Firefox Extensions Part 2

Last month I discovered how many extensions are available for Mozilla Firefox. Today I went looking again and here is a list of some more that I found. Granted, there a A TON! But these are ones that I found useful for my processes, or could be useful for people I know.

The ones I couldn’t get working

Dictionary Search

This basically would give you a right click option to look up any word on a webpage that you don’t understand. I don’t think this works in the most recent releases of Firefox. It didn’t give me the options in my right click menu that the website said it would, demonstrated in the screenshot it gave. But at least it didn’t give me an error message in the extension installer box. So maybe I did something wrong.

miniT - Tab Organizer

For about a month now I have been periodically checking to for a newer release of the miniT extension. Today I found a more recent version, previously I was only able to find a version that worked with Firefox .8 and prior (Version 0.3). I did find a miniT version that should work with 1.0, but when I tired to install it, the extensions manager said it wasn’t compatible (Version 0.4).

Basically, the idea behind this extension is that you can drag and drop your open tabs into a certain order so when you are cycling back and forth through them with shortcuts, you can go back and forth between certain pages easily, no matter what order you opened them.

The ones I did get working, mostly.

Firefox Calendar

I knew about this extension for a long time, as it is developed by Mozilla directly I believe. But I didn’t really know how to install and work extensions until recently so I gave this another shot. It is a really useful calendar system very similar to the calendar in Microsoft Outlook. Adding a calendar to Firefox just streamlines your tasks that much more.

Rating : 8 of 10

Mostly because it seems cool, if I had a day to day use. Even though I probably don’t, that doesn’t mean I won’t in the future.

Foxytunes

This is one of the top 15 extensions downloaded for Firefox, or so I read. It is basically a music controller you can use in your browser and puts all of the player controls in the footer bar in the lower right of the browser.

Rating : 3 of 10

If someone figures this extension out, let me know. I didn’t get it. I started my Windows Media Player and tried to control music through the browser, but all the extension seemed to do was slow my response time in my browsing, and the controls were even worse in response time. And the controls I tried, didn’t work. But that is five minutes of evaluation, and it seems to have a heavy following. So try it out for yourself. There seem to be shortcuts to hit without having to control your music with mouse clicks, so that is cool too.

Quicknote

The Quick note extension will give you the ability to leave yourself stickies through your browser. With a ton of customizable options, including number of stickies up to four, this is a cool little extension.

Rating : 6 of 10

This is another extension that seems cool, and even though I don’t have a use for it, I know people in the office that may, so it is good to try it out.

Duplicate Tab

Simple, and straight to the point, this little extension gives you the option to copy the address of your current window into a new browser tabbed window with one shortcut Ctrl + Shift + T

Rating : 10 of 10

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