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

missing adblock

[fireduck]

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

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: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

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

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.