Skipscreen is a useful Firefox addon that speeds up downloads from sites like Rapidshare, Megaupload, zShare and Mediafire. It skips all the ad-filled pages and waiting times so that you get to download fast.
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Find Rapidshare Happy Hours (Firefox addon)
Firefox extension that alerts you when Rapidshare’s Happy Hours is in effect.
Search torrents within Firefox with Torrent Finder
Firefox extension Torrent Finder brings BitTorrent search to Firefox. You can choose multiple torrent sites to search from.
View offline webpages with Resurrect Pages addon
Resurrect Pages is a Firefox addon that helps you find cached pages. This can be useful to read pages that no longer exists(due to legal takedown notices), or if the website has gone down due to a spike in traffic (from Digg).
Resurrect Pages uses multiple sources for finding cached pages - Live Search, Google, Internet [...]
Read Dilbert, Garfield comics in Firefox
Daily Dilbert is a Firefox extension that shows you several online popular comic strips every day. Daily Dilbert shows several popular comics like Dilbert, Garfield, XKCD, Peanuts, Andy Capp, Getfuzzy, Pearls, PHDComics, Opus etc. Some of these comics are available in multiple languages too.
The extension adds an icon to Firefox status bar. Clicking on it [...]
Best themes and extensions to spruce up Firefox for Christmas
With the Christmas holidays fast approaching, we thought that it would be a good idea to give Firefox a Christmas-y look and feel.
Firefox has themes for most occasions (Halloween seems popular), including Christmas. Here are two themes for Christmas - TinselTown and XMas theme. Tinseltown is my personal favorite, with transparent tabs, colorful icons and [...]
Google Reader Watcher alerts you for new feed items
Google Reader Watcher is a handy Firefox extension to check your Google Reader account automatically, for unread items. It will then show you alerts, small popups or unread feed list (depending on the settings chosen).
You can configure how often it should check Google Reader for unread feeds. You can also exclude feeds from the notification [...]
Post to Twitter from your Firefox address bar with TwitterBar
TwitterBar Firefox extension lets you post to Twitter from Firefox address bar.
Type your tweet in the address bar and click the unobtrusive grey icon next to address bar to post it. Moving your mouse over the icon shows you number of characters left.
Another interesting feature is that you can also post URL of [...]
Find Rapidshare Happy Hours (Firefox addon)
Firefox extension that alerts you when Rapidshare’s Happy Hours is in effect.
Search torrents within Firefox with Torrent Finder
Firefox extension Torrent Finder brings BitTorrent search to Firefox. You can choose multiple torrent sites to search from.
View offline webpages with Resurrect Pages addon
Resurrect Pages is a Firefox addon that helps you find cached pages. This can be useful to read pages that no longer exists(due to legal takedown notices), or if the website has gone down due to a spike in traffic (from Digg).
Resurrect Pages uses multiple sources for finding cached pages - Live Search, Google, Internet [...]
Read Dilbert, Garfield comics in Firefox
Daily Dilbert is a Firefox extension that shows you several online popular comic strips every day. Daily Dilbert shows several popular comics like Dilbert, Garfield, XKCD, Peanuts, Andy Capp, Getfuzzy, Pearls, PHDComics, Opus etc. Some of these comics are available in multiple languages too.
The extension adds an icon to Firefox status bar. Clicking on it [...]
Best themes and extensions to spruce up Firefox for Christmas
With the Christmas holidays fast approaching, we thought that it would be a good idea to give Firefox a Christmas-y look and feel.
Firefox has themes for most occasions (Halloween seems popular), including Christmas. Here are two themes for Christmas - TinselTown and XMas theme. Tinseltown is my personal favorite, with transparent tabs, colorful icons and [...]
Google Reader Watcher alerts you for new feed items
Google Reader Watcher is a handy Firefox extension to check your Google Reader account automatically, for unread items. It will then show you alerts, small popups or unread feed list (depending on the settings chosen).
You can configure how often it should check Google Reader for unread feeds. You can also exclude feeds from the notification [...]
Post to Twitter from your Firefox address bar with TwitterBar
TwitterBar Firefox extension lets you post to Twitter from Firefox address bar.
Type your tweet in the address bar and click the unobtrusive grey icon next to address bar to post it. Moving your mouse over the icon shows you number of characters left.
Another interesting feature is that you can also post URL of [...]
