Shankar Ganesh

A site that you’re trying to access is experiencing some problems and is down. How often do you check patiently for the site to load?

You need that site badly, yet it’s down.

Now with the Mr Uptime Firefox extension, you can receive alerts when a particular website is up again and running.
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The Tabby Firefox Extension lets you control the way tabs on Firefox behave.

Tabby controls where tabs open and which previous tab gets selected when a tab closes. For both open and close, Tabby can defer to the browser (with or without another tab-controlling extension), always go leftmost or rightmost, use the relative position either leftward or rightward, or go completely random.
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Just found these photographs of two hilarious cakes that you’ll love for sure:

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Google Global is a handy Firefox Extension that lets you easily navigate to a local Google search result page (like google.co.in, google.co.uk, etc.) to view the search results for a particular term.

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HTML Validator is a Firefox Extension which could be useful for web developers out there.

It validates a web page and displays the number of errors and warnings generated during HTML validation in the status bar.

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If you wanna boost your productivity, try ReminderFox, an extension to Firefox which you can use to set reminders and todos from inside Firefox. Organize your day with ReminderFox.

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If you like Opera’s look, but prefer to use Firefox, you can get the Opera theme made for Firefox. Cool, huh?

Here’s how Firefox looks after installing this theme:

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Not that perfect actually, I should say. You can install the Opera theme for Firefox directly using this link.

Warning: This is a third party theme, and is not supported by Mozilla officially. Try this theme at you own risk.

Fission is a cool new funky Firefox addon that displays a progress bar inside your browser’s address bar.

It basically combines Firefox’s address bar and Progress bar like this:

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You could change the colour of the progress bar, and align it to the right/left using the options available. Plus, you could also set a background image to your address bar.

Get the extension here.

Every so often, you get to see this dialog in Firefox asking you whether you want it to remember your login password for a particular site or not:

This may annoy you, and here’s how you can disable it:

• Navigate to Tools >> Options in the menu bar
• Under Security, uncheck the option Remember passwords for sites
• Click Ok and move out

The dialog will never come back again.

All of these need Firefox + Greasemonkey to work.

Gmail Integration

Google Reader + Gmail Integrator
This [tag]greasemonkey script[/tag] integrates [tag]Google Reader[/tag] with Gmail, saving you one extra tab. One of the best greasemonkey scripts available for Google Reader. An improved version of the script is here.

Google Reader Folders on Gmail
This script adds a little box on your Gmail page that lists the folders on Google Reader and also the number of unread items. Screenshot on Gmail:

Google Reader Search

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