Smoke and Mirrors

I liked this extension but it just sucks up memory and makes Firefox crash too much.

Maybe in a couple months they will have worked out these problems. I love the idea.

I polled one of my friends about this and they weren’t having the same experience. Strange.

Which reminds me… I blog about Firefox every now and then, and I know some of you are still using that other browser… but some of you are relative Firefox newbies so I thought I would give back to the little people.

In case you’re interested, here are the current extensions I have installed:

Google Toolbar for Firefox: Do I need to say why?
PDF Download: I hate PDFs which open up in browser windows automatically rather than allowing me a chance to download them.
del.icio.us: My bookmarks
GMail Notifier: Not as useful now that I have Google Talk which has its own GMail notifier. I just uninstalled this one, but I’ve had it so long I thought I would mention it.
SmoothWheel: I can’t recall why I installed this one.
Popup ALT Attribute: HTML purists may not appreciate this, but I find it essential because it duplicates IE’s default functionality.
Bloglines Toolkit: If you use Bloglines, get this.
JustBlogIt: My primary mechanism for remembering links to blog later. I save links I want to blog about later as draft posts in WordPress.
BugMeNot: It’s just convenient. Doesn’t always work obviously.
Print Preview: Essential.
SearchStatus: Not essential for me, but neat. If I had to pick one to uninstall, it would be this one.
Pearl Crescent Page Saver: Nice timesaver if you are in Product Management and have to take screen captures of web pages for documentation or screen mockups often.
IETab: I think this is a little buggy since I think it crashes Firefox from time to time, but I still find it’s worth it.
Tab Mix Plus: If you use Tabbrowser Preferences, you should switch to this one. It’s better, and I’d used Preferences for over a year.

Which do you have installed?

Just like WordPress, I’m always on the lookout for new extensions that save me time.

I just installed the Pearl Crescent extension recently.

At this point I would say “recommended”. It adds 2 commands to your context menu. “Save visible portion of page”, and “Save entire page”.

I’ve used SnagIt in the past to do this type stuff, but for just taking a quick capture, it’s somewhat cumbersome. And my primary use case is taking captures of web pages.

The killer feature of SnagIt is that it can automatically scroll down and capture an entire web page. This extension does the same thing, and does it much quicker.