Make Firefox open new tabs next to current tab instead of last tab

Mozilla Firefox by default opens links in the last tab in the tab bar if you open a link in a new tab  and if you have too many tabs open then it could be really annoying to browse to the end of the tab bar, I came across two Firefox extensions for changing this behavior and both are compatible with Firefox 3.0.1

First is called Next Tab which adds a “Open link next to current tab” option to your right click context menu so that you can easily open your desired link in a new tab next to the current tab, this is a very small and simple extension which gets the job done.

The second one is called Tabs Open Relative which changes the default behavior of firefox so that it opens every link in a new tab next to the current tab so that in can work with the links you open with the middle click but that isn’t what you always want to do.

It also changes the behavior for new tabs so that they open next to current tab but if you want to disable that the extension developer has given the instructions for that:

If you don’t want new tabs to be affected, go to about:config (see http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config for more info) and disable the preference “extensions.tabsopenrelative.includenewtabs”.

Easily Download Youtube Videos Using Flashgot

FlashGot is one of the most popular Firefox extension which allows you to seamlessly integrate your download manager with Firefox, by adding a new option to the Firefox download window and when you select that option it adds the download link in your favorite download manager.

I have been using flashgot since Firefox 1.5 and it keeps on getting better and better and this time the flashgot developers have added an exciting new feature to flashgot called “FlashGot Media” which adds a new item to the right click context menu of Firefox (this only shows up whenever a video is playing) so that you can easily download Youtube videos from inside Firefox without installing any separate software’s and it is the easiest and the quickest way to download Youtube videos, here’s how it works:

open any Youtube video and right click on an empty area (not the Youtube player) and click on “FlashGot Media” or just press Ctrl+F7 and it will detect the the embedded video in that page and it will start downloading that video in your default download manager (chosen in flashgot settings) ,that’s it once your download manager finishes downloading the video file you can watch it.

Get the latest version of flashgot (v1.1) from here

Edit: This doesnt only works with youtube!

Modify Incompatible Firefox Extensions to make them work with Firefox 3

Ever came across an extension that you badly want to run with Firefox 3 and are in no mood to downgrade to earlier versions of Firefox, and you aren’t comfortable with modifying about:config, the other day I came across this extension called minimize to tray and I badly wanted it to run with Firefox 3 ,actually what it does is that it minimizes Firefox to tray when you press CTRL+SHIFT+M, now whenever I am done with with Firefox I don’t close it instead I minimize it, it is working great so far in Firefox 3.0.1, I am using the same extension as an reference in this post:

first step is to get the .xpi file of the addon you want to make compatible with Firefox 3.0.1, to do that go to Mozilla addons site and open the page of your desired extension, now the problem is that the add to Firefox button is greyed out because its not compatible otherwise we would have right clicked it and chosen “save link as” option but now you  can get xpi file by changing your browser e.g Internet Explorer (you can use IE tab too) as it will turn the add to Firefox button to download now button and then you can easily save the xpi file to your hard disk
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Add a “Clear list and close Window” button to Firefox download manager

I found this nifty little extension for Firefox while crawling on the web named “clear and close”, the name pretty much describes its function that is it replaces the default “clear” button in the Firefox download manager with a “Clear list & Close Window” button which clears completed or interrupted downloads and automatically closes the download manager window, it basically saves you one click .

it is very small and simple extension so I don’t need to write much about it. it’s in experimental mode on Firefox addon’s site so instead you can get it from softpedia.

See your Gmail Unread Mail Count on the favicon

Yesterday I found a cool new extension named “Badges On Favicon”, basically what is does is that it shows a image on on the favicon with the use of java scripts called “badgets” which can show any kind of number like the Gmail unread mail count on the favicon, it isn’t limited to Gmail only there are few more badgets available that can show Yahoo Finance Quotes, unread messages from Apple’s Mobile Me Mail, number of unread items from Netvibes, number of new results since the start of the Twitter search,new items iGoogle Reader Gadget and unread mails from Zenbe, you can also create your own badgets if you cant find  anything interesting in the current badgets.

when you install this extension 4 badgets are installed by default that are Gmail Unread count, Google Reader iGoogle Gadget, Yahoo finance and Zenbe mail count, you can install other badgets from the developer’s site, once you install the extension it will start showing the badge on the favicon, this thing works great with Faviconized tabs extension which minimizes the tab to the extent that it only shows the favicon so that it doesn’t uses much space on the tab bar

Badge on Gmail Favicon

Gmail with badge Faviconized!

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