{"id":13988,"date":"2004-08-20T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-20T12:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/20\/firefox-extension-update\/"},"modified":"2004-08-20T12:12:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-20T12:12:00","slug":"firefox-extension-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/20\/firefox-extension-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox Extension Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/products\/firefox\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/firefox_large3.png\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Firefox\" \/><\/a>Since my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/2004\/06\/mozilla-firefox-091-and-updated.html\" target=\"_blank\">last post about Firefox extensions<\/a>, I came across enough useful ones that I figured I should post an update.  Here are a couple in addition to those that I can recommend:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iosart.com\/foxytunes\/firefox\/\" target=\"_blank\">Foxy Tunes<\/a> &#8211; adds a nifty set of icons that lets you control your favorite media player (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.winamp.com\" target=\"_blank\">WinAmp<\/a>, in my case) from Firefox.<br \/>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/docs.g-blog.net\/code\/mozilla_extensions\/\" target=\"_blank\">McSearchPreview<\/a> &#8211; displays thumbnail previews and product information for search results in &ldquo;Google, MSN Search, Yahoo Search, A9 and AllTheWeb;&rdquo; very cool&hellip;<br \/>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bugmenot.mozdev.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">BugMeNot<\/a> &#8211; now available as an extension, this allows you to easily avoid compulsory registrations at newspapers etc. by providing you with a valid login.  It appears that for the moment their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/35054\" target=\"_blank\">server is down<\/a>; I hope it&rsquo;s not for good.  <strong>Update:<\/strong> Looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bugmenot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">BugMeNot<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/35100\" target=\"_blank\">back<\/a>&hellip;<br \/>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ieview.mozdev.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">IE View<\/a> &#8211; I avoid M$ Internet Explorer like the plague, but on occasion a site requires IE to properly load.  This extension allows you to quickly &ldquo;view in IE&rdquo; via the right-click menu.<br \/>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beggarchooser.com\/firefox\/\" target=\"_blank\">Linkification<\/a> &#8211; &ldquo;view plain-text URLs and e-mail addresses as actual links;&rdquo; very handy.<br \/>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/autofill.mozdev.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">AutoFill<\/a> &#8211; create multiple user profiles and quickly fill in forms.  Make sure and add the button to your toolbar, which unfortunately is not automatically done for you.<br \/>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/forums.mozillazine.org\/viewtopic.php?t=72994\" target=\"_blank\">keyconfig<\/a> &#8211; manage keyboard shortcuts, which unfortunately conflict on occasion.<br \/>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.holovaty.com\/blog\/archive\/2004\/07\/19\/2210\" target=\"_blank\">All Music Guide<\/a> &#8211; I mentioned this one in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/2004\/07\/%20firefox-all-music-guide-extension.html\" target=\"_blank\">separate post<\/a>, but it&rsquo;s worth repeating.  This extension helps to fix some of the interface issues associated with the AMG redesign.<br \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>Finally, I found that <a href=\"http:\/\/reloadevery.mozdev.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reload Every<\/a>&rsquo;s functions are available in <a href=\"http:\/\/white.sakura.ne.jp\/~piro\/xul\/_tabextensions.html.en\" target=\"_blank\">Tabbrowser Extensions<\/a>, so I uninstalled Reload Every.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As always, make sure and restart Firefox after you install each new extension.  For the latest extensions and themes, the <a href=\"http:\/\/update.mozilla.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mozilla Update<\/a> site is indispensable.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-109300536248051972?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since my last post about Firefox extensions, I came across enough useful ones that I figured I should post an update. Here are a couple in addition to those that I can recommend: Foxy Tunes &#8211; adds a nifty set of icons that lets you control your favorite media player (WinAmp, in my case) from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/20\/firefox-extension-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Firefox Extension 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-13988","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\/13988","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=13988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}