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  1. 06-01-2009, 11:59 PM #1
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    Firefox Users: What are your favorite addons

    Without getting into the great debate of which browser is better. One thing I like about Firefox are the addons which are available for it. There are so many now, and you wonder which ones are worth it. Maybe collectively we can share our experiences with different addons.

    I personally like XMarks (formerly foxmarks) and colortabs.
    -XMarks - If you have Firefox on different computers, you can synchronize the same bookmarks on each computer.
    -colortabs - each tab you open is a different color.

    Which ones have you tried and like?

    Here are a couple of addon links:
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/
    http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=...0&oq=firefox+a

    BTW: Thunderbird also has addons :-)
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    Re: Firefox Users: What are your favorite addons

    NoScript. Enough said.

    For anyone from the moderately security concious to the paranoid, this plugin is something that could arguably become a standard feature in web browsers to come. It's definitely ahead of it's time.

    http://noscript.net/

    I won't use anything but Firefox with NoScript. There's just no functionality like it available anywhere else.
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    Re: Firefox Users: What are your favorite addons

    As great as NoScript might be for the browser, it might not be a tool you'll find in a web designer/developer's box. I wouldn't want my browser to automatically by default block JS, Flash, and other scripts. It's great if you are surfing on a public computer. I find it's a pain to go and add every new website I come across to the exceptions list.

    Anyways, I'm pretty sure there was another thread where a whole bunch of us posted our addons. I'm sure it's somewhere in the back pages of this section.

    I current use:

    Abuction!
    Adblock Plus with Adblock Filterset.G Updater
    Basics
    Cooliris
    Download Statusbar
    DownloadHelper
    FFMyIP
    Firefox Throttle
    GooglePreview
    Greasemonkey
    IE Tab
    Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant
    Move Media Player (think it's for FOX's Flash videos)
    Open Image In New Tab
    PackingMapping.com Extension
    PDF Download
    Personas for Firefox
    Zotero
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  4. 06-02-2009, 03:31 AM #4
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    Re: Firefox Users: What are your favorite addons

    NoScript, and I don't mind the need to add sites, as I see a lot less ads by simply adding known ad sites to the black list.

    Similarly, FlashBlock prevents potentially hostile Flash from running until I say it's ok.

    These two let me visit potentially hostile sites without fear of immediately getting pwned by active content.

    I also run PDF Download, to avoid accidentally clicking on a PDF file, as they often take forever to load, compared to a regular web page. With the recent vulnerabilities in Acrobat, this also makes my browsing safer.

    I find myself now doing web dev, and I find Firebug indispensable. It shows the DOM structure and the lines of CSS that apply to an element, and how they were inherited.

    Forecastbar Enhanced is a nice way of quickly checking the weather. It displays the 3-day weather forecast in the status bar.

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    Re: Firefox Users: What are your favorite addons

    Currently running:

    DownThemAll
    FEBE
    FoxClocks
    FoxTabs
    Greasemonkey
    Google Preview
    Imageshack Toolbar
    PDF Download
    RSS Ticker
    Xmarks

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    Re: Firefox Users: What are your favorite addons

    Quote Originally Posted by Acreo Aeneas View Post
    Anyways, I'm pretty sure there was another thread where a whole bunch of us posted our addons. I'm sure it's somewhere in the back pages of this section.
    Before I made this post I assumed this same thing, did numerous searches for any topic that contained the word Firefox and nothing about addons appeared. If there is something, it isn't easy to find.

    Thanks to all for sharing, there are a number of addons that I didn't know existed or saw them but didn't know if there was value to install or not...
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  7. 06-02-2009, 05:11 PM #7
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    Re: Firefox Users: What are your favorite addons

    favorite? Greasemonkey!

    It makes TG go from this:
    [media]http://www.tacticalsites.com/~whiskeysix//screens/search-before.jpg[/media]

    ..to this:
    [media]http://www.tacticalsites.com/~whiskeysix//screens/search_results.JPG[/media]


    details: http://www.tacticalgamer.com/wiki/in...p/Greasemonkey


    http://www.tacticalgamer.com/wiki/in...p/Greasemonkey

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    Re: Firefox Users: What are your favorite addons

    Searched for "firefox addons" and found this:

    http://www.tacticalgamer.com/hardwar...ns-thread.html

    (It didn't turn up with "firefox addon". Google didn't find it with the singular, either.)
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    Re: Firefox Users: What are your favorite addons

    W6, I see you have a way to filter out forums with your Greasemonkey setup. Do you have a way to get more threads per page? I start my session by clicking New Posts (I have a bookmark to that), go to page 2 of the results, then edit the URL to go back to page 1 and select 250 results per page (which the server truncates to 200, but it's an easy URL edit to change the 25 to 250 by replacing the end of the URL with "0"). It would be great if I could get 200 results per page on the first New Posts invocation.
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    Re: Firefox Users: What are your favorite addons

    Greasemonkey

    Personas with Squinty's digital camo.

    Xmarks for synchronizing my bookmarks between home, work, and laptop.


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    Re: Firefox Users: What are your favorite addons

    If I only had one...

    Firebug hands down.
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    Re: Firefox Users: What are your favorite addons

    Maybe it's the old fashionness in me, but I still stick with a external editor and browse through the CSS/JS/XHTML myself. I also use Filezilla instead of something like FireFTP (uninstalled it about 2 months back).

    Edit: Adding Firebug just to see some of the novelty features like "CSS Metrics".
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    Site Launcher
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    Re: Firefox Users: What are your favorite addons

    I'll list off all the ones I'm using starting with the blatantly obvious ones...

    NoScript
    Ad Block Plus
    Download Status Bar
    DownThemAll
    DT Whois
    Flagfox
    Imagebot
    M$ .NET blah blah
    Simple RSS Reader

    And by far my most favourite besides adblock and noscript would be
    Smart Bookmarks Bar

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    Re: Firefox Users: What are your favorite addons

    Adblock+ and compact menu 2. That'd be it for me.
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