Archive for the ‘Browsers’ Category
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Monday, November 10th, 2008A lot of users are in the business of maximizing their screen real-estate. Whether it’s for a reason such as a small screen resolution (like me) or you just believe in visting a website instead of seeing your browser, screen real-estate is important to you. Chances are you’ve got yourself a pretty slimmed down browser [...]
Yoono
Saturday, November 1st, 2008Yoono is a plugin which has been around for a couple years now and I’ve seen it both featured in the Firefox plugin directory and reviewed on a number of other websites. I guess the best way to describe it is as the Flock sidebar for Firefox, however with support for more social networks and [...]
From Firefox to Chromifox - A Comprehsive Addon Guide
Friday, October 31st, 2008This is a post from Extendably’s regular author Angelo. Each week he will be reviewing individual Firefox extensions. You can see this post in it’s original context over at Xangelo
After using Chrome for nearly 3 months now, the verdict is in. Firefox is much more usable for me considering I use it for work purposes as [...]
The Easiest way to Use a Temporary Email Address
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008Yeah, yeah temporary email addresses are the solution to spam, if you used them you’d never have to worry about winning British Lotto every second day. Seriously though, who can be bothered?
So what if I get a bit of spam, junk filters are pretty decent now and It’s easier then loading up a new temporary [...]
Google Chrome Getting Extensions Soon
Saturday, September 20th, 2008A couple weeks ago I posted that a developer had already discovered it was possible to run Firefox GreaseMonkey Scripts in Google Chrome and released Grease Metal to do just that.
InformationWeek announced today that according to Google Chrome Engineer Ojan Vafai the idea is for the browser to support both scripts and extensions:
"There’s two different [...]
Deckkr RollScreen - Ubiquity with a few clicks
Sunday, September 14th, 2008This is a post from Extendably’s new regular author Angelo. Each week he will be reviewing individual Firefox extensions.
With the launch of Ubiquity, the net was a-buzz about the genius of this Firefox extension. The idea of anyone being able to create dynamic mashups of any internet service would provide a whole new set of [...]
Chrome gets GreaseMonkey Scripts
Thursday, September 11th, 2008Last week I was wondering if Google Chrome would be getting the ability to be extended any time soon.
Well it seems like it hasn’t taken long, already a Japanese developer has figured out a way for Firefox Greasemonkey scripts to be run on Google Chrome. You’ll find it a bit clunky for now (scripts have [...]
Eliminate your status bar with autoHideStatusBar
Sunday, September 7th, 2008This is a post from Extendably’s new regular author Angelo. Each week he will be reviewing individual Firefox extensions.
For a lot of us, the status bar is fairly useless. The only real purpose it serves out of the box is to tell you the progress of a loading website. For those of us with low [...]
TinyURL IE8 Accelerator
Friday, September 5th, 2008Accelerators in Internet Explorer 8 are a great new feature, or will be if they become widely adopted.
So far they’re limited to a few Microsoft defaults and a couple others from Google, Wikipedia and Dictionary.com.
Silverlight programmer Tim decided to create an accelerator for TinyURL, which was something I was actually wishing for only a couple [...]
Me.Dium - Be Social
Thursday, September 4th, 2008This is a post from Extendably’s new regular author Angelo. Each week he will be reviewing individual Firefox extensions.
The social web is a result of everyone’s desire to be connected instantly with the whole world, and we all seem to have caught the bug. Websites like Twitter, Plurk and Jaiku allow us to make a quick [...]






