Cool Firefox Extensions

[maniacmusician]

This has probably been done before, but I just felt like sharing the ones I used. Just for kicks.



Ook? Video Ook! (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2584/) - I installed this when I was browsing through the extensions page. Haven't really used it to be honest.

Google Notebook (http://www.google.com/notebook) - One of my favorites. It's really useful for jotting down stuff, especially when you're trying to learn something, like a programming language

Gmail Space (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1593/) - I havn't actively used this yet, but I know I'll need to soon.

Cooliris (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2207/) - Useful for browsing places like forums so you can view links without opening new tabs. Neat one.

DownThemAll (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/201/) - I use it mainly for pages with lots of pictures or links leading to pictures. another useful one

ErrorZilla Mod (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3336/) - Much, Much better than a 404 message. Super useful.

Gmail Manager (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1320/) - An easier way to gmail. Good if you have multiple gmail accounts

Google Toolbar (http://www.google.com/toolbar) - I google stuff. A lot.

Tab Mix Plus (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1122/) - Firefox 2.0 almost eliminated the need for this, but not quite. I need for it's tab closing options (closing a tab returns you to the last tab you were looking at). It's session manager is still better than firefox's native one as well.

Adblock Plus (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1865/) - Of course.


Feel free to post ones that you feel are useful.

[mips]

Flashblock,
Filterset.G for Adblock plus
Fasterfox
Forecastfox

[DC@DR]

- McAfee SiteAdvisor (http://www.siteadvisor.com/)
- NoScript
- StumbleUpon
- Ubuntu Forum Menu
- Web Developer

[matthew]

I have several more than these installed. Here are the ones that I have found most useful.

Ubuntu Forums Menu (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2302/) - integrates a new menu item into Firefox with immediate links to most of the forums...very cool!!! I use it all the time.

Torbutton (http://freehaven.net/%7Esquires/torbutton/) - enables tor/privoxy with the click of your mouse once you set it up.

NoScript (http://www.noscript.net/whats) - lock down Firefox...no java scripts of any kind are allowed until you say so.

ForecastFox (http://forecastfox.mozdev.org/) - puts weather info in your Firefox frame. Pretty cool.

EDIT: I forgot one of my favorites...

AdBlock (http://adblock.mozdev.org/) - does what the name says. I like the FiltersetG (http://www.pierceive.com/) mentioned by someone else as well.

[Rhapsody]

A fair few of my favourite extensions have been listed already. Here's the ones that haven't.

All-in-One Sidebar (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1027/) - Helps keep clutter to a minimum. I hate having too many windows around.

Download Statusbar (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/26/) - Similar to the above, though being able to see rough download speeds at a glance (with Speed Colors) and being able to pause downloads easily is nice too.

Image Zoom (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/139/) - I wish it did bilinear filtering on scaled-down images like Konqeuror does, but Image Zoom is still pretty neat for looking at details that aren't obvious at 100% scale.

Linkification (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/190/) - Turns text URLs into proper, clickable links. Good for compensating for lazy posters (or for when browsing the GameFAQs message boards).

Stylish (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2108/) - Some CSS is inconsiderate (not everyone uses black system text people!) or just plain ugly, and could really do with a rewrite. Stylish allows me to do that on this side until it can be fixed on the server side.

[viper]

This is a handy one also.
Reloads web pages every so many seconds or minutes.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/115/

[Ubunted]

ForecastFox
Daily Dilbert
Adblock Plus - built-in filters rule!
Full Screen Homestar Runner - great for my X30's 12.1-inch screen.
CookieCuller
Farkit
Gmail Notifier
CustomizeGoogle - removes a lot of clutter from Gmail

[Anonii]

My favourites:

Adblock (for great justice)
Download Sort (It doesnt work for torrents for me, but it works for everything else, and its incredible.)
DownThemAll! (Nice for downloading all the *.mp3s in a site, etc.)
Gmail Notifier (A must.)

And two others I use:
ReloadEvery
Google Images Re-Linker

[maniacmusician]

cool definitely some good ones in there so far. If you don't mind, please give a little description of what the extension does. I'm sure no one feels like jumping around ff extensions to find out. The auto-reloading and Ubuntu Forums menu ones look especially cool.

[skymt]

* GooglePreview (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/189/) adds thumbnails to Google searches.

* Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2410/) allows me to sync FF bookmarks between computers. Also, I can access my bookmarks from any web browser, almost del.icio.us-style.

* More Tools Menu (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2413/) moves all Tools menu items added by extensions to a separate menu. Very useful if you have a lot of extensions.

* Tabs Open Relative (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1956/) makes tabs open next to the current tab, instead of all the way at the right end.

* SubmitToTab (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/483/) lets me middle-click a form submit button to open the results in a new tab.

* PrefBar (http://prefbar.mozdev.org/) adds a customizable toolbar with easy access to a bunch of hidden preferences.

[maniacmusician]

I'm really digging GooglePreview and Prefbar.

I should mention Tabs Open Relative functionality is included in Tab Mix Plus (link in OP), which does some other useful things as well.

[banjobacon]

My big ones are Adblock and Download Statusbar. I like my downloads being shown on the bottom of my window instead of a pop-up window.

What's better about Adblock Plus? I tried it once (because it said 'plus', so I figured it must be better, duh!), but I didn't like the interface. What exactly is improved in the Plus version?

[maniacmusician]

[shrug] i dunno. It's just the first adblock one I found so I installed it.

[delfick]

hmm, the perfect setup (:D) :

Generated: Thu Nov 16 2006 16:16:24 GMT+0800 (WST)
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20060601 Firefox/2.0 (Ubuntu-edgy)
Build ID: 0000000000

Enabled Extensions: [20]
- Colorful Tabs 1.4----------------------------makes the tabs colourful
- CustomizeGoogle 0.54-----------------------name says it all
- DownThemAll! 0.9.9.7-----------------------allows some very fast downloads
- Find Toolbar Tweaks 1.0.1------------------allows tweaking of the find toolbar
- Firefox Google Bookmarks 0.2.1------------adds a menu for the google bookmarks
- FireFoxMenuButtons 1.5.3------------------adds more buttons to the toolbar at the top
- Flashblock 1.5.2-----------------------------blocks flash content (clicking them, unblocks the flash content you click on)
- Gmail Skins 0.9.7----------------------------adds some nice features to gmail
- Gmail Space 0.5.1----------------------------ftp like client using gmail space
- Google Notebook 1.0.0.10 -------------------i love this thing
- Greasemonkey 0.6.6.20061017.0------------allows you to change any page you view
- Menu Editor 1.2.3---------------------------allows the editing of the menus
- MR Tech Local Install 5.3.1.1---------------one of the best extensions ever, just look it up on addons.mozilla.org for details
- openselectedlinks 2006.08.10---------------if you select many links, you can open them all at the same time by right clicking and choosing "open selected links"
- Organize Status Bar 0.5--------------------allows you to organise the status bar
- Session Manager 0.4.3----------------------much better than the excuse of a session manager included in firefox 2
- Tab History 1.0.4----------------------------allows new tabs to retain the history of the tab it came from...
- Tab Mix Plus 0.3.49.061028-----------------some very nice options for the tabs
- Text size toolbar 0.6------------------------adds three buttons, increase, decrease and normal, to the menu for quick zooming of the page
- Update Notifier 0.1.5.1-----------------------self explanatory

Disabled Extensions: [2]
- Download Manager Tweak 0.7.1-------------adds some nice features to the download manager (can't wait till it's compatible with firefox 2 :D)

Installed Themes: [2]
- Firefox (default)
- Noia 2.0 (eXtreme) 3.32--------------------The best theme ever made :D:D

[skymt]

I should mention Tabs Open Relative functionality is included in Tab Mix Plus (link in OP), which does some other useful things as well.

Yeah, I know. I used to use Tab Mix Plus for that feature, and it's a very nice add-on, but in my opinion it does a little too much.

[glotz]

I'm on Firefox 1.5.0.7 from Dapper repos. These are what I use.
undoclosetab 20051204 (http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=226) Allows one to open tabs you've recently closed. Rather handy.
EZNav (http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=305) Makes level navigation of domains easy and increments URLs
NoScript (http://www.noscript.net/) Allows you to enable JavaScript only for trusted sites
BugMeNot 1.3 (http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=566)> a registry & tool of usernames/passwords for many sites requiring login
Mouse Gestures (http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=787) a fast and powerful way to control your browser

[dbbolton]

come on people, foxytunes.

