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The ghost of the son of Firefox, ze browser: THE RETURN.

or, a geeky listing of all the extensions i have currently installed, to share the love and handiness.

Any extension I use, er, extensively, is marked with 2+ in front. 1+ means I use it too, but less. I would have re-ordered them to make more sense but dude, I’ve already spent hours procrastinating on this. Geeky, but lazy! Hop we go.

++downTHEMall! (0.9.4) – filters extensions of all the files and/or links present in a page and allows mass downloading easily.

++FLST (0.8.1) – focus returns to the last selected tab when you close a tab instead of snapping back to the geographically closest in line

++Adblock (0.5.2.039) – filters ads from webpages (and much more!). highly customizable w/ or w/o wildcards (*). Adblock, ZE POWER. Learn it, tweak it, love it.

Add Bookmark Here (0.5.3) – an additional and convenient way to add bookmarks.

++Quicknote (0.6) – note taking extension w/ additional features. Very useful for blogging and/or research.

++Deepest Sender (0.5.3) – LJ-based sites client, w/ easy to find/edit server info. Makes logging on to a diff. LJ-site or account to post something this much quicker.

+BugMeNot (0.6.1) – Bypass compulsory web registration w/ the context menu, via www.bugmenot.com

+fireFTP (0.87) – an FTP client inside the browser. Light and efficient.

+miniT (drag+indicator) (0.4) – adds tab-dragging with drop place indicator.

++Sage (1.3.1) – lightweight RSS and Atom feed aggregator/reader. Oh yeah, baby.

Bookmark Backup (0.3.1) – automatically creates a backup of the bookmarks.html file each time the browser is closed. Customizable to save more than that: history, download history, user files, preferences and more. This one gets used w/o me even thinking about it, which is the coolest thing about it anyhow. So no stars, but much love.

++Show Failed URL (0.1.4) – Displays failed URLS in the location bar.

Show Old Extensions (0.1.7) – displays pre-0.9 extensions in the manager. I installed this one when I wanted to be able to still see my version of the old Firesomething even though it didn’t yet work with the new 1.0 Firefox. Right now it’s only showing one disabled-cos-incompatible extensions:

undoclosetab (2004125.2) (I want a compatible version, this one was SO useful, omg!)

++Word Count (0.1.1) – counts the number of words in selected/highlighted text (added to context menu) – a ficcer’s thang!

+Foxy Tunes (1.1) – enables control of your favorite media/music player. customizable and more.

++BBCode (0.3.7) – adds a BBCode shortcut to the context menu as you’re typing inside a form field. Enables faster formatting of LJ comments, board-posts and such. Very cool.

About site (0.1.1) – Quick access to site’s metadata – traffic, related and linked pages, the like. I don’t think of it much but it defo has its uses.

Mozilla Calendar (0.8.3) – a calendar client based on the iCal standard. What I want to figure out is if I can synch it with the iPod the way Mac people can, hmm. But even as a static-restrained to my PC-calendar, I’m getting much use of it.

++ChromEdit (0.1.1.1) – a simple user profile files editor – makes customization and tweaking your firefox so much easier. This might require more explanation… Lemme find a link with those, I’ll be back soon.

++ForecastFox (0.5.9) – retrieves international weather forecast from weather.com and displays it in the toolbar of your choice. highly customizable, allows various profiles (w/ or w/o automatic rotation). I currently have 3 profiles, Home, LA and Honolulu in rotation, and chose a 3-day display (now, tomorrow, the day after) w/ tiny pic only in the status bar… A hover of the mouse on any pic will pop up a bubble with more info, temperature and such. Very discrete, very efficient.

FoxyVoice (0.1) – provides text-to-speech functionality using the Microsoft Speech API. Will only work on Win XP. Adds a ‘read out loud’ item to the context menu for selected text: click it and hear the electronic voice rendering the text. From merely droll to hilarious, depending, and probably very, very useful for some.

++Firesomething (1.6.0) – all your branding are belong to Firesomething!!11 – the most recent version has a ton of editable versions. LOVE, LOVE.

++Slogger (0.5.0) – log and save webpages in local files or via remote services. Highly customizable. The ideal tool of compulsive packrats, archivists, historians and wankas. Many options, from profiles already defined to any kind of behaviour you want, like ‘do nothing til I press this button to log a page’.

++Stop-or-Reload Button (0.1) – retrieves precious toolbar space by smushing Stop and Reload into one button that changes in context. If you’re done loading, it’ll be the Reload function, and if you’re loading/reloading already, it’ll be the Stop one—icon displayed is different in both cases, of course.

JustBlogIt (0.2) – adds right-click item with submenu – enables easy blogging with a variety of services (LJ, MT, Blogger..). Customizable. So far it works well for LJ (but no other LJ sites) but I haven’t managed to make it work with MT - it sends me to the MT front page and not directly to the New entry form of the right blog, despite me giving it the right parameters. I dunno yet if it’s no good, or if I’ve not looked into it correctly.

Slim Extension List (0.1) – Makes items in the Firefox Extension List shorter so a smaller window will display more at a glance. Just, you know. Handy.

Linky (2.4.0) – Open/download/validate links and pictures in tabs or windows. Haven’t used it much yet… Maybe it’s redundant with others I use more, hmm.

+SessionSaver .2 (d1 nightly 27) – Magically restores your last browsing session (windows and tabs) even (especially) in the case of a crash. CLING TO IT! – enables session saving/naming in the midst of browsing as well, of course.

++Greasemonkey (0.2.3) – A User Script Manager – WHOA BOMB. From the page: Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension which lets you to add bits of DHTML (“user scripts”) to any webpage to change it’s behavior. In much the same way that user CSS lets you take control of a webpage’s style, user scripts let you easily control any aspect of a webpage’s design or interaction. Think it’s complicated? Not at all. Install the extension, follow links to the user scripts repository, choose and install.

My first installed one: Linkify, a script to make sure that all URLs displayed in the browser are clickable links. I clicked on this link to display the script after having installed-and-restarted for Greasemonkey itself, went to Tools > Install User Script, and clicked okay, basically. Now even if someone only CPs a link w/o making it a URL it becomes a link for me, no matter the page.

The clever guys can write their own DHTML scripts, but I suck at JavaScript so I’ll stick to the ones existing already. There are tons of them, to do anything, from the Google Images Re-Linker (rewrites links in Google Images Search results page to point straight to the image instead of the thumbnail in a frame) to the LiveJournal: Hover user pic (adds LJ user’s when you hover on a journal link) and Full Userinfo (modifies links to userinfo pages on Livejournal to point to the full userinfo pages by default), or IMDb/Netflix (adds links to Netflix search results next to each movie link in IMDb pages. If you have a Netflix account but like to browse IMDb, good liek whoa, I guess.), and many more.

Man, I need a cigarette now.