Cool Firefox Add-ons

[jeyaganesh]

Let us share cool Firefox add-ons here. Currently I am impressed with,
1.Cooliris (www.cooliris.com) - it is an eye popping, jaw dropping add-on to browse photos and videos from websites like Flickr, youtube etc. as a '3D wall'. You can browse all the news photos and videos. You dont need to go to Reuters to see them. It also available for other browsers.

2.Site Launcher - (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10127) - it is a cool way to open your favorite websites with a hot key. :D

[init1]

I just installed GTranslate today. It's very useful.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/918

[TBOL3]

1. Adblock Plus
2. Noscript
3. DownThemAll
4. Googlepedia (splits the google page in half, putting a wikipedia article on the other half).
5. ImageZoom
6. FoxyProxy
7. ReadItLator
8. FireFTP
9. User Agent Switcher

[Sealbhach]

DownloadHelper.


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[linuxisevolution]

DND Domain details. And Flash Downloader.

[rasmith1959]

Let us share cool Firefox add-ons here. Currently I am impressed with,
1.Cooliris (www.cooliris.com) - it is an eye popping, jaw dropping add-on to browse photos and videos from websites like Flickr, youtube etc. as a '3D wall'. You can browse all the news photos and videos. You dont need to go to Reuters to see them. It also available for other browsers.

2.Site Launcher - (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10127) - it is a cool way to open your favorite websites with a hot key. :D

The ones I like to use are StumbleUpon, AutoPager, DownThemAll, and the Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer. I use several different computers and not all of them run Ubuntu, but they all have Firefox on them. Foxmarks is really handy to keep my bookmarks synchronized between all of the various Firefox profiles I have on all mt pcs.

AutoPage is a really cool addon. Basically what it does is when you are at a website that has multiple pages, like when you're using Google for example, it automatically loads the next page but you see it as one continuous page.

StumbleUpon adds a toolbar to Firefox along with a button that will take to to random pages based upon preferences you specified when setting up a user account. It's really cool and I've been sent to pages that I wouldn't have though about looking for.

Finally DownThemAll is a download manager that really rocks.

[SuperSonic4]

Tab Mix Plus - Does everything you could want with tabs whether protecting, duplicating, recovering a full list of closed tabs among many other things. So good I think it should be included into firefox proper

Phoenity Classic (theme) - a colourful yet light theme.

British English Dictionary - it helps my spelling and seeing a red line under colour gets frustrating

Colorfultabs - does what it says on the tin

Downloadhelper
Download Statusbar

Flashblock -> blocks flash unless you click to accept it

[panmoto]

ScribeFire - a blog editor
Next Tab - open link next to current page
Add to Search Bar - add any search engine to built in search bar
Work Offline - add on/offline icon

[binbash]

greasemonkey

[reprobus]

Server Spy 0.1.6
by Christophe Jacquet

Server Spy indicates what brand of HTTP server (e.g. Apache, IIS, etc.) runs on the visited sites.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2036

[Ocxic]

ubiquity
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity

the best add-on you can get.

[PurposeOfReason]

Vimpenator. It's all you'll ever need.

[sandycarmichael34]

Wow, those are really need additions man. I added in the photo one, it's a nice addition. :)

[cdwillis]

I recently discovered Tiny Menu: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1455

That is integral to me along with adblock plus, noscript, and the delicious bookmarks addon.

[leonardo_neo]

1.Cooliris (www.cooliris.com) - it is an eye popping, jaw dropping add-on to browse photos and videos from websites like Flickr, youtube etc. as a '3D wall'. You can browse all the news photos and videos. You dont need to go to Reuters to see them. It also available for other browsers.


It says cooliris is not available for Linux. How do you manage to use that?

[myusername]

stop/reload it compines the stop and reload button. there isnt any need for BOTH

[Dirjel]

I just had this discussion on another forum I go to. I've sunk a lot of time into customizing my Firefox, so here goes.

