What your favorite Firefox extensions?

[jbmagic]

What your favorite Firefox extensions?

[JeeberD]

Adblock
noScript
DictionarySearch
ForecastFox
Plain Text Links

[jbmagic]

just found a good one

Sage

great RSS reader than Live bookmark that was added in firefox 1.5

[MikeVick7]

Oh where do I start?

SmoothWheel
BlogThis
BugMeNot
FoxTrick
Dictionary Search
Sage
FireFTP
FasterFox
Gmail Space
TMobile Minutes Used
IE Tab
Image Toolbar
ColorZilla

[jbmagic]

is FasterFox stable?

[Daimyo]

Adblock and NoScript are absolute requirements. I also use IE View, DownloadSort, DownloadThemAll, Open Next Image, and BugmeNot depending on the purpose of the machine.

[jbmagic]

any good setting for adblock?

[Rich1033]

FoxyTunes
Image Zoom
FasterFox
AdBlock
AdBlock Filterset.G
NoScript
IE Tab
Tabbrowser Preferences
Paste and Go
ForecastFox
Download Manager Tweak

[cartman]

Henry Earl Status

[DanGarion]

AdBlock Plus
AdBlock Filerset.G Updater
Hash Coloured Tabs
NoScript
FireFTP
Download Statusbar
Tweak Network
IE Tab
ColorZilla - Great for web design
Edit CSS - Great for web design

[sterlingice]

I could have sworn we had a thread on this but I guess not.

I don't like having a ton of extensions running- for instance, I use a different FTP program for FTP'ing, mIRC for IRC, Eudora for Email, etc. But there are some things that are quite nice for helping the browser functionality of Firefox.

Indispensible:
AdBlock Plus - Get rid of ads. 'nuf said. If you don't understand how it works, make sure to get the second one as it will do everything for you.
AdBlock Filerset.G Updater - I do my filters manually on my desktop, but on my laptop, this is a godsend. Quick, easy, updatable filterset

For the hattie people out there:
Foxtrick - It's great! Does a lot of fun stat calculating and site linking. Shouldn't play hattie without it
HTRatings Translator - (was down earlier today, tho) For us old fogies, it shows the old ratings next to the new ratings.

Tabbed Browsing:
Tab Broswers Preferences, Tab Mix Plus - Frankly, at this point, I don't know what each individually do as I've used both in tandem for quite a while. All kinds of tab features like locking tabs, unclosing tabs you accidentally closed, etc

Personal:
keyconfig - I got tired of losing long posts to accidentally hitting ctrl+r or backspace. This allows you to customize your keyboard shortcuts.

Themes:
Pheonity - A light but nice looking theme that I use on my desktop. It takes the colors from my StyleXP theme so that's why I use it.
Noia Extreme - I use this on my laptop. It's probably the best Firefox theme. Really sharp looking with some nice functionality built in.
Azerty - I used this for a while. Nice looking, a little light, but, really, themes aren't that functional anyways.

[terpkristin]

Sadly, HT Ratings Translator doesn't work with the new version of Firefox (1.5.0.1).

Hopefully they'll fix that soon.

/tk

[sterlingice]

Yeah, I know and the site has been down since yesterday :(

SI

[MikeVick7]

is FasterFox stable?
Yes.

[Antmeister]

AdBlock - block those nasty ads.
StumbleUpon - nice extension used to discover new sites.

Web Development:
Colorzilla - used to identify a particular color scheme that I may stumble across while browsing the web.
Web Developer - A great extension with a number of tools to edit CSS, resizing for different windows, HTML, Feed and CSS validation, etc.
IE View - open a page in Internet Explorer
Aardvark - good for cleaning up a page before printing and also to identify elements in a web page
FlashGot - used to save things using an external download manager
GreaseMonkey - used to edit and test out some DHTML

[yabanci]

any good setting for adblock?

use filterset.g updater.

[jbmagic]

AdBlock - block those nasty ads.
StumbleUpon - nice extension used to discover new sites.

Web Development:
Colorzilla - used to identify a particular color scheme that I may stumble across while browsing the web.
Web Developer - A great extension with a number of tools to edit CSS, resizing for different windows, HTML, Feed and CSS validation, etc.
IE View - open a page in Internet Explorer
Aardvark - good for cleaning up a page before printing and also to identify elements in a web page
FlashGot - used to save things using an external download manager
GreaseMonkey - used to edit and test out some DHTML


get AdBlock Filerset.G Updater

highly recommend filter update for adblocks.


and if you love rss feeds get Sash Extension for firefox. a great rss reader

[RPI-Fan]

Ok, so I installed this "DictionarySearch" extension, and its options show up in the extensions area, but how do I actually use it? i.e. where is the search bar?

[Antmeister]

get AdBlock Filerset.G Updater

highly recommend filter update for adblocks.


and if you love rss feeds get Sash Extension for firefox. a great rss reader

I currently use Thunderbird since it has a built-in RSS reader. But I will have to look into that other Adblock when I have a problem blocking out an ad. Hasn't happened yet, but we'll see.

