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Go FF!
Add to Search Bar - you mentioned the FF search bar. Many people don't know you can stick any search into it whether it's Wikipedia or the search box here in the upper right hand corner.
All-in-one-gestures - use waves of the mouse to make FF do anything, easier on the wrist than without.
Drag de Go - assign different actions depending on which direction you drag *anything*
Flashblock - keeps your eyes from getting tired by blocking all the blinking Flash ads behind one click of your mouse.
IE Tab - for when a site STILL doesn't work properly in FF and needs Internet Explorer.
Screen grab! - for taking screenshots of what's in the browser window
Split browser - lets you split the browser window into multiple windows, perfect for blogging on the top half of the screen while checking information on the bottom.
Tab Mix Plus - take control of FF tabs.
IETab - renders pages through IE to get around the requirement of some sites to view the site in IE. Also, some pages still dont render correctly for firefox so this usually fixes it.
DownloadThemAll - Allows you to easily download multiple files/links from a page. Saves a ton of time in frequent downloading
InstaClick - Opens links in a new tab when you right click on them
Regards,
Eric
I like Firefox for the extensions. Some great tools to aid development. However, the majority of people use I.E. (http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stat...) so if it comes down to it that's what I develop for.
It's definitely popular to hop on the Firefox bandwagon but for myths about Firefox check out: http://home.comcast.net/~SupportCD/FirefoxMyths...
It's a bit old but it's been updated casually and most of it is still true today.
Luke Krogh
Just thought I'd mention it...
I got a little bro of firefox... camino, i tihink. can I still get the extensions?
(I feel like i'm using yahoo answers)
However, 1password, myVidoop, and passpack are all additional password utilities worth a look.
For design work, I find myself using a couple of basic tools - ColorZilla, which lets me lift the hex color code off any part of a page, and MeasureIt, which measures whatever I drag around.
I'll caution newbies that not all extensions are created equally. Load too many or indiscriminately choose, and don't be surprised if Firefox chokes.
And Tim, regardless of species, when did pimping go from "a little Howard Hughes" to mean?
30+ Must-Have Updated Firefox 3 Extensions
http://mashable.com/2008/06/26/firefox-3-extens...
15 Coolest Firefox Tricks Ever
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/15-...
15 must-have Firefox tricks
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?...
11 Powerful Firefox 3 Add-ons That Can Replace Standalone Applications
http://www.jasonbartholme.com/11-powerful-firef...
10 Best Firefox Extensions of 2007
http://www.download.com/8301-2007_4-9835848-12....
I really like Adblock Plus. It removes annoying ads and speeds up your surfing.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/...
It lets you double click any word and get a pop up window in the browser. It's fantastic!
Additionally, the better gmail extension is *fantastic* - as is the better youtube one (for when you're not using leechblock or are checking our Tim's latest video perhaps)
Adblock Plus does wonders for cleaning up horrid sites and even works a treat on things as ad loaded as myspace. Custom filter sets and all sorts of goodies are preloaded with it.
Chris Pedrick's web developer extension for FF also is a great tool for messing around with things, like removing CSS to see how a site shows up or disabling select elements of a site - It's also nice if you're a budding web developer ;-)
Greasemonkey is great too - plenty of unique user scripts for different websites readily available and if you're a dab hand at some javascript, you can write your own.
That being said - I still use Opera... Though FF3 is tempting what with it's actual proper rendering of web pages now.
Why don't they make these for IE? I know FF is cooler but most customers still use it, so I mostly do, too.
Looks like these extensions may finally push me over the wall...
- GTD Inbox: I cannot overemphasize how much time and control (i) a well-thought GTD process established through this add-on in your GMail; and (ii) GMail keyboard shortcuts (press ?) can make you gain. Incredible.
- Google sharing: bookmarklet that enables you to very quickly share a webpage with friends through your GMail account. Excellent.
