Firefox extensions
I’ve grown such a list of Firefox extensions, I should post a list so I can keep track for the time comes to reinstall everything. In no particular order, here they are….
- Linky - view a pagefull of images from a pagefull of links. Useful when checking out your friend’s photo galleries.
- Forecastfox - what’s the weather like?
- PDF Download - I hate PDFs opening in the browser because it locks up my system (I blame Acrobat Reader bloat, not Firefox). Now I have the choice to open them or download them.
- IE View - open a link in Internet Explorer instead
- IE Tab - open a link in a new Firefox tab with Internet Explorer embedded in it (this is essential for my work)
- BugMeNot - saves me having to go to BugMeNot.com to lookup guest usernames/password. Don’t use this much.
- Web Developer - useful for web development, viewing details about websites, css.
- Tab Mix Plus - Tabbed browsing on steroids. Now control all your tabbed browsing options.
- Aardvark - great for printing webpages so you can eliminate all the adds, banners and other junk which waste paper and ink
- DownThemAll - a download manager to grab all the links off a page and download multiple files.
- Plain Text Links - if there is an unlinked URL on the page, highlight it and this will open the link for you. Don’t bother cutting and pasting.
- del.icio.us - quicker access to my saved links and fills in some of the forms when tagging new pages.
- Colorzilla - color chooser so you can investigate colors inside the browser, rather than with a bunch of other tools.
- Screengrab - take a screenshot of the entire browser window, even down past the fold.
What extensions can’t you live without? Leave a comment on your favorites.
software, firefox, browsers
March 8th, 2006 at 11:49 pm
Adblock? Although there have been some issues with newer version and the like.. I find after you set up a few wildcard patterns, you never see ads again.
I agree with a few from your list that are essential:
Screengrab one is fantastic I think. Have used it many a time.. Whenever I’m working on web apps or HTML I can’t live without the web developer plugin.. The person who created it deserves a medal!
Forecast fox I found quite handy too.. But can live without it.
Nath
March 9th, 2006 at 4:50 am
What about “Update Notifier”? Adds a little icon to your toolbar that checks for updates to new themes and plugins, and offers to download/install them. Also NoScript for protecting you from javascript nonsense, but allowing you to enable it (either permanently or for just this session) on a site-by-site basis
http://www.longfocus.com/firefox/updatenotifier/
http://www.noscript.net/whats
April 16th, 2006 at 6:08 pm
Web Developer
PDF Download
and
Cacheout!
for reading from a page under hevy load (slashdot.com or digg.com effect)
April 30th, 2006 at 4:45 am
absolute can’t-live-withouts:
easyGestures! Opens a little nav-menu on middle-clicking (context-sensitive, if you want to), arranged in a circle around the spot where you clicked. So after about 30 seconds after installing it, you’re absolutely used to open/switch/close tabs by just click-moving (=mouse gestures)…
StumbleUpon is a realy innovative way for people to share their interests and experiences of web-surfing. Sites get tagged by the first visitor, others might “stumble upon” them depending on their stored interests and just have to choose if they “like it” or not - so over time, you more and more stumble upon sites that really fit your interests and that you might have never heard of otherwise. The drawback of course is a pretty detailed digital fingerprint of your surfing interests…