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My Firefox extensions

Submitted by TBarregren
on Tue, 2010-08-31 23:24

I'm using Firefox as my web browser, and have improved it with several extensions. Just for my own record, and for anyone who might be interested, here is a list of my add-ons:

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How to make ColorZilla work with Firefox on Ubuntu

Submitted by TBarregren
on Mon, 2007-07-23 18:32

ColorZilla is one of the more productive extension to Firefox. Unfortunately, it does not work with Firefox on Ubuntu. Fortunately, there is a solution.

The problem

ColorZilla is a tool for web developers and graphic designers who want to sample the color from any point in the browser. Unfortunately, ColorZilla coredumps on Ubuntu.1

The solution

Visit Firefox download page and download the latest version of Firefox. Extract the firefox/libxpcom*-files from the downloaded .tar.gz-archive. Move the extracted files to /usr/lib/firefox. These steps can be done with following command lines:

    

    
          

        
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