You can enable the view by clicking the tag icon on the toolbar of the bookmarks Library in Firefox 3. Installation does require logging into AMO, as the extension is still experimental.

Install

Founded here Quickly Switch Google Accounts with the Google Account Multi-Login

What I want to mention here, though, is the built-in Picnik nav bar add-on:

I found it by accident (I'm pressed for time!  I didn't read the features page!  I never read instructions!) when I accidentally reverted the toolbar to the default and managed to lose my del.icio.us buttons.

So think of this as an appendix to my earlier rant about related software (which, as I went to link to it, I realized I never posted, but I wrote it last Thursday.  Man, I'm not up to speed anymore at all...)

The Picnik button is basically a screen shot tool that captures the image-- either the visible portion of the screen or the full page-- then opens up Picnik for your editing pleasure.  Nice and easy, simple, straightforward.  Not as useful as SnagIt, but since it's free, it's a LOT better than nothing at all.

Professor X

NikkelWHOIS

IE Tab

FireBug

Codetech

Server Switcher

Window Resizer

AdSense Preview

Screen grab

Server Spy

Doing a round of the Firefox Add-Ons yesterday, I found PicLens and while it has very limited functionality, I was thoroughly impressed with what the guys at Cooliris have done. It renders images in beautiful 3D without a hint of a performance drop, and that is what impressed me the most. Searching Google Images is a completely different experience now. Yeah.

I think it's very promising, but very underused at this stage. Firstly, the UI is excellent: if Cooliris can somehow implement it into Firefox's default UI - that would be a crazy awesome browsing experience, especially since the fancy looks didn't take a long time to load or give a performance drop.

And then in PicLens itself, it would be great if we could save the images directly from the PicLens view, though the most important feature would be to code PicLens so as to identify images on any web page and view them - right now, PicLens is limited to some social networking sites, image sharing sites and image searches (the number of sites is supposedly growing).

I think Cooliris is really cool and can be really big if they look into this more. PicLens might just change the way we look at the Internet.

Following are the extensions or add-ons i use with firefox:

- Tabbed browsing. (Provides lots of tab control options)

- IE tab (Mainly to view sites which doesn't show properly in firefox)

- Fox Clocks (To view the time of different timezones across the globe)

- Delicious Bookmarks (To integrate into my delicious account)

- TamilKey (To type in tamil)

Added on March 15, 2008:

- GSpace (To use Gmail as online storage)

What are your favourites?

I will put up with advertising to a point, but if I am distracted reading content because of advertising with "moving pictures" - enough is enough. There is a neat extension for the Firefox browser called Flashblock. It blocks the Flash player from loading unless you click on the play button. There have been over two million downloads of this Firefox add-on. Below are three snapshots of my computer screen. The area of interest is the "buy stocks" advertisement.

Below is a snapshot of my computer screen before installing Flashblock.

Next is a snapshot after installing Flashblock. All you can see now is the Flash icon in the ad box.

The last snapshot with Flashblock installed. When you move your mouse over the ad box the Flash icon will turn into a "play" icon. If you want to see the ad just click on the play icon.

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JB's Weblog

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Everyone needs a change of pace, so just for the hell of it, I asked around Twitter what people used for writing text for blogs. Quite a few responded with my same editor - Textpad. A lot of folks use the built-in WYSIWYG editor. One particularly hardcore fella mentioned vi. The stripped-down basic Unix editor that is, not short for Vilma.

@JeffMcNeil , who describes himself as a "Networking consultant, university lecturer, phd student, Internet researcher, Donnagh McDonnagh in Second Life" from Honolulu, responded with the comment that he uses ScribeFire - a Firefox extension.

I was piqued. I've always been a fan of Firefox extensions - essentially low overhead free tools that piggyback on the Firefox browser - so I went up and paid a visit to Scribefire.com and installed it right away.

This is my first post using the editor, and so far, I like what I see. It's a WYSIWYG editor that opens up in either a split-screen ore full screen view (opening up a new window or tab if you prefer), that connects directly to your blog platform of choice via the blogs' API. I set it up using my Wordpress API, and off I went. F8 fires up the editor (which probably results in more compulsive posting). Nothing could be simpler.

