 Firefox Extentions, Have an "essential" plugin? Share it with others. |
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 Mar 14 2006, 09:31 PM
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Super Member  Group: Members Posts: 205 Joined: 14-March 06 From: Vermont or Boston (USA) Member No.: 20,077  |
Ok, I'll spare you all of the pro firefox propaganda. You all know it is the best browser out there--else you wouldn't be reading this page.
Here are a few of my favorite extentions (plugins): 1) Adblock An absolute essential for me. Are you sick of all those obnoxious banner ads? Of popups? Of flash ads? Well adblock lets you remove all of them. The interface is great, and it is encredibly customisable. I'm so used to using it that when I use a different computer I and shocked at how much visual polution exists on the web. For those of you with fast computers, you can download adblock lists which will remove 99% of the ads from the web without you having to do anything. Unforunatly, this may cause lag if you're using an older computer. But, no worries, you can just make your own custom rules to block ads on the pages that you visit. 2) Faster Fox This extention has many options that you can tweak to make firefox even faster. It also has an option to fix the flaw exploited by some advertisers to make popups using flash. -------- EDIT: -------- 3) Forgot one other great extention: Stumble Upon. When you first download it you are asked to select your interests. The options range from Cats, to Islam, to online games, and everything in between. Then, whenever you are bored you select a catagory off your list and click the stumble button. It will then take you to a webpage about that subject. From there you decide if you like the page or not and then you rate it. Stumbleupon then compares these ratings to other people's, and then tries to show you pages that it thinks you'd like based on your previous ratings. It contains absolutely no spyware or ads, and they don't (to my knowledge) collect any personal information. What extentions can't you live without? This post has been edited by gaea: Mar 15 2006, 02:53 AM |
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Mar 15 2006, 08:18 AM
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Trap Grand Marshal Member Group: Members Posts: 1,203 Joined: 25-March 05 Member No.: 4,883 |
QUOTE(gaea @ Mar 15 2006, 05:31 AM)  1) Adblock An absolute essential for me. Are you sick of all those obnoxious banner ads? Of popups? Of flash ads? Well adblock lets you remove all of them. The interface is great, and it is encredibly customisable. I'm so used to using it that when I use a different computer I and shocked at how much visual polution exists on the web. For those of you with fast computers, you can download adblock lists which will remove 99% of the ads from the web without you having to do anything. Unforunatly, this may cause lag if you're using an older computer. But, no worries, you can just make your own custom rules to block ads on the pages that you visit. At first I thought AdBock was a great addon for Firefox. Well it did great for blocking ads on webpages. However, it also blocked Flash components as well. I need to disable AdBlock and refresh the page for the Flash component to load. It's really annoying factor from AdBlock. I cannot find any settings in AdBlock to stop blocking Flash companents. Since then, I've removed AdBlock.  I'd rather live with Ads than forgiving away Flash components.
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Mar 18 2006, 02:07 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 126 Joined: 18-February 06 From: London, England Member No.: 18,837 |
Four others, one of which was mentioned in another thread.
Siteadvisor, advises you of what sites are safe and what sites aren't. Although most computer savvy people can tell fot themselves what sites are likely to contain spyware, siteadvisor appears on your search results page. By that, I mean that after the name of each result for your search, it'll have a logo showing if the site is safe or not. ForecastFox, I use this extension just to find out how cold it is outside. It helps me determine if I wanna go out or stay in! FoxyTunes, I use this to play and my music without having Windows Media Player open. IEView I use to view the sites that don't display correctly in Firefox Adblock I Use that too! Stumbleupon, is another one I use, and the final one I love is: Download Statusbar It just displays the progress of my downloads in the status bar! |
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Mar 22 2006, 12:10 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 5 Joined: 20-March 06 From: Bandung Member No.: 20,359 |
I'm definitely love my own extension but usually I use:
~ Anonymous Toolbar ~ Fasterfox ~ AJAX Yahoo ~ BBCode ~ RSS Panel |
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Apr 3 2006, 11:01 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 9 Joined: 3-April 06 From: Sydney, Australia Member No.: 21,222 |
Not sure if these have been mentioned but i can't live without "Tab Mix Plus" it does alot of stuff, customizing how you're tabs work is its speciality, but i love its session manager functions, that is, if firefox crashes or your computer, it saves your session (opened tabs history etc) and you can easily restore it, it's great stuff.
I also like the del.icio.us extension to quickly add sites. Oh and greasemonkey can't really explain what it does, but check it out i'm sure you will find a use for it 
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Apr 10 2006, 12:17 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 6 Joined: 9-April 06 Member No.: 21,574 |
I have AdBlock.. probably my favorite thing about FireFox.
I've used a similar extension to Fasterfox. I use an extension that's called BBCode something.. it's useful for storing URLs and opening them on demand. FF extensions are great. |
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Mar 2 2007, 10:49 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 6 Joined: 2-March 07 Member No.: 39,459 |
Firebug is really helpful for developers. It lets me see the CSS style for every part of the page and allows me to neutralize every CSS command and see how it is affecting the page.
It has saved me hours of debugging and understanding how CSS works. The web developer toolbar is also excellent, it lets me resize the screen to check what the site will look back at 800 X 600. Besides this it lets me outline tables and CSS block so I can analyze how a page was defined. I can see image definitions such as pixels or image weight, it lets me see the CSS of the page (puts several CSS files together). If you use CSS or want to get started with CSS you will get a lot of help from this tool. |
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