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HitWicket is another cool firefox addon which lets you monitor the live cricket scores on any cricket match going on. It is based on ScoreWatch Firefox extension and fetches the updates from CMDN.com in the status bar panel.
It will alert you about any fall of wickets even if you are running a screensaver it will pop up in that case, you can anytime configure the refresh interval of the scores
CookiePie is a free firefox extension which lets you log into multiple gmail accounts in firefox without different login credentials. This could really useful add on if for any reason and you have more than one gmail account and you want to login into both at the same time.
You just need to press a Ctrl+T on your keyboard to instruct firefox to open a new tab and then you can right click in the new tab and select toggle on/off cookiepie you will see a small cookie icon on the tab and you are ready to open a different gmail account.
One of the most useful toolbar in firefox is google toolbar which helps you auto fill the information on various web pages and also prevent you from various pop ups. But the most annoying fact is that google toolbar is shown just below the firefox address bar so it takes a good amount of space and decreases the readable space in firefox.
We can see both the snapshots given below one with google toolbar shown and other with google toolbar hidden and integrated with firefox search box
Google Toolbar Shown
Google Toolbar Hidden
Let’s discuss how to hide google toolbar and integrate it to the firefox search box
It could happen many times when you try to copy any text selected on a webpage opened in firefox and when you paste the text in word document or any where else formatting remains so you undo the paste and copy the text in notepad and then copy again to the word document. As far as my experience this particular practice is really a pain on your mind and it also takes more time as usual.
Copy Plain Text is a cool firefox addon which comes to rescue in this situation and adds a context menu entry in the right click menu in firefox as Copy as Plain Text
Microsoft has recently publicly launched their new search engine Bing which is much better and faster as compared to old live search. I had performed couple of searches on bing and found the results very good and quickly, looks like Microsoft had modified the old live search to make it more precise and quick this time.
Bing provides some great general search results now, with high relevance, big index and quick speed. So, lately I have been studying about various other articles of bing tips and tricks and how to add bing to windows 7 and while surfing I came across another cool addon which adds bing to the firefox search bar.
IE View is one of the cool free firefox addon which allows you to open any web page you visited with firefox to be opened in internet explorer. You can open any page in internet explorer from firefox just by right clicking the page and select View This Page In IE
IE View adds the menu items to the context menu and the link to the context menu. Right clicking a link now includes "Open link target in IE" menu item and Right-clicking elsewhere in the main body of the page (not within an image, text box, etc.) gives "View this page in IE."
FireFox is one of the browser which offers the maximum level of optimizations as compared to the other to make user feel like old. All these high level customizations are allowed as per the user requirement by some amazing add ons library.
One such add on is Ie8fox 1.5 which is a firefox theme which lets you transform the look and feel of your FireFox browser to make it look like the new Internet Explorer 8 ( as shown in the image below)