Latest revision as of 18:25, 4 May 2009

Useful Enhancements to Firefox

See:

Extensions and Add Ons

Some of our favorites are...

Web Developer - Web development utilities

Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.

Also see: http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/

Colorzilla - Colour utilities

Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies.

With ColorZilla you can get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it into another program. You can Zoom the page you are viewing and measure distances between any two points on the page. The built-in palette browser allows choosing colors from pre-defined color sets and saving the most used colors in custom palettes. DOM spying features allow getting various information about DOM elements quickly and easily. And there's more...

JetEye - Bookmark management

Build collections of super-powered bookmarks (we call them JetpaksTM) to save and share your best web searches. Whether planning a date night or researching the 2008 presidential election Jeteye lets you quickly and easily build collections of web resources on any topic. More powerful than bookmarks, specifically tailored for use with web-enabled cell phones, each Jetpak has a permanent address (aka its “URL”) that you can access anytime, anywhere, through any browser-enabled device (computer, laptop, iPhone, blackberry). You (or a friend) can create Jetpaks and send super-powered links to your cell phone. If you leave your Jetpaks "public", then the community can use your Jetpaks and, over time, we can all help make the web a little easier to navigate. For confidential information we suggest you lock your Jetpaks by making them "private".

Firebug

Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page...

XML Developer Toolbar

A toolbar modeled after Chris Pederick's WebDeveloper toolbar, that allows XML Developer's use of standard tools all from your browser!

Features include:

Schema Generation
DTD Generation
Schema Validation
XML -> Schema Validation
Style Manipulation
XSL Transformations on-the-fly
DOM Inspector incorporated views
Document statistics for future Semantic Web purposes
SOA Module (coming soon)
Lame scratch pad that does...nothing really useful

Shazou - mapping

Mapping is integrated with the Firefox browser. The product called Shazou (pronounced Shazoo it is Japanese for mapping) enables the user with one-click to map and geo-locate any website they are currently viewing.

Session Manager

Session Manager saves and restores the state of all windows - either when you want it or automatically at startup and after crashes. Additionally it offers you to reopen (accidentally) closed windows and tabs. If you're afraid of losing data while...

See here for more information.

ScribeFire

ScribeFire (previously Performancing for Firefox) is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog. You can drag and drop formatted text from pages you are browsing, take notes, and post to your blog.

General Interest

Nightlaunch

Dark Theme for Firefox. Inspired by the night launch of STS-116.

DeskCam

See http://www.deskcam.it/firefox_extension/

LinkedIn Companion

Make your LinkedIn interactions more productive...

ExtensionDeveloper

A suite of tools for extension developers...

Advanced Bookmark Search

Advanced Bookmark Search...

Plugins

See https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:7

Firefox betas: Get Extensions Working

Posted by Chris Duckett @ 17:18 1 comments

If you love to live on the edge of browser development, one consistent ache with each new Firefox beta is that all your extensions stop working. The solution to this problem happens to be head-slappingly simple.

The solution is to go to the about:config page in Firefox and add the following two variables in this table:

Name	Value	Type
extensions.checkCompatibility	false	boolean
extensions.checkUpdateSecurity	false	boolean

Restart Firefox and all your old extensions that were previously disabled will now attempt to do their thing. Naturally, the warning remains the same: if you play with beta software and make changes like the one above, don't be surprised if things break.

The older, more time-consuming way of unzipping the extension's .xpi file and changing the maxVersion value in the install.rdf file still works, but the alternative approach mentioned above is far quicker and more elegant (yes, I'm a coder).

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