Comments on: Firefox Extentions

By: Bram

Bram — Mon, 16 May 2005 16:57:15 +0000

and some more but that are small ones like ieview etc.

By: Bram

Bram — Mon, 16 May 2005 16:55:11 +0000

Google Pagerank Status
Adblock
Tabbrowser Preferences
“Search Dictionary for” thing (cant find the name)

And I use the Abstract PC theme…

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 19:28:09 +0000

I use MANY extensions, in addition to the ones mentioned before. Some of them are:

advanced highlighter button (highlights words like on google’s cached pages)
Google PageRank Status (shows google PR in the statusbar)
GooglePreview (Shows thumbnail of the page on google’s search results)
ForecastFox (Weather Forecasts)
ieview (view page or link in IE)
Paste Lorem Ipsum (pastes typesetting text into a box)
Session Saver (restores last browsing session)
miniT (rearrange tabs)
undoclosetab (whoops, didn’t mean to close that page)
FireFoxView (Launch current page in firefox [from ie])
Image Toolbar (save, view)
Image Zoom (make images bigger or smaller)
Copy Plain Text (copy text without crappy formatting)
Bandwidth Tester (test speed)
Tweak Network (fiddle with firefox’s rendering options and more)
Furl Tools (one click furl options)
Numbered Tabs (hit ctrl-# to go to a tab)

These are just the ones not mentioned above that i use on a weekly, if not daily basis.

By: Administrator

Administrator — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 19:26:26 +0000

Man, I wish the Tabbrowser Extensions worked! The idea is awesome, but I get frustrated when it horks itself….

By: John

John — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 18:44:42 +0000

Some others that I find helpful:

ColorZilla – an color picker

Foxylicious – imports your del.icio.us entries into organized bookmarks

FoxyTunes – to control your mp3 player within the browser

Live HTTP Headers – to debug web apps that use cookies, redirects, and other behaviors that depend on HTTP headers

View Cookie – adds a cookie tab to the ‘Page Info’ panel, so you don’t have to wade through the default cookie browser

Preferential – tweak FF settings quickly

If you really want to do nutty stuff with pages, Greasemonkey is a must have. See the unofficial script repository to see how Greasemonkey can do things with websites beyond the author’s intent or imagination.

Last but not least, my all-time favorite extension is Tabbrowser Extensions. I have a love-hate relationship with it because of the frequent releases, it can be sometimes buggy. It’s also a bitch to get configured to your liking, but once you do, it’s sweet, sweet browsing bliss. TBE lets you hack all kinds of tab behaviors. You can reorder tabs, change how the browser reacts to links (I open all remote links in new background tabs), and my favorite, ‘Undo Close Tab,’ has saved my butt on several occasions.