But You're A Girl » firefox extensions http://butyoureagirl.com Technology Consultant With A Heart Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:20:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Backup Firefox with FEBE 6 [VIDEO] http://butyoureagirl.com/2009/08/17/backup-firefox-with-febe-6-video/ http://butyoureagirl.com/2009/08/17/backup-firefox-with-febe-6-video/#comments Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:47:12 +0000 Adria Richards http://butyoureagirl.com/?p=3620 I have mentioned FEBE the Firefox Environment Backup Extension several times on this blog as an awesome and easy tool for making complete backups of your Firefox bookmarks, extensions and browsing history. Chuck has a new version out so hence, a new video!

Download FEBE from Mozilla.org

Click here to view the embedded video.

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I’ve gone over my favorite extensions in the past and still remember being interviewed about my use of Firefox extensions by Julio Ojeda-Zapata (@jojeda) of the Pioneer Press back in 2005.


My Firefox Extensions List 7/16/2009

Hot pick Firefox Extensions that work with Firefox 3.5 say “HOT PICK”

Application: Firefox 3.5 (20090624025744)

Operating System: WINNT (x86-msvc)

July 16, 2009

Total number of items: 40

  1. Affiliator 0.1.4 HOT PICK

    http://www.theantichris.dreamhosters.com/category/firefox-addons/affiliator/

    Firefox 1.5 – 3.6a1pre

    Makes generating Amazon affiliate links easier.

  2. Affixa – Login Handler 1.2 HOT PICK

    http://www.affixa.com/

    Firefox 3.0 – 10.0

    Makes email attachments easy!

  3. Bit.ly Creator 0.1

    (Disabled, Incompatible)

    Firefox 1.5 – 3.0.*

    Shorten Long URLs With Bit.ly Creator

  4. Blank Canvas Gmail Signatures 1.11.12

    http://blankcanvasweb.com/pages/detail/id_9/n_gmail_signatures/

    Firefox 3.0 – 3.6a1pre

    Insert multiple HTML signatures into your Gmail emails. (Replaces old Greasemonkey script.)

  5. CLC-CLiCkSpeak 1.5 HOT PICK

    http://clickspeak.clcworld.net

    Firefox 1.5 – 3.*

    CLiCk, Speak: A Simple Talking Browser For People Who Like CLiCking On Things

  6. Context Search 0.4.4

    http://www.cusser.net

    Firefox 2.0 – 3.5.*

    Expands the context menu’s ‘Search for’ item into a list of search engines.

  7. Delicious Bookmarks 2.1.041 HOT PICK

    http://delicious.com

    Firefox 2.0 – 3.5.*

    Access your bookmarks wherever you go and keep them organized no matter how many you have.

  8. dragdropupload 1.6.8

    (Disabled, Incompatible)

    http://www.teslacore.it/wiki/index.php?title=DragDropUpload

    Firefox 1.0 – 3.0.*

    This extension helps you to upload files

  9. DT Whois 1.7 HOT PICK

    http://www.beysim.net/dtwhois/

    Firefox 1.0 – 3.5.*

    Domaintools.com whois button for Firefox

  10. Email This! Bookmarklet Extension 2.2.6

    http://www.lazyrussian.com/my-projects/email-this-firefox-extension/

    Firefox 1.5 – 3.6a1pre

    Email This! will send your recipient the link, title, and a selected summary of the webpage you are viewing.

  11. Evernote Web Clipper 3.0.0.126

    (Disabled, Incompatible)

    http://www.evernote.com/

    Firefox 1.4.0 – 3.0.*

    Provides a button and context menus to easily add a selection or an entire page to Evernote

  12. Extension List Dumper 1.14.2

    http://sogame.awardspace.com/ HOT PICK

    Firefox 1.5 – 3.5.*

    Dumps a list of the installed extensions.

  13. FEBE 6.2.beta3

    http://customsoftwareconsult.com/extensions

    Firefox 3.0b1 – 3.*

    Backup your Firefox data

  14. Firebug 1.4.0b7 HOT PICK

    http://www.getfirebug.com/

    Firefox 3.5b4 – 3.5.*

    Web Development Evolved.

  15. gDocsBar 0.5.7

    (Disabled, Incompatible)

    http://www.gdocsbar.com/

    Firefox 1.5 – 3.1a1pre

    Perfect companion for Google Docs.

  16. Google Calendar Notifier 2.5.3 <— Someone needs to pick up development on this!

    (Disabled, Incompatible)

    http://extensions.npike.net

    Firefox 1.5 – 3.0.*

    This extension provides robust notifications and display of your Google Calendars for today, as well as showing any upcoming all day events for tomorrow.

