Essential Firefox Extensions

Duff Man Jr.

What extensions do you use regulary?
Just 3 for me, Video Downloader - Allows you to dl vids from youtube, google and more.
IE Tab - Explains itself.
Web Mail Compose - Mailto links load in gmail (Or whatever you want) instead of outlook.

Owen

Download embedded. Allows you to download embedded vids, swfs, etc, that are buried inside frames, inside frames, inside code.

Ruu_Old

- Adblock Plus 0.7.1.1
- Boards.ie PM monitor 1.07
- Image Zoom 0.2.6
- MR Tech Local Install 5.2
- NoScript 1.1.4.1
- Tabbrowser Preferences 1.2.8.9
- Unplug (lets you save video and audio which is embedded on a webpage)

AnCapaillMor

faster fox is pretty cool too.

Hobbes

AnCapaillMor wrote:

faster fox is pretty cool too.

Its great if your the only person on the home network. I've banned it from the machines at home after one machine was basically taking up all the bandwidth with it.

Sparky

Well I have....

Fasterfox (Disabled)
ImageHost Grabber- Downloads all images on page that are hosted with imagevenue, shack etc.
Web Developer
Video Downloader
DownThem All!
IE tab

Soundman

Foxytunes - Controls your media player of choice from a little panel at the base of your Firefox window.

Torrent Search Toolbar with built in weather reporter that I have set for Dublin.

Tobias Greeshman

FasterFox
AdBlockPlus
NoScript
FasterFox
IETab
GMail Manager
GMail Skins
Customize Google
StumbleUpon
bbCodeExtra
Google Toolbar
ChromEdit
CacheViewer

irlrobins

I have:

Downthemall: Download manager.
Tabbrowser Prefrences: Enhances tab browsing.
OpenDownload: Gives you the option to open a download, similiar to IE's run option
FLST -Focus Last Selected Tab: If you close a tab will take you back the last tab that had the focus.
Duplicate Tab: Duplicates a tab or window
Disable Targets for Download: Prevents download links opening a blank window
Google Toolbar: mmm, Google Toolbar
undoclosetab: If you close a tab by accident allows you to reopen it
Chatzilla: IRC plugin

Might help that instead of just giving extension names, you include a one line description of what each one does. More helpful that way.

Mad Mike

Ad block Plus - blocks those pesky ads

Filter set G updater - Automatic updates Ad block blacklist and white list

NoScript - Prevents and scripts (Java / flash etc.) from running without your say so. This gives great peace of mind but it can be a nuisance because the first time you visit a new site you will need to manually "allow" it to run scripts.

Tab Mix Plus - Brilliant tab control. Includes little timers showing pages loading. Allows you to reopen closed tabs plus lots more.

Reveal - Apple Expose clone for Firefox. allows you to get thumbnails of all open tabs and select one. I don't use it much but it can be handy. also has a nifty magnifying glass feature.

Spellbound - Unfortunately I can't get this to work any more but it was a spell checker for data entered into forms in Firefox.

Talkback - Something to do with Mozilla feedback

IE view lite - allows links to be opened with Internet Explorer. Handy for the few sites that aren't compatible with firefox but I find I need to use this very very rarely.

StumbleUpon - What can I say - great fun with an endless supply of web pages recommended by fellow stumblers.

Scrapbook - Allows you to save and manage copies of web pages for later viewing on or off-line. Very handy for saving copies of useful web pages particularly ones that change regularly.

EDIT: I figured out how to get Spellbound working again - follow this link:http://www.wikihow.com/Install-a-Spell-Checker-Into-Newer-Versions-of-Firefox also I realised that I have swapped Tab Mix Plus for Tab Browser Preferences - Tab Mix is better

Wertz

Foxytunes
Tabbrowser prefs
IE view
Sun Cult (sunset/rise times, moon phases)
Session Saver (opens the browser exactly how it was when closed, very handy)
Bookmark backup (I lost them once, never again)
Video Downloader
Leet Key (transformer to 1337, binary, morse code, all sorts of crap....I like it for converting blocks of text between upper or lower case and occasionl fun on another forum I use)

Ruu_Old

Wertz wrote:

Foxytunes
Tabbrowser prefs
IE view
Sun Cult (sunset/rise times, moon phases)
Session Saver (opens the browser exactly how it was when closed, very handy)
Bookmark backup (I lost them once, never again)
Video Downloader
Leet Key (transformer to 1337, binary, morse code, all sorts of crap....I like it for converting blocks of text between upper or lower case and occasionl fun on another forum I use)

Cool, must get that one. I noticed it was included in the FF 2 beta (Bon Echo).

nuttz

- Adblock Filterset.G Updater 0.3.0.4: http://www.pierceive.com/
- Adblock Plus 0.7.1.1: http://adblockplus.org/
- CustomizeGoogle 0.49: http://www.customizegoogle.com/ --Good for removing ads in google sites
- del.icio.us 1.1: http://del.icio.us/ --online bookmarks
- Gmail Manager 0.5: http://www.longfocus.com/firefox/gmanager/ --Useful if you have multiple gmail accounts
- Gmail Space 0.3.4: http://www.rjonna.com/ext/gspace.php --use gmail accounts to store files
- Google Notebook 1.0.0.5: http://www.google.com/notebook --sticky/notepad
- Google Toolbar for Firefox 2.1.20060713W: http://www.google.com/
- Performancing 1.2: http://performancing.com/ --good for blogging
- StumbleUpon 2.83: http://www.stumbleupon.com/ --relieves boredom
- Tab Mix Plus 0.3.0.5: http://tmp.garyr.net --loads of tab related options as well as a session manager