Artzilla.org is a new website about fun, artistic, and experimental Mozilla (mostly Firefox) add-ons. Participating artists include Theo Watson, Aram Bartholl, Evan Roth, Dragan Espenschied, Timo Klok, Jamie Wilkinson, Danja Vasiliev and Tobi Leingruber. I bet Pirates of the Amazon will be there, too, a Firefox add-on that "inserts a "download 4 free" button on Amazon, which links to corresponding Piratebay BitTorrents." Read more about the event on the fffffatlab site. Artzilla.org Launch Party and Browser Hacks Exhibition Saturday, December 13 Worm, Achterhaven 148, Rotterdam Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Culture jamming |...
Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): Firefox extension FoxReplace adds find-and-replace functionality to web pages. If you do a lot of writing in web forms—whether it's for work, your personal blog, or just your Gmail account—the option to do automatic find and replace is a godsend. You can choose to match by case and replace all matching text, whole words only, or use regular expressions if you're really savvy. The extension boasts way more features than you're likely to use (including finding and replacing text on an HTML level), though to be honest I'd be happier with a similar extension that worked only...
Filed under: BrowsersCheckBoxMate is a Firefox add-on that can save you a ton of time if you frequently need to select multiple check boxes when doing things like cleaning your email inbox or responding to surveys. The utility is considered an experimental Firefox plugin, but all that means is that you need to sign up for a free Mozilla account and login before downloading CheckBoxMate from the Firefox add-ons directory. You can also install it without an account by visiting the developer's homepage.Once CheckBoxMate is installed, all you need to do to select multiple checkboxes is move your mouse over...
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If you've got several Gmail accounts and are frequently having to juggle signatures for each of them, worth downloading is Blank Canvas' Gmail Signatures. This experimental Firefox extension will drop in one of four custom HTML signatures based on whichever account you're sending the message from. If you're like me and have two or more accounts set up this is a big time saver. Once installed you get a new drop down menu that lets you select one of your four custom signatures. These can be managed directly within Gmail, and come with an editor that shows you a live...
Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): Experimental Firefox extension TooManyTabs organizes extra browser tabs in Firefox, allowing you to store over 50 extra tabs in a special row for quick access at a later time. That may not sound terribly exciting by itself, but what if I told you that every tab you push to the TooManyTabs row frees up memory by turning the tabs you shelve into idle tabs? According to the developers, any time you move a tab onto a TooManyTabs row (which you do by hovering over the tab and clicking the yellow up arrow that replaces the favicon), that...
Yet another example proving the coolest things always come from Japan. Lunascape is a web browser that incorporates all three major web rendering engines — Firefox’s Gecko engine, WebKit, which is used by Safari and Chrome, and Trident, the engine used by Internet Explorer. The Windows-only download is the product of the Tokyo firm Lunascape, which has apparently been developing this product as Japanese-only release since 2004. This is the first English version of the browser, and it’s available as a free alpha download. I ran it through some basic tests, and it’s stable. You can switch between the three...
Filed under: Windows, Freeware, Browsers You would think that Google Chrome would be the perfect web browser for people who spend most of their day using Google applications like Gmail, Google Calendar, and GTalk. But Chrome lacks some of the features that draw many people to browsers like Firefox. So one Firefox user who uses a ton of Google services decided to mash the two together and create an alternate browser he calls FoxGLove, which you can download from Lifehacker.The browser is based on the portable version of Firefox, which means you can run it without messing up your normal...
Filed under: Internet, Photo, Blogging, Mozilla, Browsers On my list of 14 extremely useful Firefox addons I included ScreenGrab for capturing web pages to PNG or JPG images.Today, I replaced it with Screen Grab to Wordpress. As you probably guessed, it's got the same core functionality with one major addition: the ability to send images directly to your Wordpress-powered blog.Configure the URL, username, and password to all your Wordpress blogs an you're ready to go (just make sure you have XML-RPC remote publishing enabled). Click the icon in your Firefox status bar to display SGW's menu and choose what to...
Firefox only: At one point or another, every power surfer has filled out a long web page form, then lost all the time and effort when Firefox crashed before you could submit it. The Lazarus Form Recovery add-on is out to keep that from ever happening. Each time you fill out a web page form (whether it's name and address or blog comment), the Form Recovery extension auto-saves the information and makes recovering or re-entering it a one-click deal. With Lazarus installed (Lazarus rose from the dead—get it?), after you've filled in a web page form, right-click inside a...
