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May 27, 2005
Which Firefox Extensions Do You Use?
One of the primary reasons I love Firefox so much is the all the extensions that are available. Here's a list of all the extensions I have installed, and that I use on a regular basis:
- Feed Your Reader: Lets external applications and web based aggregators use RSS autodscovery (extremely useful).
- HTML Validator: Adds HTML validation to the View Page Source of the browser.
- MeasureIt: Draw out a ruler to get the pixel width and height of any elements on a webpage.
- Scribe: Ads Word Processor like functionality to web forms, including opening and saving for entries as files. (Good for weblog posting.)
- Aardvark: Allows cleaning up a page prior to printing it. Also has page analysis tools for web developers (which is mainly what I use it for -- I hate printers).
- Web Developer: Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.
- Live HTTP Headers: View HTTP headers of a page and while browsing.
- SpellBound: Adds spell checker support to web forms and extensions.
What extensions am I missing that you can't live without?
Posted by cantrell at May 27, 2005 10:03 AM
Comments
Adblock has become essential to me:
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=10&application=firefox
Posted by: PaulC at May 27, 2005 10:13 AM
FoxyTunes - Control iTunes in the browser
MeasureIt - Listed above
Adblock - Great for getting rid of banner ads
Nuke Anything - Remove any item from a page
Macromedia News - That's how I get here
Re-use homepage - if you're on a blank page it won't open another tab for content
IEView - open the current page in IE
Posted by: Aaron at May 27, 2005 10:17 AM
HTML Validator/Web Developer/Live HTTP Headers/Aardvark are very useful for web development.
My additions are FlashGot, ColorZilla, Fangs, Google Pagerank Status, BetterSearch and Gmail Notifier.
Actually I came here using the Macromedia News extension.
Posted by: Rostislav at May 27, 2005 10:20 AM
Bookmarks Synchronizer - Other than Web Developer, this is by FAR the best extension.
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&category=Bookmarks&numpg=10&id=14
Posted by: Josh Dura at May 27, 2005 10:24 AM
SessionSaver to save tabs/windows when Firefox crashes, or you can save them yourself on demand.
Sage, my choice for RSS feeds, but will look at your recommendation.
Also: ForecastFox (weather), Macromedia News extension, IEview, Tabbrowser Preferences, Download Statusbar, PDF Download (great!), FoxyTunes, ColorZilla, SETI stats (hehe).
Posted by: Chris Charlton at May 27, 2005 10:24 AM
Most of what you use AND
Greasemonkey (ability to mod pages via javascript, like add a delete button to gmail...cool!)
IE View (Open page in IE)
Query TO (highlight text and send to search engine)
Colorzilla (ability to view page color codes)
Fetch Text Url (opens non link urls in browser)
AND Macromedia News extension
Posted by: Mike at May 27, 2005 10:36 AM
Most of yours, plus:
* platypus for changing pages around (like aardvark)
* greasemonkey for saving platypus scripts
* adblock for those really annoying sites
* forecastfox to see if it's worth going outside
* bugmenot for quick logins
* tabbrowser preferences to tweak the interface
* miniT drag+indicator for moving tabs around
* colorzilla for design work color matching
-nathan strutz
Posted by: Nathan Strutz at May 27, 2005 10:43 AM
I also like these:
Autocopy - automatically copies selected text to the clipboard
Resizeable Textarea - allows you to resize text area controls on HTML forms
miniT - allows you to move tabs around
Posted by: Rob Brooks-Bilson at May 27, 2005 10:44 AM
ScrapBook:
never leave 127.0.0.1 without it.
Posted by: mark at May 27, 2005 10:49 AM
Web Developer - amazingly useful set of tools!
Macromedia News - helps keep me up-to-date.
ChromEdit - useful for messing with Firefox customization.
HTML Validator - great way to educate yourself on standards :)
Greasemonkey - for the Gmail, IMDB and Netflix tweaks (so far).
