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Favorite Firefox Extensions?

Posted by Cliff on from the customize-your-browser dept.

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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  1. Re:I'll match your gestures and raise you a menu by imess · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I kinda agree. One of the reasons I don't like Opera and other Firefox mouse gesture extensions is that they preload tons of gestures that they think are useful, but I can only remember so much to use regularly. So the first thing I do (yes I have Opera and Firefox All-in-one gesture) is to go to preference and remove ALL of them (except 1 or 2) and redefine my own (about 5).

    (And a side note is, I actually like Mouse Gesture more than AIO Gesture, because the prior allows you to define custom javascript functions and more wheel rocker options; I use latter because it has the Acrobat-like drag page function)

    (note 2: it would be great if someone can integrate mouse gesture + keyconfig + menu editor and provide an interface to define custom actions (built-in or js) on various mouse/key/menu combination. I try to write my own by was stopped by the lack of documentation... xulplanet and google and RTFS aren't that helpful (enough)... I was expecting something like msdn...)

  2. Re:Wikalong by phUnBalanced · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Heh, of course.

    I've had people bring this up before. All I can say is, "Ok."

    There's little I can do to assure people that I just don't care about what they're looking at. My theory is, it could become useful enough that those fears are outweighed. Or so I hope.

    On an upside, and you can verify this yourself, it only relays said information when the extension is active, or in other words, when the Wikalong sidebar is open.

    When the Wikalong sidebar is not open, no data is transmitted. I mean, I know that's not perfect, but hopefully should offer some reassurance.

    Thanks for your comments though. Perhaps I'll come up with some way around this, but unfortunately, a lot of the more useful bits of info come from having the actual unencrypted URLs.

    I guess it's sorta like del.icio.us in that, you don't bookmark private things in delicious, so perhaps you just don't browse private things with Wikalong on?