Archive for the ‘Firefox’ Category

Safari Style Focus for Firefox with Greasemonkey Script “Bright Focus”

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

Apple’s Browser Safari displays a blue border about active elements like forms, buttons and links.

The Greasemonkey script Bright Focus does kinda the same. I installed it over a month ago and grow accustomed to it.

It seems like the Firefox developers considered changing the focus indicator in 2006 but didn’t go through with this. They should’ve.

AutoPager Firefox Addon

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

I really love little hacks and apps that improve work flow and make you more efficient. AutoPager is one of them I recently found.

AutoPager is a firefox/mozilla extensions to autoloading next page. It’s configuration is base on XPath. You can find there is a built in function to create a XPath by click some links on the pages.

Works well with blogs, forums, newspapers and all sites that divide their content into multiple sites. Like Digg, Reddit, Lifehacker.com, NYTimes.com, USAToday, …

ScribeFire and Wordpress Login Error Solution

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

Scribefire is a Firefox addon that lets you write posts directly from Firefox. I’m currently testing it.

While I was adding this blog to the interface there was however a little error. Scribefire couldn’t login.

The solution was to activate the XML-RPC protocol at the “Writing Options” page in Wordpress. Just click on the box before ” Enable the WordPress, Movable Type, MetaWeblog and Blogger XML-RPC publishing protocols.”

Works now really fineas this post was written using ScribeFire

Lightweight Firefox Dictionary Add-On: WikiLook

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Lifehacker and DownloadSquad wrote a few days ago about a new lightweight dictionary look-up plugin named WikiLook for Firefox.

Over the past years I tried a few different plugins and WikiLook is by far the best in my opinion. Why? Because it’s so light. Less than 20 KB I think.

I used Dictionary Tooltip for example for some time. I paid a few dollars for the advanced version and it was worth it. However it considerably slowed down Firefox and started crashing Firefox 3 after an update.

So I switched to WikiLook.