I am starting a series with this post wherein I will be posting about the Firefox extensions that i use. As most of you all know, Firefox is a great browser which is better than I.E. in terms of security, but what makes Firefox cool are the hundreds of extensions that one can use with it. If you do not know extensions are small addons that increase the functionality of Firefox. In this post I will be talking about two extension viz., Flashblock and Viamatic foXpose.
Flashblock Extension
Flashblock is a cool extension which replaces Flash based objects in a webpage with a button. To view the flash object, one just needs to click on the button. This extension is extremely useful now that making flash content is easy, and more and more websites are including flash objects in their pages. There was a time when Flash was used mainly to create animations to describe something, but today, Flash is used more for displaying Advts than for explaination. So using this extension will make your life easier by blocking all the flash content on the webpage, but at the same time providing a convenient way to view them if need.
Viamatic foXpose
Tabbed browsing is great, but what happens when you open many tabs in the same window? the tabs become very small and also finding a particular tab becomes very difficult, so what is the solution, try Viamatic foXpose extension for firefox which will open up a page with a Thumbnail view of all the open pages. You can open this view by either clicking on the icon which appears in the status bar or using the configurable shortcut key. Once open you can select the tab you want by just clicking on the thumbnail or even close that particular tab by clicking on the close button provided. This is one useful extension for people who open up large number of tabs and have a difficult time navigating through them. Another extension which provides a similar functionality is Reveal which does a bit of animation and also allows you to search for words in those pages. As per what i read, it does something similar to what one can find on the Macs.