I'll probably revert back to Textpad for most of my off-line editing. "Cloud computing" is a nice buzzword, but in real life, we're not always online all the time. But I do believe that I'll be jumping into ScribeFire now and then for a refreshing change of pace.

I started with a clean install of Firefox 3.0RC1 from Portable Apps and then installed the extension from here. I ran through the initial setup routine and did the initial sync which took almost 7 minutes to complete. Most of that time was spent with the hard drive churning away with very little CPU or memory impact. After the initial sync i went into the weave preferences and enabled the alpha password and cookie options and then ran another sync.

I then went out to several forum and web mail sites like Gmail etc and all my user names and passwords were there. The feature seems quite stable for being alpha.

I will test the new build more in the coming days including on a Linux install.

Weave is quickly becoming viable replacement for Google Browser Sync that I used previously. Other than the initial sync performance seems to be on par with GBS as well. If this is alpha/beta software I cannot wait to see the release version!

I will test Foxmarks in the future but I have become so accustomed to password/cookie/history syncing that plain bookmark syncing does not really appeal to me at the moment. Not a knock on Foxmarks as I hear it is a great bookmark syncing system.

Some other extensions that I use (read: can't live without) are Tab Mix Plus and Sage-Too. For Tab Mix Plus you need to download a Dev build for Firefox 3. So far it works flawlessly. Sage-too is a fork of the popular Sage RSS reader that has not seen any development for a year or so. I happy to see someone pick up this extension and port it to FF3.

The last one that I also really like is Download Statusbar. It also works well with FF3.

Those are my main picks. Check back for some more details on these extensions in future posts.

Later and enjoy.

Yesterday, Bram wrote that he wants a process list for web browser activity:

"Could somebody please implement metrics on how much CPU each tab/window is using..."

-Bram Cohen

[2008-05-13 12:09 May.Tue]

I responded with news about Mozilla's effort on that front, as evidenced by the Firefox 3 addon PluginWatcher. Its a good start.

de de acessar o site que você costuma, normalmente, para verificar seu e-mail. Pode-se dizer que ele apresenta funções (de e-mail) nos moldes do Outlook ou SpiceBird, ou seja, você cadastra suas contas de e-mail em um local único e pode acompanhar as novas mensagens que

chegam.

Clique apenas uma vez no ícone para visualizar seu e-mail.
Na janela do Firefox, na parte inferior direita, você pode visualizar constantemente as mensagens novas que chegam à sua Caixa de Entrada. Um ícone

de um envelope fica disposto na tela, basta você clicar uma única vez para se abrir uma aba, e nela você poderá verificar seus e-mails.

Interface clássica e padrão

Não espere encontrar uma interface arrojada e surpreendente a

o acessar o Simple Mail. A tela do complemento é básica e semelhante àquelas já conhecidas, apresentando todas as mensagens em um campo central e funções como: Entrada, Enviadas, Recebidas e Lixeira em um menu lateral.
Logo acima, podem-se observar os ícones de funções do programa. Simplesmente posicione o mouse sobre eles para fazer a leitura da função correspondente, sendo:

1. Opção para atualizar sua Caixa de Entrada, conseguindo verificar as novidades que chegaram para você;
2. Criar novas mensagens, ou seja, clicando nesse ícone abre-se uma janela para você redigir seus e-mails;
3. Opção para você responder uma mensagens. Simples, básica e prática!
4. Opção para você responder a todos, isso é muito comum quando o e-mail é encaminhado com cópia para outras pessoas. Assim, se você for responder o e-mail, todas as pessoas que receberam a mensagem com cópia também vão receber a sua resposta;
5. Recurso para você encaminhar uma mensagem para outras pessoas;
6. Opção para excluir mensagens, deletando-as de sua Caixa de Entrada;
7. Recurso para impressão da mensagem recebida no e-mail;
8. Função de “Preferências”, ou seja, repleta de recursos para configuração do Simple Mail.

Como configurar suas contas de e-mail no Simple Mail.

Por meio da opção “Preferências”, citada anteriormente, você consegue configurar suas contas de e-mail POP3 e IMAP. Ao abrir este painel de personalização, é possível adicionar contas, inserindo host, número de porta do servidor de e-mail, bem como nome de usuário e senha. Estas informações devem ser cadastradas para que você finalize a configuração corretamente.