You know what I'm sick of? Running three browsers on my Windows system. Not because I want to, but because I have to. I need Internet Explorer (which uses the Trident engine) for some CNET corporate pages and to run Outlook Web Access. I have to use Firefox (Gecko engine) for our blog publishing system and to run all the plug-ins I like. When I want to just browse quickly I turn to Chrome (Webkit). This is no way to live. But a new browser, Lunascape, handles all three of the rendering engines at once. When you open a...
Well, it took 6 months since we first heard a peep about an official release of Gmail themes for Google to make them a reality. But even with this week’s rollout from Mountain View HQ, some of you will still want more. Indeed, the Google design corps won’t hit the spot for every Tom, Dick, and Henrietta. So there’s really only one alternative route to venture down to get Gmail a new dress: some good ol’ CSS chop-shoppage via the ever-popular Greasemonkey and Stylish Firefox add-ons. Here are our current top picks: Be sure to post your faves if you’ve...
I’m a big fan of open and extensible platforms (ideally open-source extensible platforms) - with Wordpress.org for blogging and Mozilla/Firefox for browsing being my two favourites. So I was pleased today to read Mozilla’s announcement that they had crossed the one billion mark for add-on downloads since they started counting in 2005. See chart below. Note also that this graph and the headline 1 billion figure are understatements, probably significant understatements, as add-on downloads from sites other than Mozilla aren’t included in the total. This milestone shows both the popularity and the power of the model. What I like about...
Mozilla today announced that it has served its 1 billionth addon download since they started keeping track of these downloads in 2005. Currently, Mozilla's users are downloading close to 1.5 million addons every day. Mozilla has cultivated one of the most active and interesting developer communities around its products and seeing numbers like these will surely give a lot of other developers an incentive to try their hands at developing new plugins for Firefox as well. Sponsor Mozila also just released a new interface to showcase some of the top Firefox addons, which will surely bring a lot of new...
It seems that the world and his dog now have a Twitter, Facebook, Jaiku or Plurk account. Some of us see these services as an extension of our mobile phone or our blog, some as a way to get into internet communications. Whatever you like to call it, microblogging has propelled itself into the internet limelight. It seems that people just can’t get enough of posting 140 characters of text. Perhaps the reason these services have become so widespread is that the creators of these networks have released public API’s, allowing third party developers to utilize the services these networks...
My Firefox is jam-packed with add-ons. I love them, I collect them, I use them. I probably over-indulge, in fact. Some people, however, are not using them to their full potential, or simply not using them at all. It makes sense if you just have a clean browser policy, but if you’re not aware of what’s available, then you could be missing out. Mozilla’s new Fashion Your Firefox web application is designed to make add-ons more accessible, and easier to find and install. The existing Firefox add-ons page can be daunting. Fashion Your Firefox takes the guesswork out of add-on...
You and your geek friends may love trolling the Mozilla site for Firefox add-ons, but the lineup on the site can be overwhelming. To simplify the add-on market, Mozilla has just launched Fashion Your Firefox, a tightly edited version of the add-on library with a very simple installer. The catalog contains nine categories, such as "Finder and Seeker" and "News Junkie," each with fewer than five add-ons. If you want products in the list, you can select several. When you're done making choices, you can install them all at once, instead of one at a time as you have...
The concept of Firefox add-ons, however silly this may sound to the experienced user, is still (and probably always will be) blurry to the majority of users. Simply put, people mostly install Firefox and browse the web. Period. They don’t want to meddle with the settings, plugins, add-ons and whatnot. Understanding this, Mozilla launched a new initiative - they call it “application,” but there’s no real application to speak of here - called Fashion Your Firefox. It’s a simple directory that organizes some of the best add-ons for Firefox in several easily understandable categories. This is how Mozilla defines them:...
The next time you upgrade Firefox—which will be to version 3.1—you don't want to find out that your favorite extension isn't yet compatible with the new version, and Mozilla's going out of their way to make sure that doesn't happen. They've published an eye-popping list of Firefox add-ons which make up 95% of known add-on usage, and show what level of compatibility each extension offers. This report will update as Firefox 3.1 nears release; in the meantime, it's very interesting to browse the list, which is ordered by usage frequency to compare it to your favorite extensions. Add-on Compatibility...
