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Firefox EC2 UI Elasticfox plugin extension for Managing Amazon EC2 Images

Firefox EC2 UI for Managing Amazon EC2 Images

Firefox provides easy plugin for managing EC2 images in a GUI method.You can download elastiic fox extension from firefox site.
The instructions for creating an Amazon EC2 image walk through the use of command line tools which is really great. Learning how to do it this way is important because it helps you understand more about what you’re actually doing. But once you understand it all, it can be a headache to have to remember all the commands and options because they’re all rather similar. So quickly after learning all about Amazon EC2, my buddy Hiram told me about the Firefox Extension for Amazon EC2.

This Firefox extension is such an incredible time saver for most of the tasks of managing images. Starting and stopping images, grabbing the public DNS name of an image, etc. are as easy as clicking a button. After you’ve taken the time to understand how to create and work with images from the command line, it is definitely worth using this extension.

Prerequisites

  • This extension requires Mozilla Firefox version 1.5.0 or later.

Running the Extension

Install the extension by clicking on the following link with Mozilla Firefox:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads/elasticfox.xpi

Firefox guides you through the installation process. You may need to configure Firefox to install software from this domain.

Documentation

Read the ElasticFox Getting Started Guide for information on using the extension.


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What is a Web browser? Understanding and explaining term “Web Browser”

Few Definitions for browser:-
  • Browser is an application, which helps us to view the Web sites and the web content.
  • Web sites are located in some remote systems, which needs a special kind of program or an application to access them, such an application is called browser.
  • A browser is an application which you can use to retrieve web pages from web sites and view.
  • When you type a URL in the browser, the browser will convert it into a web request which web server can understand. Browser will send the request to web server using the HTTP protocol.
  • When a web server returns a web page as a Response, the browser will understand the response and display the body of the response to the user in browser.
  • In simple terms a browser can be defined as “A software application used to locate and display Web pages”
  • You can create your own simple browser application using C++, C#, VB.NET or any other language you like. All you need to know is, how to compose a request which web server can understand, how to parse and display the response from web server and communicate with webserver using HTTP protocol.
  • Even though the basic job of browser is just send requests to web server and receive response from the server, modern browser provide several other enhanced features including Back/Forward buttons, save viewed files to disk so that they can be viewed later, cache images so that the same images need not be downloaded again and again etc.
  • Internet Explorer, Netspace, Mozilla are some of the popular web browsers currently available in the market.
  • Netscape was the most popular web browser till 4-5 years back, but currently more than 90% of the internet users use “Internet Explorer” to browse the websites.

Tags: ASP Dot Net, OUR web, Programming, Programming Technologies, Web technologies by Inder Singh
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