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Locationbar² - added features for the Firefox location bar

Locationbar2The location bar in browsers hasn't changed in, well, a darn long time. The last big advance was probably the introduction of Favicons. Firefox Add-In Locationbar² attempts to upgrade the location bar and make it both more readable, and more useful. It breaks apart the sections of the URL, optionally hiding the protocol, and if you hold a modifier key (Shift, Alt or Ctrl) it allows you to click on any level of the URL to jump there.

While it certainly seems more useful, it's also a bit disconcerting. URLs have looked the same for a long, long time. It's unclear whether this new way of displaying them is truthfully easier on the eyes, or if it just creates more confusion that must be deciphered before processing what you're looking at. The ability to jump anywhere in the URL's folder structure is definitely useful though.

Filed under: Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Productivity, Mozilla, Freeware, Browser Tips

FaviconizeTab: "Minimize" tabs in Firefox

FaviconizeTabOh, how cool. FaviconizeTab is an add-on for Firefox that does just one thing: It shrinks tabs of your choosing down to the bare minimum: Just the icon. While tab titles are handy to have, when it's a tab you have open all day like your RSS reader or (if you're me) Joe's Goals, the title is inessential and just takes up space. FaviconizeTab frees up that space, which gives the other dozen tabs you have open more elbow room. In its Options you can choose to activate it with a double-click, Ctrl-click, Alt-click, or Shift-click, or just use the context menu, and if you have Firefox set up to restore your previous session's tabs on start-up, FaviconizeTab will remember which tabs should be Faviconized. One feature I wish it had is to specify that certain bookmarks should always open "Faviconized"--maybe next version.

Filed under: Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Productivity, Mozilla, Browser Tips

Favicon Picker for Firefox

Favicon Picker for Firefox

When I first came across Favicon Picker, an extension for Firefox, I didn't really see the utility of it. It took Rachel Cunliffe at cre8d blog to set me straight. The real reason Favicon Picker is fantastic is that it lets you do away entirely with text labels in Firefox's Links toolbar (if you want), as in the screenshot above, and it lets you assign favicons to bookmarklets. Not only does that each one a lot easier to pick out at a glance, it also makes room for a lot more of them. Excellent.

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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