{"id":144,"date":"2007-09-17T21:38:44","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T01:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/09\/17\/making-firefox-rock\/"},"modified":"2007-09-17T21:38:44","modified_gmt":"2007-09-18T01:38:44","slug":"making-firefox-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/09\/17\/making-firefox-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Firefox Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firefox is great. But it can be made better! Here are some Add-ons you should consider:<\/p>\n<ul>\n    <li>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/60\">WebDeveloper<\/a> toolbar: in addition to all sorts of things that are handy for web developers, it includes some things that I find really handy just for using. You can disable images, disable <em>external<\/em> images, disable CSS, convert a POST to a GET (great for URL hacking), disable the cache, disable referrers, etc.<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/1865\">Adblock Plus<\/a>: you&#8217;ll just never see ads.<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/433\">Flashblock<\/a>: Flash is nice, but sometimes it&#8217;s obnoxious. This makes it so you have to click on a Flash element to play it.<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/4014\">LocationBar2<\/a>: I actually haven&#8217;t tried this yet, but I think I&#8217;m about to.<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/590\">ShowIP<\/a>: Displays the IP of the site you&#8217;re connecting to. IMHO, this should be standard, although I suppose many people wouldn&#8217;t know to look.<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/1579\">FormFox<\/a>: This should also be standard! It shows you where the form you&#8217;re submitting goes. Again, it&#8217;s something most people would overlook, but every now and then I really want to know and have to dig through the source&#8230; Not anymore!<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/39\">Mouse Gestures<\/a>: I actually use this for only one reason: a quick roll of my hand across the mouse (right-then-left) should go back. It just seems intuitive. (In fact, I discovered this accidentally in Opera, which supports it.)<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/115\">Reload Every<\/a>: It&#8217;s often handy to have a page reloaded periodically, automatically. This does it. (There&#8217;s no way to have it watch for updates, though&#8230;)<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/748\">Greasemonkey<\/a>: This one basically lets you load scripts which alter the page after it&#8217;s loaded. Vague description, but here are some useful scripts for it:\n<ul>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/userscripts.org\/scripts\/show\/1363\">eBay Search Pictures<\/a>: eBay charges sellers a fee to display a picture. Otherwise it shows a little green camera icon. As a buyer, I really like a little thumbnail. This one is ingenious: it&#8217;ll <em>make<\/em> a little thumbnail where there isn&#8217;t one, by grabbing it out of the auction. To quote the Guinness guys, brilliant!<\/li>\n    <li>One to <a href=\"http:\/\/userscripts.org\/scripts\/show\/5060\">show only negative feedback<\/a>. I always wished eBay allowed this.<\/li>\n    <li>Ironically, UserScripts.org, the main site for user scripts for Greasemonkey, has a pretty crappy site. <a href=\"http:\/\/userscripts.org\/scripts\/show\/8036\">This plugin<\/a> allows sorting of results pretty nicely.<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/userscripts.org\/scripts\/show\/7646\">GMail Super Clean<\/a> is a nice theme for GMail.<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/userscripts.org\/scripts\/show\/6198\">YouTube Googler<\/a> makes YouTube&#8217;s display suck a little less. The video is much larger and the comments aren&#8217;t even loaded. (I don&#8217;t know why, but the comments on YouTube are the worst comments of <em>any<\/em> site I&#8217;ve ever seen. Always.) N.B. that if you&#8217;re looking for a script to let you download YouTube videos, there are about 30.<\/li>\n    <li>Those who frequent Flickr will be familiar with the spaceball.gif that&#8217;s put &#8216;over&#8217; images to prevent them from being saved via right-clicking. This is pretty obnoxious in my opinion. I was about to recommend a script to fix it, but noticed that someone has an even better solution: next time you come across a &#8220;spaceball.gif&#8221; protected image, right-click on it and do &#8220;Adblock Image&#8221; (assuming you installed Adblock, mentioned above.)<\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/userscripts.org\/scripts\/show\/9310\">GoogleMonkeyR<\/a>: Wow! This does more than meets the eye. By default it just adds a spiffy blue background to search results, which I thought was lame. But then I found the settings. You can set it up to do multiple columns. I have a fairly high resolution so I have 2 columns. You can remove sponsored links, although I don&#8217;t. You can number the results. And there&#8217;s the &#8220;Autoload&#8221; for more, which I thought would just add prefetch hints. But actually, you just scroll down and more results are loaded. This is incredibly spiffy!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firefox is great. But it can be made better! Here are some Add-ons you should consider: \u00a0WebDeveloper toolbar: in addition to all sorts of things that are handy for web developers, it includes some things that I find really handy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/09\/17\/making-firefox-rock\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}