Firefox Extension – HighlighAll

Windows/Mac/Unix (Firefox): The HighlightAll Firefox extension highlights any text on a web page matching the text you’ve selected with your mouse.

Like most good Firefox extensions, Highlight all does one simple thing well. This performs the same function as the “Highlight all” button when you’re searching a page with Ctrl/Cmd-F, without the need for typing or watching your screen jump around to matches as you search. After all, you’ve already found the text you want highlighted, so just select it and you can see all other instances. You can toggle HighlightAll with a configurable keyboard shortcut (F8 by default), so matches to your highlighted text doesn’t always need to show up in yellow. This seems like a great research tool for quickly digesting web pages by keyword.

HighlightAll [Mozilla Add-ons]

 

source [lifehacker]

Public Fox – Firefox Extension

Public Fox is a great FF extension that allows you to take control over you entire FF environment when it is in use by others. Public Fox allows you to lock downloads, so no one can download anything while you are away, lock add-ons, so that no one can tamper with your extensions (mainly this one that is preventing them from doing anything fun), lock the FF options, the “about:config” page and the addition/removal/options of bookmarks, to prevent completely messing up your browser. There is also a filter for the file extensions that you do not want downloaded (.exe, .avi …). In order for you to use any of the locked features, all you have to do is enter the password that you set in the Public Fox options. The only thing that you can really do with this extension activated is to remove all of the search engines that reside in the search bar in the top right-hand corner.

There is a bit of a bug, however. If you try to install a new extension while FF is locked down, it seems that it is not installed if you do not know the password. But, after a restart of FF, you will see that it is, in fact, installed. You just cannot configure the extension outside of its default settings. But this extension is still a great one for anyone from an average FF user to even public libraries or schools.

source [downloadsquad]

TrackMeNot search history obfuscator

TrackMeNot is a Firefox extension designed by two NYU computer science researchers to run in the background and periodically send search requests to popular search engines and portals like AOL, Yahoo!, Google, and MSN. Why would you want to do that? A couple of reasons. First, just for the fun of screwing with their heads. More importantly, though, when the companies release their search records to the public, it will be more difficult for anyone who’s interested to figure out who you are from you search patterns.

At least that’s the theory. The current version apparently doesn’t draw from a large enough base of terms or combine them intelligently enough to truly obfuscate search histories–it’s possible for a person to figure out which searches are from TrackMeNot and ignore them–but it’s a neat idea, and future releases should provide some real security and anonymity. In the mean time, go ahead and install it. It may not protect you from a tenacious sleuth, but the bogus searches should make life interesting for the companies’ profiling algorithms and eat up a little bandwidth. Who knows? Maybe it will make life just uncomfortable enough to convince an ISP or two that storing user data is a bad idea.

source [BoingBoing]

Firefox Extension – Searchbar Autosizer

If you use Firefox’s search bar a lot, you might find this handy: Searchbar Autosizer is an extension for Firefox that expands the search bar as you type to keep all of the text visible at once and to keep you from feeling cramped. Its options let you set the default width for the searchbar as well as the amount of extra padding. Perfect for people who keep their Firefox window small but want a little elbow room.

source post [Lifehacker]

Leak Monitor – Hunt down memory-leaking Firefox extensions

Firefox has its own memory issues, but once you've got a few dozen extensions installed (like yours truly), things can get really hairy. Leak Monitor is a Firefox extension that's intended to help developers keep an eye on their extensions, but even for non-developers it can come in handy to figure out which of your extensions is eating up more memory than it ough to. It doesn't really offer a fix, unfortunately-unless you're an extension hacker your only option to plug such a leak is to just get rid fo the extension-but every little bit helps.

via [download squad / Lifehacker]

Pearl Crescent Page Saver

 

Pearl Crescent Page Saver is a free extension for Mozilla Firefox that lets you save an image of a web page to a file in PNG format.

After installing the extension, two additional browser context menu items are available:

• Save Image of Visible Portion As… — save an image of the visible portion of the current web page to a PNG file.
• Save Image of Entire Page As… — save an image of the entire web page to a PNG file (including the portion that does not fit in the browser window).

Page Saver Extension

Backup Firefox Data with FEBE Firefox Extension

I always wanted an extension with good backup facility, so that I can transfer my preferences, extensions and bookmarks to different PCs quickly. There is a new extension called FEBE Firefox Extension which able me to do that. Good features – not much complain about it but I only hope Firefox could mass-install multiple extensions in one go. Does anyone know a way?

FEBE Firefox Extension [via Kengo]

ViewMyCurrency – Today’s Browser Tip

A few weeks ago I was thinking to myself, wouldn’t it be great if my web browser automatically converted currency on foreign web sites to U.S. dollars? I thought briefly about trying to hack something together with Greasemonkey, but in the end I was too lazy, which is just as well because of course someone has already done it for me, though not with Greasemonkey. ViewMyCurrency is a Firefox extension and it does just what I’ve described: it automatically converts currency on foreign web sites to your local currency. If you want to see it in action, its developer has created a short screencast demo, or you can just download it. It works as advertised, with the particular caveat that currently it assumes all amounts preceded by a plain $ are U.S. dollars. Otherwise, though, this is supremely useful.

source post [download squad]

UrlParams – Today’s Browser Tip

This Firefox extension is fantastic for all web developers and anyone who’s just curious about what’s being sent between Firefox and a web server: UrlParams is a sidebar that shows all of the GET and POST parameters Firefox sent to the server with the last request. You might say that you can see the same thing with LiveHTTPHeaders, and you’d be right, but UrlParams does it in a much more readable way, and get this: UrlParams lets you change, add, or remove parameters on the spot and re-submit the request. Excellent for debugging or snooping, this is an extension whose time has come.

source post [Download Squad] 12/29/2005