Five Acres with a View

Make Link is a Firefox add-on that allows you to copy links in a variety of formats, including those you specify yourself.

Have you ever been in a pop-up window (like Haloscan comments use) and wished you could see the menubar and toolbar? If you use Firefox, and install the Unhide Menubar Add-on you can get the menu bar and toolbar to reappear for that window.

In the default install of Firefox, new tab open at the end of the list of tabs.  The Tabs Open Relative :: Add-ons changes this behavior, so that the new tab opens after the current one.  I strongly prefer this behavior, and really miss it when I use a version of Firefox without it.

Morning Coffee is a Firefox Add-on which allows you to set up groups of tabs that can be opened all at once.  This is particularly good for those sites which change fairly often, and resolutely refuse to add an RSS feed.

I think we have books in every room of the house except for the bathrooms and kitchen. We would probably have books there if space was not at a premium. So I have been trying to minimize book purchases, not just because of cost, but because there is no space left for new book shelves, and our current shelves are full.

I have been trying to use the library in lieu of buying books.  We have a wonderful library system, the Pikes Peak Library District, which allows us to reserve books on-line.  I recently discovered that the Firefox add-on Book Burro can search the Pikes Peak Library District catalog system, when it sees me looking up a book on Amazon.com.  It makes it relatively trivial to reserve the book, without having to re-enter the search parameters in Sirsi, the application which maintains the catalog. The add-on will also provide prices for a book from various on-line providers, but I am trying to avoid them, since we don’t need more books.

A new release of the Firefox blogging add-on, ScribeFire 1.4.1, is on Mozilla Addons. It looks much more polished.  The change log is at the blog article ScribeFire: Fire up your blogging » ScribeFire 1.4.1 Released.

I’ve updated my list of Firefox Add-Ons.