It is not that easy to download all images from a page with many images in Firefox. It would be possible to use a download manager or wget to get all the images but this would mean that you would have to rely on external tools and know how to use them. A far easier method is to use the Firefox extension Batch Downloader. It does exactly what the name suggests, it downloads all images that have a resolution of 200×200 or more in one batch to your hard drive.

The minimum resolution can be changed to whatever values you deem appropriate.  Whenever you visit a page with images you can use the right-click option to batch download (all) images on that website to a location on your hard drive that you can specify afterwards. The Batch Downloader offers more than that though. You can specify a base url and use wildcards to download all images that are connected to the base url.

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If you are like me and would like to upgrade important software as early as possible you might want to head over to the mozilla ftp site and download the latest version of Firefox which is 2.0.0.3. The latest versions always appear first on ftp and on the mirror sites before it gets announced on the official Firefox website. Update Information become available at the same time the homepage gets the update.

The official release notes have not been updated as well making it hard to determine the exact number of changes and fixes that have been added to Firefox 2.0.0.3. The normal update procedure will most likely become available anytime soon. You can download Firefox 2.0.0.3 for all supported operating systems and languages.

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Youtube is still a great video site that hosts an incredible amount of videos that can be viewed online. Youtube is on the other hand missing some key features that would make it a even greater experience. I’m not only talking about video downloads but other small features that that would increase its usability. A stop button that would stop the download of the video, a possibility to change the size of the video output and a way to get rid of certain elements that one does not really need on Youtube.

Everything that I mentioned before can be added or changed using small Greasemonkey scripts. All you need to do is to install the Greasemonkey script for Firefox and add the following scripts to it:

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I’m currently taking a look at Greasemonkey scripts in general. I always thought that it would be to complicated to install and use them which is absolutely not the case to my astonishment.Look it up is another Greasemonkey script that can be installed like any other Firefox extension. It becomes active once you reboot Firefox and works twofold. First you mark a word or phrase in Firefox and hit a key afterwards to send a request to a dictionary site such as wikipedia.

The result is displayed in the same window that you marked the word in. It will be displayed on the right side by default but this can be changed. Almost everything can be changed. You can select different keys that trigger a search and add new sites to Look it up. It is also possible to change existing ones, if you prefer for instance the French Wikipedia service you can easily change the url of the Wikipedia entry to the French version.

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Did you ever have the problem that you needed information from two websites at once and had to switch between them all the time to access them ? I usually have the problem when I write a new article for Ghacks and have to take a look at another website to find the information that I need for my article. This gets extremely irritating if many tabs are open at once and I miss the tab that I want. To much clicks in my opinion, that is why I was searching for a way to display two websites next to each other in Firefox.

I did find the Split Browser extension for Mozilla Firefox which does exactly what I wanted. It allowed me to split the screen anyway I wanted it to split.

I could split the content area vertically or horizontally, and split those areas again if wanted. I’m happy with two websites that are next to each other vertically but you could theoretically split the content area in four windows or even more.

The author of the extension has a screenshot at the extensions website that shows a content area with about 20 websites. This is of course just for demonstration purposes, no one would really split the content area in that many parts. I think the limit is four different areas, probably more if you run really high resolutions.

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