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I recently installed a number of extensions in my Firefox browser and they are terrific.  The extension manager is great and the extensions are really small in file size. 

I am using and highly recommend the following Firefox extensions.

• Image Zoom -  Right click any image and zoom in/out
  
  
• downTHEMall - Download all images, links, mp3's or whatever from the current page.  Really cool...
  
  
• Disabl Targets for Download - Gets rid of that blank page you somtimes get when downloading a file to disk.
  
  If anyone else has some favorite Firefox extensions list them here.  Cheers!
  
  
• AniDisable - Right click to enable/disable gif animations
  
  
  I have installed these but haven't had much chance to try them out yet
  
  
• fireFtp - Puts an ftp client in a browser window or tab.  Lacks ability to store login info at the moment but this is on a todo list.  When this get's implemented I'll start using it more often. 
  
  
• ScrapBook - Same and manage web page collections on your hard disk. 
  
  
• Bookmarks Synchronizer - Upload and download bookmatks to a WebDAV server.
  

I can't remember what it was called, but it was under developer tools, it gave FireFox an eyedropper tool so you could pull colours you liked from websites, giving you the HEX and RGB information to put into your paint program or your code.

AdBlock is utterly essential. Within a few days of using it and blocking any ads you encounter, you can get through the rest of your time without often needing to block many more ads.

Nuke Anything will remove any object on a screen, images, tables, whatever. Also comes in handy if there's something annoying you about the way a page looks.

Gmail Notifier tells you when you have new Gmail messages.

Download Manager Tweak makes the Firefox downloading look and work a lot nicer.

Mouse Gestures is good for those of us that got used to Opera's mouse gestures. If you've never used mouse gestures, you should start, it speeds up your browsing a lot, very intuitive.

I used to use the Tabbrowser Extensions a lot in the 0.9 days, but it was buggy and doesnt work on 1.0. It had the great feature of "CLose left tabs" and Close right tabs" which I really miss  :(

Chatzilla IRC client!

Gcache easy to check if page is in Google cache

Webmail Compose

plus Adblock, tab preferences, disable targets download

I have about 18 of them. I will list them later when I am not so busy ;)

I used to have more extentions but since the versions kept changing and installing my system again, I never got them all again.

ones I have installed now

Adblock - makes you breakfast

Paste and Go - pastes url's directly from the clipboard and goes directly to the site, it's identical to pasting and then pressing enter without having to press enter [a standard Opera feature]

Image Zoom (http://imagezoom.yellowgorilla.net/) - An invaluable tool for the Critic's Lounge

Tab Clicking Options (http://twanno.mozdev.org/#tabclickingoptions) - Customize what happens if you middle-click, double-click tabs or the tab bar.

FlashBlock (http://flashblock.mozdev.org/) - I don't mind ads as long as they are not intrusive. FlashBlock replaces flash animations with a play button so I can play them only if I want to.

BugMeNot (http://www.bugmenot.com/) - I hate having to register at some site I'll use maybe once to read an article. BugMeNot gets existing usernames/passwords from a database and fills them in for me.

Ad Block is by far the best extension for firefox.
But when I discovered I could block the ads in Opera I went back to it. I lost no functionality, but it's faster.

Mouse Gestures
Mentioned above.

Adblock
Mentioned above.

Paste and Go
Right click and hit "paste and go" in the address bar if you have a URL in the clipboard. Similar to Opera.

Add Bookmark Here
No need to use the crud bookmark manager to add a bookmark anymore. I should jibble with it sometime and add an "Add Folder here" option.

Download Manager Tweak
Open downloads in a new tab, not a small window.

downTHEMall!
Right click on a page and use downTHEMall! (sic) to download all mp3s/images/whatnot present in the page or linked to from the page.

DictionarySearch
Select a word, right click and load it up in an online dictionary of your choice.

Tabbrowser Extensions
Makes tabs in Firefox useful (and similar to Opera). Most of the extensions I install seem to reintroduce features present in Opera.

Quote from: SSH on Fri 07/01/2005 10:00:38
I used to use the Tabbrowser Extensions a lot in the 0.9 days, but it was buggy and doesnt work on 1.0. It had the great feature of "CLose left tabs" and Close right tabs" which I really miss  :(

It's only the version from 1.12.2004 which doesn't work in 1.0. I found the version just prior to it after some googling. Still buggy though sadly.

