April 13, 2005
What's in your Firefox?
I've got a bunch of Firefox extensions installed so I thought I'd take the old "what's on your dock" meme and apply it to the browser. So here's my extension menu:
- BugMeNot
- BugMeNot is the best extension ever. BugMeNot is the best website ever. It gives you passwords to all those "registration required" sites and even fills out the form for you.
- LiveLines
- All it does is let you subscribe to RSS feeds in Bloglines using Firefox's RSS button. Simple and effective.
- About site
- Provides links in the right-click menu to find out more about a site, like who's linking to it and how much traffic it gets.
- Web Developer
- The Web Developer toolbar is great for anyone who has to deal with HTML. It's also handy for finding named anchors in a page or turning POST forms into GETs in case you want to link to something.
- Live HTTP Headers
- Another geeky extension that lets you see what Firefox and a web server are saying to each other.
- Greasemonkey
- Like BugMeNot, an extension that threatens to change the web. It runs little bits of code on pages to make them better, like a bookmarklet that gets clicked for you automatically. They have tons of scripts for tons of sites. Maybe I'll do another post with my list of Greasemonkey scripts installed.
- Flashblock
- I don't have anything against Flash, but Firefox for OS X has a bug that can cause Flash to kill the whole browser. I think they plan to have it fixed for Firefox 1.5. Until then, Flashblock.
- Feedview
- Whenever it comes across a raw RSS feed, it styles the page to look something like Safari's RSS display. Check out the screenshot.
- Deepest Sender
- For all my LJ drama needs.
- ForcastFox
- I mostly use it to find out if its going to rain tomorrow, but I'm not sure that rain really affects someone like me who is inside so much.
- SessionSaver
- Saves your tabs (history and cookies too) so that if you quit or crash Firefox, it'll start up exactly where you left off. Note to self: if Flash gets around Flashblock and starts crashing the browser something fierce, copy the URLs from prefs.js (Found via mathowie)
- Link Toolbar
- Firefox ditched Mozilla's link toolbar, this puts one in the bottom right corner. Some pages (like this one, for instance) have "next" and "previous" links embedded that can be navigated with this toolbar. (Found via jwz)
- FxIF
- Displays image metadata on JPEGs if it's available. You can find out cool stuff like what camera a person has. (Also via jwz)
I noticed while writing up this post that some of my extensions are out of date, I'm updating them now. If you know of any killer extensions that I'm missing, let me know in the comments.
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Spellbound is a pretty hand little extension (currently v0.7.3) that simply adds a right-click (or option+click on a Mac I guess, for you George) menu item in FireFox for spell checking. The menu item opens up a nicely thought-out spell check of your form text. You have all the usual options of skipping, adding words, etc. Great for long, complex posts that I'm prone to writing.
Posted by: Jason Coleman at April 13, 2005 06:07 PMadblock, no more surfing with annoying flashing ads.
Can't live without it.
I second Adblock, and I would add downTHEMall!, which lets you download all files on a page just by specifying an extension to look for -- very useful when browsing pages of mp3 downloads, etc. When you trigger it, it pops up its own progress bar so you can track its progress.
Posted by: Scott at April 18, 2005 02:59 PMThe "What's in your bag" meme that was circulating a while back had me thinking along the same lines.
Posted by: Matthew at April 18, 2005 06:45 PMMine.
Posted by: Scott at April 18, 2005 09:58 PMRe: ForecastFox
"I mostly use it to find out if its going to rain tomorrow, but I'm not sure that rain really affects someone like me who is inside so much."
Unless you want to know how the weather may affect your commute. =)
Posted by: Jenny J. at May 12, 2005 09:07 PMTried to get this started a while ago. I wish there was some way to link out in the notes in Flickr.
Posted by: Noah Brier at May 13, 2005 12:30 PMExcerpt: George Hotelling had a feature a while back asking What's In Your Firefox?, as a way to share what browser extensions you use and why. Every time I see a roundup like this, I end up finding a new...
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Trackback from: Lifehacker at June 3, 2005 04:00 PM
My Yahoo widget
wikipedia
I can't use Firefox without Hit a Hint.
Posted by: Abdul at June 4, 2005 02:22 AMI've got about 45 extentions loaded. They're listed here: My Firefox Extentions
Posted by: Amy at June 4, 2005 08:04 PMForecastFox's new weather radar feature is great down here in Galveston, TX where the T-storms can come up pretty quick. I'm on a bicycle, so I care.
Posted by: Paul at June 5, 2005 09:00 AMExcerpt: Il nuovo meme sulle estensioni di Firefox. Conoscere quali estensioni usano i tuoi amici pu essere utile per conoscerne di nuove ed utili. Non avendo adesso il tempo di elencare le mie, mi limito a citarne una appena trovata,...
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Trackback from: Pandemia at June 5, 2005 09:18 AM
Another must-have is the StumbleUpon extension.
Posted by: Leandro Ardissone at June 5, 2005 07:54 PMHi, but with all these extension what about performance. I disabled my extensions some weeks ago because I got the feeling that they slow down Firefox. Do you have the same experience? Or is it another thing which slows down Firefox?
Posted by: Hans on Experience at June 6, 2005 03:32 AMIf you're a GreaseMonkey user, you might want to look at platypus.mozdev.org, which provides a GUI front-end for creating GM scripts.
Posted by: Scott Turner at June 6, 2005 10:25 AMExcerpt: Firefox is a great browser, and I have said that multiple times. One of the things that I've mentioned is the extension support. Which leads me to a recent meme: What's in your Firefox? Here is a picture of my...
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Trackback from: 7610 at June 6, 2005 12:37 PM
Adblocker, ForecastFox, BlogThis, ieView, Copy Plain Text, FoxyTunes, Pix2Fone (not for prOn), SmoothWheel (not really that smooth).
Posted by: Justin at June 6, 2005 03:57 PMOne I really like is Scrollbar Anywhere. Hold down the right mouse key anywhere on the screen, and it's like you're clicking on the scrollbar. You can also configure it to drag rather than scroll, which is the way I use it. It's handy because Firefox uses the mousewheel to close tabs, rather than displaying the little scroll dealie in IE. This is a very good alternative.
I also have IEview, Popup ALT attribute, Enhanced History Manager, Dictionary Search, Flashblock, and miniT.
Posted by: Jim C. at June 6, 2005 10:46 PMI recently compiled a list of Essential Firefox Extensions for first time converts to Firefox.
Posted by: Quick Online Tips at June 11, 2005 06:34 AMExcerpt: I know I'm a little late on the bandwagon for this meme, but better late than never, right?
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Trackback from: wholesome goodness at June 11, 2005 05:06 PM
I'm raelly late, but I just found your site on StumbleUpon, and thought I'd share one that I use/put together/like :)
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=1045
Lets you create an ignore list to hide posts by annoying users on just about any phpBB forum.
Josh
Posted by: Josh at August 4, 2005 08:31 PMScreenshots are nice, but why not share a list of your extensions based on what you really have installed at any given time? Learn how at my own Installed Extensions page.
Posted by: Douglas Clifton at March 22, 2006 02:41 AMLinkification, Resize Search Box, Chatzilla, QuickNote (very useful note taking extension w/advanced features), TrashMail (create disposable email addy), StumbleUpon, Hyperwords, Back Is Close (turns the Back button to Close Window in right context menu if no page to go back to), CustomizeGoogle, Well Rounded (rounds the the search and url box), and as just found here, FxIF (nice).
Posted by: Karl at March 26, 2006 01:17 PMSorry, comments are closed.