Browser plugins have existed since the days of Netscape and work on most web browsers. Newer ways to add functionality to web browsers are generally refereed to as extensions and are specific to each individual browser platform. The term "browser addon" is new cover term that can refer to both of ...
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How can I change a specific website's style?
I have a specific website I often use (specifically, http://www.pygame.org/), which has an awful color scheme. I would like to change the color scheme of the site, but I haven't been able to find a ...
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Browser extension for uploading any photo to facebook via right-click menu
Is there any such extension, preferably for Chrome, that allows such easy uploading and sharing? I'll need the sharing to be limited to a specific group.
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How can I be sure that browser plugins are secure?
There are plenty of browser add-ons. I want to know how can I know if these add-ons have good reputation in terms of security? How do I know these are not programs that could harm my PC? Most of the ...
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Clean out external Facebook links when copying
When posting links on Facebook, it adds strange characters to these links.
For example:
This link on Facebook:
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How i can install Google Toolbar for latest version of Firefox browser?
Is there any way to install Google toolbar for the latest version of Firefox (12.0)? Recently I have reinstalled Firefox and can't seem to be able to install Google Toolbar anymore.
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Browser addon to save entered form fields on specific form
I tried several browser addons for various browsers and can't find simple addon that will remember filled form when I click on some button, and later restore it on the same page on some another button ...
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are there browser plugins to impose default “single domain per website” policy? or should such feature be implemented in firewall?
suppose I want to have the following web browsing policy. When I navigate to specific domain, I only allow the browser to communicate with that specific domain by default. If the website tries to ...
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Does Internet Explorer's add-ons (extensions, BHOs, toolbars) run on startup of Windows, or of IE?
CCleaner puts Internet Explorer's add-ons (extensions, BHOs, toolbars) in its 'Startup' section. I would like to know if these add-ons run on startup of Windows 7, or of IE?
Screenshot of CCleaner ...
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Extensions not showing on Extensions tab of Add-ons Manager in Firefox 12
I don't know what happened but my list of extensions does not show up on the extensions tab of the Add-ons Manager on my Firefox 12.
Is there any about:config settings to show the extensions or some ...
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Custom Gmail color theme
I hate Gmail's new color themes. I am looking for a way to change it back to the older color theme. Does anyone know any GreaseMonkey script or Firefox addon to do this?
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Is there a browser app that shows which tab is playing songs?
I've been waiting forever for a Chrome extension that shows which tab is playing music. I wonder if that's even possible. Part of the research I do online requires me to go to several sites including ...
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LIFO www bookmarking?
I want my web browser bookmarks to be added in LIFO order (so that in any menu or submenu under Bookmarks the bookmarks are shown in reverse chronological order, rather than in the default ...
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How can Firefox masquerade as Chrome?
I have access to Firefox but not Chrome under XP. I would like extensions to make it more Chrome-like: in particular,
1: A tabbed theme that works like Chrome.
2: One address/search bar that will ...
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Block or fade images in Firefox according to their content
In Firefox, I'm looking for a way to:
fade, or add a certain amount of transparency to all images, with the possibility to temporary disable this when I hover the image with the mouse pointer
forget ...
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Upgraded to newer Firefox, addon was disabled, want to re-enable it
After upgrading to the newer Firefox, a useful addon was disabled (marked incompatible).
In my case I went up to Firefox 11.0, but now my beloved Tab Utilities Lite 1.1.3 is obsolete.
Can I do ...
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Refreshing and alerting only when a keyword appears?
I know of the addons which reload the page and inform about any change on the website like Check4Change and Reload Every for Firefox. However, I'd love to have something which not only looks for any ...
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how to view only text from a website
Is it possible that when a website is opened only text data is displayed i.e no image, advertisement etc. so that it takes lesser time to load the website ?Any browser that supports this?
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To speed up firefox, is disabling unwanted add-ons enough or should I remove them completely?
In case 'it depends on the type of extension': Ones in my disabled list include DownThemAll, DownloadHelper, DivX Plus web player, Adobe Acrobat create pdf, and Adobe Contribute toolbar.
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Firefox: Addon- Buttons don't appear in Browser
There are 2 user accounts on my computer. User Account #1 is Administrator, User Account #2 is an normal account.
Both Accounts use Firefox as Browser and almost the same add-ons.
Lately I wanted ...
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Multiple simultaneous browser sessions
I'm looking for a chrome or firefox plugin that allows me to have windows with different sessions. It's a bit like chrome's incognito works: if you open an incognito window, it won't share the cookies ...
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Is there an existing web browser/tool to search for an image on a page, by alt or title?
Similar to hitting Ctrl + F to find text on a webpage does anyone know of a tool to find images? I'd like the same text search functionality ideally i.e. highlight the results and tab through the ...
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Internet Explorer 6 pin to system tray
I run citrix web interface on an IE tab. So always one window is kept opened. Is it possible to pin that IE window to system tray?
I don't want it to be part of program list on Taskbar.
additional ...
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Adblock-like plugin for hiding social sites' widgets, buttons, etc
I love Adblock plugins, and install them on a variety of browsers. They hide or remove ads, which take out a lot of clutter from sites.
However, I was thinking, is there any Adblock-like plugin (the ...
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How to preferentially mark websites untrusted with Noscript?
For example, if I want to disable Facebook when I enter website X, I can mark Facebook untrusted there. However, the effect is universal; that is when I visit Facebook or website Y, I have to mark it ...
