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There's a new Firefox extension that allows you to easily save files which are embedded in a webpage, such as windows media files.

Download Embedded does exactly what it sounds like it does. It adds a right-click context menu entry to download all embedded files on a webpage. Its great for grabbing embedded flash animations, movies, music, etc., and a lot easier than digging through the page source or through Firefox's Page Info.

Download Embedded makes the process simple. My previous technique was to find the URL for the embedded media in the Adblock extension's 'Blockable Items' list.

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One of the most useful features of Firefox is it's "Quick Searches." You might not know about them, so say you wanted to search Google, instead of typing in www.google.com in the adress bar then typing in your search string, eg pie, you can simply type "google pie" in the address bar and Firefox will skip straight to the results. Sure there's that custom search box at the top right, but I can never be bothered moving my mouse all the way over there and clicking the icon to change it.

There are more quick searches already defined in Firefox, for example dict searches dictionary.com (you can see them all by looking in Bookmarks->Quick Searches). This guide will tell you how to add one for an alternative dictionary site, UrbanDictionary.com.

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