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danny86

I use the following addon's with firewall

1. WOT: (warns about risky websites)
2. Interclue: (A text content summary,A small snapshot of the page,pizes and dates of linked files,Useful stats and metadata, Next actions - save, email..)
3. fast video downloader: (download videos from youtube etc)

Share the addon's you use with firefox.

newprouser

Good thread.. wanted to start it myself

• 4. Ad-Block Plus - Ad blocking
• 5. All-In-One Sidebar - sidebar management of various functions like downloads,history,add-ons
• 6. Datafox - display bsnl usage details
• 7. Download helper - d/l videos and pictures from sites like utube
• 8. External IP - shows the ip of ur computer
• 9. Google Gears - enables offline storage of data by sites(eg Offline GMail)
• 10. gTalk Sidebar - Gtalk
• 11. Fastdial - opera like speedial (yuck! stupid addon)
• 12. Nodobe Document viewer - View PDF docs in websites with adobe viewer
• 13. Torrent finder toolbar - search torrents from multiple sites
• 14. Way2Sms toolbar - Sending free sms within India (awsome addon)
• 15. WOT - security rating for website
• 16. Xmarks - bookmarks synchronisation & online storage.
  

Guys please share some intersting add-ons , i'm new to FF !

essbebe

Add to @newprousers list ( not all used by me )
Using 4. adblock Plus (MUST),

6. DataFOX ( essential
for BSNL old/new MTNL MUMbai&Delhi users )

8. external IP ( * numbers to be added for add ons!)!

Recommended.
17.IETAB if some pages do not show properly, switch to IE from FF ( specially Indian websites )
( to revert back to FF from IE context menu addition.
Not Mozilla add on )

18.IElite----------do----- full IE

.19. NoScript --------Blocks unwanted links

20.Opera view----------Switch to Opera Browser

21.Flash Block---------Blocks Flash videos.

22.Screengrab --- to take screen shot of a web page

Para two:
@danny86 please edit &number your addons 1 to 3

@newprouser: please edit & number your add ons
4 to 16. ( * update thanks)

newprouser

done. thanks for sharing

btw anyone knows what these bookmarklets are... i couldn't get the hang of it except that they are like universal add-ons which should work on any browser...

nilact

I use
Google Notebook - to make a note of something, that will be avialable to you any time.

Firebug - It allows to change design, style and html layout of web pages, very helpful in development face.

Free Download Manager - My download manager plugin.

Cooliris - It allows one to view webpage without opening it, just hover your mouse cursor on particular link. It's very helpful when you Google and don't want to open unnecessary pages. check out it's website : cooliris.com

This is also helpful when you don't want your name to be included in someone's profile on Orkut when you visit their profile.

del.icio.us-For bookmarking websites.

danny86

i used cooliris sometime back, its really cool. gonna add it again.
thanx for sharing..

essbebe

@nilact
Please edit and add numbers to
the add ons you have mentioned.
..@danny86 1 to 3

... @newprouser 4 to 16

......@essbebe 17 to 22

........@nilact 23 to 27.
Request to other contributers.
Just mention the numbers of add ons you use
from above list,
and add new details, in same way. Thanks.

Ensures the thread is read from beginning !
and avoids repetitions.

Para three;
@newprouser
Makes job easier forwarding extracts from web pages etc, using different email clients.

panchabhut

@ item 15 is same as item 1. otherwise great list. so heres the ones I use (in addition to 6 of the above)

27. Bandwidth Meter & Diagnostics (really useful when the connection is variable)
28. Card Games (some standard card games - 16 in all)
29. Chat Zilla (for IRC Chat)
30. Clear Private Data (one touch clean-up)
31. CookieCuller (one touch cookie removal)
32. Exch (real time currency converter)
33. Firefox Universal Uploader (upload interface for Box.net, youtube, Facebook etc)
34. FireFTP (FTP client)
35. Flashgot (integrates FF with any standard download manager that are not supported otherwise)
36. Forecast fox (to give a forecast of your favourite city)
37. gSpace (use your gmail unutilised space as an online backup drive - upload files and folders)
38. ImageZoom (easy zoom fuction for images)
39. Indic IME (type in most common indian & sinhala scripts)
40. Pacman (just the good old pacman game)
41. Print preview (creates a print preview button)
42. Reminder fox (a personal information manager)
43. Scrapbook (save pages and part of a page for future offline reference and edit)
44. Tabletools (sort, filter & copy and table)
45. User Agent Switcher (fool a site into believing that u are using some other browser like IE, Netscape, Opera and iPhone - very effective to open sites that are browser specific)

essbebe

@panchabhut.
1 and 15 same error regretted. too late to edit !
27. Bandwidth Meter & Diagnostics
Agree 100%. Was using it earlier,
but during some Update of FF
was found incompatible
( security update rating etc ).
Thanks for reminding . will add it today

danny86

added a new one
46. Mouseless Browsing: This addon numbers every link on the webpage, you just need to enter the numbers from the keyboard to navigate through pages

newprouser

47. FEBE - Firefox Environment Backup Extension ---
48. Better gmail v2 -- 49. Grease monkey - to run user made scripts in FF. eg better gmail

50. TimeTracker - know how much time ur online in FF

51. FasterfoxLite -- have jus installed it, claims to be able to speed up loading of webpages

**** testing some more , will update soon *****

saugatdb

phew my list is bit long-
datafox - must needed for bsnl/mtnl users

download statusbar - view & manage download from ur status bar

flashgot

foxclocks

IE tab

greasemonkey

indic ie

no script

way2sms toolbar

Robdale

Can anyone put a good and trusted source to download the useful addons?

newprouser

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

capri

Linkification: It changes text to clickable links, really useful

Show picture: For low bandwidth users, you can specify to show your desired picture.

Robdale

thanks newprouser, And capri, those are really good addons.
Well, i always use SwitchProxy Tool 1.4.1 for some sites.
SwitchProxy allows you to manage and switch between multiple proxy configurations very quickly and easily.

18lama

Other interesting addons:

Morning coffee: This extension lets you organize websites by day and open them up simultaneously as part of your daily routine. This is really handy if you read sites that update on a regular schedule (like web comics, weekly columns, blogs, news etc.).

Text formatting toolbar: The Text Formatting Toolbar is a toolbar that allows the easy formatting of posts on forums, blog comments and wikis; it supports three formats BBcode (bulletin board) like used on most forums, HTML and the format used by Wikipeida.

British English dictionary: For people who prefer colour over color.

Footie Fox: Live football score updates for over 200 leagues and cups of 60 countries. Very good if you are a football fan.

PS: Firefox people are now calling add-ons and extensions by a new term called "Change-arounds".

Check out their official blog for the reason why...IMO it sounds stupid.

linky:Mozilla Add-ons Blog » Blog Archive » Changing things around

panchabhut

Absolutely.
First they termed as "Extension" then as "Add-On" (both were good enough) and now this "Change-Arounds" (Horrible)

Robdale

Is there any add-on available for cricket live scores?

18lama

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

^ The best place to search!