Posted by Lim on Dec 20th, 08 | Filed under
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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.
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Posted by Lim on Jul 5th, 08 | Filed under
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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.
RAMBack extension
Posted by Lim on Jun 11th, 08 | Filed under
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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.
- Type about:config in your address bar.
- Type security.dialog_enable_delay in the filter text box.
- Change the value to 0.
- Restart Firefox.
You can now install any addons without waiting.
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Posted by Lim on May 18th, 08 | Filed under
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Link Alert is a Firefox plugin which will change your mouse cursor when you point to a link, so that you will know what you are going to open/download after click the link.
This simple plugin will show you a small icon when you move the mouse over a link. Although Firefox will show the link details in status bar, but this plugin will let you know more details. For example, you will know the filetype that you are going to download.
You can also customize the link icons with image that you familiar, or add any specific file extensions. This lightweight plugin will not slow down your Firefox speed. I had tested it with my old PC and my Firefox speed remain the same before and after installation of this plugin.
download Link Alert
Posted by Lim on May 15th, 08 | Filed under
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Update Scanner is a Firefox plugin which will automatically scan and inform users about changes and update of a website. Users can add any websites to the monitor lists.
There are some websites which don’t provide RSS subscription, or you want to get update about the comment on article, but the author didn’t install “Subscribe To Comment” plugin. So, how are you going to get informed when there are changes on those website? View them everyday? Sure this is not a smart way.
Update Scanner can help users on this, by add a option to Firefox context menu. When you want to monitor changes on certain website, simply right click and choose “Scan page for updates” and you can set the scan frequency and threshold, so that you won’t get update too often.
If you would like to manually scan all websites in your list, you can go to Tools -> Update Scanner. A sidebar will appear and show you the list of websites that you monitor.
Tips: I would suggest that you set the Autoscan to a larger value, so that you can save your bandwidth for other usage.
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Posted by Lim on Apr 24th, 08 | Filed under
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Titlebar Tweaks is a Firefox plugin which let user change the title bar for different format. For example, you can set the title to “My browser”.
User can change the title to any text they want, or they can change the format of the title bar. For example, the default format is “Webpage title – Browser Name”. But, user can change the title format to display either webpage title only or browser name only, or display both, with different order.
After download the plugin, go to your Firefox->Tools->Add-ons and choose Titlebar Tweaks. After that, you can start changing your Firefox titlebar.
Install this plugin in your office computer. You can then change the title of Firefox so that your boss/friends don’t know the page title. But, if your office computer comes with any logging aplications, your admin still can find out your internet activities.
download Titlebar Tweaks
Posted by Lim on Feb 27th, 08 | Filed under
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Read it Later is a Firefox extension which can bookmark any URL so that you can read them later.
We receive a lot of information everyday. Sometimes, we don’t have much time to really go through all of them. We may choose to save them into our bookmarks folder and read them while we free. But, do you really go back to those articles when you are free? No, because sometimes you can’t differentiate between articles that you had read and not yet read. So, there is a service called InstaPaper, which will can categorize your articles to read and unread, so that you can go back to those unread article in future.
Read it Later is a similar service, but it save the page inside your own computer. After install the extension, you will see 2 new buttons at the toolbar.
When you found any article that you want to keep, press the left button and Firefox will save them to your bookmarks. When you are free, press the right button and Firefox will pick the unread article from your bookmarks. After you had read the article, Firefox will automatically remove them from your bookmarks folder.
There are a lot of options that you can play around, such as bookmark the unread article to online bookmarking services. There is an experimental feature, where you can save your article for offline viewing. However, this feature is not fully implemented yet and error may occur while you save pages for offline viewing.
Read it Later
Posted by Lim on Feb 18th, 08 | Filed under
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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.
- 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.
- Tab Scope and Tab Preview show a pop-up on tabs so that you can view the contents of the tab through pop-up.
- 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.
- 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.
- Tab Groups is a Firefox plugin that let users organize tab pages into groups.
- 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.
- 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.
Posted by Lim on Feb 12th, 08 | Filed under
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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.
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