Simple Mail ainda permite que você organize suas mensagens por cores e desfrute de todas as funções que a maioria dos gerenciadores de e-mails possui e tudo com a maior comodidade por meio do Firefox.

Simple Mail

Essa extensão esconde o texto da barra de favoritos mostrando apenas os Favicons, e ao passar o mouse pelo ícone o nome é exibido! Bastante útil!

Smart Bookmarks Bar

There are no major changes from previous version, except now it supports Songbird and eMusic Remote.

Compatibility

• Mozilla Firefox 1.5 - 3.0.x
• Netscape Navigator 9.0a - 9.0.x
• Flock 0.7 - 1.x
• Songbird 0.4 - 0.5.x
• eMusic Remote 1.0 - 1.0.0.x

Download/install

• from my home page
• from Mozilla Add-ons
• from Songbird Add-ons

Statistics for Friday, May 2, 2008

Downloads
Total Downloads (Since Apr. 30, 2008): 52
Last Day Count (Thursday, May. 1): 34
Average Daily Downloads: 26
Downloads in the last 7 days: 52

Active Daily Users
Active Daily Users (On Thursday, May. 1): 8
Change from previous count (8 on Apr. 30): 0
Average Daily Active Users: 8

View statistics chart

• Adblock Plus
  Install Adblock Plus and get rid of ads and banners on the internet. You can create your own filters and also block flash and java elements. Or choose a filter subscription and most advertisements will be blocked fully automatically.

  Element Hiding Helper is a companion extension for Adblock Plus meant to make creating element hiding rules easier.

• Greasemonkey
  Allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript. Hundreds of scripts, for a wide variety of popular sites, are already available at userscripts.org.

• Stylish
  Stylish allows easy management of user styles. It is to CSS what Greasemonkey is to JavaScript. After you install it, it can be used to tweak the appearance of specific web sites as well as of sites globally. It is useful to reconfigure websites after the ads have been removed.

• Blocksite
  BlockSite is an extension, which automagically blocks websites of your choice. Additionally, it will disable all hyperlinks to these websites, by just displaying the link text without the clicking functionality. This extension adds the site blocking functionality that was removed from Adblock Plus.

• NoScript
  Allows JavaScript, Java and other executable content to run only from trusted domains of your choice and guards the "trust boundaries" against cross-site scripting attacks.

firefox tools

safecache: protects privacy, defends against cache-based traching techniques www.safecache.com

safehistory: prevents apps from going in a reading web history www.safehistory.com

foxmarks: bookmarks synchronizer www.foxmarks.com automatically syncs bookmarks between different instances of firefox - i.e. the same bookmarks on your home and work computers

online tools for collaboration

meebo chat widget: embedded chat widget, people stretching this idea, embedding widgets in null search results page whenever possible. don't just have your ask a librarian link, embed a life chat widget when/wherever possible.

linkbunch: let's you put multiple links into one small link, firefox extension creates a bunched link from open firefox tabs

docsyncer: automatically seeks and uploads your document files to Google Docs

twhirl: desktop client for twitter that reduces difficulty of monitoring twitter while browsing

polldaddy: embeddable interactive surveys and polls

accessibility

vischeck: computer simulation of entire range of human vision, i.e. translating pages for colorblindness

feng-GUI: eyetracking program that creates a visual map of your site, a 'heatmap' of hotspots, areas of greatest visibility to users

browsershots: allows you to create screenshots in different browsers. submit web address and have page rendered in different browsers. open source, open access. plethora of browsers available.

multimedia

libraries need to be more visual - people love to look at pictures of people in your library doing things.

flickr photo badge: create flickr account and display series of pics from library events, etc.

photoshop express: free online version of photoshop.

website distribution

try to be where your patrons are: taking the library site to a distributed level. friendly urls. we need bookmarkable pages - pick a button, grab your code. create socially bookmarkable pages. bookmark button statistics are available - track how bookmarks are used.

google gadgets: google countdown. if you aren't a coder, there are various gadgets available. use the countdown as a way to announce things that are upcoming, limited.

altavista babelfish site translator: widgets that translate sites.

