{"id":13528,"date":"2005-04-27T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-27T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/27\/firefox-extensions-update\/"},"modified":"2005-04-27T23:01:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-27T23:01:00","slug":"firefox-extensions-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/27\/firefox-extensions-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox Extensions Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spreadfirefox.com\/?q=affiliates&amp;id=8178&amp;t=70\" title=\"Get Firefox!\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Get Firefox\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/icons\/firefox_get.gif\" \/><\/a>It&rsquo;s time to update my favorite Firefox extensions lists with a couple of new entries that I find useful.  I&rsquo;ll try to avoid repeats, referring you to my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/custom?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;domains=driko.org&amp;q=firefox+extensions&amp;btnG=Search&amp;sitesearch=driko.org\" target=\"_blank\">previous posts<\/a> for other favorites.  Let me know if there&rsquo;s any interest in a comprensive list:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.karmatics.com\/aardvark\/\" target=\"_blank\">Aardvark<\/a>: Allows you to view and selectively disable different entities on a web page, especially useful for printing or understanding how a page was constructed.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/clusty.com\/toolbar\/firefox\" target=\"_blank\">Clusty toolbar<\/a>: A great replacement or complement to <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionarysearch.mozdev.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dictionary Search<\/a>, Clusty lets you right click on words or phrases and get dictionary or encyclopedia &ldquo;clips&rdquo; as miniature pop-ups.  You can easily disable the actual toolbar (I did) and rely on the right-click context menu if you want&hellip;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tab-mix.info.tm\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tab Mix<\/a>: I found this extension to be more stable than my previously recommended Tabbrowser Extensions.  This is a must-have in order to get all the possible functionality out of tabbed browsing.  The only thing I didn&rsquo;t like is that it does not include a &ldquo;reload tab&rdquo; function, so I had to install the <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.update.mozilla.org\/extensions\/moreinfo.php?id=115\" target=\"_blank\">Reload Every<\/a> extension that does the job via a right-click on the page, although I really preferred being able to right-click on the tab itself.  Oh well&hellip;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/forecastfox.mozdev.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">ForecastFox<\/a>: I can&rsquo;t remember whether I posted that the excellent weather extension WeatherFox changed names to ForecastFox, so I&rsquo;ll mention it now.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluweb.com\/us\/chouser\/proj\/mozhack\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flat Bookmark Editing<\/a>: After you&rsquo;ve installed this extension, you&rsquo;ll wonder why this isn&rsquo;t the default way to organize and edit bookmarks&hellip;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kevinfreitas.net\/extensions\/linkchecker\/\" target=\"_blank\">LinkChecker<\/a>: This is a godsend for web developers, checking and highlighting all links in a page in green or red to indicate whether they are still active or not.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ted.mielczarek.org\/code\/mozilla\/fxif\/\" target=\"_blank\">FxIF<\/a>: Display an image&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/EXIF\" target=\"_blank\"><acronym title=\"Exchangeable image file format\">EXIF<\/acronym><\/a> information in the properties box if it exists.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mozbackup.jasnapaka.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MozBackup<\/a>: Not really an extension, but a great application that can back up and restore your Firefox or Thunderbird profile.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-111452866977584263?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s time to update my favorite Firefox extensions lists with a couple of new entries that I find useful. I&rsquo;ll try to avoid repeats, referring you to my previous posts for other favorites. Let me know if there&rsquo;s any interest in a comprensive list: Aardvark: Allows you to view and selectively disable different entities on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/27\/firefox-extensions-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Firefox Extensions Update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}