Remember learning how to convert one form of measurement to another in school? I never really liked those few weeks in class, and now I feel vindicated that I didn’t learn a thing. You know why? Well, I have found a Firefox extension that will do all the hard work for me.

The Converter Firefox extension does just that, it converts. Here is what the developers behind the extension have to say about it.

The converter is a simple 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, or use the code in this one as a basis to write a custom one.

I wish I would have had this Firefox extension when I was in school. Honestly, unless you pick some oddball career, I don’t know if you really need to know how to do this stuff in your head. Why do we have to learn it? I think it might be a conspiracy just to keep us all worried about if we will need it or not.

This Firefox extension is for versions 1.0 and of the browser. To pick up your copy all you need to do is download it via the Mozilla Add-ons Web site.