Web User - UK (2019-10-02)

FIREFOX

Vivaldihas anexcellent feature
calledQuick Commands, which
lets you skiparoundthe browser,
opening andclosing tabs, creating
notes, searching your history and
more – all using keyboard shortcuts.
Taking more thana pinchof
inspiration fromthis slick idea,
Quick Commands for Firefox (bit.ly/
quick485) lets you perform all the
samefunctions in Mozilla’s browser.
Start bypressing Alt+Shift+R–
it’s a bit clunky, but you get usedto
it – to see the Quick Commands box
float on-screen. At the top of the box is a text field, for inputting commands;
belowis a list of opentabs andpreviously visited pages. Getting aroundFirefox
was alwaysa breeze, but this tool makes it evenbreezier.

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Navigate Firefox faster using

key commands

Plant treeswhile you shop
Savingthe planet is a challenge, so
we’re happy to take all the help wecan
get fromTreeClicks (bit.ly/tree485).
The developers behindthis browser tool
have partneredwith hundreds of shops
andonline purchasing platforms
including Amazon, Adidas, Booking.com
andAirbnb. Every timeyou buy from
these online stores, the devs get afee
for bringing you to the store. They then
“use the majority of [their] advertising
fee” to plant trees in India. And yes,
your shopping bill stays the sameprice.
Just headto a partneredsite, click the
toolbar button, thenselect ‘Click &Start
PlantingTrees’. You’ll beredirected to
the site, andyou only needto dothis
once for the tree-plantingto take effect.

Bringdark modeto every
website
It might seemlike dark mode has taken
over the world, but that just makes it

See Facebook

notifications on

the toolbar

If you’re forever flittingto

Facebook to check your

notifications, F-Notifier (bit.ly/

facenote485) puts anend to all

the faff byadding your unread

notificationcount to Opera’s

toolbar.

Once you’ve installed the

add-on, you can dictate what

happens whenyou click the

icon: if you have notifications,

you can betaken straight there,

while clicking the bell when

there are no notifications will

whisk you to the Facebook

homepage. You can evenset it

to play a sound.

Convert anyvideo

in Opera

Converting videos once

requiredspecialist softwarebut

today, you can doit in your

browser while you pop online.

Video Converter (bit.ly/

convert485) offers the ability to

convert videos into any video

format. Start byclicking the

toolbar buttonto opena new

window, thendraganddrop

your videoto it. Next, choose a

format – the default options are

MP4,H.264, VP9 andJPEG,and

you can evenmake aGIF of your

video. Press RunCommand,

leavethe conversion to take

place, thendownloadthe

outputted videoat the bottom

of the screen.

OTHER BROWSERS

This fortnight’s most useful tips and add-ons to help you get the

most from Chrome, Firefox, Opera and more

evenmore inrolerablewhenyou’re

browsingat night andcomeacross a

glaring, sleep-busting white screen.

Soshieldyour eyes andinstall Night

Eye (bit.ly/nighteye485) instead. This

extension turns day to night on pretty

muchevery website going. According

to the developers, “instead of simply

inverting, the extension analyses the

pages’colors andimagesand

converts themto improve your

browsingexperience”.

The ‘lite’ version of the add-on is

freeforever andlets you adddark

mode to five websites – the

unnaturally brightGoogle and

Facebook would bea goodstart.

If you want to addthe themeto more

sites, you’ll needto upgradeto the

paid-for plan, but there is a free

three-month trial that doesn’t require

your credit card details, if you want

to try it out.