The Firefox and Extension Thread

[circ]

Originally Posted by maxedout

Are you sure about the version number? All I can find is 1.6.5.5 & it works fine in FF 12.

If you're still having trouble you might want to try DownThemAll! AntiContainer.

"AntiContainer is an extension and framework to DownThemAll! which allows the user to download resources that are normally hidden behind container pages.

For instance almost all so called "one-click" image hosters, such as imagevenue, use such container pages. AntiContainer enables DownThemAll! to download the actual images there instead of just the page.

AntiContainer uses small "plugins" that will handle the specific container pages. A set of plugins is provided with the installation, but it is fairly easy to write new plugins, too."

One big advantage is that it allows you to download individual pics by right-click, something that IHG has always been in need of.

I tend to use it more than IHG for that reason, usually I don't want all the pics in a post & it's much better to add individual links to the DTA queue than to grab them all & sort them out later.

I gave DTA a try, with Anticontainer and quickly uninstalled it. IHG seemed to do the job much better, although its directory handling is a little clunky. DTA on the other hand saved links fine when picking it from the menu for single images, but downloading multiple images wouldn't save links, just the thumbnails no matter what I tried.

EDIT: Gave DTA another try. Wasn't clicking the right filter possibly, but now it seems to save the anti links in batch, but just the first two or three posts. Doesn't matter if I click multiple tabs or not.

EDIT2: Some further testing later. On a page with about 130 images, IHG gets 123, rest are ignored because the host usually doesn't have the files in question anymore or there's some other error. Has some issues with saving the thumbnail info correctly, or windows is just being weird as the images look fine in an image viewer. DTA on the other hand stops after the first two or three posts. Manually clicking every post and then doing a save all tabs saves 109 to 110 images. Errors seem to be similar to what IHG encountered, but somehow it ignored over a dozen images.

[T502]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...d-tabs-button/

After installing this add-on enables you to add (drag and drop) a button to Firefox browser window via View -> Toolbars -> Customize from where you can easily reopen (accidentally) closed tabs. On the image below it is the small button with blue arrow displayed on top left corner.



Great extra when you like me oft closed something and still needed to access it. Button has drop down menu were last closed tabs are listed. Default is last 10 tabs i believe but you can set last closed tabs to display up to 99 via Tools -> Add-ons -> Extensions > options of 'Undo Closed Tabs Button'

Works fine with Firefox 12.0.

[Sam Spade]

With my old desk top, and my previous laptop Firefox spell checker worked automatically, but with my new laptop it does not work at all, even though i have selected it...



I guess i need to jab another button. somewhere, any ideas?

[rotobott]

I use Pale Moon myself, but installing a dictionary add on should fix it in FF

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...anguage-tools/

[Sam Spade]

Letts gib it a twy.

Excellent, thanks, man.

[rusty99992003]

Here's a great add-on for opening multiple links from on one page.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...SnapLinksPlus/

Simply draw a box covering the links you want to open and then select open in new tabs and voilà all those links open in new tabs. It's great for forums because you can open all the threads on one page without having to click each individual link.

[TCO95]

Yesterday my windows user account became corrupted. Try as I might the only solution was to delete it and create a new one. This caused a lot of problems as it was my primary administrator account. Most of the software, windows included, had been configured around that account.

I lost all of my FireFox extensions, add ons and bookmarks. I looked all over my hard drive hoping to find some secret backup directory but had no luck. Does anyone here know of any FireFox 'secret stash' for configuration files? Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated (except for lectures on backups ).

[rotobott]

Have you tried your profile manager ?

http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/...refox-profiles

[TCO95]

Originally Posted by rotobott

Have you tried your profile manager ?

http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/...refox-profiles

Yes, it pointed me to my new account. It seems all of the old account information is gone. I had hoped the information had been replicated to the "Administrator", "All Users" or even the "Guest" accounts but no such luck. My last chance was someone knowing of a "back door" setup by the program as a last chance fail safe. I have backups of the document, music and picture folders but it never crossed my mind to backup the "Application Data" folders.
Now that I've had to spend the better part of two days reconfiguring everything it seems obvious, but as the saying goes "Live and learn."

[Sirch]

Originally Posted by T502

Via CTRL+SHIFT+T.


Yes true.

I like the direct accessibility of the button. And although it obviously turned out to be completely not needed it is one of my favorite and most used add-ons ;-)

If you accidentally close a tab in FF you can simply right click on an existing tab and you will see the option to reopen closed taps.