• fhsm
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Topic: Favorite Firefox Extensions / Addons

I'm surprised this post isn't already kicking around the forums.  What are your favorites?

Privacy / Security
- NoScript: http://noscript.net
- Targeted Advertising Cookie Opt-Out (TACO): http://www.dubfire.net/opt-out/   
- BetterPrivacy: http://netticat.ath.cx/extensions.html
- Adblock Plus: http://adblockplus.org/       
- CustomizeGoogle: http://www.customizegoogle.com/
- Ghostery: http://www.ghostery.com/
- Flagfox: http://flagfox.servehttp.com/
- ShowIP: http://code.google.com/p/firefox-showip/
- LongURL Mobile Expander: http://longurl.org/tools *thanks hanna

Basic Browser Function
- Download Statusbar: http://downloadstatusbar.mozdev.org/
- Extended Statusbar: http://kondor.etf.bg.ac.yu/~kustodian/mozilla/esb
- DT Whois: http://www.beysim.net/dtwhois/

Service Integration   
- Delicious Bookmarks: http://delicious.com/help
- Remember The Milk for Gmail: http://www.rememberthemilk.com/services/gmail/

Reference Management
- Zotero: http://www.zotero.org
   
Development   
- Firebug: http://www.getfirebug.com/
- Firecookie: http://www.janodvarko.cz/firecookie   
- Inline Code Finder for Firebug: http://www.robertnyman.com/inline-code-finder
- YSlow: http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow       
- Aardvark: http://karmatics.com/aardvark/
- Web Developer: http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/       
- HttpFox: http://code.google.com/p/httpfox/       
- User Agent Switcher: http://chrispederick.com/work/user-agent-switcher/
- Tamper Data: http://tamperdata.mozdev.org
- XSS Me: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7598
- HackBar: http://www.izi-services.nl
- SQLite Manager: http://sqlite-manager.googlecode.com/

Making This List
- Extension List Dumper: http://sogame.awardspace.com/

Obviously the browser would be a total pig with all of these loaded up so I use profiles and different items in the menu to run different combinations of them.  This works well for me and has the added benefit of giving me two independent FF instances running at once which can be helpful when testing.

So, like I said what are your favorites?

Last edited by fhsm (2009-04-29 11:07:22)

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Re: Favorite Firefox Extensions / Addons

Here's what I have installed atm.

Adblock Plus
All-in-One Sidebar
british English Dictionary
DownThemall!
Fast Dial
Google Gears (for my WP blog)
Greasemonkey (not sure if I have ant scripts in it atm though)
NoScript
StumbleUpon (disabled)
Ubiquity (should disable, I rarely use it these days)
Ubuntu Firefox Modifications (disabled)
Xmarks

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Re: Favorite Firefox Extensions / Addons

Fast Dial looks great.  I love that feature in Opera / Chrome.  Does gears integration just work with wordpress.com hosted blogs or does it work with self hosted blogs?

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Re: Favorite Firefox Extensions / Addons

Well I hope so, given that my blog is self-hosted, and it was my blog which told me gears was a good thing to have wink

And yeah, Fast Dial is great

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Re: Favorite Firefox Extensions / Addons

fhsm wrote:

Fast Dial looks great.  I love that feature in Opera / Chrome.  Does gears integration just work with wordpress.com hosted blogs or does it work with self hosted blogs?

Gears works great with self-hosted wordpress installations.

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Re: Favorite Firefox Extensions / Addons

Adblock Plus - excellent for killing those useless adverts.
NoScript- a little bit of extra security.
NumExt - numbered tabs, very useful with
Vimperator - make Firefox work with Vim keybindings.
Sage - RSS, although I'm moving to Newsbeuter in an effort to reduce mouse usage
ForecastFox - for the weather
Cards - because I'm a sad case :-)

All fed through Privoxy, a worthwhile addition to any browser, although it's not an extension.

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sfb wrote:

All fed through Privoxy, a worthwhile addition to any browser, although it's not an extension.

What do you get out of it?  When going through over SSH or Tor it's helpful to avoid DNS leak but otherwise I haven't found much use.

