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[scorcho]

hell yeah, i'm in the midst of typing up a paper and need to take a break, so here goes.


fresh off the presses -
http://aimfire.mozdev.org/

Introducing AIMfire, an instant messaging program for the fantastic Mozilla Firefox. AIMfire is like your usual instant messaging programs but it is small in size, easy to use and in particular features something that other instant messaging clients don't have: the power of Audioscrobbler built-in. So try it out and give it a spin!

it combines my three favorite things in life - firefox, AIM and audioscrobbler. as you can see, i do not have much of a life been using it for 10 minutes and no crashes or complaints yet. woo.

http://maldivian.blogs.com/tech/

It is an extension for Mozilla Firefox that lets you highlight text on pages for easy reference while doing online research etc.

using this extensively the past few days while cruising ebsco for sources. works great, though i wish i could individually deselect highlights.

also, usercontent, userchrome hacks!

adblock alone isn't enough as it fails to filter out unwanted div/td tags, oft times leaving huge unsightly blemishes in content. you could use extensions like RIP or Greasemonkey to remove it permamently, but Firefox has a built-in mechanism for dealing with this that works wonders.

install Chromeedit from here - http://cdn.mozdev.org/chromedit/
then paste this sample config to usercontent.css from the added menu option in tools

*[class*="lrec"] {display:none !important;}
#advertiserLinks {display:none !important;}
*[href*="/ad."] {display:none !important;}
*[href*="/ads."] {display:none !important;}
*[href*="adx"] {display:none !important;}
*[id*="adx"] {display:none !important;}
*[src*="adx"] {display:none !important;}
*[class*="adx"] {display:none !important;}
*[href*="adv"] {display:none !important;}
*[id*="adv"] {display:none !important;}
*[src*="adv"] {display:none !important;}
*[class*="adv"] {display:none !important;}

this collpases all the unsightly div and td ads from both yahoo news and nytimes stories that adblock misses.

userchrome.css hacks -

/* Remove the close button on the tab bar */
.tabs-closebutton-box {
   display: none !important; }

/* Remove Livemark icon */
#livemark-button { display:none !important; } 

/*Changes All Toolbar Heights*/
#main-window toolbar {
   max-height: 30px; !important; }

/* Remove extra padding from the Navigation Bar */
.toolbarbutton-icon {
   padding: 2px 0px 0px 0px; }

.bookmark-item > .toolbarbutton-icon { padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px !important; }

/* Make the Search box flex wider
   (in this case 400 pixels wide) */
 #search-container, #searchbar {
   -moz-box-flex: 155 !important; }

/* Remove Icon Spacers in StatusBar  */
statusbarpanel {
   -moz-appearance: none !important;
   border-left: 0px !important;
   border-right: 0px !important; }

more can be found here - http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=96&pid=5952&mode=threaded#entry5952

 

[Great King Bowser]

Is there a way/extension to get Firefox to display Red X's on bad image links?

 

[Tommie Hu$tle]

welcome to last week.

 

[Tarazet]

I can't believe no one mentioned the Abe Vigoda Status Monitor.

http://www.vesterman.com/FirefoxExtensions/AbeVigodaStatus

 

[Meatpuppet]

I'm really liking Greasemonkey (http://greasemonkey.mozdev.com). Some great scripts to tidy up/fix annoyances on some of my regular net haunts. Plus it's a lot easier to make an extension using Greasemonkey than doing it the proper way.

To wit, and to post from the Gaming Forum, I've just made a simple script which makes the links on IGN's media pages actually link directly to the file, so you don't have to navigate multiple pages to save a movie to disk.

IGN Media Firefox Extension #1
This is a little off topic, but given how much people will be using IGN over the next few days for media, I hope it's not disapproved of.

In short, like many others I hate the whole rigmarole that you have to go through to download non-insider videos on IGN. I mean, it takes something ridiculous like three separate pages before you even get to the actual download link.

In order to save all that hassle, I've written a really simple script for use with Greasemonkey in Firefox. The script replaces all links to movies on IGN sites with a direct download link.

If you want to take advantage of this, just do the following:

1) Install Firefox if you haven't already done so
2) Go to http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/ and install the Greasemonkey extension
3) Restart Firefox so Greasemonkey is working
4) Click the following link http://www.sharemation.com/meatpuppet/ignlinks.user.js
5) On the Firefox Toolbar, Click Tools, then select Install User Script
6) Click Ok
7) Result! Now all media links on IGN will let you download direct, instead of forcing you to jump through hoops for minutes

I know that it is nothing major, but I think it's great not to have to faff around any more than absolutely necessary on IGN. Figured I'd share this as others have mentioned they found it annoying in the past.

The code is as follows, if anyone is curious. Apologies for any idiocy inherent

// ==UserScript==
// @name          IGNLinks
// @description	  Converts IGN Media Links To Direct Download Links
// @include       http://*.ign.com/*

links = document.getElementsByTagName('A');

for (i=0; i<links.length; i++) {

  link = links[i];
  if (link.href.match("/media/")) {

    link.href = unescape(link.href.replace(/(^http.*=)(.*)/, "$2"));

  }

}

Enjoy!

Firefox makes the Internet so much less stressful! Check out some of the Greasemonkey scripts here , some of them are fucking awesome. Particularly the AllMusicGuide one, which gets rid of the annoying flash, lets you expand the biographies and reviews automatically, etc etc.