A second helping of Firefox Extensions

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Because honestly, I cant write anything else lately… and I am not even kidding, it has been damn horrible!  I am an extension whore, I operate my own, private, Firefox Burlesque parlor actually. It has been doing good, albeit a tad cramped. You may remember, but a while ago I also ran out of ideas, and also released a first serving of Firefox Extensions. Last night, actually, my good friend Leah S and it came to the conversation of extensions and how few she actually had. I then realized how massive my collection was… again!

Ubiquity (http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity/)

This, my friends, is actually the single most amazing thing in the three universes I have been to. It is simple, it is powerful and it is light. Ubiquity is, essentially, a Terminal box inside of Firefox, with a near-empty Kernel that you write yourself. And by that, I mean you can search their database for tools you don’t have to write yourself. It is in near-past Alpha stage, so I assume the database will have better search tools later on, but it is totally worth it if only for the Ping.fm and Facebook status commands.

autoHideStatusbar (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1530)

“autoHideStatusbar is a Firefox extension that hides the statusbar. The statusbar is shown back when hovering a “sensitive zone” with the mouse and can be shown back when a page loads or when hovering a link, according to the preferences. Additionally, a statusbar icon and/or a toolbar button can be used to quick enable/disable”

Organize Status Bar (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1759)

“This extension will enable you to organize your status bar icons. You can now rearrange or remove any item (icon or text) in the Firefox status bar. If your status bar is full and cluttered like mine was, give this a try.”

Personal Menu (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3895)

“After installing Personal Menu, “Menus Toolbar” is available in Toolbar Context Menu, and you may hide it to save the space of browser. Then you may open Personal Menu Option panel to gather all useful commands into “Menu Button”, and pleace it wherever you want; or you may add the items you want in Toolbar Context Menu.
When Menus Toolbar is hidden, although you may add “Bookmarks” and “History” inside Menu Button, it become inconvenient to access them. Therefore, here are also “Bookmarks Button” and “History Button”. You may also set what happens after you middle / right-click on them, like open Bookmarks Sidebar after middle-clicking Bookmarks Button, and Undo Close Tab after right-clicking History Button.”

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