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Converter -- At a glance

Unit conversion on any web page for Firefox users — welcome to the Converter project!

The Converter is an easy to use Firefox extension which performs on the fly, contextual conversions between the most common units of measurement. The main target is the Imperial/metric divide, but some unusual, counter-intuitive units are also converted to more intuitive values (e.g. m/s, meters per second).

The Converter is a no-thrills tool. It aims to be intuitive for the average user during regular text reading. You can't specify the precision. You can't tweak the resulting units. You don't get the results in several formats. If you need any of that fancy stuff for scientific purposes you should probably use another tool.

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How it works

The operation is as simple as possible, and it works in two distinct ways:

Single conversion on selection
Select a piece of text containing a measurement and right click: the converted value will be shown in the resulting popup menu.
Page conversion
Make sure you do not have any selection at all, right click to show the popup menu, and click on "Convert the entire page"—all measurements found by the converter in the page are converted like so: from "1 ounce" to "1 ounce (1 oz = 28.3 g)". While using a little more space than strictly necessary, the fact that the original value is shown in the brackets tells you what the converter "understood" from the text in the page—this is helpful on one hand to confirm you that the converted value makes sense in the context, and on the other it allows you to identify potential problems with the current version, which you are encouraged to report in order to enhance this extension.

Copy the URL of this page, click here to install the Converter, restart Firefox, paste the link, select this whole paragraph and right click: 0.1 in = 2.54 mm is shown in the popup (that's because "0.1 in" is the first dimension encountered in this paragraph).

Features

Here's a comprehensive list of converter's main features:

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