Less Talk, More Do » GreatSummary http://www.chrisfinke.com Christopher Finke is a software engineer who builds high-traffic websites (like AOL Shopping and Mahalo.com) and develops browser add-ons (like ScribeFire, TwitterBar, FireFound, and Tapsure) to enhance the Web. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:34:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Two new Firefox extensions http://www.chrisfinke.com/2007/08/04/two-new-firefox-extensions/ http://www.chrisfinke.com/2007/08/04/two-new-firefox-extensions/#comments Sat, 04 Aug 2007 21:00:48 +0000 Christopher Finke http://www.chrisfinke.com/2007/08/04/two-new-firefox-extensions/ I’ve been working on a few Firefox extensions for various third-parties, and two of them got upgrades this week:

  • GreatSummary: A handy webpage summarization tool. Long Wikipedia articles are no match for this bad boy.
  • An add-on for CouponCraze.com. I’d have to say that Christian at CouponCraze is the most efficient client I’ve ever worked with: the time from the initial inquiry about working together to uploading the first version of the extension to Mozilla Add-ons was less than 48 hours. Verily I say to you, it rocked.
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Because it is highly unlikely that someone will stumble across the GreatSummary extension while it is sandboxed, I’d appreciate it if anyone who has an AMO account could take 5 minutes to download the GreatSummary extension and give it a quick review. Reviews don’t need to be long – just a few sentences describing how the addon worked for you.

GreatSummary Firefox extensions

It’s a simple addon – it adds a “Summarize this page” menu option to the Tools menu and the page’s context menu; clicking that option opens a new tab with the summary of the current page. I’ve found that it works the best on pages with lots of text, like in-depth Wikipedia articles.

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