Firefox extensions thread (1 Viewer)

[Chris Bardon]

Since most of the cool features that exist as firefox extensions seem to only get passed around by word of mouth, I thought I'd see if anyone else here has anything interesting that I'm missing. So far, I've got these installed:

ieview-still need this one every so often...

Dictionary Search-Nice feature

DuplicateTab-duplicates current tab with history

ImageZoom-I use this one all the time!

TargetAlert-Much improved in the latest version. Appends icons to links to tell you if they open in a new window, or if they're an email address, word doc, etc. New version has an option to only display these on mouse hover.

BugMeNot-Very convenient way to bypass registration on many sites. Rather than visiting the website, just right click in a login field.

TinyURL Creator-Another shortcut to a useful service. Create a tinyURL with a right click on any page.

miniT-Simple tab rearranger that I use all the time.

AniDisable-Makes animated images stay still. I don't like getting distracted by too many moving images on webpages, and this was the last annoyance left after flash!

Flashblock-Replaces all flash content with a play button.

Sage-An embedded RSS reader. Could use some more features, but it's a good start!

 

[Jay H]

I am currently running Firefox 1.04 with the following extensions:

Weatherfox - Small weather bug that sits in the lower right hand part of the status bar. Nice for me to get instant weather since I have no window in my cube. Good for deciding what to wear on my bike commute home when at work.

Copy Plain Text - When I want to send a friend an article without all the graphics or font stuff.

Adblock - Disables Ads!

ImageZoom - Zoom into pictures


That's about it for me..

Jay

 

[Dave Gilbert]

My extensions:

Adblock

BBCode - adds forum code formatting (like on the HTF) to the context menu for form fields.

BugMeNot

ColorZilla - eyedropper and color picker to determine what value a color found on a web page is.

Download Manager Tweak - I use this to open the download manager in a new tab instead of a new window.

FireFTP - an FTP client for Firefox

FLST - Focus last selected tab (when closing a tab)

ForecastFox

Gmail Notifier

Greasemonkey - create user scripts to modify how web sites are displayed (hide Google Adsense ads, for example)

ieview

LiveLines - Add RSS feeds to readers other than Live Bookmarks with the RSS icon in the status bar. I use it to add subscriptions to Bloglines.

PDF Download - allows you to choose whether you want to open a PDF within the browser or download it. I find that Firefox will hang while a PDF loads, so this is really handy.

QuickTabPrefToggle - adds a button to the toolbar which allows you to toggle single window mode on and off.

Sort Extensions - sorts your extensions alphabetically. Useful when you have a lot of extensions, like me.

Tab Clicking Options - allows you to select options for clicking events on a tab or the tabbar.

Translate - translate web pages and/or selected text to different languages.

Undoclosetab - adds Undo Close Tab to the context menu for when you accidentally close a tab.

 

[Christ Reynolds]

my favotite extensions...

fireFTP

pdf download

weatherfox - i liked this before i switched to linux, now i have it in my "taskbar" right next to the clock

imagezoom

ieview - dont need this in linux

but my favorite is stumbleupon. it runs in a tookbar at the top, and when you click it, it brings you to a random interesting site, and you rate whether or not you like it, and it gets to learn what websites you like. i highly suggest you check it out, you'll find the most interesting sites out there. i had to make a bookmarks folder just for stumbleupon.

CJ

 

[Citizen87645]

I REALLY like the search engine plugins. I have ones for Deep Discount DVD, eBay, Best Buy, All Music Guide, IMDB. Makes things a tad faster than going to the site first, though I suppose these aren't technically extensions.

Been using All-In-One Gestures from the beginning.

DownTHEMall

Image Zoom