Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Firefox add-ons

A couple of useful add-ons for Mozilla Firefox.
I've been using mouse gestures in Firefox for a long long time, but I realized a lot of people haven't caught on to this. Fire Gestures is an add-on which works for the latest version of Firefox. There are a few other options: All-in-One Gestures and Mouse Gestures are also good options, but they work for older versions of Firefox. Mouse gestures are the use of the right click and moving the mouse in predefined directions to perform various browser operations such as open tab and close tab. I am addicted to this now, and find it really useful.
ReloadEvery can be used to reload a webpage every few seconds. The time between refreshes can be controlled while turning on the ReloadEvery menu. Right clicking on a webpage shows an option called "ReloadEvery", which also gives options to choose the time between refreshes. Useful for pages which need constant refreshing, but are not provided by the website host.

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