[geeky] Firefox plugins

[wispfox]

So, I have the LiveJournal Hook in firefox, which means that - because I want to be actually _using_ my icons - I've got it set to use a random icon when I post and when I comment. This means I suddenly start trying to pay better attention to which one is picked, especially since it doesn't preview icons in comments.

And it does, in fact, mean I use icons more often! (and sometimes I don't notice and use a very odd one for the context)

(In case anyone cares, I also have Dictionary Search, Forecast Fox, BugMeNot, Keyconfig (so I can make backspace not go back a page!), Ad Block, and El Jay Icon Maker. I use some more than others, but they all seemed useful enough. I can't remember the name of the extension that ladytabitha pointed to which allowed one to resize text entry boxes, so I don't have it installed...)

Comments

[uberjay.livejournal.com]

Here is the Resizeable Textarea (http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=2796) extension. I think this one has to be one of my favorites thus far.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Oooh. Yay! Thanks. :)

[ladytabitha.livejournal.com]

I was gonna say, I got it from jasra, so just give a holler.  :)

[kythryne.livejournal.com]

Oooh. Shiny!

We loveses the plugins, we does.

[motyl.livejournal.com]

I think my favorite is still the calendar extension. I love having an online calendar. And such a nice UI!

Adblock is a close second though - not having flashy things distracting me all the time is quite nice.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Hmm. What does the calendar extension do, exactly?

[motyl.livejournal.com]

It's a nice calendar application. It also does webdav so it can be a nice, remote calendar you can access from any computer with firefox. Which I love.

I'd been looking for a good calendar app just when it came out, so I'm hooked. Also have a couple of friends on it which makes for easy time-synching and more niftiness.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Hmm.

I suspect the fact that I have my calendar in my Palm - and do my best to keep it synced with my livejournal calendar post - is sufficient. But thanks!

[opalmirror.livejournal.com]

I'm a Thunderbird and Firefox Extension junkie, so I'm going to have to post to my blog about it when I get a chance later. Thanks esp. for LiveJournal Hook and BugMeNot, I hadn't tried them before!

[jasra]

Also, Linkification... makes links clickable even if the person didn't code it that way.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Hmm....

Maybe! I'm not sure if I trust that one; I can think of reasons why one might do such a thing (not making a link linkable) intentionally, so I'd want to _know_ about such.

[jasra]

It's very helpful for doing support stuff 'cause people always drop links in email which don't get translated to the web interface as clickable links. So this fixes that problem.

If I type http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0379786/ then I make you have to copy/paste because it won't be a link for you (though LJ may fix that for me, I forget).

Anyway, handy for me. Less with the copy/paste stuff. :)

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Yes, LJ fixes that. :)

But yes, I can see how that would be useful for you!

[drwex]

Soopah! Thank you.