Building a Better Mozilla With Plugins

Ant writes "Wired has a story on how to improve Mozilla and Firefox web browsers with various plugins/extensions (XPI installations). It lists some of the extensions that have been rated highly by Mozilla users like BugMeNot. One of them not listed and my favorite is PrefBar."

Comments

Why prefbar is not listed

[Enry]

From the prefbar web site:

It does not work with Mozilla Firefox

Re:Why prefbar is not listed

[the unbeliever]

er.

I'm running PrefBar in FireFox .9.1...

PrefBar 2.3 RC2 - works with Firefox, and has many new features

Granted, it's a "release candidate" but it works just fine..

Re:Why prefbar is not listed

[Stibbons]

PrefBar 2.3 works with Firefox: installer link

RadialContext

[MORTAR_COMBAT!]

my favorite extension is RadialContext, basically gives you mouse gestures for Mozilla and Firefox.

missing adblock

[fireduck]

any article about firefox that doesn't mention adblock and the best filters to use is seriously lacking.

Mouse Gestures

[southpolesammy]

By far, I find the mouse gestures extension to be the greatest addition to Mozilla. This borrowed feature of Opera will certainly and permanently change the way you browse websites.

W0t?

[tanveer1979]

Slow news day, eh? The Article is low on substance. This page has much more details. Looks like the wired article has copy-pasted and not done any real work. The actual article should have had listed quirks, what do the extentions actually do, rather than pasting text from mozilla extention page.

Adblock. Simply amazing.

[Tuxedo Jack]

Works with 0.9, blocks anything (hate to admit it, but I've used it on OSDN for Doubleclick crap), and allows for selectivity in blocking.

http://adblock.mozdev.org

Flash Click to View

[Spoons]

My favortie Mozilla plug-in is Flash Click to view. It blocks all those annoying flash ads and puts an icon in its place. If you want to view the Flash ad/game/movie whatever, you just click the icon and it loads. It makes browsing the web just a little more bearable.

Re:Flash Click to View

[afidel]

Also by the same author is the really cool nuke anything plugin. It allows you to remove any HTML element from the currently rendered page.

Re:My two cents

[Dios]

You know.. its easy really

Go to
Edit - Preferences - Navigator - Downloads.

Select the option to open a progress dialog.

Then works just about like IE.

Launchy not mentioned

[gemal]

Launchy enables you to open links and mailto's with external applications like IE, Opera, Outlook, GetRight.
Works in: Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird Launchy Homepage

Re:magpie

[Alranor]

Also useful for those onehanded browsing sessions are

Linky

Extension is a very simple addon to the context menu that provide you with the following:

* Opens all links in a selection in new tabs or windows
* Finds and opens link in plain text in a new tab or window
* Opens all links on page in new tabs or windows, etc.

and

JumpLink

The Jumplink extension allows you to skip through redirect links and jump directly to the target link

Why do I get the feeling the Slashdot community may find these of some assistance ;)

RC2 works in FireFox

[smoking2000]

Also from the Prefbar Website (near bottom of the page):

PrefBar 2.3 RC2 - works with Firefox, and has many new features

Re:magpie

[wfberg]

Magpie also includes tools for adjusting a site's URL by incrementing or decrementing the numbers in it ... This is a good extension for those who do a lot of research online.

Yup. I find this priceless while "researching" the webs many sequentially numbered jpegs.

If you're stuck browsing sequentially numbered jpegs at work using internet explorer (or you just don't use extensions), you can also use Jesse's bookmarklets.
Just drag them to your bookmark bar!

Wait...

[KillaKen187]

noone has mentioned Aaron Spuler's Single window which puts all those annoying pages that spawn a new window into a tab instead... just a wonderful plug-in

Super DragAndGo

[Kupek]

I've just started using Firefox, and the best plugin I know of for it is Super DragAndGo. If you drag a link to empty space on the webpage, that link is opened in a new tab. It's so simple, but it's the best new web browsing feature I've seen in a long time.

Re:Super DragAndGo

[barcodez]

If you have a middle button (sometimes combined with the wheel) try clicking a link with that - it opens in a new tab!

flash click to play

[fermion]

The most useful xpi I have found is Flash Click to Play, formally and still listed as Flashblock. It lets me install Flash, which is becoming increasingly necessary in this image driven world, while letting me filter out the 99% of flash content that are gratuitous, ads, or simply bad animation.

BTW, Camino does not install this automatically, but is relatively simple to go into your chrome folder and hack it yourself.

Bookmarklets

[Robotron2084]

Bookmarklets are an underrated way to extend the usability of Mozilla, Firefox and even IE.

http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/zap.html

I have 'zap plugins' and 'zap images' in my personal toolbar to stop strobing ads and flash on a page-by-page basis. Works great!

Re:I don't get it

[BrokenHalo]

I was going to moderate on this topic, but since a couple of people have mentioned the business of installers, I'll forego that and set the issue straight (or at least definitively crooked).

Firefox for linux (with gtk+ and xft) comes with an installer. Just extract the tarball and run firefox-installer in the extracted directory and it will behave essentially the same as any winbloze installer. If you want an rpm, I'm sure google will find one if you're that desperate.

Re:At least

[JimDabell]

So there is no automatic installation, and the avarage user can't be tricked to click yes for an installation dialog.

Are you sure about that? That security hole won't be fixed until Firefox 1.0.