Categoría: reminders

List of some nice Thunderbird and Firefox addons I currently use, both on GNU/Linux and Windows:

Firefox:

• Firebug, Yslow, Colorzilla, JSView:
  Powerful addons to debug and help into the development of websites and webapps
• Minimize to Tray Plus, Remember mismatched domains, Download statusbar, Bookmark Duplicate Detector
  Convenience addons
• Scrapbook
  Locally store web contents

Thunderbird:

• External editor:
  to be able to warmly use gvim to compose messages 🙂
• SyncMab:
  to synchronize (export/import) the address book.
• Quote colors:
  Colors paragraphs depending on quoting level. Very useful for mailing list reading.
• Colored Diffs:
  Colors inline diffs. Very useful for mailing list reading.
• Sync on arrival:Get IMAP mail as soon as a new message notification arrives
• Copy sent to currentPut reply as child message
• Minimize to tray Plus, Remember mismatched domains:
  Convenience addons

I’ve been using msys and cygwin to have a sane command line environment when working in windows. Something I didn’t know how to fix until today was the lack of input and display support for accented characters and the weird behaviour of the del key. I finally got it all working as I want it tweaking some configuration files.

With this, openssh, gvim you can feel a bit more like at home :).
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