Firefox WMV Plugin

Back in the late nineties I used to watch a television programme called 'The Asian Football Show', after doing some searching on Google I discovered that the show had been renamed 'Football Asia'. I also found they had a site here where you can watch footage from various matches.

When I tried watching the videos in Firefox I discovered that they wouldn't appear. At first I thought it was a problem with the Adblock Add-on. But when I viewed the page with IE Tab I was prompted to upgrade my WMV player. I could now view the pages in the IE rendering engine but still not Firefox. So I downloaded the Firefox WMV Plugin from Microsoft & restarted Firefox & now I can watch the videos perfectly.

SMV Conversion in Linux

If you want to download & convert YouTube videos to the SMV format in Linux this'll be what you want to do. First of all make sure you've got the correct codecs installed...

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg mencoder mplayer

You can get the Firefox Addon, Download Helper from here & the SMV converter can be downloaded from here.

FireGPG Add-on for Firefox

FireGPG is an add-on for Firefox which lets you view, decrypt & encrypt emails in webmail programs such as Yahoo & Gmail. You'll need to instal GnuPG first & currently the FireFTP add-on isn't compatible with FireGPG, so you can't have them both installed at the sametime.

Firefox Addons

There is a list of Firefox addons that I regularly use, here on my Wikispace.

I've just started using some more addons which I'm going to list here.

• Open IT - Lets you open documents online
• Universal Uploader - Upload files to your favourite sites
• Greasemonkey - Make changes to a websites Javascript
• Firebug - Edit a web pages CSS & HTML
  

Creating Firefox Add-ons

Have you ever wanted to create an add-on for Firefox but you haven't known how to start?

Then you should check out this webpage, it contains a lot of useful advice to show you how to start developing your own add-ons.

Here is another link which contains some more development information.

Clipmarks Add-on

I found out about the Clipmarks add-on on the 'Getting Started with Firefox' page. Apparently it's an add-on which lets you bookmark part of a webpage instead of the whole page. I haven't tried it yet but it looks useful.