Links they could be dangerous, malicious so here’s a nifty little FireFox Extension that will change the mouse cursor according to the target of the link the mouse pointer points to.It supports 25 types of links by default.

Though the target of the links is shown in the status bar not many notice the target link and click the links, this extension can be called more of like a warning about the link the user is about to access.You can also add any new file extension and assign a image for the file extension.

Link Alert indicates links to the following by default:
-New Windows
-Secure Sites
-Email Links
-JavaScript
-Word Documents
-Excel Spreadsheets
-PDF Files
-Zip Files
-Applications
-Text Files
-Images
-RSS Feeds
-AIM Links
-and more..

Link Alert is compatible with Firefox: 1.5 – 3.0pre

Link Alert

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• Mozilla Addons

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Sending SMS messages via the Internet is possible from various sites or by installing a software.Here’s another cool way to send SMS messages within USA from within your FireFox Browser using the Google Send to Phone extension that enables you to send short text messages of web page content to your mobile phone.

Installation

• Install the Google Send to Phone Extension from here.
• Upon Installation a small mobile icon will appear in the upper right corner of the browser.
• Copy and paste whatever content you want from the page into the “text to send” field ( or )Select the text and click the mobile icon and that will open a new window where you can send the text you just selected as a text message.
• Fill in the number you wish to send the message to and select the appropriate carrier. Click the ‘Send Message’ button to send the message.

If you’re going long, the tool will automatically split your text into multiple messages.

Sending messages through this extension is free, but charges may apply to receiving them; check with your carrier for details.

Download Google Send To Phone FireFox Extension

It’s difficult to backup everything of FireFox, when you reinstall your OS. Firefox Environment Backup Extension ( FEBE ) is a useful extension which backs up your extensions, themes, your bookmarks, preferences, and everything related to your FireFox installation.It can actually rebuild your extensions individually into installable .xpi files which can be used to install the extension.

You can back your complete profile or do a selective backup choosing what to backup.

You can also schedule a backup with the scheduler.

A Debug option is available to go through the steps to find if anything went wrong during the backup process.

Firefox Environment Backup Extension ( FEBE ) — HomePage

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All of you using FireFox might have notied that it takes a few seconds before FireFox starts up.If you are ready to sacrifice a bit of memory you can have your FireFox start faster. Firefox Preloader an open source software designed to load parts of Mozilla Firefox into memory before it is used to improve the its startup time.It can start on Windows startup and sit in the taskbar and ready to use anytime.It can be used even if you have multiple versions of FireFox installed.

It can be used on all 32-bit Windows OS (95/98/NT/2000/XP).

It works with with Firefox 2 and 3 as well.This tool might be useful if you want things to start off faster on systems with a bit of lower memory.

Download Firefox Preloader from here.

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Links play a very important part in SEO, both internal links as well as external links.Have a count of links of a web page and frames. Group and highlight links by type.

Features :

• Links type to count/group: empty, files, targets, anchors, feeds, javascripts, mails, ‘xfiles’, internal and external.
• Highlighting making a color difference in the link type.
• Auto-highlight on every page load.
• Open links locations, copy to clipboard as text or HTML.
• Check links status including 2xx, 3xx, 4xx and 5xx.

The Add-On sits in the statusbar initially showing “LC” once the webpage loads its shows the total links in the page, right click on the number shows more option like below.

Screenshot : Link Status

Download the Add-On from here.

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PicLens has become one of my favorite FireFox addon, It transforms your browser into a full-screen slide show experience for viewing photos on the Web from services like Flickr, Facebook, Google Images, Yahoo Images, Friendster, Picasa Web Albums, and any other service which support Media RSS.A single click on the thumbnail images transforms the browser into the full screen slide show.

During the fullscreen slide show you can move along the images manually or press the play button for automatic slideshow. For pausing the slideshow Press ” SpaceBar “.

For Exiting PicLens Press ” Escape ” on the keyboard.

This Extension is available for both FireFox and Safari.It supports FireFox 2.0+ on Windows XP and Vista and Safari 2.0 or 3.0 on Mac OS X 10.4.x.

PicLens

• HomePage
• Download for FireFox and Safari and Internet Explorer
• Check out the tutorial on how to use PicLens.

Uninstalling PicLens

FireFox : Goto Addon in the Tool menu, select PicLens from the list and press Uninstall.

Safari : select the Remove PicLens option from the View > PicLens menu in Safari, or delete the PicLens folder from the /Library/InputManagers folder of your hard disk.

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