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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. Favorite Extensions by vicgolgo13 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Definitely No Script, IE View, Forecast Fox, Tabbed Browser Preferences, and best of all Open Download. I download and test a lot of different programs, and I personally just open the programs rather than saving the executable to my harddrive. Saves me juat a few seconds, I know, but in the long run well worth it. And No Script is absolutely awesome, cause it stops scripts dead in their tracks.

  2. The Answer is Plain by ndansmith · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Copy Plain Text is up there as my number 1 or 2 (fighting with adblock, of course). It is so annoying for me when I copy something out of a webpage, paste it into some type of document, and find that all the HTML formatting has come with it, causing a bomb to explode in the middle of my otherwise clean page. In other words, Copy Plain Text is slowing my rate of hair-loss.

  3. Print-It by psykocrime · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I use Print-It! to restore the Print command to the context menu. Of course it never should have been taken out in the first place, but that's an argument for another day.

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  4. Session Saver by holy_robot · · Score: 2, Interesting

    session saver

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  5. SessionSaver by Guspaz · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've got at least two dozen loaded, but SessionSaver is by far the most useful. Browser crashes (Because FireFox does crash with some regularity) are no longer a problem since I just open the browser again and all my stuff is back, even messages I was typing and cookies. I also now frequently simply close the browser window with lots of tabs open, and then re-open Firefox when I want to resume surfing. I save the memory (Firefox is pretty bloated memory-wise and has memory leaks, or one of my extensions do), and when I re-open the browser SessionSaver handles everything.

    Second favourite is MediaPlayerConnectivity. Third favourite is probably Google Suggest.

  6. about:kitchensink by Trepalium · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Spellbound gives me a fighting chance of having decent spelling. The Web Developer Toolbar comes in handy when working with websites. When you're done adding all the extensions, don't forget the most important one, the kitchen sink.

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  7. Re:IE View by ElectricBrain · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Enabled Extensions: (15)

    Allow Right-Click 0.2
    Alt-Text for Links 0.2
    BugMeNot 0.7
    Compact Menu 1.7.2
    CTC 0.3
    DictionarySearch 0.9.3
    Disable Targets For Downloads 1.0
    Download Statusbar 0.9.3.1
    Google Toolbar for Firefox 1.0.20051012
    IE View 1.2.6
    ListZilla 0.5.1
    Menu Editor 1.2
    miniT (drag+indicator) 0.5
    PDF Download 0.5.1.2
    SwitchProxy Tool 1.3.2
    Disabled Extensions: (1)

    ScrapBook 0.17.0

  8. I'll match your gestures and raise you a menu by Hast · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Radial menues are IMHO way better than mouse gestures. For Firefox you can try RadialContext or Easy geastures. Personally I prefer the RadialContext plugin as I find that it's a bit cleaner.

    The benefit you get from using radial menues instead of only gestures is that you actually get feedback as you perform the gesture. So if you can't remember the gesture then you can just right click and the menues will guide you through it. Once you know it you no longer need to look at the menues and only do the gesture directly.

    I recommend those interested in gestures to take a look at it.

  9. My Extensions window lists... by darkwhite · · Score: 4, Interesting

    SessionSaver - invisible and absolute persistency
    TabMix Plus - tab rearrangement, scrollable tab bar, one window rule enforcement, tab highlighting and permissions, and a lot more
    Flashblock - replace all Flash on a page with clickable banners
    ImageZoomer - zoom in or out of images via context menu
    Nuke Anything - remove any element of a page via context menu, useful for annoying page elements when you just want to read the text
    Permit Cookies - cookie management via alt+C
    downTHEMall! - occasionally useful for mass downloads short of wget
    Google Suggest - occasionally useful for searching with the Google box

    I don't use AdBlock because the combination of Flashblock and /etc/hosts based filtering is sufficient for me.

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  10. No question - StumbleUpon by themusicgod1 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    StumbleUpon is the next iteration of the evolution of the WWW. It's both addicting as hell, and helps to create content. Don't just be a blogger; be a Stumbler! StumbleUpon:Generica blog::Computer:Television.

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    1. Re:No question - StumbleUpon by Dan+Ost · · Score: 2, Interesting

      StumbleUpon might be a great way to increase FireFox mindshare. Lots of the sites I find with StumbleUpon are small sites that would be very hard to find accidentally and once they're rated in StumbleUpon, FireFox suddenly becomes the dominant browser in the server logs for that site since that site is shared with other StumbleUpon users. Once the site owner notices this, the becomes more important to the site owner to make sure FireFox works well with their site.

      Now, these small sites haven't historically been IE-only, but it seems like a good thing to raise awareness.

      Just a thought.

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  11. Favorite _Mozilla_ extensions by stuuf · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Multizilla Lost of enhancements for tabbed browsing. You can drag tabs around, move tabs between windows or into new windows, etc. Qprefs Included with the above. Quick access to UA spoofing, disable javascript, referer spoofing Mouse Gestures Saves a lot of time not having to move the mouse all the way up to the toolbar. Download statusbar Replaces the download manager with a bar that pops up at the bottom of the browser window when downloads are active Web developer toolbar Lots of commands for debugging web pages. turn off style sheets, add your own, quick access to W3C HTML/CSS and Section 501 validators. Even lets you upload a file to the HTML validator, for local files, POST forms, slashdot... Live HTTP headers adds a tab to the page info window that shows the HTTP request/response headers for the current page, also lets you request a page with custom request headers. AdBlock Probably mentioned several times before Enigmail GPG encryption and signatures for mail

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  12. AutoCopy by cwebb1977 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    http://autocopy.mozdev.org/ AutoCopy, just mark the text and it's in your clipboard. Sound familiar?

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  13. None by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I don't trust extensions, nor their developers (minus a few exceptions, who I know personally to be trusted longstanding mozilla developers). The code of extensions does not go through code review like the real Firefox/gecko code does, and most extension developers are not qualified to be able to work on real core code.
    Take the case of the "Tabbrowser extensions", once hailed as essential to Firefox and one of the most popular extensions ever, which when examined by a core Mozilla developer was revealed to have (accidentally) re-opened a number of security holes which had long since been fixed in Mozilla core code, and to be a complete inefficient mess beyond that.
    Added to this, the incentive for making an innocuous looking but ultimately malicious extension is growing daily (with every download of firefox), and the process for getting extensions listed on mozilla's website does virtually no security checking either.

    Also see this enlightened /. comment.