Well, firefox and extensions for one

[anandasim]

Firefox 3 made me sit up and trash some extensions that were giving trouble and review what I wanted and what worked. At one time, the fashion was to put up our favourite extensions. I haven't revised that page for a long time. Here's tonight's snapshot off one machine.

- Adblock Filterset.G Updater 0.3.1.3 - Synchronizes Adblock with Filterset.G
- Adblock Plus 0.7.5.5 - Ads were yesterday!
- Better Gmail 2 0.5 - Enhances the new Gmail interface with Greasemonkey user scripts. All scripts copyright their original authors. Click on the script homepage in the About tab for help and more information.
- ColorfulTabs 3.1 - Colorful Tabs colors every tab in a different color and makes them easy to distinguish while beautifying the overall appeal of the interface.
- Delicious Bookmarks 2.0.64 - Access your bookmarks wherever you go and keep them organized no matter how many you have.
- Download Statusbar 0.9.6.3 - View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar
- DownThemAll! 1.0.3 - The mass downloader for Firefox.
- English (Australian) Dictionary 2.1.1 - I'm sick of all my favoUrite coloUrful language being marked incorrect.
- Exif Viewer 1.45 - Extracts and displays the Exif (Exchangeable Image File), IPTC-NAA/IIM (International Press Telecommunications Council / Newspaper Association of America / Information Interchange Model), and IPTC Core (Adobe XMP, Extensible Metadata Platform) metadata, as stored by digital still cameras, in both local and remote JPEG images.
- FireShot 0.50 - Adds the ability to take a screenshot of the page, edit it and save, copy to clipboard, send to external editor or e-mail it.
- Google Notebook 1.0.0.20 - Allows notetaking while browsing
- Greasemonkey 0.8.20080609.0 - A User Script Manager for Firefox
- HYPER-ANCHOR 0.1.08062500 - Helps you to bookmark specific positions in a Web page by using XPath instead of using only the URL.
- Hyperwords 4.0 - Makes every word on the web interactive.
- IE View Lite 1.3.3 - Cut down version of IE View by Paul Roub.
- It's All Text! 0.8.5 - Edit text using your favorite editor!
- McAfee SiteAdvisor 26.6 - A McAfee SiteAdvisor Firefox Extension for safe searching and browsing
- Menu Editor 1.2.6 - Customize application menus
- MR Tech Toolkit (formerly Local Install) 6.0.1 - MR Tech Toolkit power tools for all users. (en-US)
- OperaView 0.6.1 - Open pages in Opera from Firefox, Mozilla, Flock and Netscape 8 context menus.
- Password Exporter 1.1 - Export and import your saved passwords.
- PDF Download 1.0.1.2 - Allows you to choose what to do with a PDF file: download it, view it with an external viewer or view it as HTML.
- PicLens 1.7.0.3459 - Discover More
- Resizeable Textarea 0.1d - Resize textareas to your needs.
- Save Complete 0.9b10 - Saves a complete webpage correctly
- Tab History 1.0.5 - Links opened in a new tab retain their history.
- Tab Scope 0.2.2.8 - Preview and navigate tab contents through popup.
- Taboo 0.2.1 - The cure for tabitis
- TestGen4Web - Script It All 0.51.0 - Just like your VCR - for Firefox. It records what you do, stores it, and plays it back on demand.
- Text Complete 0.9.9.4 - Adds shortcuts / autocomplete functionality to text fields.
- Tree Style Tab 0.7.2008062001 - Show tabs like a tree.
- Undo Closed Tabs Button 3.0.3 - Add a toolbar and/or tab bar button to undo closed tabs
- User Agent Switcher 0.6.11 - Adds a menu and a toolbar button to switch the user agent of the browser.
- Web Developer 1.1.6 - Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.

What is your Fox wearing?

[dr daf]

Foxmarks & NoScript

[dr daf]

Oops... hadn't quite finished...
Anandasim - do you really have all of those extensions at once?
To those responsible, "Well Done" on the new forum look - I like it.

[anandasim]

Yup. My Fox is really fat. Some days, it doesn't feel like waking up.

The Tree Style Tabs is new to me, enjoying it as even on a 4:3 screen, the screen is wider than it is tall, so I get some height back and use normally "wasted" width for tabs. However, it does like to keep a heap of tabs and pages open which can be confusing. The parent-child hierarchy is an interesting effect though.

[Blackwatch]

I've got about 20 extensions (too many, must get rid of the ones I don't use), but the four I could not do without are :-

Noscript
FEBE 5.0 (backup for Firefox extensions, settings etc)
Paste and Go 2
Scrapbook (saves webpages exactly as they are)

[bazcaz]

Could not live without "Speed dial"...bugger clicking on Favs all the time, one screen all there ...Luv it.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4810

[anandasim]

Speeddial? Had it, used it, put it away, now I'm trying it again Baz. I think I neglected it because my Fox kept showing the wrong URL at the top of the screen after it was installed. Giving it another try.

[anandasim]

Here's a fellow who decided to try 200 extensions for a lark.

http://cybernetnews.com/2006/12/06/cybe ... -one-time/

[dr daf]

Fits nicely on the not-yet-available triple height screen

[anandasim]

I've just managed to get back 5mm of height by manually removing a toolbar (LinuxToolbar) - the developer was kind enough, eventually to give manual removal directions.

Now, if only I could afford that Dell 24" LCD....

[Stephen]

Del.icio.us & Greasemonkey & Operator are my 'Top 3' Firefox Extensions I use.

Operator :-
"Operator leverages microformats and other semantic data that are already available on many web pages to provide new ways to interact with web services."

Long Description:- Operator lets you combine pieces of information on Web sites with applications in ways that are useful. For instance, Flickr + Google Maps, Upcoming + Google Calendar, Yahoo! Local + your address book, and many more possibilities and permutations. All of these scenarios are possible due to Microformats, an emerging standard for injecting semantics into HTML.

Firefox Operator Extension Bleeding Edge, originally uploaded by Netweb