How To: Be Productive While Working on Internet with Idderall, a Mozilla Firefox addon.

Idderall, a Mozilla Firefox add-on which claims to help you to be productive while working with computer (internet) by blocking those sites which you can't resist visiting often like facebook, twitter....... This add-on might be helpful for those who procrastinates more. The developer has come up with pretty interesting idea to stop you from visiting sites by choosing the deterrent level viz by donating money to developer, if not, maybe an intervention from friends, or by embrassing you on facebook.

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Mozilla's Mission with their Vision.

Want to know how Mozilla foundation wants to make Internet, a better place to live (or surf) ? Read the Mozilla Manifesto here..

Add Gesture Control to Mozilla Firefox with FireGestures Addon.

FireGestures is an add-on for Mozilla Firefox which adds gestures, mouse based, support to Mozilla Firefox. With FireGestures, you can now perform predefined functions like Reload, Forward, Backward.... directly from your mouse with gestures. Below you can find the procedure to customize the gestures. And it even enables the users to execute various commands and user scripts with gestures.

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Get Weather Forecast on your Opera Speed Dial with Gismeteo Extension.

Gismeteo is an add-on (extension) for Opera browser which brings latest weather forecast to your Opera Opera speed-dial. This is quite simple extension  which serves its purpose with straight forward content. I found that this extension may have problem in recognizing your location, below you can find the procedure to change it.

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Mozilla Firefox Working on New UI, Code-name Australis.

Being a loyal Mozilla Fan, I am very excited to say that soon we will be seeing new user-interface (UI) of Mozilla Firefox. Under code-name "Australis", the next iteration of Mozilla Firefox UI claims to have "the most beautiful and detail visual design with modern, clean and comfortable."

As per my first impression, the design is designed keeping mobile (tablet) user in mind. It neat and clean with minimal options on the screen. It even comes with animations. I don't have complains regarding that.

Glance at new UI, a.k.a Australis....

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Convert YouTube Videos into Audio Format with AudioTube Extension.

AudioTube is an add-on cum free service provided by AudioTube to convert YouTube videos into audio. For now, audiotube can convert to AAC and MP3 format. AudioTube for Mozilla Firefox add-on will direct youtube videos to audiotube site where it process your request to convert audio. You can even bookmark this service. For me, it didn't process all my request to convert. So, don't expect all videos to be converted.

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Scan for Updates and get Notification from you Favorite Sites without Subscribing with Update Scanner.

Update Scanner is an add-on for Mozilla Firefox which is quite useful for those who want to follow sites but don't have option to follow them. Update Scanner scans your favorited site at regular interval and notifies you when ever any change is made to the site. This is very simple and straight forward add-on, don't expect much unless if you want to make some contribution.

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Page Capture, a Simple and Neat Extension to Capture and Edit Screenshots in Opera.

Page Capture is an extension (add-on) for Opera to capture screenshots directly from webpage. Page Capture is a simple and easy to use. Apart from capturing, you can highlight and add text to the screenshot. And, you can even upload the image directly imagebin. You have the option to save the image in JPG and PNG format.

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Chime, One Extension for all Social Network's Notification Needs.

Chime is a simple extension for Google Chrome which has the capability to build feed from all your social network sites like Facebook, twitter, Reddit and more...., and display right from the chrome with the help of one click. Unlike other, you need not sign-in to aggregate your feed, since all the preferences (data) is stored in your computer and not in server.

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Search Preview (Thumbnail) Extension for Google Chrome.

SearchPreview is an extension  is for Google Chrome which gives us a preview of the search results when search with Google, Yahoo!, Bing and DuckDuckGo. Apart from the preview (thumbnails), it also show popularity ranks of the sites which are result of search result. It was previously know as GooglePreview. This add-on uses service provided by Webshot. This extension is also available for Mozilla Firefox.

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Get Previews (Thumbnails) When Searching with Google, Yahoo!, Bing and DuckDuckGo with SearchPreview.

SearchPreview is an add-on  is for Mozilla Firefox which gives us a preview of the search results when search with Google, Yahoo!, Bing and DuckDuckGo. Apart from the preview (thumbnails), it also show popularity ranks of the sites which are result of search result. It was previously know as GooglePreview. This add-on uses service provided by Webshot.

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TIP: How to Recover Accidentally Closed Tab in Mozilla Firefox, Opera, IE and Google Chrome.

Managing several tabs during work is quite challenging one. Have been victim of closing tab accidentally? Don't worry, you can restore it with shortcut key "Ctrl" + "Shift" + "T" and the best part is it works on every popular browser available out there.

Get Semi-Automatic Google Language Translator for Mozilla Firefox with S3.Google Translator Add-on.

S3.Google Translator is add-on for Mozilla Firefox which uses Google Translation API to translate web pages or selected text to desired language. It can auto-detect foreign language and translate to desired language (system locale) just like Google Chrome does...., sort of.

Developer(s): Oleksandr
Language support: English, Russian and other languages
Home page: S3 Google Translator
License: MPL v 2.0
Donate: Click Here
Difficulty:
Availability:
Download: Add to Firefox

HOW TO: Installing S3.Google Translator on Mozilla Firefox:

1. Go to S3.Google Translator Mozilla add-on page, or simply click on the above download link and click on "Add to Firefox".

2. If Mozilla Firefox asks user permission for installation of addon. Click "Allow" to continue installation, leave it to abort.

3. S3.Google Translator installation box pops-up. Click "Install Now" to continue installing add-on, "Cancel" to abort installation.

4. On successful installation, S3.Google Translator asks user permission to restart the browser. Restart the browser to activate the add-on.

HOW TO: Using S3.Google Translator on Mozilla Firefox:

1. On successful installation, you will notice S3.Google Translator toolbar.

To disable the toolbar, just un-tick "S3 Google Translator".

2. To enable auto translation, right click (RMB) any where inside the webpage and click on "Automatically translate ......."

and you will be greeted with the confirmation .....

3. To translate certain text, select the desired words or sentence and click on "Translate selected text".

4. There are several ways to access S3 Google Translator Options, first is via Bookmark Toolbar, others are via click on the S3 Google Translator icon located at top right side of the browsers and other being via Mozilla Add-ons Manager.

5.  S3.Google Translator preferences....

Shortcut keys of S3.Google Translator.

HOW TO: Disable/Remove S3 Google Translator from Mozilla Firefox:

1. Click on the Firefox, located at left upper corner of the web browser and go to "Add-ons".

or press "Alt", Menu bar pops-up, then go to Tools > Add-ons, or you can simply use shortcut key "Ctrl+Shift+A" to access add-on (extension) manger.

2. Now, click on "Disable" to disable the add-on temporarily or click "Remove" to remove the add-on permanently from the browser.

NOTE: Both options require restart for the actions to take effect.