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Rapidshare happy hours is the period of time when Rapidshare allows you to download a file without you having to go through their CAPTCHA.(the annoying Rapidshare 'Cats').
The extension checks Rapidshare at regular intervals for happy hours and would display a message to inform the user whenever Happy hours are active.
The extension doesn't have any user interface and hence it wouldn't show up anywhere in Firefox. It works in the background and would display a message whenever happy hours are active.This add-on is compatible with Firefox 1.5 – 2.0
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Youtube Viewer is an add-on for Firefox that allows you to watch your favorite YouTube videos directly without going to YouTube site. The working is simple after installation; launch it by going to Tools – YouTube Viewer. Type the search terms in the “Search for” text field and press Search button. The list of matching videos will be populated in the list box on the left. Select a video and press ENTER or double click on it. The video is loaded in the Video panel. Even though this add-on is an experimental one, its working is fine.
Installation:
1. Download and save it on your computer.
2. Start Firefox – select ‘File menu’ – select ‘Open File’ and open the saved Youtube Viewer file
A Software Installation dialog will appear. Select Install Now to start the installation.
3. The Extension Manager will appear, and the extension will be displayed. Restart Firefox to complete the installation. The Firefox Extension has now been installed
(Remember this add-on is experimental one so no guarantees. Use the add-on at your own risk)
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Flash Video Resources Downloader is an extension to Firefox like the old Video Downloader that allows you to download video that you’re watching. This utility Works with YouTube, AOL Video, DailyMotion, FileCabinet, Google Video MetaCafe, MySpaceTV and other 43 video sites.
This extension adds to the status bar of Firefox a small blue icon. When you enter a video site like YouTube and want to download the video you are watching, simply click on the icon. A new tab opens in which you can view the URL of the video and a download button. Click the button "Get Video" to download.(source)
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Many people find that Firefox sometimes eat too much memory of your system, especially when you open many tabs. With StatusbarEx, you can take an eye always on the memory status, so when you find it uses too many, you can restart it.
You will also get the network speed immediately, it is very useful when you are downloading something in the background, so you don't need to activate the download tools to find out the download speed, just look at the status bar.This Firefox extension to let you monitor following information on the status bar:Memory status: Total memory / available memory on system, Memory that Firefox used. CPU usage of Firefox, Current network speed, and Last modified time of the page you are watching
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There are many ways to download videos from YouTube. But there is no direct link at YouTube for downloading video.You required some other third party tool to download.
Here is a simple and very practical method which adds to YouTube what is it lacking - links to download the video in different formats offered, and the ability to copy the direction of the download link video.You just required a simple script called YouTube DL Tool installed on yor Firefox. To do this firstly install Greasemonkey extension from Mozilla add-on site, then install YouTube DL in to Geasemonkey.
After the installation, you can see the direct link to download the video from YouTube, as seen in the image, in different format offered.
Install Geasemonkey from here, then Install YouTube DL Tool from here.
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Xoopit is a plug-in for Firefox that integrates extremely well with GMail,and iGoogle and makes your life much easier. Xoopit for Gmail allows you to find and share the pictures, videos, and files buried in your inbox. Photos from Picasa, Flickr or YouTube links sent to your email are automatically collected, You needn't enter the sites to access the photo or multimedia content, saving you the hassle of going to these sites.You can also add Xoopit as iGoogle module, and only need to create an account costs nothing. Get the latest photos and videos to arrive in your inbox on your iGoogle dashboard.[source]
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Have you ever wondered where the cache saves Mozilla Firefox? Or as able to get those games in Flash or Quicktime trailers see online?The easiest way to find Firefox cache is to write 'about: cache' in the address bar of Firefox and hit search, which shows the folder or directory system which is saved.
Here is a simple and better method to view cache - CacheViewer, an extension for Mozilla Firefox that will enable us to navigate through the cache and even visually preview image files without leaving the window.
This extension is GUI Front-end of "about:cache"- allows searching and sorting memory and disk cache files. Just install the add-on, go to tools - click on 'Cacheviewer' to see saved files. We can preview, save or even delete files from here.(source-Genbeta)
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WOT (Web of Trust) is an add-on for Firefox and Internet Explorer that warns you about risky websites that try to scam visitors, deliver malware, or send spam by learning from other users experiences.WOT is an online community( you become a member after the installation of WOT) for reputation rating that lets Internet users share their knowledge of websites, helping you stay in control when surfing the Web. Besides its users, WOT uses hundreds of trusted sources such as phishing site listings to keep you protected against rapidly spreading online threats.
As you search with Google, you will see a tiny icon next to the Web link (like MacAfee Siteadvisor): green to go, yellow to slow down, red to stop. You can easily customize the protection level to your way of surfing the Web. WOT has information on 17 million websites. WOT ratings are shown also on Yahoo!, Gmail, Wikipedia, and other sites.
No registration is required. Requirements:· Firefox:1.5 – 3.0b5
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Webpage loading time is one of the most important parts of a website that directly influence its success. If your web page doesn’t load with in a specific time, precisely saying with in 8 seconds, users are likely to lose interest and navigate away.Web page rendering time is different in different browsers and there are many aspects determining the minimal time needed by web browsers to render a certain web page
To measure and optimize your web pages loading speed, there is an add-on for Firefox from Yahoo! – YSlow. It analyzes web pages and tells you why they're slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. It works integrated with Firebug a popular web development tool for Firefox.
YSlow's web page analysis is based on 13 identified basic rules that affect web page performance like the number of HTTP requests, list of components in the page, expire header, GZip components, the position of style sheets and scripts relative to the top or bottom of the web page, CSS expressions, internal or external scripts and more. Full details
YSlow helps you to optimize your website in order to have faster loading web pages by 25-50% with 13 rules described.[source]
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Bookmark Previews adds an album view or cover flow view to Firefox bookmarks as shown in Apple Leopard operating system for viewing browsing files. If you saved websites as bookmarks for future reference, this extension will create a small snapshot of it. This will be used to show a Cover Flow-like interface for flipping through your bookmarks when you open up your bookmark manager.This extension will works in both Firefox 2 and Firefox 3, although it may act a little different between Firefox versions because each has a separate book marking system.. When you first start you will be able to have the extension create previews for you in the background. You can also perform this task later by Choosing 'File>Create Previews' in the Bookmarks Organizer. Your previews are stored as .jpg files in a folder named 'bookmarkpreviews' located in your profile folder. When you uninstall the extension (via the extension manager) this folder should be deleted.
However this extension is still in sandboxed, means in beta stage. To use it you should have an account with Mozilla. You can install it from here.
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If you usually connect to the internet from different computer – from your office, home or somewhere else - and wanted to access all your bookmark lists, browser sessions, saved passwords, etc from all these computers, the quick and easiest way is to install Google browser Sync on your Firefox browser( assuming that your are using Firefox) .

