Archives for the 'Firefox' Category
Productive keyword navigation [Hack Your Day]
I’ve already shown you how to use keyword navigation in Firefox, now let’s take that to the next level by creating naming schemes and putting some organization behind it. The problem is that while you may visit up to 50 sites regularly, coming up with 50 unique, short and easy to remember keywords is not [...]
Create desktop internet applications with Prism [Hack Your Day]
A great new tool Mozilla is working on is called Prism, and it gives you the ability to create an application for your desktop out of any web service. Great examples are Gmail, Google Docs, Remember the Milk, but you can do it for any web page really.
Essentially it is a sort of browser that [...]
FireFTP - The ftp client for Firefox [Hack Your Day]
An application that is among the first 5 install is actually an extension for Firefox. FireFTP is a simple ftp client for Firefox, but is probably one of the main applications for my productivity. It enables me to upload and download files like pics for my blog easily, without having to leave my browser.
This means [...]
Get rid of the downloads window in Firefox [Hack Your Day]
One thing I very much hate about Firefox is the download window. Whenever I download anything an annoying window pops up. I would be ok with it if it would materialize in the background, but instead, after each link click to download it springs up in my face.
Of course I don’t really hate Firefox for [...]
Firefox addons page face-lift [Hack Your Day]
The go to page for Firefox extensions just got revamped and they did a really good job with it at that. The overall design is much smoother and more eye-pleasing, but they managed to pour some usability in as well.
Rating and commenting is now very simple and viewing screenshots is much easier using the menu [...]
Copy all your favorites to a spreadsheet [Hack Your Day]
If you want to build a personal database of links you can copy all your favorites simply to Excel using a simple tool I already had a look at here on Hack Your Day. In How to copy links easily I showed you how to productively copy all links on a page, or all selected [...]
Shortcut Keys in Mozilla Firefox [Stuff for Getting Things Done]
I use Firefox as the primary browser on my home PC. Why Firefox instead of Internet Explorer?
Firefox seems to load web pages faster
Firefox does not generate Windows errors for me like IE does
Better tabbed browsing than IE
The bookmark maintenance features in Firefox are better than IE
Incredible add-in support. There [...]
Flock - Productive social browsing [Hack Your Day]
I finally decided to give Flock, a Mozilla based browser a go, and I’m very, very happy with the results so far. You can reap most of the benefits if you’re into social sites like Youtube, Del.icio.us and the bunch, but even if you’re not, it’s basically Firefox, so you can’t really go wrong.
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Copy links from web pages easily [Hack Your Day]
As part of my day job, I needed to get people to correct a lot of posts on Wordpress blogs. I wanted to create a table which would help the person doing the majority of the work, so all he need do is click on the links. For this, I had to copy the links [...]
Google Docs Sidebar for Firefox [Hack Your Day]
If you use Google Docs a lot, I found an extension for you that not only helps you in organization, but also lets you upload and view any document in the blink of an eye. Apart from being beautifully done, you can work with added productivity, since you don’t have to have the Google Docs [...]