Your favourite Firefox Add-On?

[Pol]

Hello,
I was curious what you have found like a most handy/nifty and needful extension for firefox.

Lookin up in my own stack I'm using mostly 'ImageBot' - for fast uploading image to Imageshack and Photobucket.
DOM Inspector - to checking what is where at any www page.
ImgLikeOpera - for blocking too big logos (like the current one), hideous Vel or occasionally also other unwated graphics.

And then the rest like
Pterodactl - for grabbing images sometimes or DownThemAll
Remove It Permanently, Flashblock, FEBE(full backup of your firefox settings), Torbutton and NoScript are lying here too, in convenient dormant state. As too much extension can make ff works softly slower, especially from the start.

PS Anytime want to open something directly into new tab?
Well, here's the command:

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 "path to your firefox.exe" -remote "openURL(http://of desired page, new-tab)"

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[arturchix]

I use a couple of add-ons but my favorite is "Download statusbar", I think. I also love the IE tab - very nice when need to check how things look in IE.

[MistWeaver]

Opera rulez!!11eleven

[Veldrynus]

hideous Vel

Now, that's just rude...

[Heretic_Cata]

Opera rulez!!11eleven

Ditto

[Pol]

Now, that's just rude...

As you are now a good boy, software automatically unblocked you. Enjoy!

I'm also using 'Fullscreen' extension - it can removes the leaving bars. In past I was using more extensions, as some board drivers, but I really don't liked them.

The list of plugins which I'm interested in could be certainly large - huge, like around hundred. Some of them are specifically very useful for site buildings or just simple various synchronization.

Some of these another ones follows:

• SaveURL 0.3.1.2 - appends page url to saved pages (like in IE)
• Save Complete 0.9b7 - will save with css
• My Image Here 1.1.1 - can replace images from site by your owns (partial offline cache)
• CSS validator
• RSS validator
• Copy Plain Text 0.3.3
• Linkification - convert text links to clickable links voala, we have it
• Ressurect Page - search through google and other caches to provide you an archived version when original is down.
• Cache It! - practically the same function like the above
• Cookie Culler - manager for cookies, allows to set the protected ones
• SafeCache - create for all webs separate caches for prevent history tracking, security enhancement

Currently I'm seeking for one which would allows me to save all opened tabs like pages (to grab some parts of manuals) although I'm sure that here's one I didn't find it. Recommendation..?

PS It's out of question using Opera for such things, even if I usually recommend it to other people about which I know, that they don't be needing more. It acts more sleeky.

[Pol]

I use a couple of add-ons but my favorite is "Download statusbar", I think. I also love the IE tab - very nice when need to check how things look in IE.

I used it in the past too, along with 'download to tab', I started to tinker with them about two (or three?) years ago. For the sake of making it faster, because at that time here was one nasty bug with unequal amount of memory required for any new download. - This solved it partially.

Today 'Download Statusbar' isn't for me. The all objects doesn't make it onto the bar. Pitifully small.

As to the other bug, with flash (flash doesn't unload from memory after finished), which was ghost of past and occassinally trying to shows the horns today I perm. disabled flash libraries, controlling them directly.

You usually can locate where is what in ff by peeking to:

• about:config
  about:cache
  about:plugins
  about:blank

[Angelspit]

I'm surprised nobody said Adblock. Dictionaries are a must as well, and I like the Foxmarks bookmark synchronization tool a lot. I'll have to try that Flashblock too.

[Pol]

Ah, looking at me, I'm using different solution than AdBlock and that's firewall. Many firewalls have ads blocking feature integrated together with renewing the block list from some renown source.

Example is Agnitum Outpoost - although here's not working automatically, PeerGuardian2 - complete IP/HTTP blocker (much more than Ads) or Privoxy - which filters all your connection and work with them by your defined rules (umm, never defined one - don't using this solution myself.)

Privoxy works even on linux, where is slightly harder to find easy sort of filtering software. (means not iptables and is friendly to your resources, check htop)

& here is also AdBlock+ as I heard

PS Thanks for tip I will look into dictionary, never thoughts about it before as it works for me already!? Straaange...

[Pol]

Umm, browsed for some innovations and found a K-Meleon as ff faster brother. It's based directly on Gecko (ie Mozilla) and it should support plugins somehow too - didn't tested yet. - But wow, I'm amazed, that speed. It's also keeping smaller memory footprint.

Nothing lightweight for windows working under 'webkit', to the future here's Swift, that looks promisingly too, once..

So, our official firefox lover TT, is not using any essential Add-On?

[Vlad976]

I'm surprised nobody said Adblock.

I use Adblock. Adblock Plus even. You happy now?

[Darmani]

Nothing can stand up to the might of Greasemonkey.

I also like Console^2 as well, though layfolk might find it useless.

[TheUndeadKing]

DownloadHelper - The easiest way to download YouTube videos and such.

[darknessfood]

Well, i don't use firefox, i use explorer 7 or something . I just want to do something on my computer, ill get lazy otherwise.

[Caradoc]

UnPlug and videodownloader are useful for capturing video files. (Get em before uTube takes them away.)

Also, I love the search engines: Google, Yahoo, eBay, Amazon, Miriam-Webster, Wikipedia, and many more.

[Angelspit]

DownloadHelper - The easiest way to download YouTube videos and such.

Easy indeed. I grabbed the whole 1996 Doctor Who movie off Youtube thanks to you.

[TheUndeadKing]

DownloadHelper - The easiest way to download YouTube videos and such.

Easy indeed. I grabbed the whole 1996 Doctor Who movie off Youtube thanks to you.

You're welcome. Glad I could help.

[Pol]

What they do have with these continual Firefox updates, seems like in last two weeks we had advanced about tree versions.

PS I had added into my collection of useful software among K-Meleon also unlocker. Which can remove/copy file so called "currently in use". (Which may or may not be true)

[Pol]

You can create a quick search. So for example by writing "g heroes" in address bar you will look for heroes word in google.

For this, move yourself to the google, right click into search field, pick Add a keyword for this search, name bookmark, insert g into as keyword and save. Optionally you can move up your newly created bookmark into Quick Search folder.

[Asheera]

I like "NoScript" so that I won't get any kind of malware easily