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• Firstly the tab extensions does not seem to be a supported extension. Now I've read often enough about how it is horrible and ugly and all, but I use it for everyday browsing. I'd really like the default to be "open link in new tab" for just about everything with the middle mouse button set to "open link in this tab". The tab groups are also nice, but could be managed outside the standard tab extensions.

If you're referring to the Tabbrowser Extensions plugin, it works, and you can install it right here. It has been updated to work with the RC.

The only plugin that I so far I have not found an update to is the Googlebar.

Actually, it probably is dated, but it's hidden from you. Check the HTTP headers for a Last-Modified line to find out the date. The headers can be seen by sniffing the packets, getting the page through telnet, or using the LiveHTTPHeaders Firefox extension.

No sweat, and I should apologize too. It was me that said "let me get this straight," which is not a normally recognized introduction to a useful exchange of ideas. Sorry. And so far (in case you're not checking) you've got better mods than I do in this exchange anyway. Nice talking with you!

And don't miss the link further down in this thread to the Creating Applications With Mozilla book. All the examples seem to work fine in Firefox, and I'm learning a lot more about rendering!

The full (updated) text of Creating Applications With Mozilla, along with all the example source, is available for download at http://books.mozdev.org.

mozdev.org - autofill

That problem is easly solved. Get Firefox., It's better and has a builit-in popup blocker. As well a Google search by default. On the other hand, if you want more Google bells and whistles, add the Googlebar to Firefox. But if you're a Slashdot reader, you should know all this anyway.....

My first thought was "why MSIE only?" but then upon looking closer discovered that it only seems to be more or less replicating the facility already built into Firefox and Safari.

Without a doubt, this (http://forumzilla.mozdev.org/) has made my online life easier... Thanks, Myk!

Is this what you want?

I was given the URL of CopyImage. It works under MacOS X ("works for me") and also should work on any another platform - the extension only uses Javascript that leverages what Firefox already provides.

Would be nice if this was standard.

Also, I know how to use the menu item that suppresses images from a site. But with flash ads, the menu is short, and doesn't include the "Block images from ..." item that GIF and JPEG ads have. So is there a way to do this with flash ads?

In addition to flashblock and other drastic measures recommended (though may be fine for you, sounds you don't like flash at all, non-ads included) Adblock does kind of what the mozilla builtin image blocker does, only it works with _any_ object, as well as supports filtering on regexp or other pattern instead of only domain.

• Download Statusbar - No more download windows :]
• JavaScript Console Status - Non modal warning for JS errors :]
• Tab X - Closing `x` icon on tab like Safari/Camino/netbeans/eclipse/...

• Download Statusbar - No more download windows :]
• JavaScript Console Status - Non modal warning for JS errors :]
• Tab X - Closing `x` icon on tab like Safari/Camino/netbeans/eclipse/...

• Download Statusbar - No more download windows :]
• JavaScript Console Status - Non modal warning for JS errors :]
• Tab X - Closing `x` icon on tab like Safari/Camino/netbeans/eclipse/...

• Toolbar Enhancements adds many features to the toolbar. My favorite is that it allows me to put my navigation buttons in the tab bar, conserving valuable screen space.
• Moji is a Japanese->English lookup sidebar

• Toolbar Enhancements adds many features to the toolbar. My favorite is that it allows me to put my navigation buttons in the tab bar, conserving valuable screen space.
• Moji is a Japanese->English lookup sidebar

Even if there is some architectural problem with extensions that make it require a restart, it would be nice if something like session saver: http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/sessions aver

When you install an extension, it could automatically save your session, restart your browser and restore your session on reload.

but yeah, having to restart your browser is a bit of a pain!

Install the preferences bar extension. There is a chaeckbox for killing flash, along with a whole stack of other stuff.

1. Middle click to open link in new window/tab

For shame! How can you live without the EasyGestures Extention?!

"Flashblock is an extension for the Mozilla and Firebird browsers that takes a pessemistic approach to dealing with Macromedia Flash content on a webpage and blocks ALL Flash content from loading. It then leaves a placeholder on the page that allows you to click to view the Flash content." - flashblock.mozdev.org

Works well for me but read the notes on the Installation page about known bugs. When you mouse over the blocked flash movies my cpu still shoots up a little, but not nearly as much as without this extention.

smoothwheel http://smoothwheel.mozdev.org/

it also imports whatever it is that tells it that Flash is handled by that extension

That'd be userChrome.css, in the chrome directory of your profile directory. Just remove it.

The Weatherfox extension is pretty neat. It shows you your local weather in your status bar. I showed it to my sister so she wouldn't have to use crappy programs like WeatherBug.

Here's some more extensions I use that I haven't seen mentioned.

Dictionary Search: Lets you set up various online encyclopedias and dictionaries (e.g. Wikipedia, M-W.com) so you can highlight any word in a website, right click and get a definition for it.

Allow Right-Click: Allows you to right click on sites/objects that have that option disabled.

IEView: Adds the option to open the page in IE to the right-click context menu for those few sites who won't come out of the stone ages and believe MS is the end-all, be-all of browsers.

