Loading ...Greezmo is an experimental Firefox extension developed by Gilad Kutiel that provides a simplified interface to search YouTube and make and control playlists of selected videos.
The interface is somewhat strange because of its size, location and the fact that it is overlaid over the content so you can switch tabs and the manager is visible at all times.
Mouse gestures and spatial navigation are two recurrent approaches to making user interfaces more intuitive and efficient, and Drag & DropZones combines pieces of them both to provide an innovative interface.
This Firefox extension, developed by Captain Caveman, lets you define a grid of drop zones in the content area, and associate each of of them to a search engine or a page context menu action. When you make a selection in the current page, just drag it a bit and a translucent grid is overlaid showing the zones you can drop the selection over to perform the action defined. Read the rest of this entry »
Some web mail clients (including Gmail, surpisingly) don’t allow you to set a rich text signature, this is, change the font type, color and size, and add images and links to provide additional contact information or promote something (like with a Firefox button).
With WiseStamp, a handy Firefox extension developed by WiseStamp, you can not only define fully formatted signatures, but it also eases the inclusion of instant messaging names (Yahoo!, GTalk, AIM, ICQ, Live, Skype and QQ) and social sites addresses (Facebook, YouTube, twitter, Flickr, LinkedIn, Friendfeed, digg, Yedda, Plaxo, Pownce, eBay, StumbleUpon, Upcoming, Blogger, Bebo): you enter your account name, and WiseStamp adds the corresponding service logo in front of it, and adds them all below your signature.
For those times when you can’t or just don’t want to read a web page but yet want to ensure you will get back to it later, look no further than Taboo.
Press the plus button it adds to the toolbar to save a thumbnail of the current page and have it added to your Taboo collection. From there, it is easily accessible from a second toolbar button that displays your saved pages, and also filter entering a few characters.
While Mozilla is preparing to launch some radical changes to tab switching with tab thumbnails displayed when you press Ctrl + Tab, Roi M. has already taken it a few steps further with five eye-pleasing views packaged in his FoxTab extension.
It provides five preview styles: circle, row, grid, wall, and stack, which resembles Vista’s application switching style.
If all you want to customize in Firefox is the toolbars background, there is an extension that specializes in just that: AnyColor.
Created by Pavlos Touboulidis, it allows to easily change the background, text and highlights colors, or use a background image for the upper toolbars area and the status bar, set whether to repeat or not them, and its position. You can also save your customization as a preset or use any of the dozen included for quick access.
AnyColor is similar to Personas, a Mozilla Labs extension, in that you can use an image as a background, but the latter lacks the option to set basic colors. On the other hand Personas, allows users to use remote images and even a web page as the toolbars’ background which just expands the possibilities.
AnyColor is available for download at Mozilla Add-ons, but you will need an account there as it is still labeled experimental.
Mozilla has released the second alpha of Shiretoko, the development codename of Firefox 3.1. Alpha 2 brings a handful of improvements and new features that help advance the web to a more open, standards based stage, while tweaking the user experience.
The main improvement is the support for <audio> and <video> tags with native Ogg Theora and Vorbis video and audio codecs, as announced a few weeks ago. The addition of this feature will enable web and content developers to publish their audio and video creations in a royalty free format and don’t depend on the availability of a certain plugin in a specific platform (like Flash or Silverlight do). Read the rest of this entry »
First, let’s meet Google Chrome in the flesh, now that is has been released.
To keep it as short as possible, let’s see what Chrome has that Firefox users may miss.
I would say the greatest advantage of Chrome over Firefox is its ability to handle tabs in independent processes which means a browser or plugin bug, or an incorrectly coded web page can’t take down the whole browser, but just that tab or plugin alone. This architecture also enables the cool task manager which as noted by John Resig, lets once and for all be able to know whether it is the browser or a badly coded web site the responsible for a slow down.
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