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Mouse Gestures (home page) |
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By means of this add on, it is possible to navigate
through WWW pages with a few simple mouse movements. I found
that some of the defined gestures allow by far faster navigation and
save the distractive mouse clicks on specific buttons (e.g. Moving the
mouse to the left allows to go back in surf history and thus saves the
positioning of the mouse on the back button). The are Mouse Gestures
for
Navigation, Tabbed Browsing, Image Control, Link activation as well as
Source, Cookie, Meta Tag and Bookmark gestures. |
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Preferences Toolbar (home
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Some web pages provide good contents but use a
hardly readable colour and font design. Walking through the
preferences menu in order to override the document setting with
default font and colour setting often was to tidious and akward
for me and I preferred to leave the page missing out on the actual
information contained in it.
However, the Preferences Toolbar provides a fast
access to such internal preference settings,
which
are represented as simple buttons or selection lists. This toolbar can
be configured to only show those entries that one wants to use more
often. A simple shortcut ('F8') makes the bar
appear/disappear
in order not to spend valuable display space on this add on feature.
The
Toolbar provides Navigation Buttons (Back, Forward, Reload,Stop, Home),
Checkboxes for Preferences settings (Images, Fonts, Colors,
JavaScript, Java, PopUps, Cookies, Proxy settings, etc.), Utility
Functions (Clear Cache, Clear History, Clear Location Bar, etc.),
User Agent Spoof (Netscape 4.7 or 6.2 / Internet Explorer 5.0 or 6.0),
comprehensive Help and a Customization button to change
the toolbar configuration.
Firefox 1.0PR users might also try this Prefbar 2.3.0.
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Alt Text as Tooltip (home page) |
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The "ALT" information in the html image tag
defines the text, which is display instead of the image in text only
browser software. However, Netscape started to display this text when a
user hovers over an image on the displayed page. Internet Explorer now
also shows the same behaviour. Clearly, this usage of the ALT text is
not conform with its original definition and Mozilla therefore refuses
to implement this feature after a long discussion. However, some users
and page programmers have got used to it and rely upon it. Mozilla
provides the application interface which easily allows to add this
behaviour. Piro (SHIMODA Hiroshi) provides the necessary code on his site to have the ALT
text displayed as Tooltip again. |
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Diggler Button (home page) |
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Diggler is a small but powerful add-on for
Mozilla. It adds a button next to the location bar which can clear
the location bar but also drops down a
menu with some useful actions such as being able to disable popup
windows and navigate to parent directories in URLs (handy for
FTP
operations and nested sites). |
knoll@chipweb.de