Basics: Adds a button to the tab bar to open new tabs. This was available in Mozilla and I missed it when I first moved to Firefox.

Unclose Tab: Sometimes I'll close the wrong tab by mistake. This extension allows you to right click the tab bar and re-open a tab you just closed.

Here's some more extensions I use that I haven't seen mentioned.

Dictionary Search: Lets you set up various online encyclopedias and dictionaries (e.g. Wikipedia, M-W.com) so you can highlight any word in a website, right click and get a definition for it.

Allow Right-Click: Allows you to right click on sites/objects that have that option disabled.

IEView: Adds the option to open the page in IE to the right-click context menu for those few sites who won't come out of the stone ages and believe MS is the end-all, be-all of browsers.

Basics: Adds a button to the tab bar to open new tabs. This was available in Mozilla and I missed it when I first moved to Firefox.

Unclose Tab: Sometimes I'll close the wrong tab by mistake. This extension allows you to right click the tab bar and re-open a tab you just closed.

Maybe it's my installation, but every time I try to install an extension either it doesn't install or I have to reinstall firefox because it won't start anymore.

That's been a major problem for a while, because extensions are/were essentially becoming part of the main program. You could uninstall them manually, but it was a tricky, fragile practice. Fortunately, Firefox 0.9 introduced a new extension manager that makes the process much easier -- if the extension author supports it. Which leads us to the next point.

I'd say the extensions system needs just a bit more work. And mind you, I've seen a lot of mozilla bugs as I've been with mozilla since version 0.8.x

Not all of the problems are with the extension system itself. An extension can be well or poorly written; it can have bugs, incompatibilities, etc., just like you won't always have a success with every program you see on freshmeat and try out. It's not automatically stable just because it's an extension. If the extension author has written their extension to support the new extension manager, it's easy to uninstall if you determine it's of no use to you, but ideally, a bit of research should be done before you try an extension out. Sites like ExtensionRoom and update.mozilla.org have a place for users to put reviews and comments, so it's a good idea to glance over those, and see if lots of other people have problems, before taking the plunge.

Maybe it's my installation, but every time I try to install an extension either it doesn't install or I have to reinstall firefox because it won't start anymore.

That's been a major problem for a while, because extensions are/were essentially becoming part of the main program. You could uninstall them manually, but it was a tricky, fragile practice. Fortunately, Firefox 0.9 introduced a new extension manager that makes the process much easier -- if the extension author supports it. Which leads us to the next point.

I'd say the extensions system needs just a bit more work. And mind you, I've seen a lot of mozilla bugs as I've been with mozilla since version 0.8.x

Not all of the problems are with the extension system itself. An extension can be well or poorly written; it can have bugs, incompatibilities, etc., just like you won't always have a success with every program you see on freshmeat and try out. It's not automatically stable just because it's an extension. If the extension author has written their extension to support the new extension manager, it's easy to uninstall if you determine it's of no use to you, but ideally, a bit of research should be done before you try an extension out. Sites like ExtensionRoom and update.mozilla.org have a place for users to put reviews and comments, so it's a good idea to glance over those, and see if lots of other people have problems, before taking the plunge.

As I posted earlier on /., block the following regex in your ad-blocker of choice (adblock in Firefox, PithHelmet in Safari) and be gone with your troubles: radio\.weblogs\.com\/0105910.

Also, the Triangle TechJournal article is not spam, but merely slashdotted. Here is google's cache: http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:uVKexn1-BtYJ:ww w.triangletechjournal.com/news/article.html%3Fitem _id%3D666+&hl=en&start=1

There's an extension called MozEX that allows you to use an external program for View Source.

TFA ended up describing the author's personal favourite extensions, so it kind of missed the point that there are extensions for almost everything, like what you need. Some good places to look for extensions:

• ExtensionRoom
• update.mozilla.org
• MozillaZine extensions forum (more intended for developers of extensions, but there are some neat finds there)

Like any other kind of software, extensions can vary in quality and stability. You might want to get other opinions of an extension you're considering before you install it. Fortunately, the new Extension Manager in Firefox 0.9 and up makes it easy to uninstall an extension. Before that came along, you had to do it manually which was tricky and easy to screw up.

There's an extension called MozEX that allows you to use an external program for View Source.

TFA ended up describing the author's personal favourite extensions, so it kind of missed the point that there are extensions for almost everything, like what you need. Some good places to look for extensions:

• ExtensionRoom
• update.mozilla.org
• MozillaZine extensions forum (more intended for developers of extensions, but there are some neat finds there)

Like any other kind of software, extensions can vary in quality and stability. You might want to get other opinions of an extension you're considering before you install it. Fortunately, the new Extension Manager in Firefox 0.9 and up makes it easy to uninstall an extension. Before that came along, you had to do it manually which was tricky and easy to screw up.

There's an extension called MozEX that allows you to use an external program for View Source.

