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neat way to look up images of flowers from seed lists

Posted by lakedallasmary 7/8a - north texas (My Page) on
Thu, Jun 14, 07 at 14:33

Someone suggested noscript for foxfire browser. this prevents those dumb floating ads you have to catch to make go away. This makes visiting garden web much more enjoyable.

I found more great add ons.

hyperwords
allows you search google images by highlighting a flower from someone's gardenweb list

Here's how:
Highlight the word or phrase (someone's flower in this case) select search, google then pictures, then google again. Sounds like a lot, but really faster than cut and pasting

other features of hyperwords
highlight the word then search the web for it, translate a word or phrase, cut and paste it, shop for it, e-mail to selected text, get local time, weather or maps for the location selected.

Imagezoom
allows you to make image larger.

You can right click and use scroll wheel or select the zoom percentage from the menu

adblock plus
blocks ads (There is also an adblock - do you need to download both?)

Adblock Filterset.G Updater
updates adblock filters that adblock uses to block ads

linkification
makes a non clickable link, clickable. Great for posts where folks forget to put the link in the link section but type it in the text box instead

highlight text then click on the L symbol at the bottom right hand corner of browser

linkchecker
checks to see if highlighted text is a valid link. Or you can check a whole page of links. Great for those with web pages to update.

DictionarySearch
looks up a selected word in an on-line dictionary

TrackMeNot
Protects users against search data profiling (not sure how dangerous tracking is to the normal web surfer.)

Converter
converts meters, feet, degrees Celsius, Fahrenheit, inches, centimeters, kilometers, miles, km/h, mph, square meters, square feet, kg, lb, fl oz, milliliters, and more

I so hate to see Celsius on a garden website, now I won't have to input the value into Celsius converter page.

blocksite
blocks sites you do not care to visit anymore

CustomizeGoogle
this allows you to remove google ads, add links to other search engines on your google search page, have google suggest words as you type searches, allows you to removes sites from displaying on searches, not be tracked by google, specify number of hits per page, allows safe searching, lots of stuff.


All the above addons must be installed first before you can use them. Go to foxfire to download what ever addons you need

There are a ton of them, so you can see why I linked to the ones I use, so you can find them. If anyone else has found a great addon, please share it here.

I hope it is ok to list these here.

Don't worry you can uninstall whatever you don't end up liking.

Here's How:
click on tools at top of browser,
then addons
click on the addon you no long want
click uninstall

It will uninstall the next time you restart foxfire.

Mary


Follow-Up Postings:

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RE: neat way to look up images of flowers from seed lists

I think I messed up the instructions for hyperlink to Google images, so I will try again

select word (name of flower)
then search
then pictures
then google or flickr

I hope to not have confused anyone.


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RE: neat way to look up images of flowers from seed lists

popunders, floating ads and other sneaky, obnoxious ads deserve to be blocked. Google ads and similar non-intrusive ads should really be allowed since they help pay for the site without getting in the way.

I know, everyone will have their own views. There's mine.


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RE: neat way to look up images of flowers from seed lists

Thank you Mary, just found the way to Translate!! quickly too, via Hyperlink. Type in the words in the upper right hand corner bar ( there'll be W at the end), scroll down to Translate, then to From English or other language, then scroll to what language to translate it into. LOVE it.

Of course not too many ads around the web is a great thing too, thank you thank you Mary.

Bea


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RE: neat way to look up images of flowers from seed lists

Google ads are very nice compared to the silly popups. I think we should encourage that type of ad if ads are necessary to pay for a site. This is as long as there is no spyware attatched to clicking on the ad.


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RE: neat way to look up images of flowers from seed lists

Those are such useful tools! Thanks for posting the links and descriptions. I think I'll be using Firefox more. (Right now I have the ads blocked by adding things to my registry, which also works well)


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RE: neat way to look up images of flowers from seed lists

Thanks for listing these, I love Firefox add ons, but find it tiresome to dig through all of the listings to find ones that I will use. Thanks again!


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RE: neat way to look up images of flowers from seed lists

I have found that i like opera best as it allows me to create speed dial pages and also to store all of my login and passwords so that instead of having to type them all i have to do is hit ctrl enter and it brings up my login info for that page


 
 

 

 


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