Reverberations

This page has a tool to create a Firefox extension (.xpi) from a greasemonkey script.
http://arantius.com/misc/greasemonkey/script-compiler

Gmail’s new version rolled out for me today, and first thing I noticed that it had reset my gmail chat config (basically I had switched off gmail chat), my greasemonkey scripts were broken and I had a firebug extension warning on top.

While I have no gripe about greasemonkey, resetting gmail chat setting means I’ve to check rest of my settings to be sure anything else is not broken.

New version seems quicker, with additional options in “More Actions” menu and updated “Contacts” section.

While playing with Firefox profiles, I accidentally deleted all my profiles. Murphy was an optimist and, of course, I had no backups.

Apparently, Firefox deletes profile files permanently without moving them to trash first. I tried using “Free Undelete” to recover my profiles (which were in a non-standard location in first place - somewhere on my H: drive). Most of the files were recovered but my bookmarks were all gone, along with a few of my Firefox extensions.

A small greasemonkey script to get direct link to a quote on IMDb’s “memorable quotes” page. This script creates a “#” with a link to corresponding quote.

I hate modal “Find” of IE, which MS chose not to change even in IE7. So here is one cool add-on by IEForge for Firefox-like inline search functionality in IE.

Firefox has been gaining browser market share really fast, it seems. January statistics are 31% for Firefox compared to 42.3% for IE6 and 13.3% for IE7. Even though Firefox has its share of issues/bugs (features ), and I like IE7’s beautiful rendering of fonts, I would love to see Firefox gaining some more market and mind share.

I need one Firefox extension/greasemonkey script to add an option to open xls/doc links directly in Google docs & spreadsheets. This is something Google itself should be providing like they do in Gmail. Perhaps, I’ll write one myself in case I can’t find it.

[Update]- Whooaa! Same day Google releases its Firefox toolbar (beta) with this exact same functionality I’m looking for and have blogged. Now, is it just one wish a day, or - I want to be king , please.

Totally awesome Greasemonkey script for Firefox - 'Tin Foil Hat' reveals tinyurl in a tooltip.

“With Hyperwords, all text on the web is interactive (not just the links): select your text and search, lookup, email, translate and so on.”

I like it already. One of the reason being, it also includes Clusty as one of the search engines along with Google, Yahoo and Alexa(duh). It has the usual Web 2.0 blabby features- tagging, blogging and all that. And it has some ‘more useful’ features as well. It is going to be a truly addictive firefox extension. A ‘thumbs up’ from me.

Just one issue: It doesn’t work with textbox, I would love it to.

I’ve just installed Firefox 1.5. I managed to update most of the extensions from my previous setup (1.0.7). One ‘Alert Link Type‘ and ‘Wiki-Quick-Find‘ are still missing. Tab rearrangement is inbuilt now, something good to have. I got this ‘Colorful Tabs‘ extension and it looks great.

There is a Firefox 1.5 review at NewsForge that mentions faster browsing with new Firefox. I’m yet to be convinced.

Earlier, Firefox window sometimes used to just disappear and re-appear in taskbar, I hope it’s fixed now, as well as some memory usage issues on WinXP.