Firefox Addons

Been playing with a few addons for Firefox this week.

IE View
This allows you to right click a link or url and it will open in a new window in IE
Can add a button to toolbar by right clicking the menu bar and /Customize then dragging Ie view button on to toolbar.
download and more info from http://ieview.mozdev.org/

New Tab Button on Tab Bar
this quite handy to make your own buttons for the toolbars more info here.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1456/
Custom Buttons
http://xsms.nm.ru/custombuttons/en/

TradeMe Microsummary

New TradeMe microsummary generator for firefox2
This is for if you want to keep a eye on a particular Trademe Auction. Just Bookmark the page you want to watch and firefox will watch the bids for you.
All you have to do is click on the bookmark and it tells you .
More info here http://daniel.expdev.net/category/computers/my-software/

Also had a look at Gspace this turns your Gmail account in to free online storage.
Uploaded a word Document into it . Got the same document in a email about a hour later??
Must have a look at this more closlely could be handy.
http://www.getgspace.com/index.html
VideoDownloader
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390/
http://javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.php
Are you tired of copy&paste URLs to download a video? Now it's even easier !
VideoDownloader Firefox Extension add a small icon on the status bar at the bottom of your firefox window, and a toolbar button.
Just click that and download the video you are watching !

Heaps more Addons here
http://forum.mozilla-russia.org/viewforum.php?id=2&p=1


Plus tried a couple of tweaks for speeding up Firefox, certainly do the trick.
Supposed to be for broadband

1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it recieves.

If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster now!
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More tweaks here

About:config entries
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_:_FAQs_:_About:config_Entries
How To Modify Hidden Preferences Using about:config
http://www.mozillazine.org/misc/about:config/
The AboutConfig extension implements for Mozilla Thunderbird
http://aboutconfig.mozdev.org/