Flash cookies (Local Shared Objects, LSO) are pieces of information placed on your computer by a Flash plugin, placed in central system folders and so protected from deletion. Flash is a separate application running on your system, there is no way to prevent it from storing those LSO’s on your disk. They are frequently used like standard browser cookies. Although their thread potential is much higher as of conventional cookies, only few users began to take notice of them. It is of frequent occurrence that -after a time- hundreds of those Flash-cookies reside in special folders. And they won’t be deleted – never.

With BetterPrivacy it is possible to review, protect or delete new Flash-cookies individually. Users who wish to to manage all cookies manually can disable the automatic functions. BetterPrivacy also protects against ‘DOM Storage’ long term tracking, a browser feature which has been granted by the major browser manufactures.

How does BetterPrivacy work?
BetterPrivacy finds the folder where your Flash plugin stores the LSO’s. Thus the first start of Firefox could be delayed for some seconds. Then BetterPrivacy does absolutely nothing until you close Firefox. At that time the addon will look at the LSO folder and if there are cookies existing it will show a popup. BetterPrivacy asks if you would like to delete the LSO’s at that time. You might decide to review every single LSO later at the next session. Otherwise you can choose to delete or even auto-delete on every Firefox exit.

You can download the latest version of BetterPrivacy from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6623.

BetterPrivacy – Firefox Add-Ons to Remove Flash Cookies is a post from: TechieQuest

PdfIt extension allows user to convert current page to image file, or PDF format(image to pdf), during the page to image conversion process, user can apply some image filters( for example,rotate,reflection…,)

Pdfit runs on any platform: Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Once installed, the “Pdf It!” menu item will appear at Browser>Tools menu and context menu.

To download, visit https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7528.

Pdfit – Firefox Add-Ons that Converts Web Page to PDF is a post from: TechieQuest

An amazingly simple way to keep track of what you do on the internet. No need for folders full of bookmarks that you will never find again, or a jumble of tag words that confuse you more than help you find that page your looking for.

As you browse, WebMynd will keep a virtual copy of all the sites you visit on your hard drive and the text is sent to WebMynd servers for indexing. It keeps the index information for one week and allows you to see your most recently visited pages by clicking the WebMynd button on your toolbar. You can scroll left and right or view in thumbnail images to see the recent visited pages.

WebMynd also allows you to publish your pages to the OpenMynd collection to share with your friends and family. When you clicked on the publish button, it will save your page as a static image that you want to publish and share with everyone. It is fun to be able to flip through people’s pages to find something that catch your eyes.

For more information on WebMynd, watch the demo video.

You can download the latest version of WebMynd from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6416.

WebMynd – TiVo for the Web is a post from: TechieQuest

We take the best websites, selected by you and other del.icio.us users, add a powerful Google search engine and we get a free and easy way to find what we need and exactly where it is!

deliGoo allows you to search for specific content in your del.icio.us bookmarks. You can either search all of your del.icio.us bookmarks, within a certain user’s del.icio.us bookmarks or within a certain del.ico.us tag. It also allows you to create on your demand custom search engines on any del.icio.us tag.

deliGoo placed an additional button on the tools’ panel of your browser. To search, simply type in the user and/or tag you wish to search through and the term you are looking for, then click Goo! Results are displayed through Google Custom Search.

deliGoo is a great delicious search tool. The add-on is available for both Firefox 2.0+ and Internet Explorer 6.0+, you can download it from deliGoo homepage or Mozilla Add-Ons site.

deliGoo – Delicious (del.icio.us) Search Engine is a post from: TechieQuest

To assign one website to Fast Dial, right-click a thumbnail, and choose “Fast Dial > Set URL” from the context menu. Choose an URL and click “OK”. In a second or two the thumbnail image appears, later open sites just clicking the thumbnails.

You can change the thumbnails position by drag-n-drop. If you move mouse over thumbnail’s top-right corner, a panel of graphic buttons appears for you to zoom, refresh, clear or set the URL for the thumbnail.

Mouse-click and Keyboard shortcuts:

• Left click on a thumbnail title opens “Set URL” dialog.
• Middle click on thumbnail title runs thumbnail refresh.
• Left click on a thumbnail opens the website in current page.
• Middle click on thumbnail opens the website in a new tabs.
• Alt+number keyboard shortcut opens assigned site.
• When viewing zoomed image right-click to exit zoom mode, or left-click to open selected site.

You can customize the appearance of your Fast Dial page in Preferences.

You can download the latest Fast Dial Firefox extension from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5721.

