TSGL: Firefox annoyances--is there an answer?

[Shyamal Gupta]

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 1:18 AM, H Davis <hdavis1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Don,
>
> FF is much better than your experience would indicate. Stick with it.

Couldn't agree with this more....

While we're at FF add-ons, extensions, etc. here are some of my
can't-do-withouts :

"Scrapbook" add-on -- incredibly useful to save whole web pages for
later reference, reading and research. If one uses it, may be a good
idea to change the default setting for save location to where one
stores all data.

"Read It Later" add-on -- a page you don't want to go through right
now, but dont want to clutter up your bookmarks with, can be saved
with this for later reading.

"Google browser sync" (for firefox) -- http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/

-- I have FF on 3 computers and this free software synchronises FF
bookmarks across all three.

"Copy links" add-on -- right-click on a web page or a selection on
one, and it copies all the links on the page or selection to the
clipboard.

"AutoCopy" add-on -- this is fantastic. Anything you select is
automatically copied to the clipboard.

And then there is "Mozbackup" :

"MozBackup is a simple utility for creating backups of Mozilla
Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Mozilla Suite and Netscape
profiles.

It allows you to backup and restore bookmarks, mail, contacts,
history, extensions, cache etc. It's an easy way to do Firefox backup,
Thunderbird backup ..." --> from their website --

http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/

Very useful in case you have to install firefox on a new machine, or
your system crashed and you have to reinstall everything. Or you need
to do a clean install of FF. Saves you the trouble of installing all
the extensions and add-ons all over again.

This usually gives you a warning about problems with saving
extensions, but I've always ignored this and haven't had any trouble
with restoring.


Happy Firefoxing !


-- 
Shyamal Gupta
Mumbai, India