firefox-extensions

Firefox Extensions

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

See user-interface for ways in which extensions could or do handle 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.

Latest release: 0.8

See also:

• Mozilla Labs' Operator announcement
• Operator author's blog
• Customise Operator with 'user scripts'

Tails

• Tails
  • Tails on Google Code

Tails Export

• Tails Export

Web Cards

• Web Cards

Generic

While these extensions include no microformat-specific tools, the can be of use to microformat publishers.

Glossary of Terms

Gez Lemon's Glossary of Terms displays values from ABBR (and ACRONYM elements.

Web Developer

The Web Developer extension has several which greatly aid microformat publishers, not least the ability to display class, ID, object and abbr values in-line.

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.

Netscape Navigator

• Version 9.0+ supports Firefox extensions, e.g.
  • Operator unter Navigator 9.0

See also

• bookmarklets
• greasemonkey - a powerful tool for customizing Firefox.
• operator-phone-tests - a page listing tests of Operator's "Send to Bluetooth device" options with results
• RSS extensions - for viewing hAtom feeds via third-party converters