[Toontwnca]

My absolute favourite is del.icio.us.
I have not actually tried any others.

[d3v1ant_0n3]

My big ones are Adblock and Download Statusbar. I like my downloads being shown on the bottom of my window instead of a pop-up window.

What's better about Adblock Plus? I tried it once (because it said 'plus', so I figured it must be better, duh!), but I didn't like the interface. What exactly is improved in the Plus version?


AFAIK, Adblock Plus has its own filterset built in. Thats the major difference I saw on changing from one to the other.

I swear by the following:

Adblock Plus
Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer
All In One Sidebar (the theme I use pretty much demands the need for it)
Downthemall!

And that's actually all I have at the moment.

I used to have forecastfox enhanced, but apparently it doesn't play well with this theme (mac favicon).

[Polygon]

google toolbar
adblock plus
adblock plus filterset.g updater
update notifier - lets me see if there are updates to themes/ extensions, lets me install them and also lets me restart firefox all from a easy dropdown button
ubuntu forums menu
popup alt attribute - (used to enable pop up alt atribbutes, now since this is native in ff, it can display multi like alt attributes, great for previewing posts in forums!
session saver - this kinda has been killed by ff 2.0's tab saving features (which you have to actiave manually), but still useful (once it gets updated to ff 2.0) cause it can save sessions and if you ever want to go back to it like a week after you saved it, you can.
noscript

[akniss]

Google browser sync - syncs bookmarks on all machines (and OSs) where it is installed

FasterFox - does just what it says

GoogleToolbar

PDF Download - Gives a choice to save, open, etc. each time you click on a pdf

Stumbleupon - something to do when I'm bored

User Agent Switcher - Some sites that I have to use for work still won't let me in with non-IE browsers. This lets me fool the sites into thinking I'm using IE.

[ciscosurfer]

hmm, the perfect setup (:D) :

Generated: Thu Nov 16 2006 16:16:24 GMT+0800 (WST)
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20060601 Firefox/2.0 (Ubuntu-edgy)
Build ID: 0000000000

Enabled Extensions: [20]
- Colorful Tabs 1.4----------------------------makes the tabs colourful
- CustomizeGoogle 0.54-----------------------name says it all
- DownThemAll! 0.9.9.7-----------------------allows some very fast downloads
- Find Toolbar Tweaks 1.0.1------------------allows tweaking of the find toolbar
- Firefox Google Bookmarks 0.2.1------------adds a menu for the google bookmarks
- FireFoxMenuButtons 1.5.3------------------adds more buttons to the toolbar at the top
- Flashblock 1.5.2-----------------------------blocks flash content (clicking them, unblocks the flash content you click on)
- Gmail Skins 0.9.7----------------------------adds some nice features to gmail
- Gmail Space 0.5.1----------------------------ftp like client using gmail space
- Google Notebook 1.0.0.10 -------------------i love this thing
- Greasemonkey 0.6.6.20061017.0------------allows you to change any page you view
- Menu Editor 1.2.3---------------------------allows the editing of the menus
- MR Tech Local Install 5.3.1.1---------------one of the best extensions ever, just look it up on addons.mozilla.org for details
- openselectedlinks 2006.08.10---------------if you select many links, you can open them all at the same time by right clicking and choosing "open selected links"
- Organize Status Bar 0.5--------------------allows you to organise the status bar
- Session Manager 0.4.3----------------------much better than the excuse of a session manager included in firefox 2
- Tab History 1.0.4----------------------------allows new tabs to retain the history of the tab it came from...
- Tab Mix Plus 0.3.49.061028-----------------some very nice options for the tabs
- Text size toolbar 0.6------------------------adds three buttons, increase, decrease and normal, to the menu for quick zooming of the page
- Update Notifier 0.1.5.1-----------------------self explanatory

Disabled Extensions: [2]
- Download Manager Tweak 0.7.1-------------adds some nice features to the download manager (can't wait till it's compatible with firefox 2 :D)

Installed Themes: [2]
- Firefox (default)
- Noia 2.0 (eXtreme) 3.32--------------------The best theme ever made :D:DYou will be able to successfully use Download Manager Tweak just as soon as you install Nightly Tester Tools (http://users.blueprintit.co.uk/%7Edave/web/firefox/nightly)! I love it, it works great! Have fun!