I'm going to go through  this (http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php40089) guide later from the mozillazine forum and "Rebuild TBE's featureset with other plugins" as it claims is possible.

Strazer: I used to use bugmenot, but I was never able to actually get a working username/password pair for any of the sites I tried. Have you had greater luck?

QuoteStrazer: I used to use bugmenot, but I was never able to actually get a working username/password pair for any of the sites I tried. Have you had greater luck?

The few times I have tried it worked very well. It sometimes takes a few tries when sites closed some fake accounts.

I use Tabbrowser Extensions and it works flawlessly.. Where have you guys been?

Oh yeah, I forgot to list Tabbrowser Extensions for some reason. Most useful.

Thought some of you might be interested in this (http://www.agagames.com/crap/ags.rar). It's a search plugin for the AGS games page. For those that don't know, unRAR it to C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins then restart Firefox for it to appear [Linux/other OS users will have to work it out for themselves...].

I notice you put the file in the "crap" directory on your server. ;D

....everything that's not an image or game goes in there. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!

mouse gestures
gmail notifier
download manager tweak

Good to see so many people using firefox

Ad-Block is the main thing I like in Firefox, although I'm actually too lazy to block ads most of the time it's a bit more refined than the Opera thing I use (which I have never added an ad url to).  I also use Firefox+downTHEMall when I need to get all the links in a page (totally not just porn galleries, honest), if anyone knows of an Opera button or whatever to do that it'd be useful to have, because I do prefer the way Opera does downloads aside from that.

And of course nobody should browse without mouse gestures.  I only have a few things visible in my opera UI by default, the address bar, a bugmenot button, the page style controller thing and the tab bar.  Cutting out all the buttons I have gestures and keys for makes things look nicer, and I browse faster.

Opera is better for me, but I'm not trying to start an argument, use what you like, I do use Firefox sometimes.

Do you have stats, CJ?  Is IE still as inexplicably popular as it was before?

Quote from: scotch on Thu 03/02/2005 21:24:16
...if anyone knows of an Opera button or whatever to do that it'd be useful to have, because I do prefer the way Opera does downloads aside from that.

Pressing ctrl-j can be quite useful.

That was too obvious, I have had the links panel on my sidebar forever but never thought to use it.

Two of my favorite extensions:

Web Developer (http://www.chrispederick.com/work/firefox/webdeveloper/) - adds a toolbar with dozens of features.  Enable/disable almost anything, validate code, view a speed report, outline page elements, etc.  Don't know what I'd do without it.

FlashBlock (http://flashblock.mozdev.org/) - Know how annoying flash ads can be?  If they slip past Adblock, this extension replaces them with a "play" button.  Only view the flash animations you want to.

Quote from: scotch on Thu 03/02/2005 21:24:16
Do you have stats, CJ?  Is IE still as inexplicably popular as it was before?

Psst, he uses IE.

Currently i'm not using any extensions.  I always look for some that i might find useful but haven't installed any yet.

I did try the Image Zoom, but for some reason Firefox would crash after install.  It didn't do that before.  I liked it though, and may try again.

I gave up IE a couple of months ago and switched to Firefox 1.0, and am pleased to say that i find it much better than IE.  Hah, take that Bill Gates.  :)

Shawn

Here are a few more that I now use and thought I would share them with all.

Fire FTP
Handy FTP client in a browser tab. 

Disable Target for Download
Prevents the browser from opening a blank window when downloading a file

Down Them All
Allows easy downloading all links, images, or oher file types form a given page.

Dictionary Search
Select a word on a web page, right click, and lookup in online dictionary in new tab.

Launchy
Open links with external applications.  My browser opens with a number of tabs containing my favorite sites.  One of the tabs displays a local text file containing configuration information for my network.  With launchy I can edit this file with a right click.

AddBlock Filter set Update
Updates AddBlocks filters.

Editus Externus
Allows yu to use a text editor of your own choosing to edit text boxes.  Perfevt for making long forum posts.

Greasemonkey Fer downloading google video files
Image zoom for zooming images
SA last read extension. (SA is a big forum, this colours topics you've visited with different colours depending on if the thread has new posts or not)
Yakalike. it creates a chat for the webpage you're on. e.g if you are on the forums, and I'm on the forums we could chat!

