Firefox Add-ons

Firefox add-on ‘pdf download 2.0′ goes primetime

Rowan reported back in late June that (very) popular PDF Download 2.0 Firefox add-on had hit beta, well, now after almost a month, its ready for center stage.
One of the main benefits it offers is the generation of active hyperlinks within the PDF — which has been a common complaint amongst other free online HTML [...]


Skip the download go directly to Google Docs (firefox extension)

Continuing with the theme of viewing certain documents online (here and here) instead of downloading them, I just came across a Firefox extension that lets you quickly add online files (doc, pdf, xls, ppt and every Open Document format) to Google Docs. According to the developer:
You right click any document link on the web, choose “Send to Google [...]


pdf-google-finder (Firefox Add-on)

Yesterday we covered PDFoo which allows you to search an index of PDF files found on websites across the Internet. Today we’re covering a Firefox add-on called pdf-google-finder which allows you to find all PDFs that are available from a particular website.
pdf-google-finder adds a menu entry called “Find PDFs for this domain” which will open [...]


Create PDFs from web pages using PrintPDF (a Firefox Add-on)

We’ve previously covered Loop for Firefox which allows you to “Upload, convert and combine your files to PDF from a tidy toolbar, without the conversion getting in the way of your Web browsing”.
But if you’re just looking for a Firefox add-on that helps you convert web pages to PDF then you should check out PrintPDF.
Currently [...]