Firefox Topics

[Poolzer]

More and more people are using firefox and findout the great extensions that you can add to it. Do you use firefox and if so, what extensions have you found work great?

I use
-tbmobile, which tracks my minutes

-gmail which obviously tells me if I have any mail

-adblock which can block any ad on a page, its great, makes the damn things disappear

-reset which when you add something (theme, update, extention etc) will close then open firefox rather than closing it then having to open it yourself (laziness is great)

videodownloader, for places like utube, it grabs the video and lets you save it with a click.

snipit an ebay sniper program Ive used for years, now can just click on the ebay auction and set up the snipe

ieview for retarded places that just NEED ie, like windows update.

[Speed Damage]

-Bookmark Backup: a simple extension that helps to keep your bookmarks (and optionally other Firefox settings) safe. Each time Firefox is closed, a copy of your bookmarks file will be made to a backup location. If Firefox's bookmarks/settings become corrupted or lost, find the most recent uncorrupted backup and copy it into your profile folder.

-Tab Mix Plus: Tab Mix Plus enhances Firefox's tab browsing capabilities. It includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more. It also includes a full-featured session manager with crash recovery that can save and restore combinations of opened tabs and windows.

-X (Paranoia) Mod: Adds a paranoia button to the toolbar (clear your history, saved form information, passwords, download history, cookies, and/or cache with as little as two clicks).

-DownloadThemAll: DownThemAll lets you download all the links or images contained in a webpage and much more: you can refine your downloads by fully customizable criteria to get only what you really want.

For IE compatibility with firefox, I use this extension over IE View:
-IE Tab: Embedding Internet Explorer in tabs of Mozilla/Firefox.

I'm trying this extension out, don't know how it will work but it seems intriguing:
-Mouse Gestures: Mouse Gestures are a fast way to execute commands without using the keyboard, menus or toolbars. Instead, the user holds down a mouse button (usually the right one), moves the mouse in a certain way to form a gesture, then releases the mouse button.

-Optimoz Tweaks: A couple of a tweaks that are very helpful: Side bar autohide/show, auto-expand search bar, and smart middle clicks.

[MetDream]

Nice topic poolzer. I just started using firefox so I havent gotten into all the bells and whistles yet. So thanks for the heads up.

[sjmike]

I use these extensions:

FlashGot - an extenion that works only if you have the download manager called FlashGet. Allowes you to download all the links, files, or images contained in a webpage and much more: you can refine your downloads by fully customizable criteria to get only what you really want.

Adblock Plus - blocks and removes those annoying ads on webpages.

Adblock FilterSet.G Updater - Filterset.G is an excellent set of filters maintained by G for Adblock that blocks most ads on the internet. In addition, this extension allows you to define your own set of filters that you can add along with Filterset.G during an update.

Gmail Notifier - A notifier for Gmail accounts.

Customize Google - is a Firefox extension that enhance Google search results by adding extra information (like links to Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, MSN etc) and removing unwanted information (like ads and spam).

FasterFox - Performance and network tweaks for Firefox. Allows you to tweak many network and rendering settings such as simultaneous connections, pipelining, cache, DNS cache, and initial paint delay.

[Speed Damage]

Firefox 2.0 was just released. Hasn't been annouced yet, but its on their server

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/ ... ozilla1.8/

[Judge B]

I've used Firefox long time, but haven't ever download any plugins. There's really nothing I need.

[M4ST3R M1K3]

MileWideBack:
MileWideBack is an extension that allows you to navigate back and forth in the browser by left-clicking or right-clicking on the left edge of the browser window

AutoCopy:
Select text on any web page and it will be automatically copied to the clipboard. It works in much the same way as does Trillian or mIrc

Tweak Network:
Firefox has a couple of hidden network settings. With this extension, you can tweak these settings, and you might be able to speed up the loading of web pages

Unhide Passwords:
Shows contents of password fields in cleartext

Tab Mix Plus:
Tab Mix Plus enhances Firefox's tab browsing capabilities. It includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more

Compact Menu:
Removes useless menus

IE View Lite
Cut down version of IE View by Paul Roub. All the same UI and features are there. It has a right click menu item to open a page in IE and a list of sites to always open in IE. Everything's just been rebuilt from the ground up to be smaller and more efficient.

Linkification:
Converts text links into genuine, clickable links

Adblock Plus:
Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them

Adblock Filterset.G Updater:
This is a companion extension to Adblock or Adblock Plus and should be used in conjunction with it. This extension automatically downloads the latest version of Filterset.G every 4-7 days. Filterset.G is an excellent set of filters maintained by G for Adblock that blocks most ads on the internet

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[sjmike]

Firefox 2.0 was just released. Hasn't been annouced yet, but its on their server

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/ ... ozilla1.8/

that version is only a pre-feature complete alpha, not the final version

[Kathlib the Prophet]

-DownloadThemAll: DownThemAll lets you download all the links or images contained in a webpage and much more: you can refine your downloads by fully customizable criteria to get only what you really want.

Best idea ever, it works great! Thanks for posting the link, this will save me a lot of time.

[Bob Garage]

Hammer Time - Best pluggin for Firefix EVER! Turns your stop button into a picture of MC Hammer. Every time you hit it, he sings "STOP! Hammer Time! Genius!