What are some of your favorite Firefox add ons?
gwells (1711 pencils) | Tue, 2008-07-08 21:27I have a bunch I love.
TabMixPlus
Smiley Xtra 
Screen grab
QuickDrag (FF3 replacement for Super DragAndGo)
Map This
IE Tab
Greasemonkey
FireFTP
Colorzilla
Add Bookmark Here
Adblock Plus
I think i have a bunch more installed at home that aren't at work. FF3 messed up my synch and I need to figure out what i'm missing here.
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Foxmarks
ServerSpy
Web Developer Tools
Stylish (you can create your own css styles for web pages!)
Screengrab!
SEOpen
Google Toolbar
Alexa Sparky
PC Only
KeyScrambler
And of course the ones you mentioned.
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Dirt and Rust
Why Firefox and not Safari or IE or whatever? Curious, really, why you opt for one browser over another?
"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."
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Some might argue that FF is the most standards compliant browser out there. :) I just think it's Add-Ons and Themes are so easy to manage and find that I just don't use any other browsers.
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Dirt and Rust
It makes browsing fun. You seem to have full control of the internet. I find Safari makes the internet look better, but Firefox has so much support and add ons that you can do things you'd never expect a mere browser to do. Firefox 3 has some cool new features too, making your browsing experience easier and safer too.
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the list of add ons above is why. it's far more adaptable. a lot of those add ons above do things that can't be done in any other browser.
and no reason to run IE when i have IETab, which makes a firefox tab render like it was IE, so if there's a site that won't run as well in anything other than IE, it works fine in FF.
Thanks. I'll have to try out Firefox.
"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."
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feel free to ask questions here, if you want. and go to the site and look at some of the add ons. at a minimum, i recommend adblock plus, ie tab, map this (let's you select an address, right click, and click map this and it opens a new tab with the address in google (or yahoo) maps), and tab mix plus (allows you to customize how your tabs work and look).
couple more add ons i'm using at home that are occasionally useful.
cacheit (allows you to display a cached version of the page using one of several cache servers)
download helper (downloads embedded videos and images)
track package (tracks packages by right clicking on selected tracking numbers)
who is this person? (searches names in linkedin, wikipedia, facebook, google, imdb, and more)
woot watcher (tracks current item for sale on woot.com and puts it in status bar)
I like Ad Blocker.
Mara
So far this FF newbie is liking it.
Also, thought I'd post the link for the add-ons, just in case someone else wished to browse this FF section:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=&cat=all
"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."
— Frank Zappa
"Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised." - James Thurber
you don't necessarily need to remember (or bookmark) the link. if you click on tools|addons, then select the "get add-ons" tab, there's a link right there to "browse all add-ons." there's even a search add-ons field there.
You can find my list (along with links to the add-ons) in this article at The Graphic Mac. I've also added the following:
By FAR, my favorite add on is BBCode, which allows you to easily add HTML or Forum code to text entered into input boxes like these. You can quickly add link code, text formatting, etc., along with adding custom code as well.
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What does Quartz PDF do?
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Dirt and Rust
Quartz PDF allows you to view PDFs right in the browser window just like Safari does.
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I thought that as soon as I posted this question... (smacking forehead)
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Dirt and Rust
it's a mac only issue. iirc, you're using PC at work, and the PC version of FF will load PDFs inside the browser.
For mac-users:
I prefer Manfred Schuberts PDF Browser Plugin - look:
http://www.schubert-it.com/pluginpdf/
the handling is way easier and there are more features ...
it opens PDFs inside the same window/tab and a small menue bar offers a lot of easy features like saving, prinitng, downloading, turning, forward/backward, increase/decrease view and so on ...
but for the usage uninstalling quartz is necessary ...
cheers :-)
Piclens - great innovative way of viewing pictures on certain sites.
Aardvark - helps to understand the CSS coding on websites
Gspace - great for online ( FREE ) storage with gmail.
Del.icio.us tool bar - With a click or two I can bookmark a page and view it from any computer.
Foxy Tunes - Great in-browser music player.
This version of Firefox is definitely more stable and much easier on memory
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Forgot about FoxyTunes. Good one!
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Dirt and Rust
Hyperwords is another good one too.
And two interesting links with hacks and cool add-ons. The possibilities are endless.
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/15-coolest-firefox-tricks-ever.html
http://mashable.com/2008/06/26/firefox-3-extensions/
Leaky Penny
Aka Artfiend Part Deux
www.leakypenny.com
Leaky Penny
Check out what I've been up to lately!
http://petersonjoseph.com
I'm going to print it out and eat it.
-Unknown Artist
You should post this to "weblinks"! Good stuff.
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Dirt and Rust
Leaky Penny
Aka Artfiend Part Deux
www.leakypenny.com
Leaky Penny
Check out what I've been up to lately!
http://petersonjoseph.com
I'm going to print it out and eat it.
-Unknown Artist
I keep getting a -203 error message when I try to install plug-ins and extensions. Help?
- thanks
'I am a patient boy, I wait, I wait, I wait, I wait'
You need to give more details:
1. Version of FF?
2. Platform: Mac or PC?
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Latest version of firefox, new iMac. No problems on my g3 ibook with latest version of FF which is the weird part.
- thanks
'I am a patient boy, I wait, I wait, I wait, I wait'
OS X version?(I knew I forgot to ask something!) FF3 requires 10.4/Tiger or later.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/system-requirements.html
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Yes, I have Leopard.
- thanks
'I am a patient boy, I wait, I wait, I wait, I wait'
i completely forgot i had this one installed.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3818
resizable text area. allows you to resize a text entry box so you can see all of your text at once instead of having to scroll. now that i've rediscovered it, i *LOVE* this addon. i had added it when i saw it in a list, then never used it. but it rules!
PicLens—Now CoolIris—I know someone already mentioned it, but it rocks.
Coverflow for any image search you do—no more scrolling down pages in google image search, hitting next, waiting for images to load... it's amazing.