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Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Installing Firefox Extensions
Firefox adds to its functionality by making it possible for anyone to add what are called "extensions" to the browser. These extensions are available at the Mozilla site here - The easiest way to be informed of new extensions is to add the following feed to your RSS aggregator.
I suggest you check out the existing extensions - many are very useful for specific purposes.
On the other hand there exists the Abe Vigoda Status Extension - but who are we to judge?
Time to install Formfox - Open this link in a new tab.
About half way down the page you will see a tan box with the words Install
Now - Click it.
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The Software Installation dialogue box will initially grey out the
Install Now button forcing you to consider the security implications
of what you are doing.
Since this site is known safe we will continue. Once the Install Now button turns its regular colour we can click it to continue the installation. |
The Install Now button has turned its regular colour and it has a
big green check mark so click it to continue.
The dialogue box (below) will pop up. |
To be able to use the extension you must restart Firefox as
indicated in the Extensions dialogue box.
Before you do check the last two pics below. To access this dialogue box at other times click Tools - Extensions. From here you can Update extensions, uninstall extensions and check for new extensions. |
Here we have an example of the Formfox extension at Google.ca - With
the mouse hovering over the Google Search button we can see that the
form will indeed be sent to http://www.google.ca/search and NOT
http://www.russian-mafia.ru !
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Every so often - and ALWAYS after upgrading Firefox itself - click
the icon to the right of the Help text button - Firefox will check
all the sources for your installed extensions and if there are
updates or newer versions it will prompt you to install them.
In some instances updates to extensions will take time and for a period after installing an updated Firefox some extensions won't work - indeed there have been extensions that have remained broken and were eventually uninstalled :-( |