background applications

processtamer: monitors cpu processes

filehamster: realtime backup and archiving of your files while you wirk, automatically works in the background.

syncback freeware: backup all files anytime with a single click, versioning, synchronization, machine to machine sync via ftp

linkextractor

moving large files: mailbigfile, zupload, yousendit, mediafire, pando - priovacy problems, some provide up to 1 gb peer to peer transfer

reCaptcha: uses Internet Archive scanning project with the Open Library via captchas - create a captcha to use in your site and help digitize book

more widgets and gadgets:

widgetbox, previous cool tools presentations: http://library2.usak.ca/~fichter/cool_tools

Neither searching for updates helps. So guys, just head over to Adblock Plus development builds here.

Pick up the latest development version for adblock plus. Like for me adblockplus-0.7.5.3+.2008040612.xpi works perfect.

And yeah! Firefox3b5 rocks, upgrade now.

Happy ads blocking.

Source: Mozilla Add-ons Statistics Dashboard

Summary

Downloads
Total Downloads (Since Feb. 21, 2008): 876
Last Day Count (Wednesday, Mar. 26): 24
Average Daily Downloads: 27
Downloads in the last 7 days: 242

Active Daily Users
Active Daily Users (On Wednesday, Mar. 19): 179
Change from previous count (40 on Mar. 12): +347.5%
Average Daily Active Users: 58

This unconventional massively multiplayer online game merges your web life with an alternate, hidden reality. The mundane takes on a layer of fantastic achievement. Player behavior generates characters and alliances, triggers interactions in the environment and earns the player points to spend online beefing up their inventory. Suddenly the Internet is not a series of untouchable exhibits, but rather a hackable, rewarding environment!

You can even leave traps for sites you think your friends are sure to stumble upon! Needless to say, I think I'll be sitting this one out--Progress Quest was enough passive gaming for me.

Reload the current page from CoralCDN.

Name: CoralCDN
Matching Regular Expression: ^http://(.+)$
Show Action as Menu Entry: no
Action: http://$h.nyud.net$p

Opens the BugMeNot entries for the current domain in another window. Doesn't work in Windows.

Name: BugMeNot
Matching Regular Expression: ^(.+)$
Show Action as Menu Entry: no
Action: javascript:window.open("http://www.bugmenot.com/view/$h", "$h"); javascript:window.reload();

Loads the current page with an www subdomain (http://some.example.com/foobar.php becomes http://www.example.com/foobar.php).

Name: www Subdomain
Matching Regular Expression: ^(.+//)([\d\w]+\.|)(.+)$
Show Action as Menu Entry: yes
Action: $1www.$3

Loads the current page's base address with a www subdomain (http://some.example.com/dig/around/here.html becomes http://www.example.com/).

Name: www Subdomain Index
Regular Expression: ^(.+//)([\d\w]+\.|)([\d\w\.]+\.[\w]+/)(.*)$
Show Action as Menu Entry: yes
Action: $1www.$3

Loads a current http page as https (ssl).

Name: https
Regular Expression: ^http([^s].+)$
Show Action as Menu Entry: yes
Action: https$1

Click the left thumbnail to see how these actions appear in Neo Digglers context menu next to the Firefox address bar.

A great help when building Regular Expressions is KDE's kregexpeditor, part of kdeutils. You can visually compose and analyse your regexes and match them against desired text.
And well, while this regex might seem like black magic at first (and second ;) sight, and it can be kind of mind boggling oftentimes, it's really worth learning it! The syntax is being used in so many places (tools, programming languages) and will come very handy for parsing and substituting texts.

ChangeLog

[2008-03-30: Fix https action. BugMeNot not working in Windows.]

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So friends, don't stop yourself any further, Install the latest wonderful thing here. Again, here's are the release notes to find how much greater it became. And here's the detailed performance review.

Firefox 3 Beta 4 includes more than 900 enhancements from the previous beta, including drastic improvements to performance and memory usage, as well as fixes for stability, platform enhancements and user interface improvements. Many of these improvements were based on community feedback from the previous beta.

And for those who had been laying back for extensions that doesn't work, quickly browse to about:config and create a new boolean value -> extensions.checkCompatibility and set it to false.

Most of my extensions work without breaking anything.