Fast Dial – Add Shortcuts to your Firefox is a post from: TechieQuest

You can change the translation mode to display translation in address bar, display translation in pop-up window, or disable the translation.

To translate a word just select it with your mouse, the translation will appear in Firefox address bar or in a pop-up window. With the pop-up window, you can copy the selected word to the clipboard or search it in one of the search engines by clicking one of the icons such as Google, Yahoo, Answer.com, Flickr, YouTube or Wikipedia.

You can download the latest version of Quick TransLation from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5641.

Quick TransLation – Firefox Add-Ons is a post from: TechieQuest

With Speed Dial, you can easily access your most used websites. You don’t have to scroll through your long list of bookmarks to find your favorite site. Just one-click, and you’re done.

It is similar to the Opera’s Speed Dial feature which opens top sites into 9 visual bookmarks that are available when open a new tab.

Speed Dial features:

• Speed Dial will open in a tab, showing the currently assigned websites as thumbnails.
• The Speed Dial tab can be loaded automatically in every new tabs and windows.
• The assigned websites can be loaded automatically by pressing the Control key and it’s assigned number.
• Drag & drop reordering.
• Add dialog when clicking an unassigned entry.
• Automatic refresh of thumbnails by using a background browser (with configurable interval per thumbnail).
• Toolbar buttons to access Speed Dial’s functionality (including a drop down of the assigned websites).

To assign one website to Speed Dial, you can use the new “Set as Speed Dial” option in the Bookmarks menu, and select the the slot where you want to assign the website in. Or you can right click on an unassigned slot of Speed Dial tab. A new “Add Dial” dialog will appear for you to add the website URL.

You can access the Speed Dial slot in 3 ways:

• Click on a Speed Dial tab. If you hold the “Shift” key while clicking, the URL will be opened in a new window. Holding the “Control” key, or using middle button click, will open the URL into a new tab.
• Use the “Speed Dial” button drop down list. Holding the “Shift” or “Control” keys, or using middle button, will behave like the previous option.
• Keyboard shortcuts. If at any moment you use the “Control” key and a number, the URL assigned to the Speed Dial slot with the same number will be opened.

Speed Dial will be automatically loaded in blank new windows. It can also load in blank new tabs. To configure this, and other options, use the extension settings panel.

You can download the latest version of Speed Dial from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4810.

For more on how to use Speed Dial, visit the Getting started tutorial.

Speed Dial for Firefox – Shortcuts for Bookmarks is a post from: TechieQuest

How Readeroo works:

Readeroo only has 2 buttons, “Add” and “Read” buttons. When you discover some interesting articles and you don’t have the time to read now. So you click on the “Add” button to put these articles in your Readeroo queue. The articles are added to your delicious bookmarks with the “toread” tag and you can access them later by clicking the “Read” button to retrieve them from the queue. Readeroo will tags them “donereading” when click the item in your list of “toread” bookmarks. You can change the del.icio.us tags (“toread” and “donereading”) by going into the Readeroo options menu.

This is an easy way to for del.icio.us users to quickly add a bookmark to del.icio.us of the site that you are browsing.

You can download the latest version of Readeroo from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4912.

Readeroo – Firefox Extension to Queues Up Articles into del.icio.us is a post from: TechieQuest

It also provides product search from sites like, Amazon, ebay, Target, Walmart, Best Buy, circuitcity, Macys, JR and Buy.com. It opens search results from different sites in different tabs for easy compare prices.

You can download the latest version of Web Application Search Engine sidebar from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5941.

Web Applications Search Engine – Firefox Add-Ons is a post from: TechieQuest

Personas for Firefox is a extension that adds lightweight theming to your Firefox web browser. Personas allows you to switch between themes instantaneously without having to restart Firefox multiple times. It really makes your life easier in adding themes to your browser if you are the person that love Firefox theme.

Personas comes with a few themes to choose from, you can change the theme daily to have the look and feel of your choice or set it to change randomly.

To get started, click on the small Fox icon on the status bar of your Firefox browser and select your Personas from the list. I like the ‘Reindeer’, as it is perfect for my Christmas holiday.

Personas features:

• You can select a Persona from the dynamic menus and see results instantly without having to discover, select, download or install a separate bit of software or code.
• Personas can be added, removed or updated by their designers at any time, without requiring a software update.

Mozilla plans to release an API that will allow developers and designers to submit Personas that are based on Web content. Then Personas can be added, removed or updated by their designers at any time, without requiring a software update.

You can download the Personas for Firefox 2.0.0.* – 3.0b2pre at https://addons.mozilla.org/services/install.php?addon_id=personas.

Personas for Firefox is a post from: TechieQuest