Fusebox Reload - if you write Fusebox 4.x apps, this is so useful: prompts for password and then reloads the current page with the fusebox.load / fusebox.parse attributes.
Posted by: Sean Corfield at May 27, 2005 10:52 AM
- Sage - rss feed reader - GREAT
- LiveLines - add RSS feeds to rss readers other than live bookmarks (see Sage)
- Web Developer
- Download Statusbar
- Autofill - fills out forms kind of like the google toolbar in IE
- ieView
- Mozilla Calendar
- BBCode - adds formatting to the context menu
- Duplicate Tab
- FLST - focus last selected tab
- Quick Tab Pref Toggle - single window mode; kind of like tab prefs made easy
- FANGS - screen reader emulator; great for getting an idea for how the visually impaired encounter your site
- JavaScript Debugger
- Forecase Fox - i have no windows near/in my cube
- ColorZilla
- SpellBound
- HTML Validator
- GreaseMonkey - for Gmail Smart Delete button and Book Burro; book burro is fantastic!
- Live Http Headers - great for debugging RPC stuff (AJAX)
- Adblock - just added recently, really cleans up sites like CNN and ESPN
- Document Map - displays the current page documents structure in the sidebar
Posted by: Bill Rawlinson at May 27, 2005 11:43 AM
The one I use most often turns out to be QuickNote, where I take notes on webpages throughout the week.
After that it's WebDeveloper to get an idea of how pages are constructed.
There are others I use on occasion (ConQuery, ChromEdit, Fangs, etc), but the above two have had the biggest impact for me day-to-day.
(I haven't gotten into GreaseMonkey yet -- have been tracking it, but haven't put time into testing it because it's for a special audience and usage is still evolving.)
jd/mm
Posted by: John Dowdell at May 27, 2005 11:45 AM
Sage, GreaseMonkey, GoogleBar, Web Developer, User Agent Switcher, SecurePasswordGenerator, MM News, Javascript Debugger, Fusebox Reload, ColorZilla, ForecastFox, HTML Validator (based on Tidy), Resizeable Textarea, Aarkvark and PubSub Sidebar.
Posted by: Steve Ray at May 27, 2005 12:06 PM
Web developer
Autofill
Gmail Notifier
Download Manager Tweak
Tabbrowser Preferences
FLST
Hide Searchbar
Bloglines Toolkit
LiveLines
FlashGot
Fusebox Reload
ColorZilla
Dict
Html Validator
FormFox
Unread Tabs
FoxyTunes
ChromEdit
Posted by: Ray Buechler at May 27, 2005 1:25 PM
- Web Developer's Toolbar
- Macromedia News (natch)
- FoxyTunes (altho I use Synergy/Mac utility more often)
- Bookmark Synchronizer (it RULES)
- Aardvark
- FeedYourReader
I had a lot more installed a few weeks back but FF started crashing, so I reverted back to this set- which is pretty solid now. But even a crashing Firefox beats IE hands-down, in my opinion... ;-)
Posted by: Scott Fegette at May 27, 2005 3:41 PM
"View Formatted Source" - does nice formatting and color-coding, and the CSS info feature is really amazing!
Posted by: Michael at May 29, 2005 6:32 AM
I would like to add
Hit-a-Hint :enable keyboard shortcuts (space + number) to visit links rather than clicking - useful with laptop without mouse!
Posted by: Terry Sasaki at May 29, 2005 5:01 PM
My additions are FlashGot, ColorZilla, Fangs, Google Pagerank Status
Posted by: danny at October 13, 2005 8:12 AM
ColorZilla
Dict
Html Validator
and Google Pagerank Status
Posted by: han at November 28, 2005 2:34 PM
View Formatted Source
Posted by: zannax at December 5, 2005 12:46 AM
Hide Searchbar
Bloglines Toolkit
LiveLines
FlashGot
Fusebox Reload
ColorZilla
Posted by: shopper at February 13, 2006 9:17 AM