10 Firefox extensions you may fall in love with

1.Gmail Manager

Do you have one or more gmail address.This extension makes it east to check all your gmail accounts. It notifies you of new mail with snippets of the mail.

2.Videodownloader
You can download videos from Youtube, Google, Metacafe, iFilm, Dailymotion.It supports 60+ video sites.You can also download all embedded objects mp3s, flash, quicktime with this.

3.All-in-one Sidebar

Got tired of having a Downloads window separately in Firefox. Will it not be cool to have it in a sidebar. Yes! This add-on lets you to have your history,add-ons,downloads,boomarks displayed in your sidebar.


4.Speed Dial

This brings the Opera's cool new Speed Dial feature to Firefox.Whenever you open a new blank tab you will have a list of your favorite sites.CTRL + number can be used to access the Speed Dial entry with the same number.

5.DownThemAll!

I was a big fan of Flashget the download manager which can split a download into pieces.But after using this extension i stopped using flashget.With DownThemAll! you can manage your downloads, pause and resume downloads, split download into pieces for faster download, and has some auto-renaming features.

6.Tabscope

Gives a real time preview of tab contents as a popup on tabs. You can navigate back/forward/reload/stop through popup,scroll pages or frames in preview with mouse wheel and also click links or buttons directly in preview.

7.Chromatabs

Would it not be nice to see your firefox tabs being colored? It colors the tab based on the webpage loaded. It can pick a random color automatically based on the site's hostname or it can pick a color based on the site's tab icon.Very useful because now your tabs are organized in colors and also looks pleasing to the eye!

8.Firefox Extension Backup Extension(FEBE)

FEBE allows you to quickly and easily backup your Firefox extensions. FEBE backs up your extensions, themes, bookmarks, preferences, passwords,cookies,backup/restore your entire profile.Backups also be scheduled.Works in Windows and Linux

9.Megaupload SX

Do you often download from Megaupload.com.Tired of hearing that the slots for your country is full.This extension gets you free slots to download from Megaupload.com

10.Google Notebook

With Google Notebook, you can browse, clip, and organize information from across the web in a single online location that's accessible from any computer. Also you can jolt down notes in your online notebook.

Working with Word 2007 Documents(.docx) in Ubuntu

Microsoft Office 2007 uses a new file format, called Office OpenXML, as the default file format. It is based on XML and uses the ZIP file container.So Word 2007 documents are incompatible with OpenOffice.Here's how to make it compatible.

UPDATE: This post is now obsolete. You can now use odf-converter-integrator to open word 2007 files in OpenOffice.org

1.Download the OpenXML Translator
From: http://download.novell.com/SummaryFree.jsp?buildid=ESrjfdE4U58%7E
filename: odf-converter-1.0.0-5.i586.rpm

2. Use alien to convert it to a Slackware tgz file
Code:
fakeroot alien -ct odf-converter-1.0.0-5.i586.rpm

If fakeroot and alien is not installed then install it
Code:
sudo apt-get install alien fakeroot

3. Unpack the slackware tgz file
Code:
tar xzf odf-converter-1.0.0.tgz

4. Copy three files into your OpenOffice.org directories -- note that the usr that you're copying from is a directory that was inside the tgz file.
Code:

sudo cp usr/lib/ooo-2.0/program/OdfConverter /usr/lib/openoffice/program/
sudo cp usr/lib/ooo-2.0/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/TypeDetection/Filter/MOOXFilter_cpp.xcu /usr/lib/openoffice/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/TypeDetection/Filter/
sudo cp usr/lib/ooo-2.0/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/TypeDetection/Types/MOOXTypeDetection.xcu /usr/lib/openoffice/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/TypeDetection/Types/

5. Restart OpenOffice and you can now save and open Word 2007 docx files.