December 10, 2007
Snap Links is a useful add on for FireFox
A few months ago, Saiwing clued me in on a add on for FireFox called Snap Links. I’ve found this to be a very useful add on – and I install it on all my machines.
Snap Links basically enables this scenario:
- See a bunch links on a web page that you want to explore.
- Right click, drag, and draw a lasso over all those links.
- Watch as those links all open into separate tabs.
I’ve found this especially useful lately for shopping. For example, if you go to Polo.com’s men’s sale section, it lists all the sub categories of things that are on sale. With Snap Links, with one drag of the mouse, I can open all the sub categories into separate tabs to make my shopping more efficient. Here’s a screenshot of it in action:
As soon as let go of the right click, BAM!, all those categories are opened into their own tabs. Pretty neat.
FWIW, the add ons I always install in FireFox are:
What are you favorite FireFox add ons?
2 Comments to “Snap Links is a useful add on for FireFox”
December 10th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
AdBlock Plus, FlashBlock, Fission (progress bar in the address bar), Google Gears, Open Book, Session Manager, and Uppity. I use FoxMarks, but maybe Google sync would be better…
FWIW, I just wrote up a blog entry on Firefox tips and tricks:
http://www.kpao.org/2007/12/web-browser-tips-tricks.html
My favorite is the keyword feature for bookmarks, especially when combined with the %s variable for passing in text.
December 15th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
the latest thing I found useful is firebug. The 2 things I use it the most for are 1) use the inspect feature to figure out the url’s of the elements that I want to block (by putting them in adblock plus) and 2) you can change the page html on the fly and so i would change autocomplete from off to on in sites that don’t want you to save passwords.
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