Yet More Firefox Extensions

Monday, April 18th, 2005

Every now and then I take a little time to check out Mozilla Firefox extensions to see if anything new has popped up. This time I found some extensions that I hadn’t noticed before but which are highly recommended by me from now on.

• Document map
  Document Map displays the current HTML page’s structure (headings, etc) in the sidebar. This makes navigating large pages much much easier.
• MediaPlayerConnectivity
  This extension is awesome, especially for GNU/Linux users. It replaces embedded objects (movies, etc) with a clickable launch button (much like the flash blocker). When you click it, it launches an application of your choice (for me that’s GMPlayer or Totem) and plays the movie. It also parses direct links to playlists and allows automatic playing of movies upon page loads. Very good. Especially if you don’t like embedded movie players.
• MozEx
  MozEx adds the possibility to use external programs for certain actions in Firefox which are normally handled internally. I’m using MozEx only for two of its features, namely the ‘View Page Source in external editor’ and ‘Edit textarea in external editor’. In fact, I’m typing this in Vim right now and when I’m done, I’ll just save and it’ll load whatever I typed in Vim into the textarea. Much better then those annoyingly small featureless textareas.

Now go and install above mentioned extensions!