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| FIREFOX TIPS |  | Category: Tech
Thursday, December 16th, 2004 @ 10:33 am
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 If you've been visiting my site for a while then you've probably been told a million times, by me, to use Firefox for your web browser. If you haven't switched yet, you're a retard, please leave my site.
Anyway, I wanted to outline a few extensions for Firefox that I label "Must Haves," but first things first. Firefox is going to stop you from installing packages from sites that aren't on your "trusted" list. Just add them when prompted. Infact, be sure to add "mozdev.org" so that it won't bug you about anything coming from mozdev.
-Dictionary Search (install) - This allows you to highlight words and lookup their definition from the right click menu. Probably doesn't excite everyone, but I couldn't live without it.
-Bug Me Not (install) - This will allow you to bypass free registration sites (like Fileplanet, New York Times, etc) by automatically retrieving an exisiting name and password somebody has already created for this site when you choose "bugmenot" from your right click menu while mousing over the login forms.
-Web Developer (install) - This extention adds another toolbar to the top of Firefox which contains a plethora of extremely usefull tools used in writting, testing, and debugging webpages. Table outline, markup validation, form contents, site cookies, etc. Probably won't appeal to many of you.
Another really cool bit of funtionality is something Jason taught me a couple month ago, keywords. I'll explain this by showing you how to create a Wikipedia keyword:
First, visit Wikipedia and do a search for a string of gibberish that you know won't return a result. like "blargityblag"
On the page where it tells you it can't find anything, copy the contents of the address bar ("http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=blargityblag&fulltext=Search") onto your clipboard
Click on the "Bookmarks" dropdown menu, and select "Manage Bookemarks"
Click the "New Bookmark" button and give it the name "Wikipedia Keyword"
For the URL, enter the copied addressbar contents, except replace "blargityblag" with "%s"
In the Keyword field, type "wiki"
Save it (you may want to move it into a bookmark folder named Keywords or something to get it out of the way, you'll never be clicking it anyway).
Now, if you ever want to search Wikipedia for something, you can just type "wiki ThingIWantToSearchFor" and it will bring you straight to the results of that search on Wikipedia.
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