Morning Coffee

Monday, Mar 29, 2010

Make your online routine even easier by designating sites to load each day. Tabs open up for the site and day you choose. Your daily update is a breeze, with news, email and more served up just like you like them.

Slave to routine? Morning Coffee is the add-on for you. If you’re like me, you start each day by opening up a variety of sites. What’s the New York Times have to say? Who is posting on Facebook? And I check no less than five separate email accounts that all open up in different tabs. Whatever your drill, there’s an easy way to open all those sites simultaneously.

You’ll see Morning Coffee as a cheery icon near your address bar. The menu is simple. “Configure Morning Coffee” and you can customize sites to open by day. Add a site you’re currently visiting to Morning Coffee in a single click. Editing and deleting are simple, too. Follow a blog that posts three days week? Hint, hint: www.rockyourfirefox.com. Tell Morning Coffee to load specific sites on “Monday/Wednesday/Friday”.

If you’re someone who craves consistency and likes to save a few clicks, Morning Coffee will make your morning.

Post from Elise Allen, who takes her coffee with cream, no sugar, and a loyal review of SF Gate. See all posts by Elise Allen.

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  1. Leon Hitchens

    I have started using this, b/c of you guys here! I cannot wait till your next recommended plugin!

    March 29th, 2010 at 7:32 pm

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  2. Francis Gagné

    When I don’t want to miss anything on a web site (that offers an RSS or Atom feed), I use another extension: LiveClick. I’m a heavy user of extensions (I have 37 installed) and this one is yet another reason to keep me from switching to another browser.

    https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/2499?src=rockyourfirefox-comment

    LiveClick shows notifications when a feed has been updated. However, my favourite configuration is letting it open the website automatically when the feed is updated. That way, if I miss the notification, the website is still opened so I can read it later. LiveClick also offers other features to make Live Bookmarks more useful in Firefox, so if you use Live Bookmarks (or would like to use them more efficiently), give it a look!

    You should cover this extension too here some day. :)

    March 29th, 2010 at 7:57 pm

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  3. Simon

    A little more sophisticated in that it understands different days, but otherwise seems little different from simply using a bookmark group.

    That’s how I check my web comics each day – a simple middle-click on the bookmark bar, and everything opens. Doesn’t really matter if some of them only update weekly – it’s trivial to close them if nothing has changed, and more useful when dealing with those that work on more erratic schedules…

    March 29th, 2010 at 8:38 pm

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  4. tunpishuang

    cool extension ,this way i can open a site automaticlly that will update on a specific date.

    March 29th, 2010 at 10:47 pm

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  5. misskitty_79

    This sounds really cool, but as someone who works shift work, I’d like to take it a step further & ask whether anyone’s ever thought of implementing a flexible schedule?
    I work three different shifts, days, evenings & nights. I also have days off (yay!). Unfortunately, my schedule can fluctuate wildly & it’s rare that I’ll have two weeks in a row with the same day(s) off, so I’m afraid that having preset sites which depend on the days of the week doesn’t help me much.

    However!

    If there were an add-on available that, upon load-up, asked me what preset I’d like to see, so that I could *choose* for it to be a “night” or a “weekend” (regardless of whether it was a Saturday or not), I’d be infinitely more intrigued. :)

    March 29th, 2010 at 10:52 pm

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    1. Mel

      Well, if a scheduled event is missed wouldn’t it simply open the next time Firefox is started? If it does, this might work for you after all.

      If we are not notified of missed events this would be a much needed upgrade. Morning Coffee is pretty useless without it.

      April 3rd, 2010 at 4:22 pm

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      1. Mel

        Oops! No this won’t work because there are no complex scheduling options. It only allows you to open sites on a certain day of the week. If it’s not that day they simply don’t open. Oh well. There are other options if you search for “schedule” in the Firefox addons page. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?sort=weeklydownloads&q=schedule&appid=1&cat=0%2C0&tag=&atype=-1&pid=-1&lup=&lver=-1&pp=20

        April 3rd, 2010 at 5:54 pm

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  6. Malcolm McKay

    Great idea FireFox – I’ll use Morning Coffee every morning. Cheers, Mal from Cessnock AU

    March 30th, 2010 at 4:22 am

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  7. Ermolay Romanoff

    This is perfect. Long live #rockyourfirefox. :D

    April 2nd, 2010 at 12:28 am

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  8. รับทำกระเป๋า

    very so creative extension; I also have a list of website to enter everyday.

    April 2nd, 2010 at 9:50 am

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  9. Mel

    I plan on using this to remind me of websites and services that will cancel my account if I don’t use them once a month or so.

    Also good for people who post a lot of comments but forget to check back for replies. :)

    April 3rd, 2010 at 4:26 pm

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    1. Mel

      Nope. I found it won’t work for this purpose. I plan on adding a scheduling tab extension instead (when I have found one.)

      April 3rd, 2010 at 5:49 pm

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  10. karixa

    I like to know if I can add custom tiers – so when I am developing new codepacks for my sites, can I add several url’s to a ‘project tier’ for example? It would be hecka helpful when re-opening my browser in the morning to be able to open a set of pages, by project.

    @karixa on twitter to respond

    April 4th, 2010 at 5:10 pm

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  11. Graham

    your addons get better and better, this is exactly what I’ve been looking for! cheers dudes

    April 6th, 2010 at 1:04 am

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  12. Shemurmurs

    I absolutely love this add-on. It’s simple, it’s small and it just works for me. I have my brain programmed to stumble out to the computer and push the little coffee cup before I go pouring myself a cup of ambition and everything is loaded and ready for me to read as I sip my coffee. Perfect.

    July 25th, 2010 at 6:37 am

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  13. ankith

    it is very good.

    August 19th, 2010 at 8:18 pm

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  14. ankith

    good

    August 19th, 2010 at 8:19 pm

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  15. paul

    empty for me – I am sad to say – I have to add the links manually and cannot browse to list them

    and when the application is open, I also cannot access my bookmarks to copy and paste

    maybe I make a mistake :(
    greetings – paul

    October 19th, 2010 at 9:54 pm

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  16. CagElaleBerie

    Very good forum. Add to bookmarks

    February 19th, 2011 at 11:25 am

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  17. Bypejothittee

    Very mega super interesting site. ‘ll Come again!

    February 26th, 2011 at 11:32 pm

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