Google Browser Sync from Google Lab is an add-on for Firefox that continuously synchronizes browser settings – including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords – across your computers. It also allows you to restore open tabs and windows across different machines and browser sessions.

To use this service, you need to install Browser Sync on every computer you want to access your browser settings and required Google account to configure it. Installation is simple, just like any other extensions that you installed before. Details…

And about security and privacy of your data, the password (PIN) you create during setup is used to encrypt information that's synced between the computers, which may include sensitive information such as your passwords for websites. Without the PIN, no one will be able to read the information that's being transmitted between your computers via Google Browser Sync. Details….

It works with Firefox version1.5 and later.

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Language translation tool is a necessary for all of us to bridge the language barrier we share on the internet. Even though online translation tools like Google translator; Bablefish, etc are there to help us, Firefox browser makes our life even easy. Many language translation tools are available as extension to Firefox and here point out some of the best translation tools among them.

1. Quick TransLation – This is a very simple and easy language translator for Firefox. Simply select with your mouse any word and the translation will appear in a pop-up window. Just click on the flag icon and select the language you want to translate to.

2. Translator - Translator is web translation extension to Firefox that allows us to translate any web page into nearly any language at the click of a button and it supports the online translation service like Google translator, yahoo bablefish, Atlavista, etc.

3. Foxlingo – This is a multi purpose language tool and supports around 35 languages. Main Features includes - Web page translation - translates full web pages .Translated search - Searches foreign pages using terms written in your language, Auto Translation - Automatically translates websites by recognizing their domain, Text Translation - Translates text entered in the search box or selected on any web page, etc.