[yabanci]

Ok, so I installed this "DictionarySearch" extension, and its options show up in the extensions area, but how do I actually use it? i.e. where is the search bar?

it should be in the menu when you right click on a page. For example, highlight a word and right click search dictionary

[RPI-Fan]

Also, is there an extension that will do this:

In internet explorer, when I highlight an FOFC thread, a paragraph or so pops up as a description.

In Firefox, I only get one line of description.

Is there a way to get more lines of description/preview?

[Antmeister]

Also, is there an extension that will do this:

In internet explorer, when I highlight an FOFC thread, a paragraph or so pops up as a description.

In Firefox, I only get one line of description.

Is there a way to get more lines of description/preview?

That's a good question. I would like to know that myself.

[RPI-Fan]

it should be in the menu when you right click on a page. For example, highlight a word and right click search dictionary

Got it, thanks!

Anyway to search for a word that's not on a webpage?

[Tim Tellean]

forecast fox is cool and indispensable in my job.

[yabanci]

Got it, thanks!

Anyway to search for a word that's not on a webpage?

I just search for a word on a webpage as a way to get to the dictionary page, then type in whatever I want in the search bar.

[DanGarion]

Yes.
I don't recommend FasterFox anymore, I've experienced to many issues of pages loading very slowly on even the least webserver intensive setting.

[DanGarion]

Also AdBlock + (Plus) is more robust then normal AdBlock.

http://bene.sitesled.com/adblock.htm

[MikeVick7]

A new one was just added today called Kill Google Ads. I'm going to give it a run. Not sure how effective it will be yet though.

https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=1996&vid=11779

[OldGiants]

Stumble Upon is the greatest time-waster of the Internet. I always come up with something new in a few clicks that take care of the next 15 minutes or three hours. I checked 'sports' 'photography' 'graphics'and Photoshop as my main interests. Once you've pressed the up or down thumb several dozen times, you'll get very targeted surfing.

In fact, let's get ready to Stumble!

[sterlingice]

Sadly, HT Ratings Translator doesn't work with the new version of Firefox (1.5.0.1).

Hopefully they'll fix that soon.

/tkWell, I just got it here at 2:50am so it is out there, updated, and working with the current version. That said, the site's flaky so I also downloaded it to my hard drive for anyone who needs it.

SI

[MrBigglesworth]

Also, is there an extension that will do this:

In internet explorer, when I highlight an FOFC thread, a paragraph or so pops up as a description.

In Firefox, I only get one line of description.

Is there a way to get more lines of description/preview?
I just dowloaded FireFox and was looking at this thread and browsing the list of extensions, and saw this extension:

hxxps://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=1715&application=firefox

"Long Titles

Due to Mozilla bug 45375, long tooltips are broken with "...". This is especially annoying if these tooltips contain useful or important informations. Long Titles shows non-cropped tooltips for the title attributes."

Maybe it will help.

[RPI-Fan]

I just dowloaded FireFox and was looking at this thread and browsing the list of extensions, and saw this extension:

hxxps://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=1715&application=firefox

"Long Titles

Due to Mozilla bug 45375, long tooltips are broken with "...". This is especially annoying if these tooltips contain useful or important informations. Long Titles shows non-cropped tooltips for the title attributes."

Maybe it will help.

You. the. man.

[Emiliano]

I just dowloaded FireFox and was looking at this thread and browsing the list of extensions, and saw this extension:

hxxps://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=1715&application=firefox

"Long Titles

Due to Mozilla bug 45375, long tooltips are broken with "...". This is especially annoying if these tooltips contain useful or important informations. Long Titles shows non-cropped tooltips for the title attributes."

Maybe it will help.
VERY useful. Thanks a lot.

[3ric]

Chatsum: Chat live with other people who are looking at the same website as you! http://www.chatsum.com/

Worth a try, I guess. The chat room changes when you change page. Installing now...

[Lorena]

Stumble is the only one I use.

[GoldenEagle]

Odd question....

But does anyone know how can i move around toolbars in firefox?

EDIT: I figured it out.

[k0ruptr]

old thread but figured I'd post here, I found a great sports score updater called RUWT? some pretty neat features such as showing what games are on tv and what channels in your local area, and some kind of rating system that rates games that are more exciting than others. Pretty cool.

[RPI-Fan]

--Bump--

Ok, so Firefox angled me into upgrading to Version 2.0.x and now my tabs don't work the way I want. I've tried every possible setting both with tabbrowser prefs installed and uninstalled. When I click on a link from, for example, FOFC, it opens into a new WINDOW and not a new tab.

Any suggestions???

[SnowMan]

Try Tab Mix Plus, I think it will do what you want.

[lordscarlet]

--Bump--

Ok, so Firefox angled me into upgrading to Version 2.0.x and now my tabs don't work the way I want. I've tried every possible setting both with tabbrowser prefs installed and uninstalled. When I click on a link from, for example, FOFC, it opens into a new WINDOW and not a new tab.

