Firefox Add-on of the Week: Better Flickr

Frequent Flickr users who utilize the popular photo-sharing site for its social networking perks will appreciate the Better Flickr plug-in for Firefox. This add-on incorporates an assemblage of useful Greasemonkey scripts to super-power your Flickr experience with essential features like adding a link for replying with a user’s name, icon or both for easily replying to the appropriate person within a comment thread, tacking on a short URL link in the sidebar, and including links to view the photo in various other sizes.

Greasemonkey scripts add more options when you're leaving a comment on someone else's photo. 

Each script, written by a myriad of individual authors, adds on a minor feature to Flickr’s already simple site interface.  Better Flickr also includes an Instant Zoom function, which is only available after the entire photo has been loaded. For low quality photos, this option doesn’t work too well, though high quality photos taken with a high-megapixel digital camera or DSLR will no doubt be pleasing with the crispness of the zoom render. While some features may have their limitations, Better Flickr often “betters” itself with updates to include more useful tweaks, especially since it’s already part of a family that has helped enhance other popular web destinations, such as YouTube, Amazon, Google Calendar, Reader and Gmail.

Download Better Flick here

Every Tuesday, we pick a new Firefox Add-on as our favorite of the week. Have an Add-on that you can't live without? Send suggestions to fion [AT] futureus.com with "Firefox Add-On" in the subject line.