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Re: Favorite Firefox Extensions / Addons

I don't use SSH, I'm not even sure what it is, or Tor, I find it too slow. It just blocks ads that AdBlock might miss. I'm not what you would call a 'power user', just an everyday web surfer, emailer and newsgrouper.

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Re: Favorite Firefox Extensions / Addons

I use:

Adblock plus
Brief (for RSS)
Read it later
Tab mix plus
Tiny menu
xmarks

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Re: Favorite Firefox Extensions / Addons

Tiny Menu

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Re: Favorite Firefox Extensions / Addons

sfb wrote:

I don't use SSH, I'm not even sure what it is, or Tor, I find it too slow. It just blocks ads that AdBlock might miss. I'm not what you would call a 'power user', just an everyday web surfer, emailer and newsgrouper.

Just wanted to see if you had found a use I hadn't.  And yes Tor is deathly slow.

Nicky wrote:

Read it later

That's a good one.  Once I got Zotero I uninstalled, but Read It Later was a life saver on flights.

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Re: Favorite Firefox Extensions / Addons

Only one for me.
adblock plus

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Re: Favorite Firefox Extensions / Addons

Heres what I use:

Adblock Plus
BBCode
Copy Link Text
Fission
FlashGot
Greasemonkey
Hilarious Webcomic Manager
Menu Editor
Micro Menu

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anonymous wrote:

BBCode

Do you find it faster to select the tags from the menu?  It always seemed like faster to just type it to me.

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Re: Favorite Firefox Extensions / Addons

Yes I do find it faster. In particular I use it to apply tags to text that Ive copied to the clipboard.

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Re: Favorite Firefox Extensions / Addons

Adblock Plus
FireFTP
Flashblock
Xmarks

After upgrading to Firefox 3.5.1:

Chromifox Extreme Carbon
Chromifox Companion
autoHideStatusBar
Hide Caption Titlebar
Hide Findbar

Last edited by NewCityVegas (2009-07-27 10:18:47)

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Re: Favorite Firefox Extensions / Addons

- Adblock Plus
- NoScript
- Tiny Menu <3
- LongURL Mobile Expander
- Download Statusbar
- Delicious Bookmarks

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Re: Favorite Firefox Extensions / Addons

Adblock Plus
Downloadhelper (video d/l and conversion)
Xmarks

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I wonder what happens if I click on this..?
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Re: Favorite Firefox Extensions / Addons

Hanna wrote:

- LongURL Mobile Expander

Wow.  Never even thought to look for such a thing.  Great suggestion I'm installing it!

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IdentiFox

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Re: Favorite Firefox Extensions / Addons

adblock plus
download helper
aquatint black gloss (my favorite theme(?) ever, i find other than being a little darker than !# it matches pretty nicely)
improved gmail (i think, im at work atm, and cant verify)

thats it. i dont do much on my computer, other than play with my os, a little websurfing (4chan hr (scenery not pron) and wg)

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Re: Favorite Firefox Extensions / Addons

tiny menu
microfox
google toolbar

use small icons, no text, set google toolbar to replace search box, customize toolbars to move everything I don't use (nav arrows, home, reload, stop, etc) off main bar and move menu, url box, goggle favs, gmail, and search box to top bar. I then remove nav, bookmarks, and google toolbars since they are empty. I get everything I use on one toolbar to maximize space on my EEE 900 screen (1024 x 600).

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Re: Favorite Firefox Extensions / Addons

red devil wrote:

Xmarks

To shore up one loss of those unintentional reinstall extravaganzas!

http://www.fuelizer.com

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Re: Favorite Firefox Extensions / Addons

NewCityVegas wrote:

Adblock Plus
FireFTP
Flashblock
Xmarks

For Firefox Windows, IE TAB is a way to view TVU P2P video streams and other IE-only sites within FF.

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Re: Favorite Firefox Extensions / Addons

Hi #!-Community. Greetings from Germany! :D

Adblock Plus
Close Button (for undecorated Firefox)
Google Preview
Hide Menubar
Tab Mix Plus
Full Flat Absolute Black (my theme)

Last edited by taxidriver (2009-09-19 12:20:08)