Questions related to extensions or plugins that enable, disable or extend the functionality of Mozilla Firefox
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Firefox Portable: addons are marked as “not compatible”
I'm using Firefox Portable from portableapps.com, the program is stored in my Dropbox folder.
Everything works OK, except for a few addons, namely: LastPass and URL Alias. When I finished to work ...
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Remove Firefox's Web Console
Firefox's built-in web console is conflicting with Firebug and stealing the JavaScript logs.
How can I disable/remove the web console that is built-in to Firefox?
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How to lock Firefox tab to domain or URL pattern
I know Firefox extensions that allow protecting (cannot be closed) and locking (cannot change URL) tabs. What I need is an extension that locks a tab to a certain domain or URL pattern.
For example, ...
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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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Firefox addon “keyconfig” seems to be unique… But why isn't it in Firefox's repository?
I recently tried out an addon called "keyconfig", and it is ideal for what I want.
It re-binds Firefox's shortcut-keys.
I've not found any other way to do this.
This addon has a public forum of ...
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Fennec: Javascript at end of page load
I'm looking for resources (or even better an template-addon) on how to run a simple Javascript 'Hello World' when a specific page has finished loading in Firefox mobile on Android (Fennec).
Basically ...
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Different color backgrounds for firefox windows
I'd like to organize my firefox windows so that each window has a group of related tabs.
e.g.One for email, one for research, one for task tracking (using our web based task tracking tool)
So that I ...
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Convert flattr buttons to privacy friendly ones on the fly using Firefox
I know how to block flattr buttons using Adblock Plus but I'd like to use Flattr so blocking isn't a solution. However, Im concerned about the button sending a query to the flattr server even before I ...
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How to insert <gi> cursor at the end of line in the Firefox extension Vimperator
How would I use Vimperator's insert shortcut <gi> to immediate end of line?
By default it is inserted at the beginning on line which is annoying, because I don't ever find myself needing to go ...
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Tab stacking in Firefox
I often use multiple tabs (30 or more). Since I upgraded to Firefox 17, the addon that I had been using to allow tab stacking is no longer compatible. (I believe Tab Mix Plus was the add-on).
I'm not ...
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Firefox extension to hide old bookmarks?
Would like to set a certain time span, after which bookmarks which I didn't visit for that time span are invisible in the Firefox Bookmarks Toolbar.
In addition:
switch to activate / deactivate the ...
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Userscript to add website screenshot for each google search result?
Before the "preview pane" for google web search results came out from their labs, there already were userscripts to have a visual snapshot for each and every website in a web search query result.
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Hide/block/remove trackbacks and pingbacks
I'm not a blog writer so I don't know anything about trackbacks and pingbacks. I do know that they are helluva distracting when I'm reading through comments on some article.
Is there a Firefox addon ...
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Tell firefox to use Flash player instead of download for mp4 files
Installation order:
Firefox
Flash Player
VLC with firefox addon (for playback)
Before step 2, mp4 files were being displayed in firefox (like youTube etc).
After step 3, I noticed that mp4 videos ...
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How To Stop Firefox Tabs From Auto-Refreshing on Tab Switch
I'm using Firefox 14.0.1. When I have multiple tabs open, and I switch from one tab to the next, the tab I select "auto refreshes" the content. This is extremely annoying, especially when I'm writing ...
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firefox addon Stylish gives me random error message
I'm running on Ubuntu 12.04. I installed Stylish addon today.
I write a new style:
@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
@-moz-document domain("weibo.com") {
#pl_content_pullylist {
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Batch downloading available pages in Google books?
I am using Google Book Downloader addon to Firefox. It generates links to individual image per available page, but if I would like to download multiple pages' images using selecting the links and ...
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Any alternative to Universal Uploader (fireuploader) for Firefox?
I can't use Universal Uploader (fireuploader) for Firefox to upload/download from box.net anymore, I keep getting message "You are not logged in correctly" even my username and password are correct, ...
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NoScript randomly causes browser to ignore clicks
At some point recently NoScript started causing left mouse clicks to be ignored at random times. Sometimes it was so bad that I had to reload a page or even restart Firefox. The clicks are only ...
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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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Is there an equivalent of the “MediaPlayerConnectivity” Firefox extension for Chrome?
The MediaPlayerConnectivity extension allows an easy way to play DivX and other streaming videos in external applications (like VLC).
Is there something like this for Chrome?
I want to play videos ...
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Is there a way to search for PDFs by the number of pages they have?
e.g. I often use filetype:pdf to search for PDFs on Google. It would be great if I could combine this with a filesize or number of pages keyword, or even if I could just preview these data in the ...
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firefox extention to check gmail apps that uses Google Applications Connector
is there any extension out there that would allow me to check my email that uses Google Applications Connector? http://www.atlassian.com/software/crowd/
I tried
WebMail Notifier I have no idea why ...
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firefox adblocker that downloads but doesn't display ads
I'm searching for an adblocker for firefox that doesn't prevent the ads from downloading but prevents them from being shown. This has the following two use cases:
I want to support an ad driven site ...
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AutoRefresh with shortcut in Firefox
I am using AutoRefresh Addon in Firefox and my requirement is to monitor a portal that I usually set 3s, which is working perfectly for me. Now I have a requirement to stop it frequently, so what I ...
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Tamper only traffic to particular website
Is there any way to let Firefox's Tamper Data plugin to tamper only traffic to a particular website?
