Firefox add-ons: powerups for your browser

An add-on is an open source extension for the firefox browser which typically adds functionality. The extensions being open source and hosted on Mozillas captivating website means they are secure, free, and generally lightweight in the memory department. With just a little time invested you can be sure to find one out of the thousands that meets a need that you may or may not have even known you had! Simply browse to the add-on page, click install, and firefox does the rest!

1. FastestFox

My first foray into add-ons started with fastest fox. I was blown away the first time it auto-paged the next page while I was googling. Once you get used to features like having a pop up bubble with the option to search google, wikipedia, or even ebay for selected text, you'll realize how much time you save by not having to copy and past the text into the search bar. Seconds. Literally seconds. FastestFox also linkifys text urls, so while your antiquated old browser sees google.com mine see google.com. It has other features, but generally I disable them in tools>add-ons>FastestFox>options. 

2. Forecast fox

Forecast fox is like that old bloated all quasi-malware program weather bug. Except minus the spyware and popups. Totally unobtrusive forecast fox sits in the bottom of your status bar down near the system clock, and streams information from accuweather.com Highly customizable; it can show the temperature, an hourly forecast, a 5 day forecast, and real time radar. My favorite feature are the sever weather alerts, but that might just be because I live in a trailer.

 


3. Speed dial

Google chrome comes default with this bitching feature, and fasterfox has the very similar Qlauncher. However this is the quickest, and most customizable. When I ctrl+T to open a new tab, I'm greeted with 9 screenshots of my favorite websites. You can add as many sites as you want per page, and as have has as many pages as you want!

4. Thumbnail expander

"With Thumbnail Expander, you no longer have to constantly use the back button when viewing a thumbnailed gallery. Instead, simply hover your mouse over a thumbnail to see the full image, and move your mouse away to have the full image disappear. Check out the other preview images for an example of this."

5. Flux

Over-illumination can create significant reduction in melatonin production. Since it is principally blue light that suppresses melatonin, wearing glasses that block blue light in the hours before bedtime may avoid melatonin loss. Use of blue-blocking goggles the last hours before bedtime has also been advised for people who need to adjust to an earlier bedtime, as melatonin promotes sleepiness.

Flux isn't actually a firefox Plugin. It's a simple program with a light weight memory footprint (8meg). It works on the principle that blue light the primary inhibitor of melatonin, and thus sleepiness. If you've ever looked in on someones window at night you'll know that a TV or computer monitor bathes the otherwise dark room with blue light.


Flux simply adjust the monitor, so that it has less blue in it at night. Does it work? Absofuckinlutley. I used to stay up all night, because I never got sleepy. In fact I relied on melatonin tabs to feel sleepy, when I wanted to go to sleep. It's free and easy to use!

6. Greasemonkey

Greasemonkey is a advanced add-on with 22 million downloads. It allows small javascripts to change the way you view webpages. With over 15,000 scripts available your sure to find one that suits you, whether you'd like to add Netflix links on IMDB, or automate your FarmVille wall(shudder). Facebook fixer allows for: "bigger profile pictures and photos, easier viewing of albums, showing people's age and sign, keyboard shortcuts & more." Yousabletubefix is a script for youtube that: " allows downloading and resizing videos, can prevent autoplay, adds a HD select, etc." Reddit comment boxes changes the way comments are displayed on the social news side Reddit.com, allowing them to be read easier. Reddit commentroversy shows how many upvotes or downvotes a comment has received(likes or dislikes for you facebookers). It should be noted that you need to have Greasemonkey installed for these scripts to work.

Reddit comment box lines. Reddit commenterversoy.

Top 5 list of 2009

1. Organic milk

The decline of quality in milk and American food stuff in general is out of the scope of a top five list. In short: economies of scale, corn and dairy subsides, groceries stores selling milk at a loss to get you in to shop. So i'll be brief; Organic taste like milk and $2 store brand gallons taste like milk flavored water. Fuck the health concerns! ORGANIC MILK TASTE AMAZING!

2. Biking

I know after reading this your not going to sell your car and ride your bike everywhere. In fact it might seem crazy to even suggest that! However you should never under estimate how crazy some one who is addicted to the endorphin rush of silently coasting down an exhausting but conquered hill the world still except for you and this magnificent piece machinery that has become an extension of your body. I never rode the bike I had until my car broke down, so I understand. I just want to let you know that as my friend Brittany from New York drunkenly said, "biking changed my life.

