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My Top 10 Firefox Add-ons…

Ξ May 13th, 2008 | → 1 Comments |
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These are my 10 favorite Firefox add-ons… So that you can known and that I can’t forget!

1. Tab Mix Plus enhances Firefox’s tab functionalities providing a lot of customizable new option.
2. Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer is your silent companion, synchronizing in background your bookmarks between all your computers.
3. FlashGot gathers multiple links in a page and downloads them using the available lightweight. download manager available.
4. DownThemAll is a completely built-in download manager that is very fast and lightweight.
5. ForecastFox is an eye-catching weather reporting tool… for those days you don’t leave the house!
6. Mouse Gestures creates ’shortcuts’ based on your mouse movements, which is a much more quick way and easy than reaching for your keyboard or selecting an option from a menu.
7. Adblock Plus avoids those annoying advertisements.
8. Download Statusbar provides a simple way to manage your downloading activities using little window space.
9. Image Zoom allows the custom dimensioning of images in a webpage.
10. PDF Download customizes the PDF downloading functionalities, avoiding those unnecessary empty tabs.

Please note that I’m currently using Firefox version 2.0.0.14, and not all above add-ons work on newer versions (such as version 3 Beta 5).

My Top 10 Thunderbird Add-ons…

Ξ May 12th, 2008 | → 0 Comments |
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These are my 10 favorite Thunderbird add-ons… So that you can known and that I can’t forget!

1. Contacts Sidebar, enables a very useful sidebar allowing the management of Thunderbird’s address book(s) in a easy way.
2. Lightning extends the functionalities of Thunderbird adding an impressive calendar application making it a even more powerful work tool.
3. Provider for Google Calendar enables the sharing information between Google Calendar accounts and the Lightning calendar application.
4. Image Zoom allows the custom dimensioning of image contents of an email.
5. Slideshow enables a new button that displays the images attached to an email as a slide show.
6. SMTP Select allows the selection of SMTP server used for delivering mail for each independent message sent. The user simply has to select from a drop down list which server to use.
7. Quote Collapse is a very practical extension that allows to collapse or expand text sent as quote. This is specially useful in those forward/reply conversation that are so usual nowadays.
8. Remote Duplicate Messages is a practical tool that removes all those annoying duplicate messages that are so usual when getting messages from several accounts.
9. Mouse Gesture creates ’shortcuts’ based on your mouse movements, which is a much more quick way and easy than reaching for your keyboard or selecting an option from a menu.
10. CompactFolder allows the user to compact the currently selected folder by simply clicking on a toolbar button.