in the filter bar and set it to true.

Tip 2:
Type network.http.pipelining.maxrequests in the filter bar. The default value is 4. Change it to 8. You can also change this value to larger number, which means firefox will make more requests at once.

Tip 3:
Type network.http.proxy.pipelining in the filter bar and set it to true.

Tip 4:
Type network.dns.disableIPv6 in the filter bar and set it to true.

Tip 5:
Type plugin.expose_full_path in the filter bar and set it to true.

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