All-in-One Sidebar
Sidebar control with award-winning user experience!
I actually use this pretty often. Once I installed this, I almost never used the buttons along the top of the screen (file, edit, etc.), which is what set me on my quest to get rid of 'em all. I mostly use it for RSS feeds (with my Feed Sidebar add-on), some very occasional bookmark management, and changing add-on settings.

DOM Inspector
Inspects the structure and properties of a window and its contents
I have no idea what this does, or how I got it installed. I think it's a dependency for one of my other add-ons, because I vaguely recall it appearing itself right after I downloaded a different add-on. I can't get at the preferences, and I can't uninstall it, but I can disable it. I'm just leaving it running, though. Everything is working fine, and I'd rather not mess with it.

Download Youtube Videos in HD and MP4
Add links to download Youtube videos in HD and MP4 quality.
This is pretty awesome. The links mentioned in the description show up on Youtube, in the video description, so I don't have to put up a button I won't be frequently using on my toolbars. Very nice.

DownThemAll!
The mass downloader for Firefox.
I actually use this pretty often. It's a more advanced download manager than the one that comes by default in Firefox, and it's supposedly faster. Yay.

Duplicate Tab
Allows you to duplicate a tab, or to merge the windows.
This one does two things. First, you can detach tabs into separate windows, or merge separate windows into multiple tabs in a single window. Of course, I don't know why anyone would have multiple windows open in the first place, but it's there if you want it. The sexy thing about this add-on, is that it makes perfect copies of a tab. It opens a new tab, copies the URL over, and scrolls to the exact point you're looking at on the current tab, AS WELL AS copying over the back and forward button history. Very handy, especially when you're looking at big FAQ's on GameFAQs.

Favicon Picker 3
Replace bookmark icons from the bookmark properties dialog.
Straightforward enough. Right click --> properties on a bookmark, and you can change the picture. I don't like to put text on my bookmarks, so I use this to differentiate bookmarks on the same domain. The yellow icon on my bookmarks is a P4 FAQ, and the guy's face next to it is a FFTactics FAQ.

Feed Sidebar
Displays the items from your Live Bookmarks in the sidebar.
I use this ALL THE TIME. I have RSS for a bunch of sites, and this thing keeps me on top of the updates perfectly. Unlike the mediocre built-in RSS reader, this one tells you which ones you've already seen, and which ones are still new.

Find Toolbar Tweaks
Tweaks display and function of Find Toolbar.
This changes the little strip at the bottom of the screen when you hit control f. I have it set to clean the bar up a bit, and close automatically.

Flashblock
Replaces Flash objects with a button you can click to view them.
This is another thing I use pretty much constantly, though I don't notice it as much. It's also cool, because it can tell you the source of the flash object. Handy for embedding.

GameFOX
Enhances the GameFAQs message boards.
If you post on the GameFAQs boards, this is a must-have.

History Block
Cover your tracks!
You know when you go to a really cool website, but you can't figure out where it was? It SHOULD be in your history, but you're never gonna' find it because of all the other stuff you've seen? Well, I have this thing set up so that most of the sites I visit frequently don't show up in my history. At all. My history is quite empty, as a result, and it makes it much easier to track down that-one-site-you-saw-sometime-last-week-maybe.

ImageBot
An Image Uploader
It does what it says. Very well. You give it a picture, it'll automatically log onto photobucket or imageshack, host the pic, and give you the link. You can even set it up so the link it gives you has bbcode or spoiler tags or whatever you want. Very convenient.

ImageTweak
Enhances the vision of direct images
I think this is supposed to let you zoom in freely on pics, when you right click --> view image. I can't figure it out, tbqh, but the mode I CAN figure out is still better than the default method Firefox uses to display pictures. You click the picture and drag it around, rather than having to use the scrollbar on the side of the screen to navigate a large picture.

Menu Editor
Customize application menus
THIS IS AWESOME. I have a bunch of addons, and my right click menu is REALLY BIG. I found this add-on after quite a bit of searching. It lets you add, rearrange, or even remove menu items from the right click menu or the file/edit/whatever menus. The manager is kind of a pain in the *** to use, but it makes life so much easier when you don't have to scroll through a zillion different options every time you right click.

