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How to Really Browse Without Leaving a Trace - Windows - Lifehac. Downloads: Ghostery Watches the Web Sites that are Watching You. Download of the Day: Gmail Signature Float (Greasemonkey) BugMeNot :: Firefox Add-ons. Firefox Quickfind Antidote: How to Type an Apostrophe in spite o. Firefox has a great search feature based on Command-F (Mac) or Control-F (Windows). You get a cute little text box at the bottom of the screen which allows you to search the whole page. Firefox Find - Command-F Subsequently Command-G works just fine to take you down through the page. Just ' (apostrophe) alone will bring up the Quick Find box.

It looks almost the same but isn't. Quick Find only searches URLs (a nice extra almost undocumented feature). Firefox Quick Find - ' (apostrophe) If you want to do a Quick Find in all the text you need to use / (forward slash). Very nice. Great for Unix geeks. Not quite. You can get caught in an edit box (think Gmail or forums) and be unable to type an apostrophe. At this point, cut and paste won't work either. If you press escape it will stop the QuickFind, but as soon as you press apostrophe again back is the Quick Find box. It looks like either you can't use an apostrophe or you have to throw away your writing (a true story). As iCannonBall writes: By Alec. 50+ Google Reader Extensions and Scripts For Firefox. Don't get us wrong, Google Reader is our favorite feedreader. But sometimes, we just wish it was a little...better. Here are 50 Firefox extensions and scripts to make Google Reader your own.

Note: some of these require the Greasemonkey or Stylish extensions. Also see Google Reader on the iPhone. Notification Google Reader Notifier Firefox Extension - Multilingual extension that tells you how many items are unread.Google Reader Toolkit - Handy add-on that alerts you to unread items.Google Reader Watcher - Firefox extension that displays all unread feeds. Interface Reading CodeReader - Increases the font size of code snippets in the currently viewed item.Google Reader Functional Links - Quick Links fork with updated hotkeys.Google Reader Quick Links - Shortcut keys for links in the story you're currently reading.Google Reader show original in new tab - The must-have script for Google Reader.

Search Integration Misc. See also: Profanity Filter – Userscripts.org. Blue Cat's Graphics.