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Extensions

Mini-Review: ScribeFire v1.4.0.1

In Blogging, Extensions, Firefox, Review on 11 July 2007 with 1 comment

I tried ScribeFire because I saw it at the bottom of a few posts in Rev. Jon Swanson’s blog, Levite Chronicles. I’m dropping it because it doesn’t seem to code in XHTML. That’s all.

Quick File extension

In Asides, Extensions, Open Source, Software, Thunderbird on 23 January 2006 with 2 comments

I’m using Thunderbird instead of Gmail right now. (More about this later.) For now, I just had to write this out. Quick File is an awesome extension that I wish I would’ve seen before I purged and sorted 73MB-worth of emails (with lots of attachments). I’m not seeing much documentation, so basically, press Alt+Q, type the first couple letters of the folder you want to move the email message(s) to, choose it with your arrows, then press Enter. No need to use a mouse for this one - awesome.

Performancing for Firefox

In Blogging, Extensions, Firefox, WordPress on 20 December 2005 with 1 comment

I just installed Performancing for Firefox. Pretty cool!

Performancing for Firefox is a full featured blog editor that sits right within Firefox. Just hit F8 or click the little pencil icon at the bottom right to bring up the blog editor and easily post to your Wordpress, MovableType or Blogger blogs.

I have my two blogs setup, and all the categories and post history show up just fine.

Gripes?

• Any bold text is enclosed in “b” HTML tags rather than “strong” HTML tags. (I don’t know how to write the actual tag here - oops.)
• Any italicized text is enclosed in “i” HTML tags rather than “em” HTML tags.
• Categories/tags are listed in some random order. With lots of tags, it made it hard to find the one(s) I wanted to check off for this post.

I’ve gotten used to writing from the WordPress interface, using the keyboard shortcuts for the different tags and whatnot. I’ve gotten used to not having to take my hands off the keyboard, so that’s been really efficient for me. So basically, I’m not sure if I’d completely switch over to using this plugin 100% of the time (especially if a post had to do with a lot of linking and lists). For the short quicker posts, I think this is very handy.

I’m not sure what else there is, but I’m pretty impressed, especially since it supports Blogger.com, Typepad.com, LiveJournal, WordPress.com, WordPress custom, and MoveableType custom. Isn’t this plugin part of what Flock was all about?

Golf clap: Weblog Tools Collection

Recently used Firefox extensions

In Extensions, Firefox on 14 November 2005 with 1 comment

I think the more extensions you run, the more likely the startup of Firefox will be slowed down. So, since my fresh install of Firefox, these are the only extensions that remain my system:

• Adblock
• Adblock Filterset.G Updater
• Greasemonkey
• Highlighter

Gmail Notifier 0.5.0

In Asides, Extensions, Firefox on 28 July 2005 with 4 comments

The Gmail Notifier Firefox extension is awesome! 0.5.0 is the latest version, and it’s significantly better because the popup (when you hover over it) shows the unread count per label. Very nifty!

Greasemonkey is awesome!

In Asides, Extensions, Firefox, Greasemonkey on 28 May 2005 with 6 comments

One reason why I’ve installed the Greasemonkey extension? Friends’ Xanga blogs. There’s some good lookin’ Gmail scripts, too. Of course, I’m going to drop Gmail soon, but if you’re not, you might as well check those out. It’s all simple, trust me.

Piggy Bank

In Asides, Extensions, Firefox on 24 May 2005 with no comments

The Piggy Bank Firefox extension looks very intriguing…

Flashblock

In Asides, Extensions, Firefox on 10 May 2005 with no comments

I haven’t been getting Flash ads in Firefox. I guess most of the sites I visit are blogs and forums. If that’s not the case for you and you’re getting bombarded, Flashblock might do the trick for you. Read carefully.

Sort Firefox Bookmarks weirdness

In Asides, Extensions, Firefox on 25 February 2005 with 3 comments

Sort Bookmarks 0.6.0 is being kind of weird. Upon clicking “Sort by Name” in the main menu, Bookmarks Synchronizer 1.0.1 comes up instead. Right-clicking on any bookmark will sort that folder only. Also, I can’t sort in bookmark manager. *sigh*

Best Adblock filters

In Extensions, Firefox on 13 December 2004 with 2 comments

I was searching through my archives, and it seems that I haven’t posted about these cool Adblock filters. The ones I linked to before were pretty lengthy, but these…these are short, sweet, and get the job done. Enjoy!

Advanced Adblock filters

Oh yeah, it’s been weird, but my Firefox install has been crashing on me lately. (Note: I’ve been really daring with my software installs.) Anyway, if you want to see if Firefox has some bugs left from previous versions, you should check out this article from “Zachariah” on “How to really do a fresh install [of Firefox]“.

Update: Seeing how this is one of the most popular posts here, it’d help to update it. Instead of manually entering in the Adblock filters, Filterset.G works better and updates automatically.