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What FF Extensions Do You Use?
I was sorting my FF extensions yesterday, and thought it worth trawling for suggestions here for others. Don't know how many of these things one can heap on FF before it starts complaing of indigestion. Probably says too much to the world about what you do on the web, when you look at someones list of extensions!
Currently I am using, what am I missing:-
WebDeveloper
Forecastfox
Pagerank Status
ChromEdit
SessionSaver
ReminderFox
CookieCuller
UserAgentSwitcher
SEOLinks
LiveHTTPHeaders
IETab
QuickNote
ContextHighlight
PasteQuote
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GOOD LIST, BUT DID YOU TRY THESE?
That's a pretty extensive list.
Here are some that you can give a try.Though simple they are very effective.
Countdown Clock
Password Maker
Signature
RSS Panel
Customize Google
I really appreciate the added functionality - no indigestion yet
Bookmarks synchronizer
Great for keeping the same bookmark list on several pcs
Copy plain text
When copying eg. a link, you do not always want anything but the title without any kind of formatting
Sessionsaver 2
Great extension! Opens the usual windows and tabs every time you start FF
ReloadEvery
Use this a lot with news sites - relaods the page every 1, 2. 5. 15 or custom minutes
IEview
I'm not a FF fundamentalist
Google Pagerank Status
Obvious
GeoURL
I have geographical data on some sites - and it lights up if a site I visit also uses lat/lon positioning headers
LiveHTTPHeaders
To figure out what is being sent and received between browser and website - VERY useful
DublinCoreViewer
A kind of site information system used especially by public institutions - lights up if such data are available at a site
AdsenseNotifier
Obvious
CustomizeGoogle
Adds usable options
PrintIt!
Adds print option in menus where the design team "forgot" to put them. :-)
SEOpen
Pretty obvious?
wmlbrowser
To view mobile sites - easier than having to use your cellphone al lthe time
TabMixPlus
Added tab functionality
Image Zoom
Allows you to zoom in or enlarge images on websites - very useful
SEO Links
Pretty new on my list - haven't used it much yet
InFormEnter/SearchStatus/TestGen4Web
InFormEnter can be a great help for directory submission etc. SearchStatus has some very useful shortcuts - perhaps a good alternative to PageRank Status and maybe even SEOpen?
Have also been playing with TestGen4Web . It's a lot of fun ;)... This from the objective:
CopyURL
and SessionSaver are my favorites / most used - i have a bunch, but most have been listed by others above me...
We're in the process of building a new blogging one, that i hope to let you know about in a couple of weeks too...
I'm so lazy...
...(and pressed for time) that I also use Mouse Gestures, so I don't need to move all the way to the top right with my mouse pointer to close a tab.
MozBackup
Although not an extension but rather an app - MozBackup will allow for an entire back-up of your Firefox profile and gives options to include passwords, cache etc. This sits firmly as one of my favourites and backups can be saved in any designated folder. The utility will also let you restore a full back-up. Added bonuses it will backup Thunderbird and Mozilla.
Other extensions I use:
Forecastfox
SEOpen
Tabbedbrowser preferences
Resize Search Box
Meta Tags
InformEnter
Add BookMark Here
SEO Links
WebDeveloper
StreetMap
Amazing....
I must be behind the curve as I haven't installed any of that stuff. Being previously burned by installing IE tools that destablized the whole mess I think I'm a wee bit gun shy as spending a day trying to figure out WHICH free pile of junk screwed up everything and uninstalling 20-30 programs just to get back to ground zero was NOT fun.
I couldn't live without...
BBCode
Adds formatting for forum posts. Totally rocks if you post a lot (or even a little!) Can even customize your own codes which is a huge time saver for me.
AutoCopy
Allows me to highlight a phrase or anything on a page and it puts it into my clipboard. Doesn't seem like something you'd need, until you start using it and realize how much you do copy stuff. (I often forget to hit CTRL-c now when I'm in other applications because I use auto copy so much.)
Tab-X
Puts an X on tabs to close each tab individually. (Can also get this functionality with many of the tab extensions. Can't live without my X on the tabs!)
View Formatted Source
This one is kinda neat. You can highlight a section of a page and view the source code for just that bit.
PDF Download
This one allows you to choose to view a PDF link in HTML! Great if you're on a slow machine like I am and don't want to wait a half hour for Acrobat to open. Also has an option to view the PDF in Google's cache if for some reason it's internal viewer doesn't work right.)
IE Tab
Found this one here in another thread. Allows you to open up those pesky pages that only with with IE, right in an FF tab. Invaluable if you have something like Quickbooks Online that needs to use IE.
Plus many of the others already mentioned by others.
Make Link
is the one I use most. Puts html link to the current page into the clipboard using the pages title as anchor text.
http://www.soylentred.net/projects/?project=makelink
Some of the stuff already
Some of the stuff already listed +
Ebay Negs!
Yahoo toolbar
webpedia toolabr
Sage
Highlighter
Has anyone got a
Has anyone got a spellchecker that works with latest FF, but ISNT the GOOG toolbar?
Spell checker for Firefox (and everything else)
There's a little program called Tiny Spell that loads as a background process and watches your keyboard. It checks every word (alphabetic string, that is) followed by a space or a punctuation mark, and goes *ping* through your sound card if it sees a word not in its dictionary.
