firefox-extensions

A list of extensions for the FireFox web browser, which detect or extract microformats.

Current

Operator

Operator has rapidly found favour with microformat developers (not least for its functions as a validator) and end-users. It provides an architecture for microformat parsing which is likely to be incorporated into the core of future versions of FireFox.

See also:

• Mozilla Labs' Operator announcement
• Operator author's blog
• Customise Operator

The following niggles are thus relatively minor:

• Bug: new links (from other apps) are opened in new Firefox windows rather than new tabs.
  • Fixed in next release: See IRC conversation of 2006-01-05
• Bug: tab bar is hidden when only one tab open
  • Fixed in next release: See developer's blog comment (5th item down)
• Not implemented: fn optimization
  • Fixed in next release.
• Not implemented: include pattern (other than for hCard)
  • Will be fixed in a future release

Tails

• Tails
  • Tails on Google Code

Web Developer

While the Web Developer extension includes no microforamt-specific tools, it has several which greatly aid microformat publishers, not least the ability to display class, ID, object and abbr values in-line.

Archaic

Tails Export

• Tails Export
  • Not yet compatible with FireFox 2.0+

Forthcoming

BlueOrganiser

• BlueOrganiser
  • plans to include microformats; see: Blue Organiser blog post about plans to use microformats

LinkAlert

• LinkAlert
  • Will consider adding rel in a future update.

ReminderFox

• ReminderFox
  • Have hCalendar support on the ReminderFox "to do" list.

Firefox developments

Mozilla are "brainstorming" developments for Firefox 3.0 and beyond, and have a page on microformat handling. See also Firefox 3 Requirements.

See also

• bookmarklets
• greasemonkey - a powerful tool for customizing Firefox.
• RSS extensions - for viewing hAtom feeds via third-party converters