Extending Firefox Vol. 3
Milind Bandekar, Jan 15, 2006 1000 hrs IST
A continuation to these few more useful extensions for Firefox, which we had missed out earlier articles.
As promised and expected, we've come up with yet another collection of useful extensions for Firefox. We had posted most of the vital extensions such as a download manager, scheduler, adv blocker, and a few more to enhance your overall browsing experience. Today we shall take a look at a few others, which we think deserve a note and are equally useful for any Firefox user.
Note: Firefox may block the extension downloads by displaying a security bar on top. Just click "Edit Options" and add www.techtree.com to the list of sites allowed to install plugins. Ironically, none of these extensions are hosted on techtree.com, but Firefox seems to think so.
Sage
Sage is a lightweight RSS and Atom feed aggregator extension for Mozilla Firefox. It's got a lot of what you need and not much of what you don't. It reads RSS (2.0, 1.0, 0.9x) and Atom feeds. It features, feed discovery and integrates with Firefox's bookmark storage and Live Bookmarks. It also imports and exports OPML feed lists and also features a Technorati and RSS search engine integration.
The Tab Sidebar
The Tab Sidebar extension, if you haven't heard of it already, provides a sidebar in the browser that can act as a replacement to the main tab bar, with extras. The most obvious extra is that each tab includes a preview of the web page that is continually updated, but you also get navigation buttons for each tab. Simply use View > Sidebar > Tab Sidebar to display, or customize your toolbars and add the Tab Sidebar button.
TorrentBar
The TorrentBar extension integrates a BitTorrent File Search Toolbar within Firefox. It allows searching numerous sites in a matter of minutes for needed torrent files. No, it doesn't actually download any of those files. Only Opera's technical preview has built-in BitTorrent downloading as of now!
Paste and Go
This extension lets you paste a URL from the clipboard and directly load it, either via the hotkey Ctrl-Shift-V or the corresponding item in the location bar's context menu. Additionally, it adds support for the Linux selection clipboard as well.
Clear Cache Button
This extension adds a clear cache toolbar button within Firefox for easy and instant clean swipe. After installing the extension, find the clear cache button in the toolbar customization panel. It also features transparency to the icons to blend nicely with the themes.
Print+Print Preview
The Print+Print Preview extension will replace the default "Print" button with the Mozilla Suite style "Print/Print Preview" toolbar button/menu. If you already have the "Print" button in your toolbar, the change will take place automatically. If not, use View > Toolbars > Customize... to add the button. It will look the same as before in the customization dialog, but once added to the toolbar you will see the additional arrow for the dropdown menu.
USER COMMENTS
I have loads of extensions and themes, firefox is brilliant. Sessionsaver is a must if you don't have it, if your browser crashes it takes you to exatly where you left off, even what you were typing.
by Ric, Preston UK, on Jan 18, 2006 08:08 PM, Report abuse Reply
Something wrong. Page two of this article never gets displayed. Its page one and then straightaway page three. It shows page three of the article even when the address in the addressbar says: http://www.techtree.com/techtree/jsp/article.jsp?article_id=70647&cat_id=609&page=2
by cmandal, Hyderabad, on Jan 17, 2006 04:05 PM, Report abuse Reply
I Think forecastfox is 100% accurate weather forecaster than Indian weather deptt. Its great extension
by KALIA, NANGAL DAM, on Jan 16, 2006 10:49 AM, Report abuse Reply
Great article! Please keep them coming!
by J Jones, USA, on Jan 16, 2006 01:28 AM, Report abuse Reply
Ah,ha! First comment! All things said and done, I think NoScript and IE View are the best extensions till date.
by Arjun Kartha, Bangalore, on Jan 15, 2006 11:36 PM, Report abuse Reply
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