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Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful
IainB:
FoxySpider is a FF extension that seems to be angled at porn surfing, but it's a very handy tool if you want to investigate a site and take a look at all its images.
Well worth a look-see: http://www.foxyspider.com/about
As a test, after you have installed it, go to http://www.google.com/intl/en/about/ and right-click on the page and invoke FoxySpider. Interesting result.
Curt:
FoxySpider-IainB (March 12, 2014, 06:04 AM)
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https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/foxyspider/
Does it really work? Wow. It hasn't been updated for 11 months, so I assumed...
IainB:
...Does it really work? Wow. It hasn't been updated for 11 months, so I assumed...
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-Curt (March 12, 2014, 08:47 AM)
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It most decidedly does work, and you can crawl any website, gathering specific file types.
For example, from the Mozilla FoxySpider Add-on page:
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About this Add-on
With FoxySpider you can:
* Get all photos from an entire website
* Get all video clips from an entire website
* Get all audio files from an entire website
* Well, actually get any file type you want from an entire websiteFoxySpider can be used to create a thumbnail gallery containing links to rich media files of any file types you are interested in. It can also crawl deep to any level on a website and display the applicable files it found in the same gallery. FoxySpider is useful for different media content pages (music, video, images, documents), thumbnail gallery post (TGP) sites, podcasts. You can narrow and expand the search to support exactly what you want.
Once the thumbnail gallery is created you can view, download or share (on Facebook and Twitter) every file that was fetched by FoxySpider.
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IainB:
I read about this on firefoxfacts.com today:
(Copied below sans embedded hyperlinks/images.)
Tab Set Saver - Firefox Facts
Have you seen Tab Set Saver? It lets you save a set of tabs into a single HTML file (thumbnails included), and restore one or all of the tabs from this file at a later time.
Here is more information about Tab Set Saver:
Save a set of tabs into a single HTML file (thumbnails included), and restore one or all of the tabs from this file at a later time. Use this for instance to save working sets of tabs when switching between projects, move tabs between browsers, or to temporarily offload tabs to lessen the load on Firefox.
Want to download the Tab Set Saver? Check it out on the Firefox Add-ons website.
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That looks pretty good - it saves to HTML file(s) - but for ages now I have been using built-in Firefox "save tabs as MHT archive file". where you just select the tabs from a checklist and they are then saved to a single MHT archive file or separate MHT archive files (your choice), which can be read/expanded by/into Firefox. It's very fast.
MilesAhead:
I have been using built-in Firefox "save tabs as MHT archive file"
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Is this a new thing? I'm running FF 27.0 and can't find it anywhere.
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