Firefox Add-Ons

Way back in 2004, I recommended the Firefox browser. One of the reasons Firefox is so great is the ability for people to create add-ons to it. The featured site has a huge collection, and they're really easy to install. Here are several that I particularly like: ColorZilla is great for people who design web sites: it lets you point to any color you can see, and it will tell you what it is -- great for matching something on a page. SearchStatus gives you "popularity" information about a site without having to have the search engine toolbar. What does that mean? When you surf, it gives you the page's Google PageRank and the site's Alexa Rank, which are useful to help you determine how good the site is. The higher the PageRank, and the lower the Alexa ranking, indicates how many quality sites link to the page or site you're looking at, and how popular it is with other users. It also has several other functions that are handy, but those rankings are what I use it for. Mouse Gestures is really cool: it lets you send commands to the browser with mouse movements, rather than having to find a button and click it. For instance, holding down the right mouse button and moving the mouse to the left means you want to go "Back" one page. I get so used to it I try to do that in Explorer, where of course the gesture is ignored.... And you can program your own. Last, I do a lot of copying and pasting from web sites in my research. Anytime I highlight text, Auto Copy copies it into the paste buffer so I don't have to hit "Ctrl-C" or Edit → Copy. Those keystrokes add up! These are only a good start: look around a bit on the site and you'll find hundreds more add-ons that make Firefox such a great browser. From This is True for 18 March 2007 Suggestions for further reading: Learning JavaScript, 2nd Edition by Shelley Powers Amazon Price: $23.09 Customer Review: I am trudging through this book right now, and as a beginner who has no prior experience with JavaScript, I can tell you that this book isn't for the beginner. I've gone through a few examples and typed in the code as written and found that a few of...   New Perspectives on the Internet: Comprehensive (New Perspectives (Paperback ... by Gary P. Schneider, Jessica Evans Amazon Price: $110.83   New Perspectives on the Internet: Introductory (New Perspectives (Paperback C... by Gary P. Schneider, Jessica Evans Amazon Price: $40.88 Customer Review: Used this for a course typical textbook, not a lot going for it, don't buy it unless you have to.   Web Security Testing Cookbook: Systematic Techniques to Find Problems Fast by Paco Hope, Ben Walther Amazon Price: $26.39 Customer Review: This is one of those few books on my bookshelf that I find myself returning to time and time again. My copy is marked, annotated, labeled, etc. so on and so forth. It is indispensable if you work in the industry and IMHO outshines the much larger t...   Sexy Witch by LaSara FireFox Amazon Price: $12.89 Customer Review: Yo he leído la traducción en español "Se una bruja Sensual", soy de la Ciudad de México y mi opinión en verdad me parece un libro muy interesante, lleno de energía positiva con la finalidad de canalizarla a nuestro centro como mujeres encontrando ese...   Newsfeed display by CaRP

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