Perapera-kun
Popup Japanese dictionary. Licensed under GNU GPL.
With this, all you have to do is hover your cursor over any Japanese text, and it automatically translates it for you. I've tested it on a few sites (including nicovideo), and it's quite cool.

Personal Menu
Create your own menu and save more space
This is what I used to make my little drop-down arrow menu thing. It was kind of a pain to change the icon, because I had to modify the css sheet for my Firefox, but I'm really happy with the result. It's super-compact, and it looks very nice.

Smart Stop/Reload
Combines/merges the Stop and Reload toolbar buttons
If the page you are viewing is loading, then it shows the stop button. If it's done loading, it changes into the refresh button. Again, it just saves a little bit of space, and makes it look a little nicer.

Split Browser
Splits browser window as you like.
View multiple tabs in a single window, simultaneously. How sweet is that? Again, it's pretty handy for big FAQ's, but I've used it for a bunch of different things (even just sorting tabs).

Tab Counter
A Tab Counter extension for the tab-addicted. Provides some stats, too!
This is a mildly amusing add-on, I suppose. I didn't download it on purpose, iirc. I'm pretty sure it came bundled with the duplicate tab add-on, which is AWESOME. This one doesn't really use up any screen real estate (it sits in the bottom-right corner, on the status bar), so I have no reason to remove it.

Ubuntu Firefox Modifications
Ubuntu Firefox Pack.
I'm not sure what all this does. It came pre-installed on my Firefox when I first set up Ubuntu, so I just left it. I can't uninstall it anyway, though I can disable it. I think it just does minor things, like change the Tools --> Internet Options to Edit --> Preferences, to keep it consistent with the rest of the Ubuntu UI.

I've attached a screencap of my setup, to maybe give a better idea of what some of these add-ons do.

[unoodles]

Flashblock
AdBlock

Blank Your Monitor Inverts a page. Useful if white hurts your eyes.
ColoUnreadtabs If you havent looked at a tab, the title is Red

Since I have a Sattelite connection, I need all the speed I can get, so I also have
Fasterfox
DNS Cache
DNS Prefetch


P.S. This thread rocks!

[cb951303]

Foxyproxy (there is no alternative to this little addon)
DownThemAll
StumbleUpon (buggy but addictive)
No Script

[Ms_Angel_D]

It says cooliris is not available for Linux. How do you manage to use that?

There is currently a beta linux version available.

http://www.cooliris.com/beta/?s=linux

Add Bookmark Here (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11)
Allows you to add bookmarks to any folder in the bookmarks menu like in Opera.

Add To Search Bar (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3682)
Just make a right click (Ctrl+click on a Mac) with the mouse pointer on top of *the page's* search box and choose "Add to Search Bar..."

Aging Tabs (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3542)
Makes unused tabs fade with age and highlights the selected tab.

AQwikWiki (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10490)
You're reading an article and suddenly an unfamiliar word pops up. Usually you would wiki the word and then return to the original page. Well, no more unnecessary trips - introducing AQwikWiki (A Quick Wiki) ! Select the word(s), click AQwikWiki, and the first line from Wikipedia will appear right next to the term. Click on the > sign to see more lines. Don't understand something in the AQWikWiki result? check out the nested AQwikwiki feature

ColorfulTabs (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1368)
Colors every tab in a different color and makes them easy to distinguish while beautifying the overall appearance of the interface.

Custum Buttons2 (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5066)
The Custom Buttons² Firefox extension provides the code base support necessary to create, maintain, import, and export custom toolbar buttons. The buttons can perform just about any task, with a large number of buttons already available on the extension's forum.

DM BBCode Extension (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10481)
This extension adds an entry into your context menu when you right click on stuff to make the relevant BBCode for you and copy it into your clipboard. It can also apply common bbcode to selected text within a textarea

DragNDrop Toolbars (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3571)
Your toolbars become Drag and Droppable !
Install this extension, and you will be able to chose the order of your toolbars simply using "Drag and Drop".

