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Crawling Across Chaos and Time Without End
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Crawling Across Chaos and Time Without End
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Firefox Add-ons: What is an Add-on?First things first. It’s now well known among the more savvy internet users, that the Firefox web browser is a fine piece of kit; secure, innovative and with a burgeoning user base that has seen Microsoft rise from it’s slumbers and put some serious damage control development into it’s venerable Internet Explorer.
Add-ons are made by a host of mainly unpaid software designers. The code is generally open source so that anyone can modify it for their own needs. The reality for me is that I use something if it works, and ditch it if it doesn’t! I haven’t the spare time for code work… So What to Choose?Now there’s the rub! The best thing is to install some that fall into your area of interest, have a play, remove them and try some more! You’ll soon find out which have the features you want, are fast, and don’t crash your browser! To install, just click on the add-on link, wait a couple of seconds for the countdown timer and then install. Usually that’s all there is to it. For myself, I’m not that interested in the many ‘consumer’ type add-ons (like music listings and Facebook notifiers etc) , but I’m interested in things that improve my coding and browsing life, or help me produce articles like this one! My RecommendationsBritish English Dictionary – link Firefox Dictionary Check Used when blogging or commenting to correct spelling! That’s a screen-dump above of it working. Words can also be added – and it’s all on the right-click! Screengrab – link Screengrab Menu The best ‘printscreen’ utility I’ve come across. Use it to get screen captures of dodgy websites before they are closed down! I have it set for an icon in the lower right corner of a window, then the two menus shoot out sideways. As with the dictionary, the menus are on the right-click as well. SearchStatus – link SearchStatus menu I have the info strung out at the bottom right of my window again. The maker’s description says most of it,(copied verbatim below), but it doesn’t say how useful and fast some of these features are! Display the Google PageRank, Alexa rank, Compete ranking and SEOmoz Linkscape mozRank anywhere in your browser, along with fast keyword density analyser, keyword/nofollow highlighting, backward/related links, Alexa info and more In essence, for me, it’s a neat, quick and configurable WHOIS lookup for any domain you’re visiting plus a wodge of bells and whistles. TinEye Reverse Image Search – link TinEye Menu Another right-click menu system! The add-on looks for images that have been found in it’s web trawling that match the image you right-click selected.  7 results - TinEye This works even when the image has been edited, cut, cropped, renamed or resized! This is the menu applied to a picture from the Crawling Chaos ‘The Gas Chair’ page. After a few seconds, the TinEye website fires up in a new tab with a list of pages that include the picture. It’s catalogue isn’t complete but it’s getting bigger all the time… Web Developer – link Web Developer Menu The enormity of the menu systems and the features it includes mean that there’s no way I could do justice to it in this small piece. As a small example, let’s see it show all the web colours on the same Crawling Chaos page above….  Color Information - crawling chaos etc Again, all features are available as a right-click,but also as a tool-bar menu if desired. If I now check the ‘View Color Information’ entry, after a second or so, another tab fires up in Firefox and displays all the web-page colours defined in code using the colour code RGB hash style. You can get all sorts of information about a web page and it’s images. One neat thing I use all the time is the “Resize” feature which means I can set the browser to various pixel dimensions to see how web pages look at these different sizes! But really, check out the menus for yourself. there’s just TOO much to list! #6 Add-on: Firebug – link
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Nice list you’ve there. Another add-on that deserves mention is Billeo. It’s a free browser plug-in that manages passwords, saves receipts and auto fills forms. No security issues, as it is VeriSign secured and TRUSTe certified.
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I’ve never felt the absolute need to have an overall password manager thing. Somehow, the whole paradigm, in my mind, negates the whole principle of security by putting all your eggs in one basket. It’s a kind-of ‘Maginot Line’ way of thinking.
Saying that, it looks a fine add-on and with the ever-burgeoning lists of passwords and user-names that we have to remember, I’m not excluding the possibility of it’s use entirely, and there are certain family members who would certainly benefit from it. But for now, my own system of mnemonics will have to do!
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