Colorzilla
Very useful if you want to know the color code of something on a website.

Menu Editor
Get rid of some of those unwanted menu options.

IE Tab
For those sites that -godforbid- still need IE to work.


And most of the ones mentioned previously.

Eh, I just use Opera. :)

Adblock
The greatest argument for using Firefox IMO.

Noscript (https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=722&application=firefox)
Followed very closely by this one

Quote from: The Inquisitive Stranger on Mon 06/02/2006 19:22:28
Eh, I just use Opera. :)

OMG. THOU ROCKETH.

Me <3 Opera too.

Quote from: Esseb on Sat 08/01/2005 14:10:25
Tabbrowser Extensions
Makes tabs in Firefox useful (and similar to Opera). Most of the extensions I install seem to reintroduce features present in Opera.

I've gone back to Opera since this post, for various reasons.

Too lazy to type :)

(http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/Extensions.gif)

Quote from: OneThinkingGal and ._. on Mon 06/02/2006 21:55:30Adblock
The greatest argument for using Firefox IMO.

Noscript (https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=722&application=firefox)
Followed very closely by this one

I thought you were dead?

Oh ... and I don't use any firefox extensions.  I do use firefox.  I just don't have any extensions. 

It has been a year since my original post, and i still have no extensions. But i see some here i should check out.  Right now i am using version 1.0.7.

Shawn

Plain vanilla Firefox is good as an IE replacement. I've installed it on the computers of various family members.

When it comes to awesome features, though, I prefer Opera, because it seems to handle them better.

Quote from: Darth Mandarb on Tue 07/02/2006 00:38:23

Quote from: OneThinkingGal and ._. on Mon 06/02/2006 21:55:30Adblock
The greatest argument for using Firefox IMO.

Noscript (https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=722&application=firefox)
Followed very closely by this one

I thought you were dead?

Oh ... and I don't use any firefox extensions.  I do use firefox.  I just don't have any extensions. 

The rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

:(

Quote from: Darth Mandarb on Tue 07/02/2006 00:38:23

Quote from: OneThinkingGal and ._. on Mon 06/02/2006 21:55:30Adblock
The greatest argument for using Firefox IMO.

Noscript (https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=722&application=firefox)
Followed very closely by this one

I thought you were dead?

Oh ... and I don't use any firefox extensions.  I do use firefox.  I just don't have any extensions. 

She's been around for #ag(e)s now.

I just use

Paste and Go - if you copy a url from text you can paste it and go straight to the sight with out having to press enter

Adblock

(which strangely enough are the same one's I was using earlier in this thread a year ago)


I tried Forecast Fox which puts the weather details in your browser, but stupidly enough as I live on the other side of the world, it's always a day behind, you'd think these people would know about time zones.

Then as weather people are always wrong, a day behind makes it twice as wrong, which makes it pointless, I might as well just look out the window, I usually check the weather on a local site or watch the news, as I work out doors I like to know if i'll need a raincoat (which is about 10 times a year and not usually a whole day of rain)

Hah, nice, traveler.

Also, Annie, where have you been! .-.

Um, right extensions for firefox:

At home/work:

IE Tab - though i've been forgetting to use it recently!

Del.icio.us - so I can tag my bookmarks on del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us/edmundito)

Web developer - Uh, that's what I do at work, I must check my code! I have turned off at home most of the time, though

At work:

Colorzilla: To get teh colors from teh web, man!

I use Mozilla Suite - no extentions ;).

No extensions at the moment, BECAUSE FIREFOX DECIDED TO GO AND REMOVE ALL OF MY EXTENSIONS.

EDIT: Umm, I can't install them extensions again. It keeps telling "Blah de blah will be installed when Firefox is restarted." even though I restart it. Help?

AdBlock
Copy Image
Dictionary Search
DownThemAll!
Download Manager Tweak
Forecast Fox
Image Zoom
Talkback (I guess this installs automatically as I certainly haven't installed it myself)

Quote from: RickJ on Mon 06/02/2006 10:02:56
Editus Externus
Allows yu to use a text editor of your own choosing to edit text boxes.  Perfevt for making long forum posts.

Are you sure you don't need a spellchecker extention? ;)