TFA ended up describing the author's personal favourite extensions, so it kind of missed the point that there are extensions for almost everything, like what you need. Some good places to look for extensions:

• ExtensionRoom
• update.mozilla.org
• MozillaZine extensions forum (more intended for developers of extensions, but there are some neat finds there)

Like any other kind of software, extensions can vary in quality and stability. You might want to get other opinions of an extension you're considering before you install it. Fortunately, the new Extension Manager in Firefox 0.9 and up makes it easy to uninstall an extension. Before that came along, you had to do it manually which was tricky and easy to screw up.

Maybe there is an extension to add 'copy image'.

Here's some extensions I like that I haven't seen mentioned yet:

Magpie. Those who've used FlashGet with IE will love this little thing. It'll snatch all the files pointed to by links from a page according to some pattern, for example *jpg, and save them to disk or open them up as tabs. Great for collecting "nature pictures".

Firefox's bookmark dialog's "Create in" feature pisses me off. It never, ever, has the folders you need in it's puny little drop down. OpenBook removes it and replaces it with the full bookmarks folder tree.

You can reorder tabs with MiniT using simple drag and drop on the tab bar. I think this should maybe be added to Firefox itself, it's pretty basic functionality.

To add one more concrete example of a great development tool that I regularly use for development of web apps:

Web Developer Extension. This tool makes working with forms, CSS, images, etc. really really easy. I have been using 'View Source' or 'View Selection Source' much less often since I got this extension.

Similarly, I like to be able to search various online resources directly from my browser. To full-text search my bookmarks stored in Simpy I use browser search plugin.

In addition to that, you can get a number of other useful search plugins over at Mycroft (I keep typing Mycrosft - how bad is that!)

Gripe wrt Macromedia: a couple of days back I installed the latest and greatest Flash player from Macromedia on my WinXP box and it uninstalled Flashblock for me.

Better yet: it also prevents subsequent (re-)installation of Flashblock.

Solution: download Flaskblock.xpi, unzip it, mod so that it installs under a nom de guerre, rezip and install.

Anybody at Macromedia, if you're listening: STOP BEING NAUGHTY.

Texturizer.net has a nice collection of extensions you may not find on mozilla's dev site.

Some extensions I'm currently using:
Flat Bookmark Editing
Add Bookmark Here
CuteMenus
Paste and Go
Gmail Notifier(Still works)

Free iPods? Sure. freeipods.com

Allows you to change the product name in various parts of the browser. Random name generation ensures perpetual humour and possible end-user confusion.

As extensions go, nothing beats adblock.

here

Sure, but rather quickly such a household name (either by using $AD_SYNDICATE, or by committing their own irritating ad-deeds) becomes a standard "*$CATDEVNULLED*" filter in the nice extension of your favorite browser.

And in the meantime, while filters are updated for the real world, we make do with the baseball bats, as has been suggested.

Until then, I am forced to keep that little 'E' icon in my quicklaunch for emergencies.

As far as the Popup preferences, the best choice for mozilla is not to use the default but to install an extension. If you are using Mozilla suite, the best extension is the multizilla, which provides large amount of control over your tabs. (Where to open, where to go for close, what to do with new windows, etc.) A similar feature for the Firefox browser is given by the TabBrowser Extension.
Though I gotta say that I like multizilla better due to their better support of reopenning tabs and other small details. On the other hand, TabBrowser supports grouping of tabs and behaviors within groups which seems like an interesting improvement.

meh.. firefox is free without any catches. Plus, it has a very nice adblocking extension that makes browsing much less painful.

Just browsing the features listed on the Opera page I don't see much that firefox doesn't offer natively or by installing an extension, so I see no real reason to switch and a few good resons not to.

I wish the Firefox page had easy front-page links to both the Extensions list and the Plug-ins list. Maybe I missed the link, but the most convenient way I know to find the plug-ins is through a search engine. Does anyone know why extensions and plug-ins have to have separate pages?

Google toolbar for Mozilla does this and much more.

i found this to be a pretty good (though imperfect) "documentation" for about:config.
http://preferential.mozdev.org/preferences.html

I remember this being in the Mozilla Suite preferences, but not Firefox's. If you get the Things They Left Out extension, you can see preferences such as these that aren't in the "user-friendly" one of Firefox. Apparently this would be a "useless feature to the average Joe", but I disagree.

MNG is being discontinued, as are a lot of features including the Javascript Console. "Bloat", they calls it.

Not to worry, though. Nearly everything that is taken out of the Firefox core can be reimplemented as an extension. I know I've been loving my Mozilla Calendar, and Web Developer extensions. There's no reason that the Javascript Console can't just become a plugin.

There's a great pic under "Whaling" over at Wikipedia -- sadly, no entry for "flensing".

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Fav new Firefox extensions: User Agent Switcher

In a well designed windowing system (such as Display Postscript, Quartz and even GDI although it falls down in a number of other areas), the drawing commands sent to the windowing system are exactly the same as the ones sent to the printer. This makes it very easy to create true WYSIWYG applications (you don't need to write an X11 rendering path and a PostScript rendering path for the same data, and hope you've done it correctly). The Xprint extension provides this functionality to X11.