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Firefox phantom addon not in list, but still exists
Some time ago, I installed a Firefox add-on that allows Ctrl-Tab to jump between tabs more intelligently. It remembers the most recent tabs and switches back and forth in that order. It will even ...
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Is there an add-on that will open IE9's last browsing session to all the same open tabs automatically?
I know Chrome and Firefox can do this, but Internet Explorer can't. This sometimes works if I select "reopen last browsing session" but it's not reliable enough. Anyone know of an add-on that will do ...
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Is there a Chrome extension like DownloadHelper for Firefox?
I search something like DownloadHelper, a tool to download Flash videos. It should work on Chromium (Linux). Any link?
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Is there any Firefox or Chrome add-on to highlight search terms (and jump to them ?)
There is a cool feature of the Google Toolbar that I have been finding frustrating to live without (since the Google Toolbar is not supported anymore for Firefox, my main browser):
When you google, ...
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Mozilla 10: Add on Compatible
Recently Mozilla team launched firefox 10. Apart from bug fixes and other improvements, one improvement that browser launched was Add-On Compatible. Previously, everytime a new version was launched, ...
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How can I zoom in on Flash applications?
I often use applications made in Flash. Due to my high resolution the standard browser zoom means that everything in these applications is too small.
Using the default zoom function in all major ...
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How do I stop Chrome from activating a link on right or middle click? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Are there any addons that allow us to middle click any link and open the link in a new background tab in Chrome?
I started browsing the NYT site this afternoon and found ...
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App / Plugin to flip between active screens
Bit of an odd request, but I'm coming up with nothing after spending a solid hour searching Google.
I am looking for either a browser plugin or separate application that will periodically change the ...
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Firefox add-on to record all web browsing
I am looking for an add-on for Firefox that would record all my browsing online and create an index, perhaps only the text of the main body of the page, so that I can later go through everything I've ...
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Accept Cookie by Name
I am looking for a way to automatically accept a cookie with a specific name, not based on site. The expected behaviour would be to block all cookies, unless its name contained foo in which case I ...
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Vimperator - is there any way to edit text?
I'd like to know if there is any way to edit text in Vimperator (for example input boxes or Gmails web interface)?
If there is any way how to do this in Firefox, please share it.
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How to list and copy all images that a webpage uses automatically?
I have used the Photoshop slicing tool to create some HTML pages, but it has generated dozens of images, many of which are not used by the final pages. To delete all useless files, I need an utility ...
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Possible to open .jnt file type in browser?
Is there a browser plugin or other download that allows .jnt files to be viewed?
Why:
JNT files are used mainly for tablets, where people handwrite notes and save the file (pretty much an image of ...
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Is there an equivalent chromium extension for Image Toolbar Firefox Add-ons?
Still using firefox because can't find Image Toolbar add-ons for Chrome / Chromium.
For those who don't know what Image toolbar is: it is providing toolbar on mouse hover displaying icon for saving ...
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How to loop YouTube videos?
Is there any plugin/script for Google Chrome (or any other browser) which allows me to play any YouTube video in a loop without any user intervention? I know of youtuberepeater.com but I don't want to ...
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Is there a browser or addon that can capture data with a regular expression (regex) whilst browsing?
I would like to be able browse the web and have my browser (plus addon) automatically record any text that matches a given pattern (e.g. regular expression) along, optionally, with the URL it appeared ...
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Stopping Flash/Javascript Loaded Images/Videos in Firefox
I would like to stop flash and javascript loaded images from automatically loading in FF. How can I accomplish this with the use of add-ons?
Please note disabling javascript by default is not an ...
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Tool to manipulate text in web form fields?
I'm looking for a way to manipulate text in form fields. For example, if I have a large textarea "body" field, from my browser I want to be able to highlight a piece of text in that textarea, for ...
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Is there a Platypus-like extension for Google Chrome?
From Platypus Firefox Add-on page:
Platypus is a Firefox extension which lets you modify a Web page from your browser -- "What You See Is What You Get" -- and then save those changes as a ...
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Multi-Session handling web-browsers?
Do web browsers exist with 'multi-session' functionality? I think thats the best way of describing what I'm after.
My problem is I have multiple facebook/twitter etc accounts for different projects ...
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is there a browser-addon that can create a temporary txt file from my clipboard and populate the file submit dialog?
I would like to upload XML and diff reports into jira tickets as file attachments rather than inline text.
Jira has an image uploader as an attachment.
To clarify the question with a scenario -
I ...
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Is there any macro plugin for browser to do from input?
I would like to input huge amount of data from the browser, instead of click click click, like a machine, is there any plugin to doing so? Thanks.
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Google Chrome extension that treats @user in the address bar as Twitter protocol?
I'm wondering if there's any Google Chrome extensions that treat queries prefixed with @ as a request for a Twitter username, and request the correct Twitter user's page. I've had a look around in the ...
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Can I get my browser to automatically redirect on some pages?
Is it possible to have a browser (firefox or chrome), when I navigate to a specific page, the browser automatically redirects me to a different page of my choice. I'm wondering if there is some sort ...
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Firefox Addon for local copies of JavaScript libraries like jQuery
Is there any extension that keeps local copies of popular JavaScript libraries such as jQuery and Mootools, and does a trick under the hood to make websites use them instead of downloading these files ...
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Automatically analyse my work - time control on browser and other apps
I need some software that can analyze my daily time usage for application and browsing websites to be more productive and to see where I lose time. -
For example:
Monday:
Office Word 2 hours
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