 Overview Of Firefox Extensions--part 1, Whatever your needs. |
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 Feb 5 2005, 02:49 PM
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Member [ Level 2 ]  Group: Members Posts: 69 Joined: 4-February 05 Member No.: 2,509  |
If you are a total neophyte, read the Firefox Extensions Guide first.
Web Developer. This is absolutely ESSENTIAL, a wonderful toolbar with loads of features. View cookies, convert things, it's ALL there. Dict. Never be ashamed of your tiny vocabulary again! Just highlight a Big Word, right click, and look it up! EggOn. Make the perfect egg with this tiny egg timer. Pretty sweet. :) Opine-It. Comment on any site on the web. It's not that wonderful since there aren't too many commented sites. But if you want to help to make it better, that's nice. SwitchProxy. Not a substitute for Proxomitron, but good. You can use multiple proxies and let them switch at any time. Yay for anonymity or a faster connection! Sage. Click on the wise button and read all your RSS and Atom feeds. Click on the wise button again and go back to web browsing. Google pagerank. Yep, that's the only reason you are not happy. You just want the pagerank. Well fear not! This displays a little page rank on the bottom of your screen. Glance back anytime. FlashGot. Lets Moz and Fire make massive downloads using the most popular external downloaders. I never really used it. But it looks OK. Context Search. Double click on a query, right click, pause on the Web Search for "query", and out comes all your search plugins! Very useful. Conquery. Pretty similar to Context Search. You will have to discover the differences yourself as I can't remember--being using Opera for months. Well, that's it for now. I will post some more later. Hopefully this was useful. :) |
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Feb 6 2005, 04:10 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 169 Joined: 19-January 05 Member No.: 2,221 |
You forgot some others:
Adbock- Just right click the annoying ad to have it not show up permenantly on your browser Gmail Notifier- This is a must for anyone with a gmail account. Automatically notifies when new mail has arrived Bug Me Not- Bypass compulsory web registration with the context menu via www.bugmenot.com All-in-one-gestures Just hold right click, move the mouse in a certain pattern and execute the command IEVIEW- For those pages that don't work in Firefox just right click and select View this page in IE |
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Feb 6 2005, 04:14 AM
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Member [ Level 2 ] Group: Members Posts: 69 Joined: 4-February 05 Member No.: 2,509 |
I did say it's a part 1, y'know.
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Jun 25 2005, 12:29 AM
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http://ewanmclean.com Group: Members Posts: 203 Joined: 12-June 05 From: http://ewanmclean.com - Scotland, UK Member No.: 6,127 |
Lol, I know, give the guy time (I don't know if you're male, but I get that impression, lol, sorry if you're not!)
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Jun 28 2005, 07:34 AM
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PsYcheDeLiC dR3aMeR  Group: Admin Posts: 2,242 Joined: 29-January 05 From: Nakorn Chaisri, Thailand Member No.: 2,411 |
I use FlashGot and I'd HIGHLY RECOMMEND it - it solves a Big Problem that happens with almost every download manager. However good a download manager it, quite often it'll fail to catch a URL redirect - resulting in normal browser based downloads... I've tried out flashget, getright, download accelerator - you name it you got it.. but all of them fail at some point or the other.
FlashGot completely solves this problem, by intoducing a FlashGot option into the Save As dialog box that pops up when you click on such links. So all you need to do, is instead of doing a normal save, simply click on the FlashGot radio button and it'll smoothly redirect the download to your favourite download manager. Cool as hell  Now finally, I can catch each and every link in my downmanager. Here' a screenshot: http://img294.echo.cx/img294/5458/flashgot4um.jpg Go for FlashGot - I say  Regards, m^e |
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Jun 29 2005, 05:10 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 131 Joined: 21-May 05 From: New Delhi, India Member No.: 5,295 |
ForecastFox is also one good extension to check the realtime weather of your city and alsothe coming days forecast.
PDF Download is also good because PDF files are not downloaded corrcectly in firefox. This extension helps in that situation. Auto Copy is also helpful when you need a lot of text copying from Firefox. Just select the text and copying over. |
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Jun 29 2005, 02:51 PM
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Whitest Black Mage  Group: [MODERATOR] Posts: 1,323 Joined: 20-May 05 From: NB, Canada Member No.: 5,281 |
I used to have a ton of extensions, but ever since I formatted I onyl really have a handful installed. Gonna have to take some time and sift through the droves of them to re-find the ones I used to love and enjoy
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Jun 29 2005, 06:45 PM
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Premium Member Group: Members Posts: 385 Joined: 13-October 04 From: Ontario Member No.: 1,175 |
Sweet entry.
I recommend RIP. It's like adblock, but it can block individual frames. So if you need something blocked from a certain website you go to, that isn't some sort of picture or flash, but mroe along the lines of wording, then RIP is the right ff extension for you
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Jul 28 2005, 09:10 AM
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Member [ Level 2 ] Group: Members Posts: 65 Joined: 28-July 05 Member No.: 7,488 |
Eh, I wonder why this thread hasn't received any activity lately? =^^=
Anyway... To continue the list, here are some extensions I use.
The only other things I have that I haven't listed are Adblock, Flashgot, and Web Developer. Others have already mentioned those. I also used to have Gmail Notifier, but it's rather useless for someone with multiple Gmail accounts. I also used to have an RSS feed reader, but didn't find much use for it. Anyway, I'm currently looking for extensions suitable for an amateur web developer myself. I already have the Web Developer extension, but I'm wondering what else I could use. |
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Aug 4 2005, 05:30 PM
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Newbie [ Level 1 ] Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: 4-August 05 Member No.: 7,635 |
I like firefox than IE. It's much better and have virus scans... etc
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