3. Disco ball!

I don't read social news sites for news. I read for the large and varied community of commentators. The article might be incomplete and biased, but it doesn't matter. In no time people who actually know whats up will cut through the incompetency, lies, and slant. Think of it as bullshit filter with ascorbic wit. So when someone asked social media news site reddit what the official name for a disco balls was, the internet proved it self to be a very hilarious place.

4. Battle Star Galactica

After having their world nuked and completely destroyed, the straggled remnants of humankind are struggling through the stars. Hunted like prey, and with no place of refuge they decide to find the mythical "earth" from once they were said to have come. If they weren't in a space ship you wouldn't know this was sci-fi. People don't die from breast cancer in star trek. People don't have to deal with cheating wives, childhood abuse, or the loss of a son in star wars. People don't hallucinate incredibly sexy blond models that talk to you about the "one true god", while simultaneously grinding on your leg in sci-fi. And they find earth. Yes our earth. And no he wasn't hallucinating. She's an angel.

I'll let this video of matt stone and trey parker excepting their Peabody award take it from here:

"We'd like to thank the peabody awards for introducing us to battle star galactica last year. I'm sure a lot of the honorees wanted to say congratulations to them, so in an effort to save time I'll do it for you all. Good job guys. I love you Starbuck!"

5. The Album Manners by Passion Pit

I've always been met with looks of disapproval when I talk about dance music being spiritual. To most the emotions of dance music are superficial. Robots telling you to have a good time or misogynist men talking girls out of their panties. Perhaps they have never known just how fully euphoria can make one at peace with at the world. A clear sober minded love for life and the people in it. I'm not talking about drugs or alcohol although those can help. What I'm talking about is something the western world has lost. The joy of singing in church. The joy of dancing till the fucking sun comes up with your best friends. The joy of being spiritual. That being said I'd love to nominate The Antlers album "hospice" because it is breathtakingly beautiful in a way fans of sigur ros can dig, but at the same time heartbreaking in a way that only someone who has gone through a true loss can write. However I can't. Because Manners is what good dance music should be. Full of joy, love, and occasionally tragedy.


I think this lyric is the appropriate way to send us into the new decade:

So I try and I scream and I beg and I sigh

Just to prove I'm alive
And it's alright
Cause tonight there's a way I'll make light

Honorary: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix - Phoenix

How to ethereal shift

This a short scrip you need to ethereal shift in natural selection combat. With out it's almost impossible to use as alien flashlight will keep turning on and off.

alias +flashlight "impulse 100"
alias -flashlight "impulse 100"
bind f +flashlight
bind p impulse 100

The command impulse 100 starts the shift and activates your flashlight (or deactivates it if flashlight is already on). When you press f it sends the command impulse 100, and when you release f it sends again. The result is your alien flashlight blinks on and off and you shift.

I like to be a silent focus skulk with this. Bite once, shift, strafe around the marine as he turns, and then bite again.

The same can be done with a fade.

Another fun trick is to attack the comm chair as a onos. When you start getting hit, shift and stop attacking. The marines will think you redeemed.

It's also great to have if your egging and marines are in the hive.

Enjoy and don't bitch about ES being lame. Static is lame. GL's are lame. UA is lame.

No. This is how you play starcraft.

Boxers marine medic micro is famous. Check his immortal marine video as well.


In 15 intense seconds a thirty minute match is thrown upside down. You can watch the whole match with English commentary here.



Wow. I can has rock star status?


God this is creepy.

"The ToSsGirL is a goddess or an angel
and I could wish you and me to come her inside... "

John Adams

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.


It's easy to forget. What came before was a struggle.

They fought and died for us.

Now why must we, who have the liberty to wallow in our own excess, be granted reprieve from building for our children?

We have it so easy, but we our content to find our own way to suffer.

When hookers used to have class

Every town has its celebrated madams, eternal women to sentimentalized down the years. There is something very attractive to men about a madam. She combines the brains of a businessman, the toughness of a prize fighter, the warmth of a companion, the humor of a tragedian. Myths collect around her, and, oddly enough, not voluptuous myths. The stories remembered and repeated about a madam cover every field but the bedroom. Remembering, her customers picture her as philanthropist, medical authority, bouncer, and poetess of the bodily emotions without being involved with them.

For a number of years Salinas had sheltered two of these treasures: Jenny, sometimes called Fartin' Jenny and the Nigger, who owned and operated the Long Green. Jenny was a good companion, a keeper of secrets, a giver of secret loans. There is a whole literature of stories about Jenny in Salinas.

