I am a complete Firefox extension junkie and finding a brilliant new one is like finding an extra present hidden under the X-hana-mas tree. There are many lists out there of great plugins but here are three that most miss.
ReloadEvery - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/115
Ever wanted to leave a page in another tab to reload itself? Maybe you are following an Ebay auction or waiting for a queued request to be processed. This is the answer. ReloadEvery allows you to set a reload cycle for a page and get back to work. Want the page to reload every 15 seconds or 30 minutes? No problem. You can even set a custom time. Excellent!
Abduction - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=abduction&cat=all
I take a lot of screenshots and there has always been at least one extra step involved. Either I had to crop the image, assemble multiple screenshots of a long page, save it in an external application, or save
it in a web safe format (remember idiotic Microsoft and their stupid BMP format). Now all I do is right-click to open Abduction inside of Firefox and save the page or anything on the page any way I want. Once it’s saved it’s ready to use. Brilliant!
MeasureIt - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=Measureit&cat=all Want to know how wide something is on a page or how wide something should be to fix a layout issue? You need MeasureIt. Just click the icon in the status bar and drag a marquee over anything on the page. I use this plug in several times a day and I don’t know how I could live without it. Super!
10:49 pm on November 30th, 2009 1
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