Favorite Firefox Extensions?

vwjeff asks: "Extensions are perhaps the greatest feature of Firefox. On my Firefox install, I use Foxy Tunes, AdBlock, IE View, Mouse Gestures, and Forecast Fox. What extensions do you use on your Firefox install? (assuming you use Firefox, of course)"

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IE View

[killa62]

I use IE view with my Firefox 1.5.
It allows you to use the IE rendering engine within firefox to view IE pages, such as windowsupdates (which runs perfectly in a tab of firefox).
Get it at https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php ?application=firefox&id=1419

Imagezoom

[b00m3rang]

With right=click+thumbwheel zooming. Best feature ever.

tabbrowser extensions

[Lord Bitman]

Why are these not built in to the standard distribution? Firefox is unusable without them.

Wikalong

[phUnBalanced]

I'm a bit biased as the author, but Wikalong is my personal favorite.

cannot afford to miss these!

[Gaurang]

The ones I use:

Themes:

Nautipolis by Alfred Kayser -- Never seen Firefox looking better.

Extensions:

SessionSaver -- backs up your session in case of normal shutdown, crash, or manual save

Bookmarks Synchronizer -- will synchronize your bookmarks vias FTP/SFTP, and save it in XBEL format, which you can by adding a XSL sheet, make a pretty looking webpage (and also convert it into HTML if you want)

Tabbrowser Preferences -- gives you "tab" power

GreaseMonkey -- will allow javascript plugins which modify behavior of pages

GreaseMonkey Scripts which I use:
Slashdot recolor, google maps zooming use mousewheel, and moveable-type stylecatcher.

my collection

[croddy]

My favorites are:

All-in-One Gestures
Download Statusbar (best download manager yet!)
Image Zoom
Linkification (turns plain text URLs into links)
Adblock
Web Developer (Ctrl+Shift+T)
Google Toolbar (with Gmail Notifier in place of the built-in Gmail button)

I also have:

Tabbrowser Preferences
Favicon Picker
BugMeNot
User Agent Switcher
hideBad
Firesomething (always set to Mozilla Hypnotoad)
Add N Edit Cookies (a good complement to the Web Developer ext.)

Re:Favorite Extensions

[markild]

I too got the ForecastFox thingy.

What's with that? When i install a fresh Firefox, that is the first thing I install, but now, when I thinka about it, I can't seem to remember the last time I looked at it


My useful favourites though:

• Download Statusbar (Puts the downloading at the bottom, showing %, kbps and eta)

• FlashBlock (removes that awful 100% load in windows on flash-rich sites)

• Google Toolbar (of course! + it got spell check!)

• Movies and Music Search (all music and imdb search at a glance!)

• PDF Download (if Adobe did things right, this extension would be dead)

Well.. That's my top 5 :)

Uhh no..

[billybob]

You are talking about IE tab, which is different than IE view. IE view is just a context menu item to open the current page in an IE window. IE tab works as you described.

For Web Developers

[jasonwea]

My favourites:

• Web Developer
• HTML Validator
• DOM Inspector and
• Live HTTP Headers

Makes developing websites and web applications that much easier.

how 'bout Mozex?

[tldraben]

Lets you edit any textbox with your favorite editor. Also good for Wikis and submitting comments, feedback, or questions. Check it out:

http://mozex.mozdev.org/

Other favorites have already been mentioned: all-in-one gestures, flash block, and Googlebar.

Web Developer Extension

[Scott Swezey]

the web developer extension helps, and gives easy access to source code, window resizing, page information, as well as has many options for dealing with css, forms, images and javascript.

It was the first extension I ever got, and the first one I always install.

Oh, the flashblock extension is cool too. Altho either Flash 8 is broken in firefox, or that extension is messing it up. (I cant see flash things in FF anymore -.-)

Live HTTP Headers

[Evro]

LiveHTTP Headers - see the HTTP headers as they come in

Web Dev - Lets you do all sorts of stuff like disable CSS / JS / Forms / resubmit POST forms as GET & vice versa (iirc).

The one that lets you not open PDFs in the browser

Flashblock

So many to choose from...

[_mythdraug_]

• Ablock Plus - Auto pull of filterset-g, whitelists, and "give the website credit by downloading but don't display"
• Translate - Quick translation of any page by selection from the tools menu
• Live HTTP Headers
• EditCSS
• Tab Mix - Most features you would expect from a tab extension, including session save and recovery
• Web Developer
• Disable Targets for Downloads - prevents blank windows/tabs from being opened when you try to download a binary file

Using InfoLister extension:

[deezilmsu]

* Adblock Filterset.G Updater 0.2.6
        * Adblock Plus 0.5.10
        * Autofill 0.2
        * BBCode 0.4.1.2
        * CustomizeGoogle 0.34
        * Download Statusbar 0.9.3.1
        * downTHEMall! 0.9.4
        * fireFTP 0.88.3
        * Forecastfox 0.8.2.4
        * FoxyTunes 1.1.1
        * Greasemonkey 0.5.3
        * HostIP.info Geolocation Plugin 0.3.1.1
        * InfoLister 0.8.2+
        * Launchy 4.0.0
        * Menu Editor 1.2
        * Mines 1.0
        * ReloadEvery 0.6.1
        * Sort Extensions 2.1.3
        * Tab Mix Plus 0.2.5.2
        * TinyUrl Creator 1.0
        * SearchPluginHacks 0.1.1

I also like...

[arun_s]

Session Saver: Saves sessions, snapback closed tabs, restore last session...
MileWideBack: Go back/forward by right- or left-clicking anywhere on the entire left edge of the window.
BookmarksHome: My homepage! Makes a neat page out of all your bookmarks.
ScrapBook: Save web pages with a simple right click. Very useful, 'cos when you're browsing an rfc or something offline from ScrapBook, you have other tools like highlighting, adding text boxes etc.

My own list

[zanglang]

Personal favourites

Firesomething - Titles like "Microsoft Evilhamster" simply rocks. ;)
Mr Tech Local Install - Simply indispensible if you're an extension-junkie running nightlies.
Tab Mix Plus
Mouse Gestures
Text Link - Opens unanchored URL links by just double-clicking. I can't remember when was the last time I had to press Ctrl-C.
AutoCopy - Ditto.

Others:
# Adblock Filterset.G Updater 0.2.6
# Adblock Plus 0.5.10
# Bookmarks Synchronizer 1.0.2.1
# BugMeNot 0.8
# ChromEdit 0.1.1.1
# ClamWin Antivirus Glue for Firefox 0.2.3
# Download Manager Tweak 0.7
# Extended Statusbar 1.2.4
# Feedview 0.9.7
# Forecastfox 0.8.2.4
# Greasemonkey 0.6.2
# gTranslate 0.2.6
# IE View 1.2.7
# OpenBook 1.3.4
# OpenDownload 0.2.1
# Right Encoding 0.2
# SearchPluginHacks 0.1
# Sort Bookmarks 0.5.0.1
# SwitchProxy Tool 1.3.2
# Update Bookmark 0.0.4
# Update Channel Selector 1.0.1
# XUL Error Haikus 0.1

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Mouse Gestures and GreaseMonkey

[Phreakiture]

The subject says it all. There are a lot of extensions out there, but GreaseMonkey is effectively a meta-extension. Using it, I have Ad Blocker (clobbers flash ads), freetables (allows me to see table-formatted pages across the whole width of my 1600x1200 screen, not just the left-hand half), and Slashdot-Add Mirrors, which automagically adds links to Mirrordot, NYUD, and Google Cache for every link.