Filed under: Utilities, Productivity, Web
Pagezipper extension automatically loads "next page" links
One of the most obnoxious consequences of websites struggling to score advertising dollars is the "next page" phenomenon. Even some very credible sites split their longer pieces up across pages, so you have to click through, which results in time and effort wasted for you, and more ad views for them. A lot of people just stop reading when they hit the end of the first page, but maybe they would change if they installed the PageZipper extension for Firefox. PageZipper automatically loads the contents of "next page" links right underneath the current page, so you can scroll down instead of clicking through. It's quite similar to another extension called AutoPager, and I like that it doesn't show its page breaks the way AutoPager does. Where PageZipper hasn't caught up with AutoPager yet is in the way it deals with tricky "next page" links. AutoPager lets you find them manually and train it, while PageZipper relies on its own (granted, very good) autodetection.
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Dave Forster said 6:37PM on 4-04-2009
I have no idea what you're talking about... granted, i have just got in from a night on the lash but "next page phenonemon"... what the frig is that ?
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Jim said 7:58PM on 4-04-2009
Hey man! Thanks for the tip.
I'll be trying this out on my laptop, but Firefox also has an older addon that autopages... aptly named AutoPager:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4925
It's been installed a bunch, but I'll try out this new one.
Take care!
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Hany Hanna said 9:23PM on 4-04-2009
Doesn't seem to work with Download Squad from the main page if you want to see older archives.
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votre said 2:10AM on 4-05-2009
Tried running it on Firefox 3.0.8
I don't know if there's a conflict with some other extension, but so far it doesn't appear to work with any website I've tried - including the ones that the Pagezipper site suggested using (i.e. NYT 50 best...) to get a feel for how it operates.
Too bad. Looked like something I could really use.
Uninstalling it now
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RanMan said 2:11AM on 4-05-2009
I tested this as a Firefox extension for a couple of hours and had these issues.
1.) When viewing a Google Images page it induced a continuous "loading" situation when I scrolled to page two and beyond with a black screen and no images displayed. The quantity of pages I could review before the failure was random. Sometimes two pages. Sometimes four pages. Finally had to shut FF down and restart.
2.) WOT reporting worked fine on the first page, but page 2-N seemed to have random reporting of WOT recommendations. Norton Internet Security 2009 page/warning recommendations did not work at all. Norton icon normally next to the link was not visible.
3.) Had several instances where the FF extension Google Preview discontinued to function. Restarted FF and it would work for a few pages, but then fail again.
This is obviously still rated as "Experimental" on FF addons site and at v0.1 I am sure improvements will be made in the future. I hope so because one good thing about this program is it loaded pages faster than the "AutoPager" extension. I will keep an eye on this one.
MS Vista Home Premium - UTD
Firefox v3.0.8
Dell 1526 Inspiron Laptop
AMD Duo Core 1.9 Ghz
4GB RAM
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bigsmashzone said 9:22AM on 4-05-2009
Doesn't seem to work with Download Squad from the main page if you want to see older archives.
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Patrick72 said 11:06AM on 4-05-2009
Guys, guys, guys (and / or girls) !
There is only 'number 1' extension for Firefox to load automatically "next page" links and that's this one: REPAGINATION .
Why? One reason - nothing more, nothing less: Repagination works on every site!
But I have a little confession. Repagination is not automatically from the beginning. You have to 'activate' the auto load mode via the context menu everytime by clicking a Next Page link. That's all.
Repagination is originally located at http://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/2099 and a Firefox 3 updated version can be found at http://files.andreineculau.com/projects/firefox/ .
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Monoboy said 5:43PM on 4-05-2009
I use AutoPagerize for Greasemonkey in Firefox. Works like a charm and doesn't add another extension to Firefox.
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/8551
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Marc Savoy said 9:17AM on 4-06-2009
Compelling offerings like AutoPager, PageZipper are the very reason I go to Download Squad for great stuff found nowhere else.
High hopes for resolving one of the more annoying aspects of the web ending in disappointment despite tinkering with for quite some time.
Thanks for posting.
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tidyread said 9:25PM on 6-15-2009
you may be interested in TidyRead that reformats the page in an easy-to-read format and also automates the next page.
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