  17. Google Gears 0.5.29.0 HOT PICK

    http://gears.google.com/

    Firefox 1.5 – 3.5

    These are the gears that power the tubes! :-)

  18. Google Notebook 1.0.0.22

    (Disabled, Incompatible)

    http://www.google.com/notebook

    Firefox 1.5.0 – 3.0.99

    Allows notetaking while browsing

  19. Greasemonkey 0.8.20090123.1 HOT PICK

    http://www.greasespot.net/

    Firefox 1.5 – 3.5.*

    A User Script Manager for Firefox

  20. GTDInbox 2.0.11.5

    (Disabled, Incompatible)

    http://www.gtdinbox.com

    Firefox 3.0 – 3.1b2

    Getting Things Done with Gmail

  21. is.gd Creator 0.2.2

    http://postspectacular.com/

    Firefox 1.5 – 3.5

    Provides easy access to the is.gd URL shortening service

  22. Firefox 1.5 – *
  23. Live PageRank 0.9.6

    (Disabled, Incompatible)

    http://livepr.raketforskning.com/

    Firefox 1.0 – 3.0.*

    Display live PageRank for active URL

  24. LogMeIn, Inc. Rescue Technician Console 6.0.0.515 <— This is if you use Logmein Rescue

    (Disabled, Incompatible)

    https://secure.logmeinrescue.com/HelpDesk/Home.aspx

    Firefox 1.5 – 3.1.*

    LogMeIn Rescue Technician Console

  25. NoScript 1.9.5 HOT PICK

    http://noscript.net

    Firefox 1.5 – 3.6a1pre

    Extra protection for your Firefox: NoScript allows JavaScript, Java (and other plugins) only for trusted domains of your choice (e.g. your home-banking web site). This whitelist based pre-emptive blocking approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known and even unknown!) with no loss of functionality… Experts will agree: Firefox is really safer with NoScript :-)

  26. PriceDrop 1.06 HOT PICK

    http://pricedrop.stuffstuff.org

    Firefox 2.0 – 3.5.*

    Tracks Amazon price changes, and notifies about them

  27. Print Context Menu 1.2

    Firefox 1.5 – 3.5.*

    Adds the ability to print and print preview a web page from the context menu

  28. Read it Later 0.9947 HOT PICK

    http://readitlaterlist.com

    Firefox 3.0b3 – 3.6a1pre

    Save pages to read later, then bookmark.

  29. Skype extension for Firefox 2.2.0.102

    http://www.skype.com

    Firefox 1.5 – 3.*

    Skype extension for Firefox

  30. TinyUrl Creator 1.0.5

    (Disabled, Incompatible)

    http://mozmonkey.com/

    Firefox 1.5 – 3.0.*

    Convenient tool to create small url redirects from longer ones.

  31. Tunebite Firefox Surf and Catch Plugin 1.3.6900.0

    (Disabled, Incompatible)

    tunebite.com

    Firefox 2.0.0.0 – 3.0.*

    Surf & Catch support for Mozilla Firefox

  32. Web Developer 1.1.8 HOT PICK

    http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/

    Firefox 1.0 – 3.5.*

    Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.

  33. YSlow 2.0.0b4

    (Disabled)

    http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow

    Firefox 2.0 – 3.5.*

    Make your pages faster with Yahoo!s page performance tool

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Click here to view the embedded video.

What You Need

  1. Download Firefox as your Internet surfing browser
  2. Download the Bit.ly url created for Firefox

How Do People Currently Share URLS?

Copy/paste of url without shortening

Manual copy/paste to tinyurl.com

Best Way – Use bit.ly urls shortening service

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Firefox Extension Info

FEBE (Firefox Environment Backup Extension)
by Chuck Baker

Backup Your Profile

Click here to view the embedded video.

Restore Your Profile

Click here to view the embedded video.

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FEBE – Backup all or part of your firefox profile

Firefox Extension
Supports Versions 2 and 3
FEBE (Firefox Environment Backup Extension) by Chuck Baker

I’ve been using FEBE since 2006 and it’s easily one of my favorites.

Things I like about this extension:

  • Customize what gets backed up
  • Schedule backups
  • Audio notification backup is complete
  • No hassle to restore extensions
  • Regular updates from developer

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If you’re using the feature in Flickr to post images to your blog, make sure the account you use to authorize “author level” or higher. I do this so I don’t give my primary blog account to every Tom, Dick and Harry service wanting to “extend” my blog through their services.

Also, make sure you’re using the Flickr Blog This to Draft script so your new blog post doesn’t get immediately posted but instead, goes to your draft folder so you can finish adding content and formatting it.

Photo Credit adria.richards

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