Re: Firefox + Tools/Extensions

On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 23:20, Amish Gandhi wrote:
> www.getfirefox.com

If this is your first FoxFix, or if you never knew...

"...From all of us to all of you, a *very* merry winter solstice!!..."

The next steps into wonderland are:
http://scholar.google.com,
integrated with the special search field:
http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/about/toolbar/firefox
(see the links at the bottom of the page. *nix users, the Firefox
plugins are still kept in the app dir, so permissions might be an issue)

See http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/add-engines.html for other
interesting special searches, such as Amazon (here i edited the text
file of the searchplugin to fit co.uk instead .com - two obvious
changes, so go build your own searchplugins :-), there is also 
Wikipedia and so on. Excellent Taylorist tools to get your research done
faster in these times of increasing precarious academic labour :-)

.. and spice that to taste with a "standard" Google bar
............(indispensable to me):
https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=33

and/or the Athens Toolbar ("..Useful, but then, if you got your
bookmarks organized... OK, it gives you an idea what other resources
you've got access to, something which might surprise some students..."):
https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=337&page=comments

You can browse the extensions and the themes database via tools/ in the
top toolbar. There are many great other things. I have network bandwidth
tester, save-as-plain-text right-click option, etc., etc.

Unfortunately the TabbedBrowser Extension from
http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/_tabextensions.html.en, no longer works for
me. With 0.6, 0.7 or something in FC 1 and RH9 before that they worked
fine. Anyway, it gives you coloured groups of tabs depending on your
setting, so that each site gets its own colour when you go deeper in to
it etc. etc.- Absolutely essential feature for a browser, - it's
[almost] one of those killer apps that once you have had it, you want it
all the time.....not exactly like sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll and all
that, but nevertheless quite stimulating as far as a browser feature
goes :-) at least for dedicated web "scholars" or any other information
hungry auto-architect out there........so it would be great if someone
could figure what is going on here:
http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/_tabextensions.html.en#problems
for this is not enough, imho:
http://www.pryan.org/mozilla/site/TheOneKEA/tabprefs/

:-)

merry x-mess

mp [ nobl@dyspam ] aktivix [dot] org