What's new
Troll Kingdom

This is a sample guest message. Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!

Firefox add-ons you cannot live without?

Mentalist

Mentalist

Administrator
Staff member
I have realized recently that my browser is so customized that browsing the web with anything but my own computer is torturous at best. I simply cannot live without a tricked out browser as you can see:

79020202zl5.jpg

So, what add-ons do you have that you can't imagine living without now?



Here is my essential guide:

Download Status Bar -

How anyone can live without this is beyond me. If you download anything at all from the web and you use Firefox and you don't have this app then get it now. Simply the best and most unobtrusive way to download.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/26


All-in-One Sidebar -

Adds huge functionality to FF. Must have.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1027


Roboform -

Maybe the single most important add-on for me. If you do a lot of logging in to sites (don't we all these days?) then Roboform is essential. Allows you to save, register information and login to any site with the click of a button.

It's not free but then again that's what Mininova is for. Though I wouldn't even begrudge dropping a few bucks on this if I had to (I don't)

http://www.roboform.com/

DownloadHelper -

Easily save videos from tons and tons of different flash sites (Youtube, ect)

http://www.downloadhelper.net/

DownThemAll!

Adds even MORE functionality to downloading from the web with batch downloads and a whole host more. Another essential.

http://www.downthemall.net/


FlagFox -

Not essential but a nifty little app all the same. Adds a flag to the address bar telling you where the server that hosts the site you're on is located at.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5791


FoxClocks -

FoxClocks lets you keep an eye on the time around the world - or just your local time - by putting small clocks in your statusbar.

Nice.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1117


FoxyProxy -

Coupled with Tor and Privoxy this is pretty much all you need to stay anon on the Internet.

http://foxyproxy.mozdev.org/

GooglePreview -

A Mozilla Firefox browser extension that inserts preview images (thumbnails) of web sites and popularity ranks into the Google and Yahoo search results pages.

Useful!

http://ackroyd.de/googlepreview/


IE Tab -

Another essential. Allows you to render pages using IE's engine within FF at the click of a button. Lots of uses for this can crop up and it's good to have it

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419


ImageFetcher -

A painfully simple but brilliant add-on. when hovering an image with mouse, adds a "save" button in the corner of that image. The aim of this extension is to make it more easy to download images: you don't have to right-click each time you want to download an image from a web page.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6716

NoScript -

I couldn't even imagine surfing the web without it and I don't know how I managed before.

http://noscript.net/


Webmailnotifier -


Another total essential I can't live without. Let's me check all the E-Mail accounts instantly and easily without logging back and forth between them and all at the click of a button. WIN.

http://webmailnotifier.mozdev.org/


AdblockPlus -

Does exactly what it says on the tin. Get it.

http://adblockplus.org/en/




OK, that's the essentials I think. I left loads of good ones out and just tried to add the ones that make a real difference every day.

What ones do you use that you can't live without?
 
I have Downlaod Statusbar, DownloadHelper, DownThemAll!, AdBlock Plus, AVG Safe Search, ColorZilla, Dafizilla Table 2 Clipboard, Next Tab, and several others that aren't as wonderful/disabled.
 
AdBlock Plus, that is all. lol
 
Noscript, Adblock. ColorfulTabs and Greasemonkey are OK, but I could live without them.
 
Umm...adblock.

I'll install some of those ones you listed.
 
I have quite a few of those. I've got CoolIris as well, but I don't know why. It was nifty to begin with, but now it's a bit of a pest when I accidentally open preview windows as I hover over links.

Quicknote was one of my old faves, which let you open a notebook tab and save the contents. It was handy for keeping any info you wanted to quickly save rather than opening a separate notepad or word file.
 
*Starts downloading the add-ons*
 
Quick question - I don't use FF anywhere as much as I do (my Dual account is logged in through it, which is why I sometimes post as U4). How do I sync all the bookmarks with IE's? I know it does it when I first downloaded it aeons ago, but is there a way to refresh that?

My IE bookmarks are super-organised but I've never bothered with FF's.
 
I've got adblock plus, IE tab, No Script, Flashblock, and Forecast Fox, which puts the weather in my status bar. Which is nice to have if you work in a building with hardly any windows, like I currently do.
 
Adblock Plus, "Mail to..", and Stumble Upon. Couldn't live without 'em, especially Adblock Plus. It makes surfing some sites actually enjoyable. Not mentioning any names (*cough* TrekBBS *cough*).
 
You just mentioned a name!
 
Uranium 4 said:
Quick question - I don't use FF anywhere as much as I do (my Dual account is logged in through it, which is why I sometimes post as U4). How do I sync all the bookmarks with IE's? I know it does it when I first downloaded it aeons ago, but is there a way to refresh that?

My IE bookmarks are super-organised but I've never bothered with FF's.
Click to expand...


Bookmarks>Organize Bookmarks>Import&Backup>Import HTML>Import From Microsoft IE
 
Wait, Gagh is Uranium 4?!
 
Mentalist said:
Bookmarks>Organize Bookmarks>Import&Backup>Import HTML>Import From Microsoft IE
Click to expand...

Pucker. I didn't think it had work when I done it before, but it had dumped all the links into a folder hidden in a folder. A little bit of sorting and I'm done.
 
Uranium 4 is Henoch, I think.
 
I thought it was missmanners.
 
I don't use Firefox because people used to use Firefox because it "wasn't IE" and so it was cool not to use the mainstream brower but now Firefox is pretty much the mainstream brower so I use another one to feel cool and the fact that I like it because it does everything I need!
 
He uses the Nickelodeon "Evens Stevens" custom made browser!
 
I don't mind people saying Firefox is better than IE now, because it probably is. BUT THOSE MAC USERS...
 
Sometimes I think going back to IE or trying another browser might be a good idea, but then I remember none of them have NoScript.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top