It may well be, thanks to Steven Colbert.
May
16
I really love this extension. Using it saves me a few minutes every day. It is the Copy Plain Text extension and it will allow you to copy a portion of a web page and paste it somewhere else without any of the text formating or internet coding that is often a part of a web page. Their description reads like this…
Have you ever copied something to Thunderbird or Office and been annoyed that the text formatting (bold, font size, etc) came with it? Don’t you wish you could just copy the text itself, without having to copy it, paste it into notepad, then copy it again? This extension gives you an option to copy text without the formatting. You can even set it to trim extra space in and around the copied text!
Think of all the sites you need to cut and paste from. Most have some sort of HTML formatting that does not copy cleanly into your application, doesn’t it? With this extension, you simply highlight the text as normal for a cut and paste operation, but then rather than hitting “ctrl + c” or using the “copy” feature when you right click on the highlighted text, simply find the “copy as plain text” option on the right click. After right clicking, then you can paste it into whatever application you are working on. This keeps whatever you copy in the same font you are working in and copies it over without links to other sites.
It keeps your cutting and pasting simple and clean, and keeping things simple is good, is it not? Yet another reason to download Firefox.
May
1
If you are trapped in an IE world, there are a few tricks you can use to gain some of the same customizable features of Firefox. Lifehacker has a rundown on how to do it.
But even if you get an increased level of security and customization, you still miss out on the speed that Firefox offers. So if your place of employment requires you to do IE, use that trick there but then download Firefox at home.
Apr
30
Many places of employment, quite understandably, ask that workers refrain from visiting illicit sites at work. Punishment for such infractions have included termination.
If your place of work has such conditions on your employment, there is a new Firefox extension that can help you keep your job. It is called no-NSFW (short for No-Not Suitable for Work) and it will warn you if a link on a page is the kind that clicking on unaware might get your in trouble for.
The warning will show up as you hover over a link as the no-NSFW community has marked it inappropriate.
Check out No-NSFW and keep your job.
Apr
29
I read the majority of my web content within a RSS reader. But there are a few sites I like to check out that are news-type sites that, for whatever reason, do not publish a feed. Before I would just bookmark the site and check it regularly. (And often be disapointed to find no new content.)
Well now another great Firefox extension helps me and can help you know when a site you like has published new content. It is called Update Scanner and it looks like a must add extension.
You can check out Update Scanner here.
Yet another good reason to convert to Firefox.
I found this via the helpful site, Make Use Of.
Apr
27
Firefox made famous the idea of tabbed browsing…looking at web pages in the same window via tabs rather than having multiple instances of your browser open.
Did you know you can naviagate quickly between your tabs using CTRL+Tab versus clicking on each tab with your mouse?
Every second counts in this fast paced world and this tip can save you valuable time every day.