4. Gtranslate - With Gtranslate we can translate any text in a webpage just by selecting and right-clicking over it. The extension uses the Google translation services to translate the text.

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Read it later is a Firefox extension that allows us to save pages of interest to read later. The importance of this extension is, it eliminates cluttering of bookmarks with sites that are merely of a one-time interest.

When you come across something you want to read later while browsing, simply click the ‘Read Later’ button and the page is instantly inserted into your reading list.

And just click ‘Reading List’ whenever you want it read, it’ll randomly pull up for you to read. When you are finished reading, click Mark it As Read and it will be removed from your list.

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The WebSitePulse Current Status is an extension for Firefox is a real time monitoring tool for your web site.
This extension provides you the status of your servers, websites and web applications. Remember that it works when you are using the WebSitePulse monitoring service.
The extension comes with two components: the Sidebar, which displays all targets with their real time current status, and the Status bar, which indicates if all targets are OK or if there is an issue with any of them.
License: Free
Requirements: Registration with WebSitePulse
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There are many online storage services available on the internet, but offers limited space. If you are using Gmail as a storage device (Virtual drive) you will get more than 4GB of space for storage of file.
All of you may heare about Gmail Drive that transforms your Gmail account space into a virtual drive. Here discussing another nifty little tool, GSpace, a free extension for Firefox browser that converts Gmail account into a 4GB or more file storage facility.
GSpace acts as an online hard disk, so you can upload files from your hard drive and access them from everywhere, where an internet connection is available.
Now you can upload and backup your photos, files or whatever you want direct onto your Gmail account
License: Free
Requirement: Firefox 1.5 – 2.0
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Some websites have background music embedded on their web page and that coded only for Internet Explorer. So, some of you may have face a problem that unable to hear background sound when you browse such a site with Firefox.

Here is a solution for that. Firstly install the Greasemonkey extension from Mozilla- add-on site.

Then install the user script from Userscript.org in to Greasemonkey. Now you will be able play embedded sound in Firfox.

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In countries like UAE, Iran or Soudi Arabia, where Internet filtering/ censorship is applied, it is so hard to get their favorite sites like Flickr .com. Access Flickr is a Firefox extension launched by Hamed Saber enables to circumvent the flickr.com filter.

“Access Filter bypasses the flickr.com filter in Iran, UAE, Saudi Arabia, China and other banned countries. All you have to do is install Access Flickr and restart your browser. There is no configuration, no menu, and no icon. All needed configurations are done automatically. After restarting, you can access flickr.com, without any restriction”

Requirements: Firefox: 2.0a1 – 3.0a5

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DataFox is a Firefox add-on that checks your bandwidth usage of BSNL DataOne and MTNL TriBand broadband internet connection. The progress bar gives you an idea of the amount of bandwidth from your monthly limit already consumed thus control your usage.

The importance of this extension is that you need not take time every day to log in to the usage site to know your bandwidth usage, just click on a button that will show the relevant info in your status bar.

‘DataFox works by obtaining usage information directly from the BSNL / MTNL usage site, it does not monitor your network in any way, so usage details probably won't change until you logout of DataOne / TriBand and log back in again. BSNL users may want to use the Override default domain option in the login dialog in case the BSNL server you are being directed to is not responding. MTNL users, if the usage server is down, DataFox will not be able to fetch any usage records.

DataFox has been tested with Firefox versions 1.5, 2 & 3.

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YouPlayer is a Firefox add-on that will let you play YouTube videos in a special sidebar. You can add name and URL of the video link in the play list of YouPlayer by copy-paste from YouTube. When you double-click on it, it will be shown in the video window.

You may drag a link to a browser window or right-click it and open in a new tab. You may also bookmark other links, but only YouTube links will be shown in the video window.

Requirements: Firefox: 1.5 – 2.0.0.

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Calculator is an extension for Firefox browser. It has an interface similar to Microsoft Powertoy Calculator and is an open source replacement to the calculator included in Windows accessories. It has many features like conversions, print calculations, history and many functions like trig and log. You can convert in to mass, time, length, pressure, temperature etc easily with this tool.

Launch this extension with Alt+C or from the tool menu-Tools/Calculator. It supports Firefox 1.5 – 3.0a

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