Do alt+: (or the shortcut of your choice as configured), and up pops a list of replacement words, plus the option to add to dictionary. Automagically replaces misspelled words, usually all you need to do is alt+:, glance at the replacement word that's hilighted, and hit Enter.
http://www.megspace.com/computers/tinyspell/
Try ColourZilla. Gives you
Try ColourZilla.
Gives you an eye dropper tool for selecting hex colours on pages into the clipboard.
Sweet for tuning things like google ad formats etc.
FasterFox - GUI for tuning
FasterFox - GUI for tuning performance
Del.ico.us
my extensions
spellbound
Switchproxy
Web Developer
InFormEnter
SearchStatus
foxytunes
useragent switcher
Adsense notifer
customize google
SEOpen
Greasemonkey
JavascriptDebugger
IETab
IEveiw
Nick use spellbound
http://spellbound.sourceforge.net/
incrediBILL...
...you will have less issues if you use profiles with FF. Create a new profile (start up FF with the "-p" option if I recall right) and install all your extensions. When you get things right you are set. If things go awry, just kill the profile directory and start over with a new profile until things are good. Import other stuff later (cr@p, cannot remember if you can later). It works pretty well for me.
Of if you are going from IE to FF...create a new profile in FF (importing your IE stuff), install extensions, if all works well, you are good, if not, kill profile and start over with another (err, new) profile (can be the same name if you kill off your other one). I have not had any issues with this methodology.
SB
nice thread
- I'm on my way to bed, so i can't post my big list. But here's one that's been around for a while, only I just installed it a few days ago.
Actually I had started to write an extension myself that was supposed to do what this one does, and then I found it. It comes in two flavours:
RSS Panel (Greasemonkey script)
RSS Panel (Firefox Extension)
What it does is that it displays a little box with the current feed when you visit a site that has a feed. Now, that sounds like it's totally useless, but it's totally great. Why? Because all those clueless bloggers put the links to their dang RSS feeds in a million different places (or hide the link completely), and with a million different labels.
With this plugin you always know exactly where to find the RSS link.
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Bonus link: Some great Web Developer extensions (that are updated for Firefox 1.5rc3) - from the blog of Mozilla Developer Deb Richardson. Good stuff.
Well i installed spellbound,
Well i installed spellbound, and the libraries, and i've restarted but i have no spellcheck :(
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try Spellcheker for Edit Boxes - http://www.quinion.com/mqa/spell.htm - if memory serves that works with FF.
Ahhh.. im on Linux Woz :)
Ahhh.. im on Linux Woz :)
I Have a few favourites...
I had a post about my firefox extensions - My Fire Fox Extensions
But my number one favourite is the adblocker. Second to that is the web Developer Toolbar.
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Ahh, sorry 'bout that Chief.
"but i have no spellcheck "
It only comes up when you right click and are actually writing something - if you just try on an existing web page, you will not see it on right click.
Took me a while to realise that !
i an writing something now,
i an writing something now, and have no context menu option for it :(
I can't live without seeing.....
That little green tick for my sites :-)
Tiny HTML Validatory
I can't live without
A great idea, the only problem with it is it's accuracy. I tested this on validated pages and while it gave some perfect results, it returned flase erros on other known validated pages that when checked against W3C validation tool didn't pan out at all. IMO using proprietory tools to check for validation can leave for error. It's a nice indicator but not to be used as gospel.
some of my favorites
MeasureIt -- Allows you to measure, in pixels, the size of a given space on your screen.
Colorzilla -- Gives you the hex and RGB code for a color in your browser (even an image).
Gmail Delete Button.
Good List I use: Web
Good List
I use:
Web Dev
Live HTTP Headers
Objection (Removes Flash MX data)
Goog PR Status
Link Checker (sometimes unreliable?)
Modify Headers
ViewSourceWith -- I hate the Mozilla source veiwer, it alters HTML on you
Will try SEOpen
Abe Vigoda Status
You can find it here:
http://www.vesterman.com/FirefoxExtensions/AbeVigodaStatus
Basically just keeps you up-to-date on whether he is still alive.
I've got
Aardvark
Add Bookmark Here
AdSense Notifier
Autofill
Bandwidth Tester
ColorZilla
Copy Plain Text
CuteMenus
Fangs Screen Reader Emulator
Favorites Converter
FoxyVoice
Gmail Notifier
Googlebar Lite
IE Tab
IE View
Image Zoom
LinkChecker
Linky
Live HTTP Headers
MiniT
Screen Grab
SearchStatus
Slim Extension List
Tabbrowser Preferences
User Agent Switcher
and of course, Web Developer.
My Extensions
My Favorites
- All-In-One-Sidebar (Sidebar similar to Opera sidebar)
- Paste and Go (paste your URL and click Go in one paste - similar on Opera)
- Google Preview (inserts website previews in Google & Yahoo search results)
Others
- Sage (RSS Reader)
- Text size toolbar
- Web Developer
- Customize Google
Great List
All I have are listed except:
Search Status
Lorem Ipsum Generator
Screen Grab
Couple more
ScrapBook is very useful for local saving and organisation, Der Browser Timer is simply a toolbar clock and timer/alert, maybe handy for those who never leave their browser.