Cool Firefox Addons to ease your life
Today I am going to share Top 4 Firefox addons
which will makes your day-to-day life easier by increasing productivity.
I hope these add value to your browsing. Even if you’ve heard of them
before, I share specific reasons why they’re so useful + fun (usefun!).
All are compatible with the wonderful Firefox 3:
Ever wanted to download Flash videos from YouTube or another site and found yourself frustrated by sluggish web conversion utilities. This add-on
keeps rocketing in popularity, and with good reason: it simplifies the
process of downloading multimedia with a couple clicks. It can be as
easy as opening a movie-playing page, clicking the toolbar icon, and
selecting the file to download. Moments later, it’ll be on your hard
drive. The interface is a bit odd at first, but once you get up to
speed, it’s a breeze. I use this for archiving FLV copies of videos I’ve
created — please don’t do bad things with it.
Picnik has saved me a tremendous amount of time by removing wasteful steps in my workflow. This add-on provides an easy path to visually send a webpage into my fave online Picnik image editor (many features are free)
so it can be cropped and edited with delicious effects, then posted on
your blog, Flickr, another photo-sharing site, or even saved back to
your hard drive. For that reason alone, it has a halo appeal for
bloggers who need webpage screenshots… fast! Before, I suffered with
saving screen captures to disk, then Photo shopping them because most
lesser editors are too limited on the tasty eye candy. But Picnik has a
fine balance of both, and enables the process to take place totally
online. Alas, the Picnik add-on can’t capture your web browser or other
apps’ user interface; you’ll still need a utility like Gadwin Printscreen (free) or SnagIt for that.
Perhaps you desire to capture a webpage’s appearance, not as a
static image but as an annotable file? ScrapBook will do that and more
for you: it can cache whole webpages or parts of them for later review,
then you can add notes and sort your clippings into folders. This is
terribly handy if you’re on a laptop and want to save some offline
reading material for when you get on a plane or train. There’s lots of
excellent note-taking assistants like EverNote out there, but ScrapBook integrates extremely well into Firefox.
Arguably,
I may’ve saved the best and most un-obvious for last. Tabs are a
fundamental and common feature in every popular web browser, but they’re
often positioned horizontally. If you’re a frequent tabber, instead of
messing around with proportionally-shrinking or even multi-row
horizontal tabs, wouldn’t you like to be able to have a long list of
vertical tabs? Even better, you can expand/collapse these into trees,
change the width of their titles on-the-fly (or lock the width), and
tweak the nitty-gritty details. Also, on the rare occasion should you
want to revert to horizontal tabs, Tree Style Tab gives you that power
too. Once I transitioned to vertical tabs, I never looked back: vertical
tabs are far easier to manage and sort, exponentially boosting my
effectiveness and allowing me to make far more use of Firefox’s “Open
All in Tabs”, since the tree-view helps keep clutter down. Are you
skeptical? Think of how long info-lists like menus, phone numbers, and
spreadsheets are organized: vertically. Then dive in, for Tree Style Tab
is even more tasty with the popular Tab Mix Plus.
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