FoxVox (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9759)
FoxVox will speak any text you highlight in a web page. FoxVox can create audiobooks in mp3, ogg, and wav formats. You can now easily turn your blogs and articles into podcasts. FoxVox is ideal for having blogs, email, news articles, and ebooks read to you while you surf the web or do other work. FoxVox now supports speech in many different languages.

Google Reader Watcher (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4808)
Checks your Google Reader for unread news

Google Preview (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/189)
Inserts preview images (thumbnails) and popularity ranks of web sites into the Google and Yahoo search results pages.

Image Zoom (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/139)
Easily zoom in, zoom out, fit image to screen or set custom zoom on individual images within a web page. All this can be done by using the context menu or a combination of mouse buttons and scroll wheel. Handy to see the finer details of smaller pics or to make very large pics fit within your screen

Page Zoom (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1499)
Adds page zoom functionality. Default key bindings are Alt++, Alt+- and Alt+0. Buttons in toolbar are also provided

Sxipper (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4865)
Sxipper makes interacting with the Web simpler by keeping track of an unlimited number of usernames, passwords and personal information such as name, address, phone numbers, etc. Presented as you need it, Sxipper securely stores this personal data on your computer.

Tab Scope (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4882)
Shows a popup on tabs and enables you to preview and navigate tab contents through popup. Major features are:

Real-time preview of tab contents
Navigate (Back/Forward/Reload/Stop) through popup
Scroll pages or frames in preview with mouse wheel
Click links or buttons directly in preview


Tomfox (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8276)
Tomfox adds a "Create Tomboy Note" option to the right click menu. This lets users send a selected piece of text to a Tomboy note directly.

[leonardo_neo]

There is currently a beta linux version available.

http://www.cooliris.com/beta/?s=linux

Thanks :D

[billgoldberg]

I run:

- Adblock plus (the only one I can't do without)
- server spy
- stylish
- downloadstatusbar
- ubiquity
- cooliris beta

[aktiwers]

Im lazy, see screenshot :)

Another Firefox feature I like alot is right-clicking any search field, then picking "add keyword for this search".
That allows you to fx. if you add "y" to youtube, you can now search youtube with "y somesearch" in the address bar.

Works on all searchengines

[kef_kf]

I recently discovered Tiny Menu: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1455

That is integral to me along with adblock plus, noscript, and the delicious bookmarks addon.

I recommend Compact Menu 2 (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4550). not only it can shrink your menu items into a button but it also allows you to place the menu button on any toolbar you want, you can even remove the menu bar (and the button) if you like.

And than there is FEBE (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2109), Firefox Environment Backup Extension. From the mozilla site: "FEBE backs up your extensions, themes, and (optionally) your bookmarks, preferences, passwords, cookies and just about everything else Firefox offers (it can even backup/restore your entire profile)."

FEBE, NoScript, Adblock Plus and Foxmarks are the essential pack of extensions for me.

[TalioGladius]

Foxmarks

[mr.propre]

Opera

[Dirjel]

I recommend Compact Menu 2 (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4550). not only it can shrink your menu items into a button but it also allows you to place the menu button on any toolbar you want, you can even remove the menu bar (and the button) if you like.

And than there is FEBE (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2109), Firefox Environment Backup Extension. From the mozilla site: "FEBE backs up your extensions, themes, and (optionally) your bookmarks, preferences, passwords, cookies and just about everything else Firefox offers (it can even backup/restore your entire profile)."

FEBE, NoScript, Adblock Plus and Foxmarks are the essential pack of extensions for me.
I use Personal Menu. Not only can you condense all the menus into a single button, but you can simply delete the buttons you don't need, add in extra buttons that don't appear in the standard menu, or even throw a toolbar into the drop menu. Very awesome.

[VCoolio]

Does anybody have a workaround for installing the cooliris beta add-on on Minefield?