- Copy All URLS: Wow! Imagine you have twenty open tabs for a subject you are researching and want to continue later. Easy: Use this add-on to quickly paste the URLs as single text in a .txt file. Then select all, go to linkbun.ch, transform all the links in a single link, and save it to process later (through del.icio.us or sharing button).
- FEBE: Firefox Environment Backup Extension. The name says all: experiment with dozens fo extensions, configure your Firefox, and save it all automatically with this extension.
- PicLens: enables extremely fast and awesome navigation through Flickr, Google Images and so on.
- Del.icio.us (already mentioned)
- Better GMail (already mentioned)
If you are using firefox there are several plugins which can give you most of the functionality of irider. You need colorfultabs, firegestures, multiple tab handler, and tree style tab addons. This gives the nice vertical tabs down the left side. I can drag across the close buttons to close a bunch of tabs. I can move to the tabs and use the scroll wheel to cycle through them. I can also click on the tabs while holding the mouse and move through the open tabs. I can also right click for a ton of tab options like close all tabs, duplicate tab, etc. Also they are color coded.
In addition to those plugins I also use: piclens: cool way to browse photos and videos. download status bar: keep track of downloads in a small status bar at the bottom of the browser. firebug: javascript development tool. measureit: development tool, get sizes of things on screen. blue organizer: just a cool plugin does a lot of stuff with content of pages, check it out. google toolbar: which I have hidden, I just use it to collect my web history (I love being able to search through all of the pages I have ever visited. It can do this without showing it on the menu bar as I have no use for the other features of the toolbar.
If anyone knows of an add-on or something that allows finger movement fuctions in FF on an Alps Electric touchpad, I'd REALLY appreciate it. IE kind of annoys me.
Fox Clocks is cool for time zones down in the Status Bar
Colors folders - very helpful for highlighting important folders
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Quoting this site:
Mozilla Firefox is a fast, full-featured web browser that's easy to use. It has lots of great features including popup-blocking, tabbed-browsing, integrated search, improved privacy features, automatic updating and more. Plus, thanks to the PortableApps.com launcher bundled in the Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition, it leaves no personal information behind on the machine you run it on, so you can take your favorite browser along with all your favorite bookmarks and extensions with you wherever you go.
I've used FF Portable Edition with the Portable Apps Suite for about two years now and am extremely pleased with it. You NEED this if you travel!
http://del.icio.us/help/firefox/extensionnew
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http://lookpicking.com/welcome
Oh and I agree with Andre and Jeff: try out piclens, it's rad!
You had me at "Fire". I am a convert.
- Mike Michalowicz
I have long been a fan of the Mozilla utilities and when I hear anyone say, "What is FireFox?"....I launched into a rampage of all the features and advantages of using it over IE. I get really aggravated when using someone else's computer and I have to use IE...I feel like I went back in time!
Thanks for this great post to you and to everyone else who has submitted some really incredible extensions.
Firefox gives me fuzzy letters in ALL websites I visit. And I know it is not my machine because I have three and all three give me grief when I am using Firefox. One of them is actually a MAC. So go figure!
Stylesheet support is better at IE than Firefox. I will continue to use both and will continue to make IE my MAIN BROWSER and use Firefox as I use Word Press.. Fair enough?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/...
Who says you can't browse in "style".
Thanks for the post Tim!
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/...
I grab ALL pages I visit, then use Irfanview to simply browse through them as a slideshow. It is much easier than loading a "save as complete" html page. The disadvantage is that the text is not available.
This is the reason I am hoping against hope that someone comes up with a "save every page I visit as MHT" plugin. Check these out in the meantime.
UnMHT - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/...
Mozilla Archive Format - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/212
Although FF runs ok on my Vista machine, it isn't as stable as it is on my Linux laptop.
Have you attempted reinstalling FF on Vista? Or disabling all of your plug-ins (if you have any) to be certain that a plug in isn't crashing it?
Cool post... the part that made me laugh however was the new picture of you holding the glass of (what looks like) tequila… with that “come, try the poisoned apple” look! Good stuff.
Can someone explain this analogy to me, or is it just a random jab at IE that doesn't need to make sense?
