Your favourite Firefox extensions?

[mdc]

Doesn't really matter what type of extensions...which ones make your browsing that little bit more enjoyable?

 

[krisholio14]

The ones that rip flash videos are pretty damn good.

 

[beaumont911]

Adblock Plus is a must.
I also use IE Tabs, Download Status Bar and Personas.

 

[Conan Troutman]

Web Developer is very handy

Also FlashGot, Thumbs, Tab Mix Plus (the undo a closed tab is used a lot )

 

[RoosterLad]

What does FlashGot actually do? I keep automatically updating it all the time yet can't remember actually using it. Unless I unknowingly use it everyday....

 

[roguless54]

Good thread.

I use Adblock Plus, Minimize to Tray, PDF Download, Tab Mix Plus and Tweak Network 1.1.1 or somethin.

I recommend Tweak Network it optimizes your browser settings for broadband internet and can really increase your browser speeds, but you prolly allready know or have tweaked your browser perhaps allready, this is just the simple automated way of doing it.

 

[PHX]

Adblock plus and imageshack quick-upload.

 

[Peninsula Boy]

I like the search engines.

I've got ebay, wikipedia, merriam and webster and imdb all for easy reference.

I'm not overly computer literate and would love to be able to have a search engine that would be ebay.com.au as opposed to ebay.com, ditto with google. Is this hard to do? I've had a look at the firefox helps but it's a bit beyond me. I assumed all I would have to do if find some code and add an .au to it.

Any ideas?

 

[Hawkamania!]

Adblock Plus

Adblock Filterset.G Updater

PDF Download

FoxClocks

English (Australian) Dictionary

DownThemAll!

 

[cfc4life]

DownThemAll is great you can download everything on a website at once.

 

[FIGJAM]

iMacros is single handedly preventing me from getting RSI.

It is plugged into both Firefox and Netscape, and use Netscape to automaticaly open up all my online databases that usually takes a minimum of 20 clicks, with one single click. Love it!

 

[Conan Troutman]

What does FlashGot actually do? I keep automatically updating it all the time yet can't remember actually using it. Unless I unknowingly use it everyday....

Has to be used along with seperate program FlashGet for download management. Right-click a link, selection of links, or the whole page and download files in FlashGet. Like DownThemAll but better imo - flashget also does torrent and emule.

 

[betterthanu]

I also use IE Tabs

I just found this. One of the reasons i had been using IE lately was because i liked the way pages were displayed better. Does anyone know if there is a way to make all pages come up in the IE format besides individually adding them to the filter?

 

[ep2018]

fasterfox

 

[Hollow Knight]

Stumble Upon!

 

[sirdaan]

Someone told me that you can download videos from youtube using Firefox...how do I do that?

 

[Conan Troutman]

I like the search engines.

I've got ebay, wikipedia, merriam and webster and imdb all for easy reference.

I'm not overly computer literate and would love to be able to have a search engine that would be ebay.com.au as opposed to ebay.com, ditto with google. Is this hard to do? I've had a look at the firefox helps but it's a bit beyond me. I assumed all I would have to do if find some code and add an .au to it.

Any ideas?

Yeah, you can get an ebay.com.au one, I just found out about this site myself a few days ago...

http://mycroft.mozdev.org/

they have search engine addons for ebay.com.au, jb hi-fi, ezy dvd, dymocks, piratebay, isohunt etc. theres heaps there. Make sure you get the one with a tick icon if there's an option.

also has links telling you how to make your own. one easy way to do it is to use this site...
http://ready.to/search/en/
basically the site you want to make a search engine addon for needs to have what you search for in the results url...
eg. searching imdb for "big footy" ends up with the url...
http://www.imdb.com/find?q=big+footy&sourceid=mozilla-search
then use "http://www.imdb.com/find?q=" for the 'front of search term'
and "&sourceid=mozilla-search" for the 'end of search term' then type in a name for the plugin (IMDB) and 'make search plugin', then install with the "OpenSearch Plugin..." link. works great for me. did one for my local library and some other sites no problem.

also this extension works well with the search engine plugins...
Organize Search Engines
it allows to put the search engines into folders which is cool.

 

[Conan Troutman]

this extension is great too I reckon...

Smart Bookmarks Bar
lets you hide the text next to the bookmark icons in the toolbar so it only appears on mouse rollover, and you can also reduce the space bewteen icons.

Favicon Picker is also handy (used with the above one) for any sites that dont have icons already.

 

[Cleavy]

I'm lovin' STOP! Hammertime! at the moment.

 

[moistie]

AdBlock Plus, Phish, No Script for security. Down them all for downloads and Stumble Upon to eat any spare time I have.

 

[betterthanu]

Found out today i can use 'Download helper' to directly download songs off myspace. Myspace has subsequently been r*ped repeatedly by me and this function.

 

[weevil]

Outside of the ubiquitous ones:

Customize Google. Bunch of options to improve the big G.

Follow that page. Notifies me whenever a page changes (great for all sorts of driver and software updates ).

Image Zoom. Click a mouse button and scroll the wheel to zoom on an image.

 

[the_fresh]

Can't believe no one has said this - Foxmarks Sync.

Allows you to sync your bookmarks, great if you use more than 1 computer like i do and you bookmark new sh*t during the day.

 

[midorigreenwood]

Switchproxy - easily change between a number of proxy servers

Flashgot - integrates download managers with firefox

 

[ManWithNoName]

Mouse Gestures.
Foxy Tunes
Colourful Tabs
Gmail Notifier