Co-opting other Firefox extensions with custom actions
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 8:14 am
One of the nifty things you can easily do with Flagfox 4.0 now is create a pile of custom actions that give functionality you might've installed another Firefox extension for in the past. (though, of course you may still want to for their full feature set) Flagfox 4.0 contains a couple by default, namely WOT and Xmarks.
Another one, though not included by default, is StumbleUpon.
StumbleUpon info page:
http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/{domainName}
or, you can skip that page and stumble directly with:
http://www.stumbleupon.com/to/stumble/go/stumblethru:{domainName}
BugMeNot also exists in extension form, and can also exist in Flagfox custom action form:
http://www.bugmenot.com/view/{domainName}
Then of course there are others like URL shorteners and quick routes to translation or cache or whatnot, all of which Flagfox can do easily without having to install another extension for it.
I didn't set out to make Flagfox 4.0 a sort of Swiss army knife extension, but it sorta turned out that way. If I devise any more custom actions that do features in other notable Firefox extensions I'll post them here. If anyone else knows of some the feel free to post them here too.
Another one, though not included by default, is StumbleUpon.
StumbleUpon info page:
http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/{domainName}
or, you can skip that page and stumble directly with:
http://www.stumbleupon.com/to/stumble/go/stumblethru:{domainName}
BugMeNot also exists in extension form, and can also exist in Flagfox custom action form:
http://www.bugmenot.com/view/{domainName}
Then of course there are others like URL shorteners and quick routes to translation or cache or whatnot, all of which Flagfox can do easily without having to install another extension for it.
I didn't set out to make Flagfox 4.0 a sort of Swiss army knife extension, but it sorta turned out that way. If I devise any more custom actions that do features in other notable Firefox extensions I'll post them here. If anyone else knows of some the feel free to post them here too.