Archives for the 'Firefox Tips' Category
Quick Tip: Remember the Milk for Gmail [Gearfire Productivity]
Remember the Milk, a great to web-based to-do list application, has released an excellent plug-in for the Firefox. It works with gmail, creating a panel on the right side of your screen with your to-do list in it. It’s now right there and you can add, remove, change and see all of your tasks in [...]
5 Steps to Productive Online Reading [Gearfire Productivity]
Aardvark makes reading easier and saves paper and ink when printing. It is a Firefox extension, but is also available as a bookmarklet for Internet Explorer and Safari.
When browsing the web, I always use the printer-friendly version of a page. It frees you from all the distractions of colour and ads, letting you [...]
Quickly Edit Basic Firefox Options with Quick Preference Extension [Gearfire Productivity]
If you’ve ever needed to change a basic preference in Firefox without opening the options window, this extension is for you. The extension adds either a menu in the menu bar or an icon-button to your “customize” menu that you can put wherever you want. The extension allows you to quickly enable/disable java, [...]
Add Vista-like Locationbar Functionality to Firefox [Gearfire Productivity]
One of the coolest new features in Windows Vista is the way folder structure is displayed in the locations bar. Vista organizes it in a way that makes it much more readable, and adds new features such as being able to back-track by clicking on folders in the location bar.
Just like any other cool feature [...]
Firefox Extenstion: Downloads in Tab [Gearfire Productivity]
If you have ever tried the popular browser Opera, you have probably noticed it’s abundance of features. Probably one of the first ones you noticed was the download manager was in a tab. If you happened to like it, but don’t want to move away from firefox, there is a firefox extension which [...]
Firefox Script: Always Expand Facebook Apps [Gearfire Productivity]
Since Facebook released the Developer’s API, you have probably been adding more and more applications to your Facebook account. With these new tools comes new annoyances that Facebook has yet to fix. One of them is that you can only put 6 apps above the fold on your left navigation menu. To access the rest, [...]
Firefox Tip: Launch Your Searches [Gearfire Productivity]
Geoff, my fellow GearFire blogger, had a question about whether it was possible to quickly search websites in a similar manner to how I launch my bookmarks. The answer is yes.
If you read my previous post on launching bookmarks, you’ll notice that Launchy also mentions the ability to index Firefox’s “quick searches.”
So what are [...]
Firefox Tip: Launch Your Bookmarks [Gearfire Productivity]
Following up on my “Stop Mousing Around” article, I present a mouseless way of loading bookmarks.
The key is to use Launchy. There have already been Gearfire posts outlining how to use Launchy to search your documents and launch your applications.
Launchy also includes a built-in plugin called “Foxy” which indexes your Firefox bookmarks. Just [...]
Firefox Tip: Stop [Mousing] Around [Gearfire Productivity]
If you’re a Firefox user (I know you Intenet Explorer users see that banner on our homepage), I have a tip that can cut down your mouse usage, saving you time and potential RSI.
Everyday, we enter our credentials into login forms, infomation into registrations, and queries into search boxes. Everyday, we pull our hand [...]
Firefox Trick: Open Links in Background Tabs [Gearfire Productivity]
It is easy to feel overwhelmed if you are opening multiple links from a single page. Depending on your situation, you may be opening five or more links, and it is annoying to have to move back to your original tab each time you open a link. Luckily for you, there is a quick and [...]