The Firefox web browser offers an user several ways of manipulating web sites in realtime. The article discusses several of the possibilities that are available ranging from popular Firefox add-ons to userscripts and other means of website manipulation.
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x Ways To Manipulate Websites In Firefox
Website Optimization: Page Speed For Firebug
Page Speed is a new and interesting website optimization add-on for the Firefox Firebug extension. This means that Page Speed requires the Firefox web browser and the Firebug extension for Firefox before it can be installed. Two new tabs will be added to the Firebug menu which can be used to analyze the performance of [...]
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Download mp3 and videos from any site
Did you know that you can download mp3, video and other files from almost any website with just a little effort ? All you need is Firefox, the Firefox extension Firebug and a download manager. This knowledge is especially helpful if the tools you normally use to download videos or mp3 does not work on a website.
Firebug is actually a great web development extension for Firefox which does also list all objects that are loaded with their full url on the server. I suppose you are already seeing where this is going, huh ? You just have to take a look at the objects and filter out the largest files which are most of the time the media files. Copy the url from that file and paste it into your download manager to download the mp3, video or other media file.