I fully support the use of Firefox, but I mean, come on, what?
Sometimes it(FF) just desides not to open a page and nothing would help but restarting it.
More plugins, more bugs.
IE7 also have nice features with IE7Pro.
Now move up to Thunderbird for mail, and then onward and upward to Linux :-)
Safari windows is fast but they need to let the OS handle the fonts. As it is the fonts are to small and blurred to be usable. It also has security holes that you could drive a bus through.
Opera, one of the fastest, lightest footprints does just what you need. Get's the UI right. Sadly, even with 9.5 still no colorawareness feature. I have a wide gamut monitor so Opera gathers dust till they add this feature.
FF3. FF3 has so many great things going for it but the biggest are the plugins. Its biggest problem, instability and bugs but FF3 is vast improvement over the last couple versions of 2. For me FF3 is my #2 choice to Opera but the one feature that lifts FF3 above everyone else that no one has mentioned yet, it's coloraware like Safari (Apple version only). Its the only way for anyone running windows to get right colors on the web if you have a wide gamut monitor. Its not turned on by default but like most things FF, a plugin comes to the rescue. DL, enable, your wired. Color Management Plugin
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Oh, jealousy! I can't wait to get back to the Greek islands. Top 5 places I've been for sure. I love friendly people.
Have fun!
Tim
http://www.beatnikpad.com/archives/2008/06/18/i...
for custom-compiled versions.
I am a long time FF fan as well and I love FF3. People are talking about grabbing screen shots. I have a small utility called Fast Stone Capture that you can run in the quick launch bar. It will get page, frame, scrolling window or there are 2 options to draw your own frame if you only want a section of the page. I've had it for years and use it all the time. After it grabs what you want you can re-size, print, save, zoom, write a caption and a tons of other things. Better, it's shareware. http://www.faststone.org/
A Firefox is actually a Red Panda.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Panda
Apparently, they can be domesticated.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=occw-8sSao4
Add-ons I like (not mentioned by Tim):
- twitterbar: great for sharing links fast
- Session Manager (mainly for link recovery after crash)
- PicLens (fast image search)
- FireFtp (great for FTP)
I am fairly new to the blogging community, and was introduced to your site and your book just yesterday. Your solutions for lifestyle design in the the 4-Hour Workweek, are a true inspiration for any like minded entrepreneur. I know this comment is irrelevant to the post but I was hoping you would give me some advice regarding dodging bullets. My most recent post is the bullet dodging experience I had today.
On a social media tip check out shareaholic. It lets you easily share/bookmark websites you like on a host of social news sites/networks quickly...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/...
Great stuff and I'm going to have to check out a few of those, however there is one I have to disagree on. Del.icio.us used to be my defacto form of saving things for future reference. However, I found that with their late-to-the-game strategy of implementing Web2.0 tech, I had to look elsewhere.
Evernote has become invaluable to me for all the same reasons as Del.icio.us used to be... However, no more dead links and many more options for search and recovery. Enjoy!!
I emailed your tech people, who redirected me to you. FYI, I have been trying to get the sample 6 month dreamline and blank dreamline off of the website, but keep getting an error message that says "file is damaged and cannot be repaired"
Is there any other way to get this worksheet?
Thanks,
Frances
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Hi Frances,
I can't duplicate the problem from this page: http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/lifestyle-...
I've asked Jared, who created one of the forms, to check it out as well.
Cheers,
Tim
I thought the same thing until I searched for it a few weeks ago. There is a del.ici.ous toolbar that is compatible with FF 3. FF never found any updates for the del.ici.ous toolbar I was running, so I had to manually update it.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/...
I can't duplicate the problem from this page: http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/lifestyle-...
I've asked Jared, who created one of the forms, to check it out as well.
Good luck!
Tim
1-Click Weather
Can run in your status bar with current and forecasted weather. Quickest way to figure out what you're gonna wear tomorrow.
Clipmarks
Do a lot of research online? Clipmarks is the fastest and most convenient way to "highlight" the web and save your highlights in one, access-from-anywhere repository.
