Need a quick count of the number of words or characters on a webpage or section of text?
Typing a comment on a webpage and curious if you’re getting a little long-winded? Writing a blog post for an assignment and need to satisfy a word count minimum? Or writing an article and want to get an estimated readability score to help ensure your text can be understood by as many people as possible?
The “Word Count Tool” extension for Mozilla Firefox lets you select a block of text on a webpage and see the word and character counts in the Add-On bar. Pressing Ctrl + Alt + C (or navigating the right-click menu) shows an enhanced details screen displaying the number of sentences, paragraphs, average word length, estimated readability score, and more….
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Force Mozilla Firefox to save downloaded files to a folder of your choosing.
Many people are fine with Mozilla Firefox downloading files to the standard Downloads folder. However, if you grab many different types of files it may make things easier to save files in different places. Store downloaded DRM-free music in one folder, game demos in another, backups of work documents from Google Docs in yet another location, etc. Making this Firefox configuration change is easy.
1. Access the Firefox Options dialog box. You can either click the Firefox logo button and choose “Options” – “Options”, but I prefer just pressing ALT + T, then the letter O….
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With the DblClicker extension you can double-click links to open up new tabs, useful for search results pages.
When browsing a webpage in Firefox that contains a lot of links, such as a search engine results page, have you found yourself opening each link in a new tab so you can easily switch back to the results page instead of having to use the back button?
If so, you probably have either held down the Ctrl or Command (Mac) key while clicking on each link, or you have right-clicked on each link and selected “Open Link in New Tab”….
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Completely disable Firefox’s New Tab Page, including the top-right button.
Newer versions of Mozilla Firefox show a “New Tab” page whenever you open a new tab. This shows the top sites accessed with the browser so you can frequently get back to them.
While many people like this feature, others would rather have a clean page when opening a new tab, not needing to see their most-visited sites. Plus, depending on their security / privacy configuration, they may not see any sites on this page, only nine blank rectangles. Thus, you can click the button at the top-right of the page to hide the sites / rectangles. However, that button still exists, and some people want a completely clean new tab page……
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The AutoCopy plugin for Mozilla Firefox automatically places selected webpage text into the clipboard without you having to do anything.
Let’s face it – most of the time when you select text inside a webpage viewed via Firefox, your next step is to copy it to the clipboard for pasting inside another web page, word processing document, e-mail message, etc.
If you copy a lot of text, why not skip the copy step? Automatically have Firefox place selected text in the clipboard without you having to do anything with the “AutoCopy” plugin….
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Automatically open several webpages simultaneously when starting Mozilla Firefox.
Do you often open the same set of web pages every day when first starting Mozilla Firefox such as a search engine, your social networking sites, and your favorite computer tips site? <grin>
Instead of manually opening these pages, wish you could have them all visible every time you launch Firefox, each displayed in a separate tab? Here’s how!…
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If you’re tired of creating passwords every time you log into a new web service, the pwgen extension can generate passwords for you.
Although some web services let you logon with a preexisting Facebook, Google, Twitter, or Yahoo account, many still require generating user accounts where you need to enter passwords. Required for security, good passwords should include a variety of characters including lowercase and uppercase letters, numbers, and punctuation symbol. However, generating these passwords can be cumbersome.
The “pwgen” extension for Mozilla Firefox can help reduce some of the annoyances when signing up for new accounts by creating passwords for you. New passwords are automatically copied to the clipboard so you can paste them into websites and (optionally) password management applications. And if you don’t like a password or don’t find it tough enough for your needs, just click the “P” again to generate a new one….
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The AddThis extension for Mozilla Firefox provides a toolbar where you can share websites via a variety of social networks and other services.
Do you often share websites via Facebook, Twtter, Reddit, or other social networks / services? Do you have multiple toolbars installed inside Mozilla Firefox and wish there was just one toolbar you could install to share pages with virtually any popular service?
The “AddThis” extension allows you to quickly share web pages via a customizable list of services. This Firefox extension installs a toolbar for quick access to popular services, or you can optionally turn on a toolbar button instead, and/or you can access sharing features via the right-click context menu or an icon on the URL bar….
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