If I said I wanted to toss an Aardvark in your lap, you’d probably look at me with a very confused look across your face. Well, what if I told you that this Aardvark in question would do more work than any other Aardvark that you have seen before. Would I have your attention then? Do I have your attention now? The Aardvark Firefox extension is very unique and very useful as well.

So what can you do with this Firefox extension? You can clean up unwanted banners and surrounding “fluff,” especially prior to printing a page, see how the page is created, block by block and view the source code of one or more elements.

Once you get Aardvark up and running as an extension in Firefox, all you need to do to start it is right-click on any Web page and choose “Start Aardvark”. The extension will keep going, till you tell it to stop by leaving, refreshing or by hitting the “Q” key to quit.

As you navigate around the Web page you will notice a red square over some of the Web site sections. If they exist, you will also see a little yellow caption telling you the HTML element type and its class or id if it has one.

It might take a while to get a grasp on how Aardvark works at first. It definitely deserves some personal time as you learn how to use it and what all you can do with it. On the Aardvark Web page, they have some keyboard shortcuts that should help you manage what you want to do as well as find out what all this little Firefox extension can do.

So now that you have this Aardvark tossed into your lap, make the best of all the work that it will do for you.