[delfick]

You will be able to successfully use Download Manager Tweak just as soon as you install Nightly Tester Tools (http://users.blueprintit.co.uk/%7Edave/web/firefox/nightly)! I love it, it works great! Have fun!

why's that ??

is it because it says

Allows you to force the application to believe an extension is compatible with the current version and enable it.
??

i can already do that :D but on the addons.mozilla.org site for the plugin, the creator said not to force it (in the comments somewhere) though i looked just then and it seems someone else has made it compatible http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=476679 (yay!) :D

[Mr. Picklesworth]

Wow, you guys know some great extensions!

Coriolis Previews (seems a bit unsteady in terms of doing its job, though?), Google Notebook and Submit To Tab are especially pleasing.

Here are a few of mine (sorry, no time to give you links; these actually kept me awake for an hour longer than I wanted...)

IE Tab. For those of us who must suffer with Windows and web pages that only like browsers which attempt to break web standards.

Flashblock. Like NoScript but for Flash!

Google Browser Sync. Exceptionally cool :) Keeps your browser the same (with everything except extensions) across computers. ...And it's Google, so you can trust that thing to stay alive for quite some time.

gTranslate. Translates text on the spot using Google. (Seemlessly, within a context menu).

Menu Editor. Very useful; with all these extensions, it becomes very important to tidy up those menus a bit. They tend to put themselves in too many places. (For example, ReloadEvery only really needs to go as a submenu of the Reload button, but it goes in the context menu and Tools menu as well!)


Do you know if I can get NoScript to block Flash but not Javascript? I like how it does it, but I don't like having to unblock all that JavaScript...

[Sam]

Adblock (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/10/) with Adblock Filterset.G Updater (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1136/)
Once installed, it's a snap to filter elements at their source-address.

Gmail Notifier (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/173/)
A notifier for Gmail accounts.

Web Developer (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/60/)
Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.

FireBug (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1843/)
FireBug lets you explore the far corners of the DOM by keyboard or mouse. All of the tools you need to poke, prod, and monitor your JavaScript, CSS, HTML and Ajax are brought together into one seamless experience, including a debugger, an error console, command line, and a variety of fun inspectors.

CustomizeGoogle (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/743/)
CustomizeGoogle is a Firefox extension that enhance Google search results by adding extra information (like links to Yahoo, Ask.com, MSN etc) and removing unwanted information (like ads and spam).

GooglePreview (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/189/)
Inserts preview images (thumbnails) of web sites and Amazon products into the Google and Yahoo search results pages.

Download Statusbar (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/26/)
View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar - without the download window getting in the way of your web browsing.

FlashGot (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/220/)
Download one link, selected links or all the links of a page together at the maximum speed with a single click, using the most popular, lightweight and reliable external download managers.

VideoDownloader (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390/)
Download videos from Youtube, Google, Metacafe, iFilm, Dailymotion, Pornotube... and other 60+ video sites ! And all embedded objects on a webpage (movies, mp3s, flash, quicktime, etc)

Torrent Search (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2607/)
Torrent search made easy with more than 29 top torrent search engines in your browser!

[ciscosurfer]

why's that ??

is it because it says

??

i can already do that :D but on the addons.mozilla.org site for the plugin, the creator said not to force it (in the comments somewhere) though i looked just then and it seems someone else has made it compatible http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=476679 (yay!) :DI use Download Manager Tweak and I run FF 2.0 with Nightly Tester Tools extension. It works.

[delfick]

I use Download Manager Tweak and I run FF 2.0 with Nightly Tester Tools extension. It works.

odd.....o well :D

thnx anyways :D

[MedivhX]

ErrorZilla (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3336/) - Instead of error screen (like error 404) it dislpays the problem

[matthew]

ErrorZilla (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3336/) - Instead of error screen (like error 404) it dislpays the problemNice! I'm installing that one.

[paul6]

As mentioned before, "Google Browser Sync" is one extension that simply cannot be overlooked. I use several PC's and operating systems, and GBS keeps the bookmarks/cookies/history synced between all of them.

[Roger Mudd]

Sage (http://sage.mozdev.org/) -- "Sage is a lightweight RSS and Atom feed reader extension for Mozilla Firefox. It's got a lot of what you need and not much of what you don't."