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[Tip] Know The File Size Before You Download It In Firefox

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Knowing the file size before you could actually start downloading it is good practice as you can plan your work accordingly. For instance if you want to download a relatively bigger file, you might want to postpone it to later without interrupting your current work. Most of the sites especially download portals always show the information about the size of the file before the download. However it is not the same case always. There are times when you download a file and come to know about its size only after the actual downloading begins in Firefox.

Thankfully there is a Firefox ad-on called “Show File Size” that allows us to view the file size information before you download it. Once installed, the extension show information like the type of the file and the size of the file you are downloading it in a separate row just below the name of the file row in the download window as shown:

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It is a basic, lightweight extension (just 4KB !) that just serves the purposes justifying the name. Show File Size add-on works fine with Firefox 3.6 to Firefox 4 versions.

Install Show File Size

Google’s Spam Report Extension For Chrome

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Now you can improve the search results in Google more easily by reporting spam websites to Google by installing the newly released “Google Webspam Report” extension in your Google Chrome browser. While Google folks are very proud that they have released such an useful extension for the users, the majority on the users front are of the opinion that Google should release such an add-on for the Firefox browser too (including me Smile).

The extension is considered as a pretty useful for the most webmasters and Google users, who really hate the spam websites on the internet. Of course, you can report any website for spam from this page include within the Google webmaster tools. You need to be logged into your Google account to report the sites for spam (both via the extension and via the GWT).

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Upon installing this extension, will add a “Report spam” link beneath the all the pages in the search results.  Clicking on which will directly take you to Spam report form.

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Install Google Webspam Report in Chrome.

[How To] Save And Manage Google Chrome Sessions

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Almost all the browsers off late are coming up with an option to save and manage the browsing sessions.What it means is that you can save the entire session for later reading when you are in a hurry.For instance in Opera, you’ll find this option under File> Sessions>

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But where is such option in Google Chrome?

Ans: It isn’t there at least as of now.This is one of the most requested feature in Google Chrome.I wish the developers considers this in their future releases.

Tip #1: Even though, Google Chrome hasn’t got a default Sessions manager, it does however offer to save your currently opened tabs.For this, go to Wrench > Options > Basic tab> On Start up

Select “Reopen the pages that were open last”

This will save the current session and opens it up as it was when you last closed your Chrome.

Tip #2: There are some good extensions available, through which you can manage your sessions in Google Chrome.One such extension is Session Buddy.

With Session Buddy, you can view all of your tabs in each window of a current or saved session.

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The extension also makes it possible to access saved crash recovery sessions automatically after a Chrome or OS crash.

You can also edit each saved session by deleting individual tabs or windows.

Entire session can be exported into a text or CSV format file.

Install Session Buddy

More Google Chrome resources:

Hide Most Visited Sites from New Tab in Google Chrome in Easy Steps

Enable GreaseMonkey User Scripts in Google Chrome

How to Download Video From YouTube in Google Chrome

Reopen or Recover Recently Closed Tabs in Google Chrome

Speed Dial For Google Chrome [Extension]

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Speed Dial is a browser feature that was first introduced in Opera to quickly access your favorite websites.Later the same feature was extended to the other browsers thanks to the numerous extensions that made this possible.Here we are talking about an extension called Speed Dial for Chrome that lets you to add Speed dial feature to Google Chrome.With this you can replace Google Chrome’s default new tab page with colorful speed dial.

Once installed, the extension can be customized by adding your favorite websites but even if you configure them, it’ll set some default speed dial websites based on your browsing history.You can also customize the background color/image, search options etc., from the options menu.

You can also add any page that you are currently viewing to the speed dial by just clicking the speed dial icon that appears on the extreme right in the address bar.

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RSS Subscription Extension For Google Chrome

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Unlike most of the other browsers like Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer or Opera, Google Chrome doesn’t automatically gives a quick way to subscribe to RSS feeds in a web page with a single click.

If are very much used to the other browsers then you might be feeling inconvenient in Google Chrome due to lack of this quick RSS feeds subscription feature.

Well, if you are just worrying about this missing RSS subscriptions support, you should look at this great extension “RSS Subscription Extension” developed by Google.

This extension auto-detects RSS feeds on the page you are reading and upon finding one will display an RSS icon in the Omnibox, allowing you to click on it to preview the feed content and subscribe.

Also the extension has 4 predefined web-based feed readers (Google Reader, iGoogle, Bloglines, My Yahoo).However you can add any web-based feed reader of your choice to this list.

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Here’s how any website offering RSS feeds will look like after installing this extension.Observe the RSS icon in the Omnibox.

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Download RSS Subscription Extension for Chrome

How To Auto Refresh A Web Page In Google Chrome ?

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If you have following our blog posts regularly, you must have read about the post we have written on ‘How to Auto Refresh a Web Page in Firefox’ using ReloadEvery add-on for Firefox.

Now let’s see how the same feature can be implemented in case of Google Chrome browser.

By saying auto refresh or auto reload, what we mean is that the page should automatically refresh itself at regular intervals of time.

Thanks to ChromeReload extension for Google Chrome, developed by nick.lothian.The extension when installed provides the users with options for selecting various time interval for auto-reload.

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The reload interval may be from 5 seconds to 30 minutes or you can specify your own time interval in seconds if you want to enter custom reload rate for the web page.

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Download ChromeReload extension for Chrome.

Extension Focus: Google Buzz Updates in Google Chrome

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Google Buzz was launched a couple of days ago, and many Gmail users all over the world are still in the process of exploring the various features of it.

And the app developers are busy developing Buzz-based applications just like we are flooded with lots of Twitter apps ever since its launch.

If you have become a fan of Google Buzz and want to have easy access to it, well here’s some good news for you.If you are using Google Chrome, you can make use of the extension called “Chrome Buzz” from the Google chrome extension gallery.

When you install this, you can see all your buzz notifications right from an icon that’ll be placed next to the address bar in Google Chrome.Well, you can just read the buzz updates, but there’s no way you can comment on the updates, make a note.

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