Best Firefox Extensions

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Best Firefox Extensions

2006-07-21 22:30:58

I have my favorites:

Flashblok -- prevents those flash animations to ever start downloading
Tab Mix Plus -- Extreme control over tabs
FlashGot -- for integration with GetRight
FasterFox -- accelerates Firefox mighty good.

What are yours?

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Reply #1 – 2006-07-21 23:02:15

Adblock - [a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/10/" target="_blank"][a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/10/" target="_blank"]https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/10/[/a][/a]
Blocks a ton of ad servers.
Adblock Filterset.G Updater - [a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1136/" target="_blank"][a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1136/" target="_blank"]https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1136/[/a][/a]
An add-on to Adblock and Adblock Plus which includes an additional list of ad servers to block, also allows you to block other sites not just the ones in it's list.
IE Tab - [a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1419/" target="_blank"][a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1419/" target="_blank"]https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1419/[/a][/a]
Allows for embedding Internet Explorer into the tabs of of Firefox and using the Internet Explorer rendering engine for sites that are only IE friendly such as Windows Updates, Microsoft Updates, or other Microsoft download sites that require validation. You can add your own filters/rules that will automatically switch to the IE rendering engine when you visit particular sites such as update.microsoft.com.
McAfee SiteAdvisor - [a href="http://www.siteadvisor.com/" target="_blank"][a href="http://www.siteadvisor.com/" target="_blank"]http://www.siteadvisor.com/[/a][/a]
Available for Firefox and Internet Explorer. When doing searches, and when loading sites it indicates how safe those sites are, and can help thwart off accidentally visiting a malicious site unknowingly. However you have to pay attention to its little o.k. or potentially dangerous icons.

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Reply #2 – 2006-07-22 00:10:26

Adblock
BBCode
Hit-a-Hint - for when I've forgotten to charge my mouse
Sage - RSS feed aggregator
TabMixPlus

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Reply #3 – 2006-07-22 00:48:28

chatzilla http://www.hacksrus.com/~ginda/chatzilla/

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Reply #4 – 2006-07-22 01:50:16

apart from the already mentioned adblock and flashgot I also use the following for any new install:

- NoScript
- SecurePassword Generator
- SwitchProxy Tool
- SpellBound (for FF 1.5.0.4 visit MozillaZine forums).
- Session Manager (will be integrated in FF 2.0).

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Reply #5 – 2006-07-22 02:02:35

OpenBook, it does the add bookmarks dialog right.

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Reply #6 – 2006-07-22 05:05:58

All-in-One Gestures 0.17.4
Disable Targets For Downloads 1.0.1
Favicon Picker 0.2.6
Flashblock 1.5.1
Linky 2.7.1
Nightly Tester Tools 1.0.4
refspoof 0.7.0
Sage 1.3.6
Session Manager 0.4.2
User Agent Switcher 0.6.8
VideoDownloader 1.0
Web Developer 1.0.2
Wikipedia Toolbar 0.8.0

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Reply #7 – 2006-07-22 09:10:41

Image Zoom
Tab Clicking Options
Tabbrowser Preferences
Mozilla Archive Format
Resize Search Box
Disable Targets For Downloads
VideoDownloader
DownThemAll!

SearchPluginHacks has been useful (to remove unwanted search plugins) and Session Manager can be useful, but also annoying at times.

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Reply #8 – 2006-07-22 09:46:37

Forecastfox (I'm english, we like to talk about the weather)
Colorzilla
Web Developer
AutoFormer

Don't use the web developement based ones so much these days as my real work has taken precedence.

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Reply #9 – 2006-07-22 15:56:54

FoxyTunes. Gives you a set of controls for your audio player of choice in a small, relocateable bar.
Image Zoom
Update Notifier

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Reply #10 – 2006-07-22 19:37:31

besides the ones already mentioned:

CookieCuller
Quick Java
AdBlock Plus

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Reply #11 – 2006-07-22 23:07:44

Does anyone know if there's an extension that will block favicons, or at the least remove them from the bookmarks file without having to resort to manually editing it?

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Reply #12 – 2006-07-23 00:34:06

Use the Favicon Picker extension, then use that to clear the icon. Right-click the Bookmark, Properties, Erase.

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Reply #13 – 2006-07-23 01:02:21

Image Zoom 0.2.3
FasterFox 1.0.3 (but not at BAD default settings)
NoScript 1.1.3.9
Google Toolbar for Firefox 2.0.20060606W
Tabbrowser Preferances 1.2.8.8

Theme: Sky Pilot Classic

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Reply #14 – 2006-07-23 03:57:21

I just use Adblock plus

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Reply #15 – 2006-07-23 08:26:37

Quote from: 56Nomad on 2006-07-23 00:34:06

Use the Favicon Picker extension, then use that to clear the icon. Right-click the Bookmark, Properties, Erase.

It works like a charm, and is now one of my favourite extensions as well.

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Reply #16 – 2006-07-23 21:02:02

FoxyTunes
Yakalike (chat with persons visiting the same website as you).

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Reply #17 – 2006-07-23 22:23:02

Noone mentioned Mouse Gestures yet? That is one of my must-have-addons.
Tab preview also is very useful

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Reply #18 – 2006-07-24 11:11:50

Quote from: audioaficionado on 2006-07-23 01:02:21

Google Toolbar for Firefox 2.0.20060606W

Ridiculous version number!

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Reply #19 – 2006-07-24 12:57:17

Quote from: Lev on 2006-07-24 11:11:50

Quote from: audioaficionado on 2006-07-23 01:02:21

Google Toolbar for Firefox 2.0.20060606W

Ridiculous version number!

Why, because the version number format includes the date or because the date is 6.6.06?

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Reply #20 – 2006-07-24 15:58:59

Quote from: niktheblak on 2006-07-24 12:57:17

Quote from: Lev on 2006-07-24 11:11:50

Quote from: audioaficionado on 2006-07-23 01:02:21

Google Toolbar for Firefox 2.0.20060606W

Ridiculous version number!

Why, because the version number format includes the date or because the date is 6.6.06?

Both

How does it get above version 1.0 anyway.....

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Reply #21 – 2006-07-25 00:58:20

Quote from: Lev on 2006-07-24 15:58:59

How does it get above version 1.0 anyway.....

It gets updated frequently. Now it's 2.1.20060713W and FireFox is also slated to go version 2 in the near future. I think you can get a FF 2.0 beta to play with here.

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/releases/2.0b1.html

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Reply #22 – 2006-07-25 08:05:43

All-In-One-Gestures

Compact Menu

Menu-Editor

Adblock Plus

Autocopy

ReloadEvery

Download-Statusbar

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All in all, this gets firefox down to as minimal as: Titlebar, Menu-Button, URL-Editbox, Displayarea, Statusbar incl. adblock-icon

No menus, except a minimal contextmenu. Only one toolbar-button. Everything else is done via mouse (incl. opening/closing) sidebar.

I am even thinking about auto-hiding the statusbar as well - but last time i tried it, it resultet in display-glitches when scrolling.

- Lyx

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Reply #23 – 2006-07-25 08:41:57

For web developers: FireBug

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Reply #24 – 2006-09-14 01:30:39

Quote from: gaekwad2 on 2006-07-22 00:10:26

BBCode

Alright, can someone tell me which one is better:

BBCode ( https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/128/ )

or

BBCodeXtra ( https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/491/ )

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