Add Sticky Notes to Any Page with Internote for Firefox

How many times have you wanted to put a sticky note on a page to remind you of something? For instance, you could put a sticky note on digg.com so the next time you visit it tells you that you should really be doing something more productive. =)

The Internote extension for Firefox lets you put sticky notes on any page you visit, and they will be there when you return to the page. Since it's an extension, it won't work across computers, but it's still quite useful.

Once you install the extension, you'll notice the little yellow icon in the status bar. You can also add a bigger icon to the toolbar if you want. Clicking once will give you a new sticky note, and right-clicking will give you the menu where you can get to the manager.

In the Internote manager, you can see the list of all the sticky notes that you've left, and change/export them.

Really a quite useful extension, and it even has a little eye candy.

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Scan Files for Viruses Before You Download With Dr.Web

If you frequently download files from suspicious sites, it's probably worth it to check for viruses Before you download, instead of waiting to see if your regular anti-virus software will catch it after you download.

The solution? You can use the Dr.Web plugin, which will add an item to the right-click menu to allow you to scan any web page or download link using their online virus checker.

Let's take it for a test drive… I decided to scan the Dr.Web Firefox plugin with Dr.Web, just to see what it would say.

Looks like it's clean! (shocker)

Keep in mind that no anti-virus software is absolutely perfect or will catch every virus, so this isn't a substitute for using a proper anti-virus software. You should also still be careful where you download files from.

This plugin will also not work for webmail attachments. I tested this on Gmail and it didn't work, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, because it means your attachments are private.

Add Simple POP3 Mail Client and Notifier to Firefox

If you like to have your entire computing experience within your Firefox window, you might be interested in accessing your POP email accounts directly in Firefox. The Simple Mail extension gives you this functionality, and true to the name it's very simple.

After installation, you should notice the little mail icon in the status bar, which will highlight and display an unread count if there are new messages, but first you'll want to right-click it and open the preferences to add your new account.

Here you can add a new account or import from Thunderbird (a feature I did not test)

Left-clicking on the mail icon will open the mail client interface, nothing more than a two-paned display of the messages sitting on your server. You can choose to delete the individual message through the right-click menu.

The new or reply up options bring the new email dialog, which is also really simple.

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Add Simple POP3 Mail Client and Notifier to Firefox

If you like to have your entire computing experience within your Firefox window, you might be interested in accessing your POP email accounts directly in Firefox. The Simple Mail extension gives you this functionality, and true to the name it's very simple.

After installation, you should notice the little mail icon in the status bar, which will highlight and display an unread count if there are new messages, but first you'll want to right-click it and open the preferences to add your new account.

Here you can add a new account or import from Thunderbird (a feature I did not test)

Left-clicking on the mail icon will open the mail client interface, nothing more than a two-paned display of the messages sitting on your server. You can choose to delete the individual message through the right-click menu.

The new or reply up options bring the new email dialog, which is also really simple.

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Backup and Restore Firefox Passwords List

Backup and Restore Firefox Passwords List

Somebody recently wrote in asking how to backup the list of saved passwords in Firefox into a spreadsheet, so I'm writing the solution here for everybody: All you need is the Password Exporter extension.

Open up the Add-ons screen and find Password Exporter in the list, where you can click the Options button to bring up the Import/Export Passwords dialog.

You can either import or export your passwords using this dialog, and you can choose to encrypt them if you want.

You can export in either XML or CSV format. If you are trying to create a spreadsheet with all your passwords the CSV file would be a better choice.

Just be very careful with the list of passwords you exported.

Make Firefox Display Large Images Full Size

Firefox resizes large images by default to fit in the browser window. This can get really annoying if you are browsing a lot of large images.

To see this in action, you can click the link to the really nice Ubuntu wallpaper. You'll notice that you have to click on the image to show the full size version.

1280×1024 Ubuntu Wallpaper

To change this setting, follow these steps:

• Type about:config into the address bar in firefox.
• Type in browser.enable in the Filter bar and hit enter
• When you see "browser.enable_automatic_image_resizing", double click it and the value should change to false, as shown.

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Expand the Add Bookmark Dialog in Firefox by Default

If you are reading this article you are probably annoyed that every single time you add a bookmark in Firefox you have to click on the expand button to show the folder list before you can actually locate the folder to put the bookmark in.

There are two solutions that I've found to make Firefox expand this dialog by default, one is an extension and the other is a Stylish script, so we'll go over both solutions.

Using the OpenBook Extension

Download and install the OpenBook extension from Mozilla Add-ons, and after rebooting Firefox you'll see that the bookmark dialog is now open by default:

There are also a bunch more useful options available in the ridiculously tall Options window:

The most interesting thing here is that you can set Firefox to automatically bookmark into a particular folder by selecting the "Add bookmark to folder below" option.

Using Stylish Tweak Method

If you're a fan of the Stylish extension you'd probably prefer to just add another user style instead of a separate extension. You won't get the extra features, but it does save you some extension bloat.

It's as simple as installing the Add Bookmark Dialog user style… click the button to load into Stylish:

And now you'll see that the default dialog is changed. You can customize the width / height in the script if you'd like, which is something you can't do with the OpenBook extension.

Disabling The Stylish Tweak

Because this user style is for the user interface, it won't show up in the regular Stylish popup, so you'll have to go into Manage Styles.

You should see the "Add Bookmark Dialog" style in the list, and just remove the check from the left of it.

Don't forget that you can just drag bookmarks straight off the address bar and onto the bookmarks bar, which is really the simplest option.

More on Firefox Bookmarks-

Change Update Interval of Live Bookmarks in Firefox

Automate Adding Bookmarks to del.icio.us

Upgrade Your Live Bookmarks With LiveClick

Edit Your Firefox Bookmarks With Flat Bookmark Editor

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Change Update Interval of Live Bookmarks in Firefox

If you are a fan of the Live Bookmarks feature, you might wonder how to make them update quicker since the default update time is once per hour, and there isn't a place in the interface to configure this.

You can always manually right-click on the bookmark and choose Reload Live Bookmark, but that's hardly efficient if you have dozens of feeds bookmarked.

You can change the default interval for all live bookmarks with a config setting. Just type about:config into the address bar, and then filter by the following key:

browser.bookmarks.livemark_refresh_seconds

If it doesn't exist, which is most likely the case, then right-click in the blank area and choose New \ Integer.

Copy in the key from above as the name, and then set the default value to 1800, which is 30 minutes in seconds.

The default value used internally is 3600 if the setting does not exist. You should be careful about not setting this value too low, as you might get banned by the server you are trying to connect to if you have the browser updating too often. The minimum value accepted is 60 seconds, but you should never set it that low.

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More for on Firefox Bookmarks-

Automate Adding Bookmarks to del.icio.us

Upgrade Your Live Bookmarks With LiveClick

Edit Your Firefox Bookmarks With Flat Bookmark Editor