Firefox plugins…
I broke my firefox install, which probably isn’t a very good advertisement, but it wasn’t Firefox’s fault… I must have installed 20 different extensions and obviously one or two of them did not like each other… so I had to start again and since I’m blogging stuff this is what I added:
Search:
I added Technorati, Wikipedia and del.icio.us search plugins - most of these should work with IE7.0 as well.
Extensions:
- iMacro Lets me automate anything that I do on the web… including write blog posts - I’m actually getting a coffee at the moment.
- english dictionary
My automated blogger uses a spell checker, now I can too. Be warned
that by default it installed the US dictionary - that one has all the
Zs and ORs and ONs… not quite what you are after if your from
downunder. The link if for the English dictionary… here is the US dictionary. - ScribeFire
to optimise my blogging (robot - see above). I haven’t used scribeFire
before, but I am very impressed with what it can do… I’ll
beinstalling this on every Firefox capable machine that I visit from
now on! It is capable of logging into all of my blogs and letting me
choose which one I post content to! It is also integrated with my
Wordpress blog… but probably not my Share My NZ blog… yet
- BlogRovr
Because it looked like it provided cool functionality - going and
getting blog post about subject I was viewing.. cool. It is a really
neat aplication, which pulls up post about what you are looking at from
their collection of posts and displays them in the window. BlogRovr is pretty cool… but I find the googge blogger search better… it just seems faster and not as memory greedy. - greasemonkey
Opens another world of Firefox plugins that I can use to edit page
content - for example putting google page rank in their search
results… which may be meaningless soon as Google is talking about where they will go with Page Rank. And I’ve added SEO tools like the next extension to tell me this stuff… - SeoQuake
Puts some Search engine optimisation stuff drawn into google search and
right on the page.. so I can see results for any page I am on! - Blog web comments
It is an extension for Firefox by Google… really good at finding out
who is commenting on the things you are looking at! One issue with it
is that you should also be able to create posts, but my blogger account
is a new one with gmail signup and I just don’t seem able to log in
using this tool.
Other stuff:
Subscribe as you surf - this isn’t a firefox extension… It is just a handy linkt that will let you open any RSS feed in your google window - you’ll have to subscribe to it when you get there though.
If you find yourself repeatedly visiting a website to check for
updates, or if you just stumble across a page you want to keep track
of, you can easily subscribe to it in Google Reader using the subscribe
bookmark.
To use the subscribe bookmark, simply drag the link below to your
bookmarks bar. Then, when you’re on a web page, you can click the
bookmark to view it in Google Reader.
Once you see the feed preview, confirm your subscription by clicking the “Subscribe” button within Reader.
One Comment
I deleted my extension a while back. I found that you can make the firefox standalone, by locating the profile and using ms.bat file to start it. What it does is it becomes portable and you can copy it to a usb drive and bring anywhere, and you used your favorite browser along with all your bookmakers and extension.