I love finding new extensions that do things I never even thought to search for. One of the best ways to find things is through word of mouth, tho. In this case, I guess you can call it “word of blog”. I’m doing a series of blog posts about the extensions I use, and maybe you’ll see one that you want to use.
The first one is Context Search, which I’ve already blogged about.
The second is Clippings. Clippings allows you to keep pieces of text to paste on demand. If you frequently answer email messages with one of a set of replies, you can paste which reply you want to use using the context menu. In my case, I take part in support forums, which means I have to respond to frequently asked questions, typing the same answers frequently. Clippings allows me to have canned responses, so I can answer more support questions in less time.
To save a piece of text as a clipping, select it, then right-click and go to “Clippings”, then “New from Selection“. You’ll then be asked to name the clipping and where to save it among your list of clippings. It supports folders too.
When you want to use that clipping just right-click on the text area, then go to “Clippings” and select the clipping you want to paste.
Clippings is also very useful in Mozilla Thunderbird.
You can install it via the Mozilla Add-ons site.
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