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Foxfire (Firefox) addon for reading it later


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Foxfire…I mean Firefox, the preferred browser for millions of informed netizens, is popular for its Foxfire addons. In this post, we are presenting yet another foxfire addon, which will make your web surfing more productive and pleasurable.

Read it Later

No, we don’t mean what is written above. It is jut the name of the foxfire addon, which helps you to bookmark a web page, within the browser itself and you don’t require to open your preferred social bookmarking website. It is an ideal tool for creating a bookmark list within the browser itself.

This useful firefox extension creates two buttons just adjacent to your Browser search box. The first button named as “Read Later” book,arks the current page in the list and the other button, named as “Reading List” manages the web pages, which you have marked earlier to be read later.

But, How Read it Later is different

Off course, you can use various social bookmarking sites like del.icio.us or digg, just for the same purpose, but I liked the neat and clean interface and a single click approach, without leaving your current webpage. it is definitely much faster way of bookmarking a web page.

The only drawback, which I see with Read IT Later is that, it clutters the already cluttered space on my browser window, with more and more firefox plugins now competing with each other to fit in within the limited space.

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ScribeFire | Firefox addon for blog posts


Scribefire is a nice Firefox addon, which acts as a free blog writer tool. You can add multiple blogs to Surefire and choose the one which you want to post. The best part of Surefire is that since it is a Firefox browser plugin, it gives you the opportunity to surf the net while posting.

There are few quick points, which I observed while using Surefire for a few minutes.

  • It does not allow the option for the links to open in a new window. You have to manually add target=“_blank”.
  • There seems to be no option to wrap the text around the inserted images.
  • Nice features of changing the size and colors of the text.
  • ScribeFire gives you the option of inserting Technorati tags and using the same tags for del.icio.us as well as inserting trackback URLs.

Overall a nice web tool for those who want to post quickly and cannot afford to open a separate application away from their browser window.

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Firefox browser keyboard shortcut tips….Part I


Firefox, the browser.

I am one of the millions of die-hard fans of Firefox across the globe. Even after the launch of Internet Explorer 7, I like it for its speed, its security features, its live bookmarks and most importantly itsopen source nature, which allows thousands of independent developers to develop firefox addons and firefox extensions to give it more versatility.

Firefox addons are best part of Firefox, with more than about 200 addons available for you to download and have fun. Firefox addons like FoxyTunes (MP3 player), AdBlock Plus (block ads), StumbleUpon (website discovery), DownThemAll! (download functions) and Web Developer (web tools) are probably the most useful and popular of them all.

If you still don’t use Firefox,

Here we present you five small keyboard tips and tricks, which will make your firefox more faster and pleasurable.

5. ALT-D : Quickly move to Firefox Address Bar

Before typing a new URL in the address bar, press Alt-D. The cursor will move to the address bar and the existing URL will be highlighted. Type the address of your new page.

4. CTRL-Enter: Type “www…com” quickly

Instead of typing full http://www.webtoolsandtips.com completely, just type webtoolsand tips in the address bar and press Ctrl-Enter. See the magic, “http://www.” will be prefixed and “.com” will be suffixed automatically.

3. CTRL-Mouse wheel spin: To enlarge or shrink page font size

If you found a webpage, where the font size of the text is either too large or oo small, no problem. Hold down the Ctrl key and rotate mouse wheel. Font size changes incrementally. Great useful tip.

2. CTRL-T: Launch a new tab

My favorite.

1. SHIFT-Click a link: To open the link in a new window

Simple, no need to explain further.

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LinkChecker | Firefox addon to find broken links


Hyperlinks are lifeline of a website.

They make a page, as website. They ensure you the Search Engine Rankings.

…And they also break the rankings. Yes we are talking about broken links or missing links or dead links in a website. They are the worst thing for SEO and search rankings. And it is extremely important to find and remove the broken links from a website. But it is a difficult and time consuming task to find the broken links in a website.

How to find the broken links:

 Welcome to LinkChecker.

This firefox addon, will ensure you to quickly find the broken or dead links on a webpage. To identify the link status it follows a color coding, as shown below.

red - broken links
yellow - forwarded, forbidden links
green - good links
gray - skipped links*

You can find a test page here to see the LinkChecker in action. Kevin A. Freitas, the developer of this popular firefox extension, is constantly developing it.

Nice useful web tool for SEO and web development.

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FireFTP | Firefox addon for safe FTP


FileZilla is arguably the most popular FTP program in use today. It is safe, versatile and quick with easy user interface.

But you have to download it and run as a separate application. It is sometimes irritating to open another application, while surfing through your browser.

fireftp

Now, firefox users can FTP files from their browser window itself. You just have to download FireFTP, a firefox addon, and install it. After installation, you can drag teh FireFTP icon to your toolbar. Whenever you need to do FTP, just click this icon, a separate tab will open, where you can transfer your files. fireftpYou can choose to operate in Binary Mode, ASCII Mode or Automatic Mode.

The interface is very similar to FileZilla with easy drag and drop facility available.

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