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June 14, 2010

Fittr Flickr Extension for Chrome

Fab site-specific Chrome extension to improve Flickr. Lightbox view is super nice. (Bonus points for removing the “by Yahoo!” from the Flickr logo!)

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October 6, 2009

Glims for Safari

Safari “plug-in” which fixes a bunch of my frustrations since switching from Firefox. This plus ClickToFlash rock my world!

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April 15, 2009

Tree Style Tab :: Firefox Add-ons

Ooh, this I like. Moves your browser tabs to the left pane, and groups them by the tab that launched them.

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December 28, 2008

Lazarus: Restore lost forms with a single click

Firefox extension to help avoid “crashed browser/lost textarea” syndrome.

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December 8, 2008

Google Code Blog: Native Client: A Technology for Running Native Code on the Web

New browser plugin from Google that runs “native” libraries in place. Lazy hacks are no doubt currently sharpening their “Flash killer” typing fingers.

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August 27, 2008

Mozilla Labs: Introducing Ubiquity

Nifty new Firefox extension, taking the quicksilver shorty-cutty app-launcher approach to the web. Looks very promising.

August 24, 2008

YouTube Comment Snob

Firefox extensions which hides the most blatantly idiotic YouTube comments. Favourite filter: Uses Firefox’s in-built dictionary to hide comments with too many spelling mistakes.

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June 23, 2008

firefox-mac-pdf

In ye olde days, displaying PDF documents in the browser drove me nuts. You’d unwittingly click on a link, and your entire web browser would freeze up for 30 seconds while Adobe Reader started. But since PDF is baked so closely into the OS X system, this Firefox plugin is wicked fast, and thoroughly helpful.

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April 28, 2008

Holy Crap! Pepper // Peppermill // Mint: A Fresh Look at your Site

Hehe. Plugin for Mint which sends you an email if you get referrers from Digg, Reddit, Slashdot, etc.

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December 9, 2007

Autocomplete Manager :: Firefox Add-ons

Dead handly location-bar-autocomplete-expander for Firefox 2 — It matches against all parts of the URL and page title, so it’s easier to find pages from your history.

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August 19, 2007

VeriSign's OpenID SeatBelt Plugin

Firefox extension to bring OpenID into the browser’s chrome. (Also, Verisign’s OpenID provider now support using their PayPal Security Keys as a second-factor for authentication)

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May 9, 2007

NoSquint: Firefox Extension

Superb Firefox extension, which remembers which sites you had to change the text-zoom level for. This should be baked into Firefox by default, if you ask me.

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May 6, 2007

MailActOn

Plugin for Apple Mail which allows you to quickly tag/file/act-on your emails with a couple of keystrokes. I’d been looking for something like this for a while.

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April 27, 2007

Opera's Speed Dial for Firefox

Opera’s latest feature, implemented as a Firefox extension within a week!

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April 17, 2007

Port 25 : Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin - Download

From the “about bloody time” file, a plugin from Microsoft for Firefox which allows WMV files to stream in your browser. This has been broken (and required lots of DLL copying) for years.

April 3, 2007

FireGPG - use GPG easily in Firefox !

Firefox extension to enable GPG encryption/verification in GMail. Need to give this a shot.

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January 24, 2007

crazybob.org: Install PwdHash, now.

Firefox extension for generating marginally-more-secure passwords. Use your same password everywhere, but hash it against the website’s domain name.

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January 4, 2007

December 20, 2006

Locationbar² | Firefox Add-ons | Mozilla Corporation

Nice plugin for Firefox which simplifies the URL field and emphasizes the hostname of the URL. Could help users avoid phishing attacks. Should this be the standard URL display in Firefox?

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November 16, 2006

Firebug

Version 1.0 of Firebug is on the horizon, and it looks about 75% more kick-assier than the current release, which is saving my life at the moment as I do some JavaScript ftuff at work.

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October 19, 2006

All-in-One Sidebar :: View topic - AIOS 0.7 RC 5 [2006-10-08]

Pre-release version of the excellent All-in-One Sidebar Firefox extension. And with that, every Firefox extension I use is now compatible with Firefox 2. Roll on, the release!

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September 5, 2006

roachfiend.com » ErrorZilla - Useful error pages for Firefox

Firefox extension to make the error pages more useful — Look up Google’s cache or the Wayback Machine for pages/sites that have disappeared.

