Overview extensions for popular browsers (30 November

We present our brief review of interesting plug-ins for Firefox, Chrome and Opera, which caught our attention last week.

Firefox

Converter - an extension, which serves to transfer one unit to the other. So you can select any page, the length, time, speed, temperature, Square and some other values, and get their meaning in the usual metric in the context menu system. Well, the most requested feature for many users will be the ability to transfer currency. Russian ruble and the Ukrainian hryvnia supported. The extension has extensive customization options as a way of conversion and appearance.

Popup Url and Search Bar - can be useful for users of netbooks, as well as supporters superminimalizma the browser interface. This extension hides the standard address bar and search box, and instead allows them to be called using the hotkey anywhere on the screen. To invoke the address line is applied Ctrl-L or Alt-D, and search - Ctrl-K. Thus, you can hide the main panel and a little more to increase the usable area of ​​the page is displayed.

Show File Size - shows the size of the file before downloading it in the window to save the file. This can be very useful before downloading large files to schedule their time.

Chrome

Chromey Calculator - allows you to use the service Wolfram Alpha and Google calculator built into a single interface. If you speak English, then in addition to the calculations you can get a wide variety of reference data just about everything.

Screen Capture (by Google) — extension for capturing screenshots from Google. We have already discussed earlier product called awesome ScreenshotCreated to deal with the same problem. Screen Capture allows you to capture from Google entire page or the visible part of the selected region. After the capture of the image will open in a new tab, where you can edit it and add other elements such as arrows, text selection and so on. The result is saved in PNG format.

drag2up - adds a Google Chrome possibility of the overall upload images and text files by simply dragging. You can drag the file into any text field on the page and the picture is automatically downloaded to the service imgur.com (text files - on gist.github.com), and the text will be inserted a reference to the file. Especially useful this extension will be for fans of Twitter and of forum communication.

Opera

Tab Vault - is one of the variations on the theme "make a temporary bookmark for later reading." After installing the extension on the toolbar appears the corresponding button, when clicked, opens a special sidebar. In this panel, you can also add them to keep the current tab for later investigation or open a previously saved tab.

Mac OSX Font Rendering - expansion, change the appearance of text in the browser using a smoothing effect based on CSS3 technology. The taste and color, as they say, no friends, but I liked the work of this expansion. Another plus in the treasury of Opera.

At present, that's all. We will continue through the week.