This is a really cool extension, if you want centrally held bookmarks, but want them private, and don’t need the full google sync functionality then this is for you !
Tag Archives: Firefox
CoComment for Firefox
I’ve always advocated CoComment for my comment tracking needs, I recently decided to check their website only to find a new firefox extension – Brilliant ! Just what I’ve been waiting for !
Google Browser Sync
Google Browser Sync
Google Browser Sync for Firefox is an extension that continuously synchronizes your browser settings – including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords – across your computers.
I’ve been needing something like this for ages ! At the moment I have to use my USB key to transfer saved password etc from my work laptop to my home pc, but the issue of security is still a big one. I don’t save my on-line bank password anywhere so that’ll be alright, but I do save various e-mail account passwords, the issue being that a google employee could hi-jack one of my accounts, ok you have to enter a PIN to encrypt the passwords, but I can’t find anything that tells me how strong the encryption is! Humm I think a risk assessment is in order 
Tab Mix Plus
Tab Mix Plus is a cool extension adding a shed load of features to firefox tabs.
The two I find most useful are, a close button on each tab and save state! – oh yes, if firefox crashes then now you can all your open tabs back 
Get it here from: https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=1122
Flash Got Download Manager Integration
If you do a lot of downloading, and firefox’s built in download manager isn’t for you then this extension probably is !
Available at flashgot.net this plug-in can send links to your fav’ manager, and allows that also useful download all option.
Delicious Tools
Available direct from the delicious website, this plug-in adds delicious features to firefox, such as bookmarking and tagging pages. Download Plug-in
User Agent Switcher
The user agent switcher for firefox can be a really useful tool, generally firefox support is good, but some web based applications reject it because they don’t recognize the agent string, with this plug-in you can fool the web server into thing you’re using IE.
Web Developer Tool Bar
This tool bar is really cool, it allows you to outline and label important objects, verify code and much much more, highly recommend for anyone who does web development !
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Customise Google
If you use google then this extension is gonna be great. I came across it because it allow you to add https to your gmail so not just the username and password is encrypted, but it does sooo much more than that !
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SiteAdvisor – Another Firefox Security Plugin
I found this over the weekend….
Spyware, Adware, Spam, Phishing, Viruses, Identity Theft Protection | SiteAdvisor
SiteAdvisor helps protect you from all kinds of Web-based security threats including spyware, adware, spam, viruses, browser-based attacks, phishing, online fraud and identity theft.
It seems cool, a different approach the the anit-phishing type stuff. Basically you get a simple security report about the sites you visit. The report comes in the flavour of a traffic light in your browser toolbar, green is safe – red is not. Another nice touch is the traffic light is added to our google results, so before you even click on a site you can determine how ‘hostile’ the webmaster may be.
The software is currently in beta, so it’s a temporary free offering, hopefully it’s be a free for personal use thing 
Blogger Web Comments for Firefox
I’ve been putting off upgrading to firefox 1.5 for ages, but my curiosity for this extension finally got the better of me !
Blogger Web Comments for Firefox
Blogger Web Comments for Firefox is an extension that makes it easy to see what bloggers are saying about a page you’re viewing in firefox
I know this isn’t exactly new news , so there are lots of places to find out about it ! I’ve been playing with it a little today, and still am undecided on whether it’s cool or annoying.
Coolness: Visiting sites, and seeing what people say about them gives a good insight into the sites audience, and being able to leave comments on a site that doesn’t support them is also kind-a-cool… where it fall down is there is no default “this post is about this page” on your blogspot blog, so you have to remember to put one in yourself 
Annoying: It’s another “pop up”, and people are posting comments about google.com or mail.yahoo.com and I’m thinking, why ? what do I care ? and how is this relevant, there is no intelligent comment that can be made about mail.yahoo’s log in page ! I can think of two improvements I’m going to suggest
- Filterable: Be able to disable comments for certain sites
- A side bar: pop ups are distracting, but a side bar (maybe with auto hide) would be less annoying (may be a little more intrusive) and would allow multiple comments to be seen at any one time !
You can check out what I’ve said about websites on my blogger account. I’ve not used it for anything else much, so It’ll be interesting to see if I use it now !
Sage: a feed reader for Firefox
This is worth mentioning….
Sage: a feed reader for Firefox
Sage is a lightweight RSS and Atom feed reader extension for Mozilla Firefox.
Google reader is good, but it’s still got some usability issues, mainly that the default page/interface only gives a list of unread posts, where as sometimes you only want to see (or hide) a specific feed. Obviously the downside with sage is you need firefox, but who’s not using firefox