Any suggestions???

I would assume there's just a setting somewhere -- I will try to find it somewhere. I have 2.0.x without any tab extensions and mine open into a new tab.

[DanGarion]

There is an option in the Tabs settings that says.

"New pages should be opened in"

x New Window
x New Tab
x Current Tab

Did you adjust that setting?

[RPI-Fan]

When I have tabbrowser prefs disabled, I see that setting. However, I only after the first two options. Of course, I choose the second one (New Tab). I still have the same problem.

I am on version 2.0.0.8 -- which one are you on??

So frustrating!

[MikeVic]

Hey jb, what's up?

[Desnudo]

How do I get the "registered user" description?

[RendeR]

Adblock+ is a must
Stumbleupon is probably the abne of any and all business computers

One I love that noone has mentoned as yet: FoxMarks bookmark organizer.

It allows you to bookmark whatever you want on one machine, and when you close the browser down it synchronizes that set of marks with one on the server end.

The next time you open a browser with foxmarks and log into it (any computer anywhere) your bookmark file is synched up again and you have them all to use.

Absolutely LOVE this since I carry a laptop everywhere, have a desktop at home and use 2-20 different machines a day at work. Really lets me get busy quickly.

[lordscarlet]

Another umentioned one for developers: FireBug

And, RendeR, google toolbar does the bookmark synchronization as well.

[FBPro]

Linkafication

[lordscarlet]

http://www.google.com/search?q=firebug

[ThunderingHERD]

Nobody uses Stylish (http://www.userstyles.org/)?

[Radii]

Nobody uses Stylish (http://www.userstyles.org/)?

well its just pure luck that this is the last post in the thread. I just installed a style that puts a really nice looking skin on gmail:

http://userstyles.org/styles/5867

[Toddzilla]

1000 internets for a nifty FOFC Style...

[MJ4H]

Was thinking about this thread a few minutes ago when I was talking with someone about which extensions would be absolutely required to be available for Chrome before I swtiched.

I decided on photobucket uploader and smart bookmarks bar.

ESPECIALLY smart bookmarks bar. I can't stand any other way of using bookmarks now. I have a big row of icons for bookmarks with no text. Greatest thing ever. Try it out, I love it. Here's a screenshot:


http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y257/Gorgonian14/smartbookmarks-1.jpg

[PilotMan]

brilliant, just what I needed

[DanGarion]

After the Deadline is pure awesomeness for those of us that make stupid silly writing mistakes even though we know better. Especially if you don't like proofreading what you wrote.

Firefox Spell and Grammar Checker (http://firefox.afterthedeadline.com/)


<embed src="http://v.wordpress.com/wp-content/plugins/video/flvplayer.swf?ver=1.15" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="360" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="guid=n3dZCS7D&amp;width=640&amp;height=360&amp;qc_publisherId=p-18-mFEk4J448M" title="Firefox: Check Spelling, Style, and Grammar"></embed>

[Airhog]

chatzilla - IRC chat client
FiddlerHook - integrate Fiddler into firefox
Firebug - debug tool
FlashBlock - an Awesome utility that blocks flash on pages.


if you don't have Flashblock installed you don't know what your missing. Its like surfing the web in a whole new way

[Pumpy Tudors]

FlashBlock - an Awesome utility that blocks flash on pages.


if you don't have Flashblock installed you don't know what your missing. Its like surfing the web in a whole new way
but what if i need flash huh what then spanky

[cartman]

if you don't have Flashblock installed you don't know what your missing. Its like surfing the web in a whole new way

It's called Safari on the iPhone/iTouch :)

[Airhog]

but what if i need flash huh what then spanky

it replaces the flash with a little flash icon. all you have to do is click the icon and the flash loads

[Pumpy Tudors]

it replaces the flash with a little flash icon. all you have to do is click the icon and the flash loads
you have an answer for everything don't you

[DanGarion]

chatzilla - IRC chat client
FiddlerHook - integrate Fiddler into firefox
Firebug - debug tool
FlashBlock - an Awesome utility that blocks flash on pages.


if you don't have Flashblock installed you don't know what your missing. Its like surfing the web in a whole new way

No Script takes that one step further but blocking Java and Flash, etc.

[Airhog]

you have an answer for everything don't you


No, I don't have an answer for you

[DaddyTorgo]

noscript is sexy goodness. i've basically forgotten what webpages with annoying videos look like thanks to it.

[MJ4H]

ChatZilla
OneClick YouTube Downloader (since youtube is blocked at school and I use a lot of videos in my teaching, I spend a lot of time saving youtube to my computer. I'm almost done)
Photobucket Uploader (can't live without anymore)
Smart Bookmarks Bar (can't live without anymore)
UrlbarExt (gives more functions in your location bar, like make tinyurl and sequential url navigation, and more)