Colorzilla
I believe someone mentioned this already, but really it deserves being mentioned again. This is the fastest way to pick up a hex color. Which makes it great not only for designers, but also for developers.
Cooliris Previews
I use this addon not so much for its main previewing-a-link feature (which is also a time-saver), but so far it is the fastest way to forward a web page to someone (right-click on the page, choose Cooliris - Send link, enter an email address, and off it goes - though I would like to email the creator to suggest the email address field remember and pre-populate the addresses you've entered before).
Dictionary Tooltip
Someone already mentioned this one as well, but thought I should add that you can also very easily and very quickly look up alternate definitions in other dictionaries listed in the tool. Awesome if you're writing an essay or term paper.
Fireshot
Also mentioned already, but thought I should add not only can you quickly make a screengrab of a web page, you can also edit and crop the image in seconds!
FoxyTunes
Control iTunes from your browser's status bar! Saves me tons of time when I'm developing and simultaneously boppin' to my favorite beats.
Web Developer
Also already mentioned, but thought I should add that the combination of this addon and Firebug has significantly reduced the amount of time I spend testing and re-testing different coding solutions, especially when you're working with controlled development environments where you're not allowed to play around with alternative solutions. These two together turn your browser into your very own development sandbox!
Those are my favs. Hope other people can use them to save time.
And thanks so much, Tim, for your life design guidance. My latest application of one of your suggestions is no more multi-tasking at work. Benefits so far: the quality of my work is up; it forces me to save time in more effective ways so as to keep up with quantity; and the pain in my shoulders from stress has actually decreased.
This Argentine-American thanks you! If you're ever in Los Angeles and want to try the best empanadas and flan in your life, drop me an email! My mother's empanadas and flan are famous within the San Gabriel Valley Argentine community. ;o)
The SEO functionality alone makes it a no brainer, IMO. :)
I'll be talking more about thinking systems soon. Much to discuss. Where am I moving to? Where the wind takes me, of course :) Tomorrow, off to FL, then NY.
Pura vida,
Tim
One that no one has mentioned yet - QuickNote. Sidebar or Tab with up to 4 note pages. V. useful for jotting stuff down if needing. :)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/46
With the new firefox3, lots of old plugins were rendered useless, but just over the last couple of days for example ImageShack has come out with the new plugins. Great for image uploads. Will write up more on this and a few other great plugins worth mentioning on my new personal blog and will link it over to yours too.
Take care
Vince
One of my guy friends just heard you speak in at the NSA conference last week, and he told me that I had to subscribe to you. Right on. I am looking for that blog entry about outsourcing dating. Is there one? I need to do that.
What are your thoughts on Google Analytics? Do you use it?... I find it more accurate than Alexa.
* Pearl Crescent extension for capturing a screen shot of a web page
http://pearlcrescent.com/products/pagesaver/
* Fission - adds a "progress bar" as your web page is loading in FF
I recently read your book and when looking for my muse I realized what I'm an expert in... Property Taxes!! lol. I've been working for the LA County Assessor's Office for five years and know them like the back of my hand. I know things that most who work in my office don't know. I have the knowledge to help hundreds of thousands in California save thousands of dollars. I understand how the law works and how it can help people when applied creatively. I want your input on this since I do work for a gov't organization and it is very taboo to share 'secrets.' Also, there may be some liability. However, this informational/audio CD that I am in the process of creating could be HUGE!! And help so many! I'm freaked out though. Please help!
Sincerely,
Valerie
- Ronin
It does not replace an application that I know, so I will not compare it to any.
It's a research tool that lets you download pages, highlight content, make notes on them and even write up mini-reports. Many information sites support Zotero and are able to give Zotero all the bibliography information needed. Zotero, with one click, can export bibliography info in many different forms (even print them directly). Because Zotero saves webpages, you can work offline. It's a must for any high school or college student. Also, don't worry about crashes. Every letter you type is saved when you type it with no noticeable lag time.