Add-ons
LukeCro
About me
| Name | LukeCro |
|---|---|
| User since | Feb. 21, 2008 |
| Number of add-ons developed | 0 add-ons |
| Average rating of developer's add-ons | Not yet rated |
My Reviews
FlashGot Mass Downloader
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Amazing. I've tried so many of flash-downloading programs and add-on's in the past, but FlashGot is the only one that rarely fails me -- even for videos embedded in players from obscure websites and video players using unusual coding that other Flash-downloading programs can't handle, FlashGot has got ya covered. Fast, easy, versatile: Great stuff.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.2.0.9).Duplicate Tab
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Easily one of the handiest Firefox add-ons out there -- quickly duplicate/copy/clone any tabs (including the page's full browsing history -- so you can browse Back and Forward within the duplicate), detach tabs into new windows, merge detached windows back together into a single window full of tabs . . . This should be built tino Firefox by default!
Here's hoping that a Firefox 3.5 version of the plug-in comes out soon. Firefox just isn't the same without this extension.
YouTube
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
It's worked perfectly for me so far. I second the comment that this should be among the default Firefox search options.
Look Up in Dictionary
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
An excellent Firefox extension for Mac OS X users -- "Look Up in Dictionary" creates fast and nearly seamless integration between Firefox and the Apple Dictionary App that's built into OS X. Although in some ways it's not quite as robust or universal as, say, David Costanzo's "Dict" Firefox Add-On or the (very powerful but Windows-only) program WordWeb, it's still an essential Firefox extension for modern Mac OSX users, since it offers such clean and fast integration with the operating system's own dictionary/thesaurus app.
Wish-list for future releases: An easy to remember keyboard shortcut (WordWeb's Ctrl-Alt-W and/or Apple's Ctrl-Cmd-D); and the ability to look up words from text-boxes, forms, and search-boxes.
Perhaps David Costanzo's "Dict" Firefox Add-On -- or apsects of its code -- could one day be merged with Macaw's Look Up in Dictionary Firefox Add-On . . . Unlike "Look Up" 0.2, "Dict" allows users to look up words from text-boxes within the browser -- but, on the other hand, "Dict" doesn't allow the user to choose the Apple OS X Dictionary.app program as a look-up engine, and instead relies on Javascript and online dictionary servers (which aren't always reliable). A best-of-both-worlds add-on would likely allow users the flexibility of using internal (app/software)and external (online) dictionaries as look-up options, providing fast and reliable Dictionary.app integration along with text-box Look Up options, hotkey lookup, etc.
Look Up in Dictionary
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
An excellent Firefox extension for Mac OS X users -- "Look Up in Dictionary" creates fast and nearly seamless integration between Firefox and the Apple Dictionary App that's built into OS X. Although in some ways it's not quite as robust or universal as, say, David Costanzo's "Dict" Firefox Add-On or the (very powerful but Windows-only) program WordWeb, it's still an essential Firefox extension for modern mac OSX users, since it offers such clean and fast integration with the operating system's own dictionary/thesaurus app.
Wish-list for future releases: An easy to remember keyboard shortcut (WordWeb's Ctrl-Alt-W and/or Apple's Ctrl-Cmd-D); and the ability to look up words from text-boxes and search-boxes.
Perhaps David Costanzo's "Dict" Firefox Add-On -- or apsects of its code -- could one day be merged with Macaw's Look Up in Dictionary Firefox Add-On . . . Unlike "Look Up" 0.2, "Dict" allows users to look up words from text-boxes within the browser -- but, on the other hand, "Dict" doesn't allow the user to choose the Apple OS X Dictionary.app program as a look-up engine, and instead relies on Javascript and online dictionary servers (which aren't always reliable). A best-of-both-worlds add-on would likely allow users the flexibility of using internal (app/software)and external (online) dictionaries as look-up options, providing fast and reliable Dictionary.app integration along with along with text-box Look Up options, hotkey lookup, etc.
Dict
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Excellent!
After switching from a Windows PC to a Mac, one of the few Windows-only programs I was really missing was WordWeb -- a robust-but-lightweight international dictionary program that would let you look up any word in any program window by simply clicking a keyboard shortcut (like ctrl-alt-w). Sure, Apple has a good built-in dictionary program that's also integrated with their Spotlight app and can also be used within a dashboard widget and can be acessed quickly via certain key Apple programs -- but I was still left in the cold when it came to looking up words in Firefox with super speed.
David Costanzo's "Dict" add-on/extension warms up Firefox nicely -- simply highlight any word, right-click, and choose the "Look Up" or "Define" option (depending on the version of the Dict you're using) and whammo! a slick, unfussy pop-up window appears with multiple dictionary and thesaurus entries for the word.
Works for text highlighted just about anywhere on the page -- within articles, standard HTML, and even within text-input areas. Very handy. Very fast. Intuitive GUI.
I hope that future versions might adopt some of the ancillary benefits and tools seen in WordWeb (e.g., the option to click on words to hear them pronounced; more spelling suggestions and "similar word" options and links to more resources/results, etc.). The ability to use Dict's right-click functionality in other programs would also be cool (e.g., Mac and PC shell integration, or at least integration with a few key Firefox-friendly programs like OpenOffice.org). And it would be cool if Dict could be optionally pointed at dictionaries located on the user's hard-drive instead of only using online resources.
But that's just wishlist stuff -- Dict is really quite great as-is.
Duplicate Tab
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Learn the keyboard shortcuts and/or remember to install the primary functionality buttons onto your Firefox toolbar and you'll find yourself using this add-on 100 times a day. For me, Duplicate Tab, more than any other add-on, is ESSENTIAL on a daily basis for making browsing easier and more powerful.
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