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FireFox Extension Ideas

I want to have a go at making a FireFox extension, but I'm too lazy to/can't think of any ideas.

Can anyone think of anything that would make a good extension?

BTW have you heard about SongBird ? Audio player based on Gecko engine?

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02-09-2006 12:38 PM

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RE: FireFox Extension Ideas

Erm...how about an automatic slideshow generator for image searches on Google or Yahoo etc. So if I searched in Google Images for, I don't know, say Green Day images - it could somehow display the results in a slideshow rather than individual thumbs.

I have absolutely no idea if this is remotely possible, just think it could be useful.

02-09-2006 01:00 PM

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How about migrating your Messenger contacts list into a firefox sidebar?

I should change my sig ay?

02-09-2006 02:30 PM

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RE: FireFox Extension Ideas

How about a screenshot sender for firefox?

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02-09-2006 03:41 PM

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Erm...how about an automatic slideshow generator for image searches on Google or Yahoo etc.

Yea thats quite a cool idea, not sure if I could manage it tho

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How about migrating your Messenger contacts list into a firefox sidebar?

So you can chat to them from FireFox you mean?

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How about a screenshot sender for firefox?

So you can email a screenshot of the page you're viewing to people?

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02-09-2006 03:51 PM

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RE: FireFox Extension Ideas

Yeh or when you close firefox it remembers what pages you had open and opens them again when you restart firefox. This is what opera does it is a very nice feature

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02-09-2006 03:53 PM

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Yeh or when you close firefox it remembers what pages you had open and opens them again when you restart firefox. This is what opera does it is a very nice feature

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02-09-2006 03:59 PM

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RE: FireFox Extension Ideas

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BTW have you heard about SongBird ? Audio player based on Gecko engine?

That SongBird program is really good, thanks.

For the Firefox extension, what about when you have a flash file, (.swf) embedded in a page, you could add a link to the actual .swf file under the embedded file in the page. So it would be easy to right click and download the flash file.

~~Also an extension which allows you to edit the context menu, the one which appears when you right click a page in firefox.~~

Edit: found one: Menu Editor

This post was edited on 02-09-2006 at 07:21 PM by Zephyr.

02-09-2006 06:59 PM

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RE: FireFox Extension Ideas

How about an extension that would check e-mail from outlook and outlook express? like dynadvance mail notifier

02-09-2006 07:22 PM

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How about an extension that would check e-mail from outlook and outlook express? like dynadvance mail notifier

What would be the point in firefox checking the email client? The email client doesn't automatically download the messages from the server.

It would be more sensible to have an extension which directly checks the email server to notify the number of emails, then maybe have a link which opens the email client like outlook.

But there are probably extensions which do this, unless Dempsey just wants to make his own version of an email notifier.

02-09-2006 07:30 PM

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