Comments on: What Firefox Extenstions do you Use?

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:11:57 +0000

I’ll jump in…

*AdBlock
*Fire FTP
*Foxmarks
*NoScript
AdBlock Filterset.G Updater
Download Statusbar
Fission
McAfee SiteAdvisor
ReloadEvery

Extensions with a * I would consider essential. If Chrome would allow for these extensions I’d probably jump ship.

–Jon

By: Younger Brother (1)

Younger Brother (1) — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:34:56 +0000

1+ more for ad-block
Other then that, it’s standard stuff, firebug, gmail manager, google toolbar (i like clicking on a word and having it take me to it in a page)
And Grease Monkey which I think helps me to not have so many extensions as it does a little of everything

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:04:34 +0000

I actually have ForecastFox on my work extension list, but don’t really use it as much in AZ. It just hurts me to look at it in the summertime and always see 100+ temps. I used it a lot in Iowa where the weather was much more unpredictable. I agree it has improved a lot since the first version was released.

By: Kieran

Kieran — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:50:45 +0000

The only ones I use that you haven’t listed are:

Foxy Tunes – lets me navigate my iTunes without having to minimize and turn on the iTunes “Keep on top of other windows” clutter while I am web browsing. Plus, each song title/artist/album generates a link to a “Foxytunes Planet” articulated search for data on that tune – lyrics, youtube vids, wikipedia articles, etc. Great tool for researching your fav. bands. (sample)

ForecastFox – has developed a bit since I first started using it – it is a sleek unobtrusive weather extension that sits in the status bar. I particularly like the radar feature which is customizable to region/state. In severe weather I don’t have to open multiple sites to see the course of the front.

I am going to try out that bugmenot one – sure sounds useful. I usually just make up nonsense names or use famous names (bobdole@aol.com is a pretty common one for me), but this will probably work better.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:14:14 +0000

Those look good… Zotero sounds cool if I were researching something. I’ve used EndNote in the past for doing that. I’ve tried the mouse gesture extensions before, but never really got into them.

By: bikB

bikB — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:15:25 +0000

Well lets see..first of all, your list looks quite sensible to me, I happen to use many of the ones you do (didn’t know about ‘link alert’ and ‘Simple Mail’ though, will try them).

Apart from that, my most notable ones seem to be ‘Adblock Plus’ (name says all) and ‘Firebug’, which is for developing and debugging web pages. ‘Zotero’ is a cool bibliography manager that integrates nicely with OpenOffice, using a separate extension for OO. ‘Lookpick’ is quite a nice upgrade to the search bar. Then, theres ‘Live PageRank’, which is pretty cool for checking the importance of a page (according to Google, that is). I have some more installed at home, but can’t really say much about them. Oh, just one more: ‘Mouse Gestures Redox’, I’m using it a lot.