Thursday, April 13, 2006

Best Freeware Guide

Things you need in your persuit of happiness
Before I get to the reason for this posting, here are four Firefox extensions that I simply cannot function without.

Clicking on the program icon gets rid of all formatting.  I find this indispensable for reading pages that, for some ungodly reason, use black backgrounds with blue type, or some such.  Another click restores formatting.
Image Zoom

Allows you to zoom an image size up to 400%.
gTranslate

Will translate highlighted text in several languages instantaneously. 
Answers

Spelling, definitions, information of highlighted word.  I hate using Answer.com because the New York Times owns it, but until I find an alternative, this is a must.


Okay .. Here's the newest version of the ''Best Freeware Guide''  The white type on black background is why I prefaced with the ''Read Easily'' extension (which I call ''Read This'' below) ... so you could read the damn thing.  Lots of good stuff there.

Finally, This May Help Your Firefox Memory Leak

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Just hit "ctr+a" and it all becomes readable.

Faster, and it works.

OregonGuy

Anonymous said...

Rodger,
You might try zoomFox also; it opens the target .jpg in a new tab and then you control the zoom by spinning the mouse wheel. Center click the tab when you're done and you're outta there.
Rob

Rodger the Real King of France said...

Rob - Bingo. I just uninstalled Image Zoom ... zoomfox is better!

Anonymous said...

Rodger,
Glad you liked zoomFox.
Next time you feel adventurous, you might try "Back is Close", which lets you close a tab with the back button if there's no more "back" to go to. Works well with zoomFox.
Rob

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