Most of the websites send AJAX requests even without the user's knowledge. So when I am trying to ...
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Send a custom HTTP header to one certain host only
Is there a way (Firefox add-on or about:config setting) to send a custom HTTP header for requests to a certain host?
Example: Send the header Foobar: true if (and only if) I request a resource from ...
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Firefox addon to only display specified element
I want to only display one element of a website, and nothing else.
(Some background: In our office we have a big screen that we want to display our app's usage stats - but only one graph of a page of ...
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newsfox forbids me add new feed
Google Reader is going to die and I am trying to be adapted to newsfox, what annoys me is that sometimes when I add a new feed it tells me that
'xxx' already reads this feed.
Actually I did ...
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Clear Firefox history on exit except open pages
I would like to
clear the entire Firefox history on exit, except for
currently open windows, tab groups, tabs, pages so that they can be opened the next time Firefox starts,
by the click of a single ...
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The Firefox plugin check says every single plugin is “unknown”
The Firefox plugin check at https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/ report that every one my plugins are "Unknown plugin," and the button next to that, "? Research" loads a Google search page using ...
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How to add a bookmark to a certain folder with the keyboard only in Firefox?
I'm a keyboard freak and in general don't want to touch the mouse if at all possible.
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So the question is: Is there a way to add a bookmark to a certain folder just by using the keyboard? ...
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How to completely remove the preferences with a Firefox plugin?
I removed the TorButton Firefox plugin. When I reinstall it, it's remembers the previous settings.
This plugin is not listed in about:config when it is installed. The other plugins are there. ...
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Desktop search that integrates with Google
I am looking for a way to combine file search results from the local desktop with web search results from google, inside the same browser.
Background: I have a user that uses Google Desktop to ...
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How can I automate ID detection of Mozilla Firefox extensions?
I'm looking for possibilities to extract the ID of .xpi files ({7f57cf46-4467-4c2d-adfa-0cba7c507e54}). As I need this functionality for Windows 7/8 and tools running in it, it should work with ...
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How can I remove the “Live bookmarks in delicious” from the delicious firefox extension?
I'm using the delicious extension in Firefox and generally like it. However I just noticed something very off-putting that appears when I want to see the multiple RSS feeds that a website is offering:
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Firefox extension for “reading later” which encrypts the data before syncing
I am using the Pocket extension for Firefox (formerly "Read It Later").
I am also using Firefox Sync which encrypts all data before sending to Mozilla servers.
I want Pocket to sync the list between ...
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How can I prevent a page to know it doesn't have the focus?
For example, this information is used to know if you are actually watching the content of the tab (kind of..) and make you wait in front of ads.
How can I have Firefox make a tab believe that it is ...
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How to save the DOM with one keyboard shortcut?
Currently I am saving the DOM using the DOM inspector. My question is similar to this one: How can I dump the entire Web DOM in its current state in Firefox?, but I want to do this with one keystroke, ...
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Click to call/dial for Google Chrome?
Is there anything like Telify, therefore a click to dial/call addon for Google Chrome so I can click a phone number on a website which then calls an URL that will make my SIP phone call the selected ...
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Force caret / focus somewhere in the current viewport while browsing the page
Note: this is strictly Firefox question, as I have way too many addons to switch. However, if you know if I can do it in the other browser, your posts are welcome as well.
I am trying to switch to ...
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Elasticfox won't connect - EC2 error for DescribeRegions
I recently started getting an error using Elasticfox.
EC2 responded with an error for DescribeRegions
Request ID:
Fault Code: Request Error
Details: Please check your EC2 URL ...
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Firefox Using Prism Website Icon instead of Firefox Icon in Taskbar
A while back, I created a website shortcut using the now discontinued Prism extension for Firefox. This worked fine at the time. However, now that Prism has been discontinued, whenever I open Firefox, ...
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moonlight plugin won't recognize downloaded codecs on firefox
I've seen a few posts of others with this problem, but no solutions. I am trying to enable silverlight via moonlight on Linux.
I'm running Firefox 12.0 on Slackware Linux 13.0.
I've enabled the ...
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Can I have tabs on the left stacked vertically?
I found an extension tree style tab - it can move tabs to the left, but it stacks them horizontally - while I want the stacked vertically.
I would like the following layout in Firefox:
The ...
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Can you force Chrome / FF to a spec. width in full screen mode?
Is there any kind of extension to make Chrome or Firefox a specific width while in full screen mode? For example like Pages does with it's full screen option.
It would be very nice to be able to have ...
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Downloading all videos in an RSS feed
General Question: I need a tool/method to download all video links listed in a RSS file.
My specific attempt: I've loaded the RSS feed in Google reader, held down 'End' long enough to get a serious ...
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DownThemAll - Escaping brackets in URLs
Lets say we need to download a range of URLs named like so:
http://example.com/file[1] to http://example.com/file[9]
A normal range specifier: http://example.com/file[0:9] generates: ...
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Firefox portable deactivates several addons when using USB-Stick on another PC
My USB stick with Firefox portable works fine on my laptop, but if I use it in any desktop PC, Firefox addons manager deactivates several (not all, but always the same) addons, so I have to update all ...
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Secure Connection Failed using Firefox
I'm using Firefox 5 with some add-ons that require an external connection to a certain server (lastPass & Xmarks). I'm using the connection from my company, and every once in a while I get the ...