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August 16, 2006

FuzzyOcrPlugin - Spamassassin Wiki

SpamAssassin plugin which OCRs the images attached to image-only mails to work out if they contain text like V14GRA. I imagine this is massively CPU-intense, but it might be worth looking at.

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July 26, 2006

Problematic extensions - MozillaZine Knowledge Base

If, like me, you’ve got a shedload of Firefox extensions installed and, like me, are seeing memory leaks in Firefox, this guide can help you track down the responsible parties.

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July 1, 2006

Solid Wall of Code: AutoBan

MT plugin that adds “Deny” entries to your .htaccess file when someone’s clobbering you with comment spam, saving you the CPU cycles. I’ve installed it — if it works, I’ll be giddy as a schoolgirl.

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June 14, 2006

CLEO: Compact Library Extension Organizer

Firefox extension which bundles your installed extensions & preferences, so you can install them onto another PC in one foul swoop.

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June 8, 2006

Google Browser Sync

Interesting offering from the Googleplex — Sync your bookmarks, saved passwords and cookeis across your Firefox installations, via Google’s big-ass database in the sky. If there were a way to do this using my own server, I’d be all over it.

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June 2, 2006

FootieFox

Firefox extension which adds football scores to your statusbar. Can someone do a baseball version of this?

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April 15, 2006

Akismet for Movable Type

The hugely-successful Akismet anti-comment-spam plugin for Wordpress has been ported to MT.

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April 12, 2006

mozdev.org - tamperdata: index

A Firefox extension that allows you to tweak your HTTP (and HTTPS) requests and responses in real-time. I used to use the Achilles proxy for this, back in the day.

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February 28, 2006

The Superbrowser

What happens if you take the lightweight Firefox browser and load 100 extensions into it? (Short answer: You lose about a square foot of screen real-estate)

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February 23, 2006

RSS Eclipse Plugin: RSS View

RSS feedreader plugin for Eclipse. Piping FogBugz’s RSS feeds into this will make it easy to keep track of my bugs in the IDE.

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January 26, 2006

Reveal

Swish little graphical-history extension for Firefox. There’s a lot of polish here, including a very clever “tour” when you first use it.

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January 14, 2006

ViewMyCurrency

A great example of why Firefox can be so powerful — An extension which automatically currency-converts prices on webpages.

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December 25, 2005

Pearl Crescent Page Saver

Grab a snapshot of an entire webpage in Firefox 1.5.

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December 19, 2005

Deciding Who To Trust

Really interesting sounding approach to warning users of untrustworthy sites — armies of webcrawlers looking for the places which load you up with spyware and spam.

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December 15, 2005

Google Safe Browsing for Firefox

Extremely well-designed anti-phishing extension from Google.

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December 14, 2005

sensory output » Projects » Fresh View for Mint

Mint plugin which generates lovely SVG graphs — As seen in my main blog (if you’re using an SVG-aware browser)

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December 10, 2005

RightFields

MovableType plugin to reconfigure the “fields” for your blog entries. Might install this, just so that I can stop storing the “via” links for Groovy Links in the “Excerpt” field.

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December 7, 2005

mozdev.org - nextplease

Ooh. This is just supersmart! A Firefox plugin which works out when you’re on a site with multiple pages to a story (or search results), and lets you flip through them with keyboard shortcuts. This makes TWoP much easier to read. Hurrah!

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November 9, 2005

Root.net

Install a Firefox extension and gather some statistics on where you’re “spending” your “attention”. Has potential to either prove really interesting, or a collosal fucking disaster. Can’t decide which yet.

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November 5, 2005

mplayerplug-in

The best video plugin for Linux I’ve found. Plays Quicktime, Windows Media and Real Video without complaint, hiccup, or browser crash.

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Tab Sidebar

Interesting twist on tabbed browsing for Firefox 1.5 — Displays screenshots of each tab in the sidebar.

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November 4, 2005

Tags.App

Tags solution for MovableType. I’m taking this for a bit of a roadtest at the moment.

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October 24, 2005

Firefoxit: Firefox Widgets

Extension bringing Dashboard-esque widgets into the Firefox environment.

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About This Site

This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.

I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.