Quckmanager and Stuff.

[swestrup]

So, I'm awake again now. Got up at 1:00 pm today, and coffee was waiting, so all is good. I still haven't finished my reading of comics/slashdot/lj etc this morning, so I think I'm moving kinda slow.

taxlady is currently taking a nap, but she's expressed an interest in going for a drive today and visiting the health-food store for some good bread and cheese. The place closes at 6:00 pm on a Saturday, so I can't take too much longer waking up.

In other news, I've recently become reaquainged with the Mozilla QuickManager, which is a wonderful little tool for finding, downloading and installing mozilla extensions. After installing it, I used it to download and install:

diggler
venkman
preferential
themer
linky
tab scroller
chromedit
deepest sender
radial context
jslib
spiderzilla
live HTTP headers

... and probably a few others. But I actually recommend the above add-ons.

Comments

[swestrup]

Actually, these are all Mozilla extensions. T-Bird isn't useable yet, IMHO, because you have to learn XUL to do anything with it. Give it a few dozen versions and I'll check it out again.

So, as to what these mozilla things do:


diggler - Provides a drop down menu with a number of features. The ones I use the most are 'Open a new tab', and a list of all of the parent URLs of your current URL. For instance, right now I'm at "http://www.livejournal.com/users/swestrup/96753.html?replyto=175601", so it would provide links to "http://www.livejournal.com/users/swestrup/", "http://www.livejournal.com/users/", and "http://www.livejournal.com/"

venkman - Javascript and Web page debugger that can show you various parse trees, and let you edit them to see what effect that would have on a page.

preferential - lists ALL of the mozilla configuration flags and lets you edit them, just like about:config does, but it also has (short, often inadequate) descriptions of what those flags do.

themer - Allows you do install mozilla themes that you've downloaded as .jar files.

linky - Allows you to open bunches of selected links, each in their own window or tab.

tab scroller - By holding down the right mouse button and spinning the scroll wheel, you can select which tab to view.

chromedit - Opens up the main user files for customizing mozilla.

deepest sender - LJ client that integrates into mozilla.

radial context - Display context menus as cascading radial menus.

jslib - software library some of these other program require.

spiderzilla - Adds a 'download this whole site' option to context menu.

live HTTP headers - Adds a tab to the 'show info' screen for a web page that shows the headers exchanged between the client and server.

[tjernobyl.livejournal.com]

Oo, I really like Radial Context, feels more intuitive than traditional gestures. I've been using bookmarklets to get a lot of the functionality that diggler does, but I'll check it out... Must get tab scroller.

[swestrup]

I've yet to get the hang of radial context, but I've kept it installed. Part of the problem is that some of my other extensions added things to the context menu, and radial context doesn't seem to reflect that. More experiments are needed. And I have been using bookmarklets as well. I've been too lazy to learn how to build a bookmarklet or a mozilla app, so I just use whatever I find that does the job.

[tjernobyl.livejournal.com]

Radial doesn't automatically add them, but apparently it's fairly simple to modify the config file to add more.

As for bookmarklets, I took a simple search bookmarklet and have just changed the URLs inside to suit various purposes.