Important Things 1999

Today, upgraded laotudou.com to WordPress V3.0.5, also all of plugins.

Today, remove most plugins in Firefox V3.5.2 in order to improve its startup speed.

It seems having no effect after clearing up.

Firefox V3.5.2 starts up  slower than IE V6.0, and often crashs.

I have reported many times about the crash related with bookmark’s operation since V2, it’s still in this version.

After you create a bookmark or folder in left side bar, move it immediately, this operation will make Firefox crash.

If you tired of Firefox, Mathon will be a good choice to replaceV3.5.2, URL: http://www.maxthon.com/

I still use Firefox because of its powerful plugins, such as Xmarks, Alexa, and Zotera.

Firefox V3.5.2 is still in pre-release version, it’s hurry to publish, and harms its reputation.

Plugins in my Firefox V3.5 now,

1. Alexa Sparky

2. Gmail Manager

3. IE Tab

4. Java Quick Starter

5. Xmarks

6. Zotero

all of them are active.

1. Using Foxmarks to synchronize bookmark between laptop and desktop PC.

2. Using Zotero to record interesting content when browsing.

3. Zotero home directory is backuped by Dropbox, so it can be restored/downloaded in different computer.

4. Using FEBE to backup addons and restore in other PCs

5. Using sync tools(lots of) to synchronize user directory of Firefox/Thunderbird from laptop to U-disk, for password, bookmark, and configuration protection.

6. Set cache 50MB.

7. Using Chromifox theme to replase colorfultabs addon which uses an ugly backupgroud picture in tabs after every upgrading.

This post just records addons used in my Firefox V3.0.5

1. Alexa Sparky. For this website’s Alexa. (Dec. 6, 2008 was 5m, today is 1.5m)

2. All-in-One Sidebar. testing, maybe disable someday, installed it for study source code beside the webpage.

3. Firefox Universal Uploader. Upload images to my Picasa, re-enabled serveral days ago.

4. FEBE. Backup Addons

5. Foxmarks. The main reason I like Firefox is this addon.

6. Google Gears. Accelerate this website. maybe disable someday.

7. IE Tab. For Netbank, not feel well every time using it. IE is a disgusted word in my dictionary.

8. Jave Quick Starter. not sure. just enable it.

9. Zotero. Record some webpages and add tags and rename titles. I like it just as Foxmarks.

Refer: http://www.lifehack.org/a…..ity.html

IT1999: The following content is copied from above URL, not represent my opinion. I use some other plugins and addons.

Firefox is the browser of dreams for many people (myself included). One of the great perks of Firefox is that there are tons of extensions that enhance the functionality of the browser. With over 1500 extensions in existence, there are many that can be used to improve your productivity. The following is my take on the top 10 extensions that will keep you focused, reduce distractions, streamline your daily work flow, and improve your productivity.

1. Customize Google

Customize Google is a very robust extension that lets you customize many features of the services provided by Google. Customize Google lets you block advertisements on pretty much any Google page (including Gmail). It remaps Google Images search results to point directly at the images (no longer will you need to click through the originating site). Customize Google lets you add links from other search engines directly into your search results. It can also block Google click tracking and allows you to connect to Google Calendar and Gmail securely (https). Give it a try, you won’t be sorry.

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I like Firefox, because it’s open and there are lots of addons. Firefox is a platform, not like IE6, which just is a web browser. Here is another plugin for Firefoxer.

Sothink Web Video Downloader

Download any web videos and enjoy them anytime.

* Download live videos, music, streaming media
* Download flv, swf, wmv, asf, avi, mov, rm, rmvb, etc.
* Download videos from Youtube, Google, MySpace, and so on
* Support Mozilla Firefox for Windows | Linux | Macintosh

Now and then you may want to save a funny web video from a video sharing website, but in most cases you just don’t know how. Try Sothink Web Video Downloader for Firefox, which automatically monitors Mozilla Firefox, detects live videos and prompts you to download. You don’t need to copy and paste anything — just get what you want with one click.

Sothink Web Video Downloader for Firefox works with almost all websites, and supports most live formats including flv, wmv, asf, avi, mov, rm, rmvb, etc. It brings great convenience to over 30,000 users in the world.

Key Features
Video Capture & Video Download functions

* Automatically detect Web video or Flash files for video capturing and downloading
* Capture video, download video and save video fast from Internet
* Fast speed to complete video downloading process
* Capture Flash SWF content with never-expired function of our popular freeware SWF Catcher
* Fetch video of different formats including flv, swf, wmv, asf, avi, mov, rm, rmvb
* Easy to download video from Youtube, Google, MySpace and many other video sites and blogs
* Capture videos under WINDOWS, LINUX, Mac OS X (x86), or Mac OS X (PPC):

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Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work — in the web browser itself.

Refer: http://www.zotero.org/

IT1999 says “I used to collect web content using myBase, please refer: myBase for Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista, until found zotero. “

Note: zotero directory can be backuped with dropbox or mozy.

Somebody said WordPress V2.7 has a totally different administrator interface, this make me curious about it, so decided to upgrade my website this night, just want to look at how different it is.

1. no backup db, no backup WordPress V2.6.5 codes, just using last night backup

2. access wp-admin, disable all plugins

3. ftp login, uploaded default theme

4. modify theme used from my personal theme(SimpleIT1999) to default theme

5. upload new codes of WordPress V2.7

6. access wp-admin, click upgrade, succeed. Read more…

The most popular plugins I have used,

1. Add to Any: Subscribe Button
2. Akismet
3. All in One SEO Pack
4. FeedBurner FeedSmith
5. Google XML Sitemaps Read more…