Must have Firefox tab related add-ons

Make New Firefox Tabs More Useful With These Add-Ons
We all like to customize our things – it’s nice when they feel really ours. This is true for many aspects in life, and naturally, doesn’t skip computers, phones and software. If it’s possible to customize things even a little bit, someone’s going to do it. It doesn’t matter if the default is great – the default is what everyone has. So out go the defaults and in come hundreds of different customizations. Now it’s only a matter of choosing the best, coolest, most useful one. This is not one bit different when it comes to browsers. Back in the days of Netscape 1.0, all browsers looked pretty much the same, but the advent of add-ons brought hundreds of customization options, and these days they look different on every computer. One of the best and most useful ways to customize your browser is through the new tab page. We’ve told you about some great ways to do it with Chrome, but apparently, we’ve turned a blind eye to Firefox. About 4 versions ago, Firefox finally added a default speed dial feature to its new tab page. The speed dial shows 9 of your most visited pages, and while it’s useful, it’s far from perfect. For starters, the thumbnails don’t always load; in addition, you sometimes see duplicate tiles for the same website, which is inconvenient and a waste of space. If you too feel that it’s time for an upgrade,or just want your browser to look different than the rest, read on to find some really great options.
 
New Tab King
 

 
New Tab King is a versatile, multi-featured new tab page that comes with a to-do list, a recently closed tab list and even shortcuts to launch desktop apps. It goes without saying that each element in your new tab page is customizable, collapsible and removable, and the entire left sidebar is collapsible as well, so you only see it when you need to use it. As for the main section of the new tab page, this is a list of your most-used websites, and can be viewed in a list format, as seen above, or a traditional tile format.
 

 
The background image and colors are customizable as well, and you can connect it to an RSS feed, a Picasa community search, your own local images, and more. Bottom line: Has many useful features and works well, but is far from being minimalistic.
FVD Speed Dial

 

 
With a strong focus on the speed dial options, FVD Speed Dial is another solid start page with multiple tile groups you can customize and switch between. Each tile group can also be viewed as a list, and everything from tile size to background and font colors is configurable. By default, FVD Speed Dial comes with 7 speed dial bookmarks (two of them promotional) which you can change and add to. Additionally, you can view your most popular pages and your recently closed tabs in lists or tiles, each with its own custom settings.
 

 
FVS Speed Dial also includes a synchronization feature, so you can access your favorite websites and settings on multiple computers. In order to use this feature, you’ll have to create an account. Bottom line: Slick, fast and useful. With a white background, also quite minimalistic.
Super Start
Super Start
 

 

 
Super Start is a simple, do-it-yourself type of start page, in which nothing comes ready made. Unlike the previous two options I mentioned, opening a new Super Start page for the first time results in a blank page. It’s your job to populate this page with tiles of your favorite websites, including a link, a name, and even an icon – none of these is automatic. The add-on makes it easy to find popular icons online, but if you want to add a more obscure website, you’ll have to find one by yourself. That being said, adding tiles is super easy, and it does feel nice to start from a clean slate. Super Start comes with a built-in notes feature for little to-do lists, a list of recently closed tab page, and four different themes. Bottom line: Perfect for the minimalistic, DIY types. 

Live Writerfox :: Add-ons for Firefox

This is a nice add-on for firefox to post blog with the help of MS Live Writer. Check the below given link to get the add-on. At present this add-on only supports firefox 3.0 to make it work with 3.5 check this post on IndianHippy.

 

Live Writerfox :: Add-ons for Firefox

Best Firefox add-on to take webpage screenshots

Today found this very interesting firefox add-on, which allows you to take the screenshots of the webpage just by clicking on a firefox menu item. Not only that you can also edit the screenshot with in firefox, this is the very good part of this add-on. Below is the sample I have created using this add-on. You can get this add-on by going to http://aviary.com/install/firefox. 

Its must have firefox add-on.

Choose what you want in future Firefox

Not sure if you know this summer Mozilla foundation invited people to submit concept ideas to redesign the browser tabs. Now the last date of these submissions is done, there are total 120 concepts were submitted and you and me can go and check also we can vote for the concept we like. So go ahead and choose want you want in your future firefox. Then what are you waiting for, go and vote.

 

Vote now!

Each firefox tab as a process

The thing I love about Google chrome is, its capability to have a separate process for each tab we open. Simply saying we are starting a new process every time we open a new tab, but still able to manage them all as part of a single window. I heard even IE 8 has the same feature, I tried IE8, but rolled back to IE7 as lots of sites does not support IE 8 yet. Now the news is that even firefox is taking the same path and planning to create a new process for every new tab user opens in a window. This feature is not going to be there in the 3.5 which is due to release in few days(RC2 just got released).

 

[via Mozilla Links]

How to make add-ons compatible with new versions of Firefox?

There are many add-ons available for firefox and thunderbird, but most them are never updated according to the new versions of product releases. If you try to install them you will see version compatibility error. There is a simple way to resolve this compatibility issue. Download the add-on by clicking “save as” in browser context menu, the downloaded file is with xpi file. Open the xpi file using winzip and find install.rdf file(no need to extract the zip file) and open it in any text editor. Search for “{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}” which is firefox id and for thunderbird “{3550f703-e582-4d05-9a08-453d09bdfdc6}” . RDF file is xml file under the id you should see\r\n\r\n<em:minVersion>1.5<//em:minVersion>\r\n<em:maxVersion>2.0.0.*</em:maxVersion>\r\n\r\nChange the maxVersion value to the version you are using. If you are using firefox 3 beta then the maxVersion should be 3.0b3 (remember from firefox three versioning has changed now on its going to x.0 only instead of x.0.0).

Tip #3:Using Firefox with multiple Profiles

What is a profile?  Its the place(folder) where firefox stores bookmarks, extensions,history etc. details. On windows OS the default location of profile folder is C:\Documents and Settings\xxxx\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\k450b1oj.default.How to create a new profiles and managing them? Execute the command \\"firefox -P\\" which will show a dialog box to create and manage profiles. After creating profiles we can create icons of these firefox by making target as \\"firefox -P -no-remote\\