Take Screenshots of web pages in Firefox using ScreenGrab

As a blogger I sometimes need to take screenshots of websites and for that purpose I use a Firefox extension called ScreenGrab, using it you can take screenshots from within Firefox, that way it is more convenient than loading a special software just for taking a screenshot. ScreenGrab has a very fast engine unlike other screenshot extension’s for Firefox  and doesn’t uses much resources.

ScreenGrab can take screenshots of entire web pages unlike special screen grabbing softwares which can only take screenshots of the visible area,  the options available to you are save or copy the complete page, save or copy visible portion of the webpage only, save or copy a selected area in the webpage, you can choose between JPG and png as the format of screenshots and you can also choose between gecko or java as the engine.

Get ScreenGrab from official Firefox add-ons site

Backup Your Firefox Profile With FEBE

For me loosing my bookmarks or website login information is like a nightmare that’s why I regularly backup Firefox Using an extension called FEBE, I am using it for a long time and it has never let me down

It is a very powerful extension with a lot of configurable options, using it you can either backup the full profile or selected things e.g extension, themes, bookmarks, preferences, username and password, cookies, search plugins, userchrome files, browser history, form fill history, permission or a backup that you define, you can also use timestamp directories so that you can keep multiple backups and easily manage them (You can set the number of backups it should store), you can also schedule backups at a specific time either daily , weekly or monthly (Firefox must be running at that time) you can also set reminders if the backup somehow doesn’t gets created or you have not set up scheduled backups, febe also has a very good extension backing up support it can save all your extensions in a .XPI file so that you can easily install them again

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Two Extensions that you won’t need with Firefox 3

Mozilla has a history of integrating extra features in every new release of their browsers that would require separate extensions to run, they did it with FireFox 2 and they now did same with FireFox 3 by adding few features that some popular add-on used to provide to the users, here are those two extensions and the features these extensions provide:

Autocomplete Manager- when you type something in the address bar this extension shows related entries from your bookmarks but now FireFox developers have added this feature by default in FireFox 3

Download Statusbar- this extension automatically hides the download window to the status bar of FireFox and shows the download status in the status bar

Increase The Number Of Addons Firefox 3 Recommends

The most prominent feature in Firefox 3 is the new Add-on manager which has an addon recommendation feature but by default it only shows 5 Addons but if you want it to show more Add-on you can modify a about:config entry and you are all done

instructions:

1. Enter about:config into the address bar and hit enter.
2. Hit “I”ll be carefull. I promise!” button.
3. Type extensions.getAddons.maxResults into the filter field and change its value from the default 5 to a higher number.

For some odd reason, Firefox 3 won’t return more than 8 results no matter what number you put in the box. Go ahead and try 112, it won’t break Firefox, because your browser will still only show you 8.