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Jessica - Aug 21, 2006 4:56:22 am PDT #8660 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I have TabBrowser Preferences and Forecast Fox.

And then there's DownThemAll! [link]

HMOG I need that. Thanks!


Gudanov - Aug 21, 2006 5:43:30 am PDT #8661 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping

Tab Mix Plus - Essential, the extension I'd pick if there can. be. only one.

All in one Gestures - Mouse gestures, very useful.

Extended Status Bar - It's just a display of stats not functional.

RiteOfTongue - Can spellcheck a selected word.

PDF Download - Get a choice of what to do with PDF files. I find it useful.


Jessica - Aug 21, 2006 5:47:45 am PDT #8662 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Grrrrrr. DTA doesn't work on the site I need it for. Oh well.


tommyrot - Aug 21, 2006 5:56:28 am PDT #8663 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Grrrrrr. DTA doesn't work on the site I need it for. Oh well.

There are several versions of DTA. I don't remember what the difference is between the versions. Anyway, you might want to poke around and try another version or maybe some other similar extension.


Jessica - Aug 21, 2006 6:00:17 am PDT #8664 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I'm pretty sure it's the website, but I'll try out the other versions and see if that helps.


tommyrot - Aug 21, 2006 6:10:03 am PDT #8665 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

ION, Writely no longer requires an invitation to sign up.

eta: Writely is a web-based word processor that allows you to access your documents from any location with internet access. What seems to me to be the most useful feature is that it allows online collaboration.


DXMachina - Aug 21, 2006 6:55:38 am PDT #8666 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Firefox extensions I like:

AdBlock

Linkification (makes links out of plain text URLs)

Dictionary Search (right click to look up word in another tab)

LiveJournal Hook (right click to access formatting tags when posting to LJ)


§ ita § - Aug 21, 2006 7:02:33 am PDT #8667 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The extension thing is what scared me off Firefox. I didn't like the idea of having to go hunt to customise the browser. It's obvious that with good extensions the functionality exceeds that of Opera. But I'm lazy, and out of the box Opera already does enough of that stuff that I just can't be arsed.

Yet, Firefox has the alt!browser excitement, and Opera a sliver of the market share. I don't care who else uses Opera--I'm just scared it will go away.


Theodosia - Aug 21, 2006 7:27:58 am PDT #8668 of 10003
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

I think I'm going to split the difference, and use Firefox on my iBook, and Opera on the work computers.


Gudanov - Aug 21, 2006 7:29:33 am PDT #8669 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping

Opera is pretty good, I use it sometimes. I keep coming back to Firefox though.