PageZipper

Wednesday, Aug 25, 2010

Choose to scroll instead of click. Get all your info in one continuous experience on a single Web page.

Ever read a really, really long novel? War and Peace, maybe? Atlas Shrugged? No matter what the plot, long novels take a lot of page turning. Many devoted literati have nursed cramped fingers as they rounded page 682.

So…wouldn’t it be easier if Infinite Jest came to you in one long roll? Or just imagine if Clarissa was counted among the world’s longest leaflets…

That’s exactly the thinking behind PageZipper. This add-on pieces together all the pages of a given Web experience to make a continuous, uninterrupted scroll.

Once you’ve installed the add-on, go “Toolbars” to “Customize…”:

Drag the PageZipper icon (it’s circled below–it may be in a slightly different spot for you) from the window to wherever you want it to appear:

Click the icon to start the PageZipper feature. It turns green, and arrows appear in the upper right corner on the Web page you are viewing:

PageZipper works particularly well with image galleries and lists, like “Top 10 Best Restaurants”. Lists often give an overview with links to the 10 (or more) featured sites. Without PageZipper, you have to do a lot of clicking to see each one. With PageZipper, you can just scroll.

Here the place where the Web page normally ends is circled. With PageZipper, now you see the first page’s footer, followed immediately by the next page:

No clicking required! Unless you want to—above you can see the arrow function (circled) that lets you page through an article without ever leaving the original Web page.

So, if clicking around has you down, what are you waiting for? Try PageZipper today.

Post from Elise Allen, who has kept her diary as a scroll since age 11, and now uses it as a small sofa. See all posts by Elise Allen.

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  1. Christian Banks

    cool, wonder how they pulled it off?
    Or does it only work with a few sites?
    Anyway, I never worried to much about clicking around.. almost prefer it over long pages.

    August 25th, 2010 at 2:18 pm

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  2. Ryan Peters

    This looks exactly like Auto Pager, a similar add-on. Just thought I’d say so people can compare the differences in features.

    August 25th, 2010 at 2:31 pm

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  3. Neil Rashbrook

    Was it your intent to make the author of the Add Note add-on look silly?

    August 27th, 2010 at 2:56 am

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    1. Elise Allen

      Hi Neil,

      Hmm…so I’m not sure exactly which add-on you’re talking about. Could it have a slightly different name? Or can you give a link?

      For what it’s worth, my write up was agenda-free, other than introduce people to PageZipper :)

      August 27th, 2010 at 10:14 am

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      1. Slobo

        I think Neil is referring to the screenshot where you have toolbar customization open:
        http://rockyourfirefox.com/rockyourfirefox_content/uploads/2010/08/PageZipper_Icon.png

        September 8th, 2010 at 2:23 pm

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  4. Chris

    “So…wouldn’t it be easier if Infinite Jest came to you in one long roll?”

    I would say no, that doesn’t sound like it would be easier at all…

    August 30th, 2010 at 6:30 am

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  5. Pierre

    Really cool ! Thank you

    August 31st, 2010 at 11:12 pm

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  6. Warren

    This works great for me. I assemble Lego sets from online instructions. Saves A LOT of clicking for me. Thanks!

    August 31st, 2010 at 11:45 pm

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  7. Eigenvector

    This sounds cool. There’s plenty of times I’ve been surfing some online shopping page that shows me images of the 367 things that matches my search criteria, ten at a time, forcing me to click through 36 pages of crap (e.g., I think IKEA’s page is like that). I always found this infuriating since in today’s high-bandwidth times there’s really no reason to divide stuff up into separate pages, and refreshing the page tends to be time consuming. Not to mention that the so called “pages” don’t actually fit onto one screen, so then what’s the point. I still have to scroll up and down.

    September 8th, 2010 at 7:30 am

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    1. Sroz

      Ah… The “point” of breaking it up is usually to increase page views. Page views are the driving force behind advertising rates. So you can have 1,000 visitors with 1,000 page veiws, or you can break up that interesting article into 10 pages and get 10,000 page views.

      This is the reasoning behind the ‘next’ button in blogs and other media. To be fair, most shopping sites these days do have a ‘veiw all’ option.

      September 24th, 2010 at 7:42 am

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  8. pututik

    it was really cool plugin, i have try and get more faster reading long article

    September 10th, 2010 at 12:23 pm

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  9. Matthew

    This is phenomenal. I tried the other forms of this add-on, but this one is clearly the best. It just works.

    Wish I didn’t have to turn it on for sites though… I’d rather it just worked for all sites with continuous “next” page buttons.

    September 17th, 2010 at 3:12 pm

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  10. Abhinaw Gupta

    I rarely post comments. This one made me to. This is truly an amazing add on. Highly recommended.

    October 4th, 2010 at 3:40 am

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