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I loves Me some FireFox

June 9, 2006 by in Geeky,SoapBox with 6 Comments

For other FireFox fans out there a Mr. Rafe Needleman (sounds pointy) has thrown together a short list of his favorite extensions. Maybe you have heard of them or maybe you haven’t… regardless, if you are a FireFox fan its worth giving a look.

All Web 2.0 sites have one thing in common: they need a Web browser. I use Firefox, and not just because it’s a more secure browser with better user interface features. I use it because it has a fantastic plug-in architecture and a whole community of people who are writing plug-ins for it.

It’s possible to go completely overboard with Firefox plug-ins, but realistically, most people will probably settle on just a few. I’ve picked out a few favorites that I use every day.

He mentions a few of his favorites then gives a breif run down of why he uses it and why he is so fond of it.

I’m a nerd and spend a lot of time doing more work designing the web than I do reading it and over the past couple years I have picked up a few extensions I can offically say I don’t think I could live without.

Web Developer
This one is a must have if you do web design in my book. It gives you access to features, consoles, out lining, blocking, positioning, sizing, link info, etc. This little guy is by far my most widely used and recommended extension.

ColorZilla
Another great tool for designers. This tool is a simple click away at all times and provides a nice color dropper to your browser window. Just click on the dropper then hover over and click on the color you want to use. It will provide a nice HEX format (#xxxxxx) and RGB (RGB(244,53,144)) as well.

GreaseMonkey
And last but not least the world famous GreaseMonkey. This one is a bit more advanced if you want to develop for it but easy to use if you’re okay with using other peoples scripts. Basically GreaseMonkey acts as a javascript interpreter for the users browser and can manipulate any web page after its loaded but before its displayed. You can find tons of scripts for it all over the net, whether its to hide specific content or add additional functionality (greasemonkey users have had a delete button in gmail for months.. no joke). If you are a decent or better JavaScript Developer you can even write your own scripts (I have a couple customs to call my own).

So there you have it…

Now I wanna know… what Extensions do you use… or like me, can’t live without?

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  • http://m.3bean.net Matt

    Sage: RSS feeds in my side bar. Turn off ‘Render Feed Contents in HTML’ and just click on the title that interests you.

    Tabbrowser Preferences: Ultimate control of tabs.

    All-In-One Gestures: Ads Opera-like Gestures to firefox. Rock back and forward through your history. A must!

    Down Them All!: Have you ever come accross a web page full of mp3s and wanted, well, all of them? DTA! is a fully customizable download manager which allows you do save all media/images on a page.

  • Laz0r

    Tab X: Adds a close button to each of the browser tabs, and removes the close button at the end of the tab bar.

    https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/785/

  • http://elifoner.com Eli

    I suggest the following extensions to make your FF browsing experience that much better:

    All-In-One Sidebar: Quickly switch between sidebars (history / extensions / downloads / bookmarks)

    Auto Copy: Automatically copies selected text to the clipboard

    Favicon Picker: Replace bookmark icons

    FasterFox: Performance and network tweaks for Firefox

    SessionSaver: Restores your last browsing session

    Tab Preview: Preview tab contents on mouseover

  • maijc

    dont forget IE Tabs, or Flashgot

  • Ian

    AdBlock! Total necessity if you ask me. Especially on MySpace, if you use that crap.

    SpellBound. Originally found through a link on here, it saves me daily.

    And while not really an extension, Tor and SwitchProxy makes it easy to bypass any nasty filters at work.

  • http://www.myspace.com/AlexTheMartian Alex

    I love:
    Google Toolbar for Firefox – The best browser extention arround

    Firefox View / IE View – makes it so simpe to move from viewing a page from one browser to tthe other, and i tied that IE Tab but it slows my browser and is buggy.

    Create Shortcut – I missed this from IE

    BBCode – Allows me to easy add BB and HTML tags in the right click menu

    Greasemonkey – yeah, great!

    New Tab Button on Tab Bar – Adds a little add tab button on the far left of tab bar. I hate having to move my cursor away from the tabs bar just to add a tab.

    Google Suguest – Makes google searching so easy. a dropdown appears with suguestions as you type

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