Firefox productivity tools – Part II
We have come across some more Firefox productivity tools, and decided to make them available for download directly from our site, instead of just providing links. Less hassle for you, our readers.
Installation instructions:
1) Select ‘Tools’ > ‘Add-ons’ from the Firefox menu.
2) Drag-and-drop the Add-on file onto the Add-ons window.
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All-in-One Sidebar (AiOS) is an award-winning sidebar control, inspired by Opera’s. It lets you quickly switch between sidebar panels, view dialog windows such as downloads, extensions, and more in the sidebar, or view source or websites in the sidebar.
Along with an album view (like cover flow) and a thumbnail view (with drag and drop), this extension also adds previews to the tooltips in the bookmarks sidebar. Just hover over a bookmark in the sidebar to see the previews.
In Firefox 3 you can access the two new views by opening the Library. To get there go to Bookmarks>Organize Bookmarks. From there you can toggle the view with the 3 buttons to the left of the search box or from the View menu.
This extension will take previews of your pages whenever you visit or add a bookmarked page. When you first start you will be able to have the extension create previews for you in the background. You can also perform this task later by Choosing ‘File>Create Previews’ in the Library/Bookmarks Organizer.
By default bookmark previews for https are disabled. You can enable those and toggle previews in the tooltips of the sidebar from the options window.
Adds a clear cache toolbar button. After installing the extension, find the clear cache button in the toolbar customization panel.
Automatically save downloads to different directories when using “Save Link As…” or “Save Image as…”
FavLoc allows you to set folders as “favorite locations” to which you can easily download. FavLoc menus will appear on the File menu (for saving pages), the context menu (for saving images and links), and on the download prompt.
Firefox Showcase
Showcase provides a new way to manage your Firefox tabs and windows by showing them as thumbnails in a single window, tab or sidebar. Includes a find bar that will filter the thumbnails, and the capability to select the thumbnails in the same way you would select files in your system.
Along with transferring your files quickly and efficiently, FireFTP also includes more advanced features such as: directory comparison, syncing directories while navigating, SFTP, SSL encryption, search/filtering, integrity checks, remote editing, drag & drop, file hashing, and much more!
Flagfox is an extension for Mozilla Firefox that shows a flag icon indicating the current website’s server location. It uses relatively little resources, and works by accessing an IP address location database contained within the extension rather than relying on top-level-domain roots like “.com” or “.uk”. Clicking the icon loads Geotool, which provides a map of the location as well as more detailed information such as the ISP, city, and local time. The context menu also provides quick access to information about the country of origin, as well as the ability to lookup the domain’s registrant via Whois.
ScrapBook is a Firefox extension, which helps you to save Web pages and easily manage collections. Key features are lightness, speed, accuracy and multi-language support. Major features are:
* Save Web page
* Save snippet of Web page
* Save Web site
* Organize the collection in the same way as Bookmarks
* Full text search and quick filtering search of the collection
* Editing of the collected Web page
* Text/HTML edit feature resembling Opera’s Notes
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