The Nigger was a handsome, austere woman with snow-white hair and a dark and awful dignity. Her brown eyes, brooding deep in her skull, looked out on an ugly world with philosophic sorrow. She conducted her house like a cathedral dedicated to a sad but erect Pirapus. If you wanted a good laugh and poke in the ribs, you went Jenny's and got you money's worth; but if the sweet world-sadness close to tears crept out of your immutable loneliness, the Long Green was your place. When you came out of there you felt something pretty stern and important had happened. It was no jump in the hay. The dark beautiful eyes of the Nigger stayed with you for days.

When Faye came down from Sacramento and opened her house there was a flurry of animosity from the two incumbents. They got together to drive Faye out, but they discovered she was not in competition.

Faye was the motherly type, big-breasted, big-hipped, and warm. She was a bosom to cry on, a soother and a stroker. The iron sex of the nigger and the tavern bacchanalianism of Jenny had their devotees, and they were not lost to Faye. Her house became the refuge of young men puling in puberty, mourning over lost virtue, and aching to lost some more. Faye was the reassurer of misbegotten husbands. Her house took up the slack for frigid wives. It was the cinnamon-scented kitchen of one's grandmother. If any sexual thing happened to you at Faye's you felt it was an accident but forgivable. Her house led the youths of Salinas into the thorny path of sex in the pinkest, smoothest way. Faye was a nice woman, not very bright, highly moral, and easily shocked. People trusted her and she trusted everyone. No one could want to hurt Faye once he knew her. She was no competition to the others. She was a third phase.

Just as in a store or on a ranch the employees are images of the boss, so in a whorehouse the girls are very like the madam, partly because she hires that kind and partly because a good madam imprints her personality on the business. You could stay a very long time at Faye's before you would hear an ugly or suggestive word spoken. The wandering to the rooms, the payment, were so soft and casual they seemed incidental. All in all, she ran a hell of a fine house, as the constable and the sherrif knew. Faye contributed heavily to every charity. Having a revulsion against disease, she paid for regular inspection of her girls. You had less chance of contracting a difficulty at Faye's then with you Sunday School teacher. Faye soon became a sold and desirable citizen of the grown town of Salinas.

The 5 best albums EVER!

5
Johhny Cash
greatest hits

This man is country. And also depending on who you ask the first punk rocker.

Favorite line:
I Shot her down 'cause she made me slow. I thought I was her daddy but she had five more.

Proof:

4
Jay-Z
The black Album

When Jay-z declares "I am the greatest rapper alive" you are inclined to believe him. Not for fear of being smacked down, but because he is.

Favorite Line:
I will kill you commit suicide and kill you again.

Proof:

3
The Hives
Tyrannosaurus Hives

Did you know a live performance of this band inspired Andree 3000 of Outcast to write Hey Ya? What song? None. The climax of a show, and they stood completely still for three minutes while a packed house went nuts.

Favorite Line:
Notably none.

The Proof:

2
The Counting Crows
August and everything after

The originators of emo. This album is beautiful in every way should be. Oh yeah and I swear I'm not a pussy, I just like good music.

Favorite Line:
"I miss you. I guess that I should. 3500 miles away, but what would you change if you could?"


1
The Weakerthans
Left and Leaving

Voted by a music magazine from their homeland of Canada as the best album ever beating out The Arcade fire's Neon Bible. No one so effortlessly blends rock, punk, and country. Oh and you know there is that whole timeless lyrics thing.

Favorite Line:
"A soft breeze with the slippery concrete black and full of muddy slush,
contrasting with the hoarfrost,
clean and hung on a tunnel of silent shivering trees
(the ones you said you'd like to be),
and the birds that screamed at the sun
now buried deep down below the ground,
beneath the snow, I press my shoulder to this wall between us.
I know you are behind me and I press my shoulder to this wall,
determined not to turn around.
I do and see you standing,
still that statue that I molded in my mind to kiss,
so beautiful you'll never move again.
Someplace far away, at some sad table littered with chipped plates,
with bad light,
in 48 frames from a movie on the cutting room floor,
you said "True meaning would be dying with you",
and though I wanted to, I did not smile.
But now I will give up on this wall that I have fought with,
never uncover meaning behind our rich words.
If I could I would make you a raging river,
with angry rapids, supplied with rain,
so you could always meander
and forever be able to run away
without contending with myths wrongly interpreted, with pain.
A harsh wind."