If you regularly send information to friends or colleagues you might find the Email This extension for Firefox quite handy. Normally those information are copied and then pasted into the email program or online script and then send to the recipients which naturally means that the sender has to open a website or application manually to send the information.
The Email This extension optimizes this process. It can be accessed from the right-click menu or by using keyboard shortcuts after highlighting any area on a website. Five different options are provided by the extension which allow the sender to send the highlighted text to Gmail, Google Apps, Yahoo, an external mail application like Thunderbird or Seamonkey.
All five are accessible through hotkeys as well. Alt G would load the highlighted text into Gmail, Alt Y into Yahoo and Alt M into the external mail client.
The extension will automatically add the title of the page as the subject and append the url of the website as well. This saves additional time. The mail application will be opened in a new tab if a web application is selected from the options.
It is possible to remove entries from the menu because normally only one, maybe two of them are needed. To do that one has to edit the emailthis.xul file in the gmailthis.jar archive. At the bottom of that file the five right-click entries are listed as menupopup id. Just remove the complete lines of the entries that you do not need and add the file to the archive again.
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I love everything that Firefox is doing, it is making the internet experience so fun and easy.
Is this also working with images on websites?
i’ve tried this and other similar. here’s my recommendation:
install and use split browser to either select elements you want to email (images, text, segments or entire page). open your email compose page in a tab. then simply drag and drop what you want to email from the split pane onto your compose field.
voila!
shweeet.
but the simplest, no hassle, one click way that i know of to share websites with someone is via the toread service, which actually was set up as a kind of bookmarking service.
simply have your friend set up their bookmarklet with toread, then have them send the link to you. you then put it in a folder on your bookmarks toolbar, change the name to the name of your friend, then when you want to share a page just click your friend’s bookmarklet, and that’s it. nothing else to do.
…..i should have mentioned that you should have your friend select the “toread+” option; you will then have the option to include a comment with your recommended site if you wish.
Does not work with Russian language though (((