Why

Well on Linux, we spend a lot of time on Firefox, either read those HTML documents, or relax on the world wide web. It will be handy if we can do some time management with this everyday application.

 

 

simple timer

Timer is a simple extension, it will resident in your status bar. And when right click, it shows the start, stop, and reset function. All it does is to count the time and show it on the status bar. It is useful when, for example, you want to leave for the office in five minutes, and want to check your Gmail.

 

 

world time

Nowadays we have more and more friends world wide. And it is important to know their time so we won't call them when they are sleeping :) There are several extensions for Firefox can show the time on different timezones: FoxClocks, WorldClocks, and TimeZone. Among these three, FoxClocks is the most feature rich one. * It can do auto update. The time database will be auto checked and updated. So you won't miss it if your friends shift to day light saving time. And because the database is based on the tz database, it is quite accurate. * It can be displayed on both the status bar and a toolbar. This is very handy if you've already got a lot of extensions and your status bar is crowded. Also you can choose between multiple clocks mode and icon mode. While on icon mode, the clocks will only show up when the mouse goes on top of the FoxClocks icon. * There is a watch list so you can choose which city/timezone you are interested in. You can choose if a city shows up in the multiple clocks mode. What's more, You can also set different display styles for each item on the watch list: colors, underscores, etc. For example you can have your own city highlighted so you won't need another clock program. * Last, but not least, you can define the time display format to fit your style. There are several styles already build in, of cause.

 

 

time saver

Firefox is a great application. Well it also makes you waste a lot of time on the web (Hi, don't blame Firefox!). Fortunately, there are also many tools to help you save the time. Invisibility Cloak is a GreaseMonkey script. You can specify some sites that waste your time. And before a certain time in a day, it will blank the page and warn you if you try to visit those sites. It is quite simple and functional, and don't need another extension. However, it is also easy to by-bass: Just right click the GreaseMonkey icon on the status bar, and disable it :) Well, actually you can disable any tool like this. So another way to save the time is to record how much time you've wasted, and you can tell yourself not to do that again... TimeTracker will record how many time you've spend on the web, and display it in the status bar. You can have a list of "good" sites, where you do your work on. TimeTracker won't record times you spend on these "good" sites, so only the time wasted is recorded. Another nice feature is that it will stop counting if you switch to another application or leave the computer for a while. So you have no excuse: all the time recorded are wasted. It is astonished to see how much time is wasted when you first use it, if you always tell yourself "let's check out the news and see what has happened, just for a few minutes...". There are two extensions like TimeTracker, and more powerful. PageAddict knows more than "good sites" and "bad sites". You can group your sites, like for work, for fun, for healthy, etc. And PageAddict can generate nice chart to say how many time you've spend on each group. However you have to visit their website to see your chart generated. So if you are concerned about privacy, this is not for you. MeeTimer works like PageAddict. It can also group your sites. And it won't force you to upload your data somewhere. The bad news is, currently it can't fully work on Linux. It can record the time, but the report generated is empty. Don't worry. This is the open source world. Things get fixed quickly. It may already be fixed when you are reading this article, give it a try.

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