Thread: Firefox web brower addons?

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.

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 !

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)

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...

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.

Originally Posted by nilact

I use


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

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

@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

bookmarklets

Makes job easier forwarding extracts from web pages etc, using different email clients.

Why do this?*
This is my first extension. I made this extension because I got sick of going to websites with interesting articles/videos that asked you to register if you wanted to send the article-link to people via email.

@ 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)

@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

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

47. FEBE - Firefox Environment Backup Extension ---

FEBE backs up your extensions, themes, and (optionally) your bookmarks, preferences, passwords, cookies and just about everything else Firefox offers (it can even backup/restore your entire profile).

48. Better gmail v2 --

Add useful extra features to Gmail, like hierarchical labels, macros, file attachment icons, and more.

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 *****

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

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

Originally Posted by Robdale

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

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

Linkification: It changes text to clickable links, really useful

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

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.

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

Originally Posted by 18lama

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.

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

Originally Posted by 18lama

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

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

Originally Posted by Robdale

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

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

^ The best place to search!

hi guys, been lurking for a while...here's my addition:

UltraSurf Firefox addon
http://www.ultrareach.net/download_en.htmUltrasurf is a great little program that allows your system to hide your IP and therefore browse under the radar. It can also function as a proxy server connection. (hint hint)

Personas - Skins

I chose strata black, but having problems.Skin does not load after restart.
So disabled it. Not sure what happened. Still it has a good collection.

web developer 1.1.6

reveals every thing on the page

Ohh!!!

I have been too late to come here!!!

Now, I have to dig through all the posts to find my add-ons and add extra ones and number them. :yawn:

1. WOT

2. Interclue

4. Adblock Plus

6. Datafox

17. IE Tab

19. NoScript

21.Flash Block

22.Screengrab

Continuing as per the number I have just counted up to...
62. DownThemAll! - Integrates fully into Firefox

@Rodbale
I think this toolbar is what you just wanted!

63. Abduction -- Helps to save picture of selected areas of the screen.

64. Bookmark Duplicate Detector -- As same suggests. Detects existing ones and as well as adding new ones.

65. Skipscreen --- I think many you will find this useful. It skips the waiting time in sites like RS, mega upload,zshare etc. but you have to enter the captcha nevertheless.It is not perfect yet.

66. UnMHT -- enables saving webpages as MHT's (which have all the html and its related pages combined into a single file (like .zip), which can be opened in a browser. FF does not natively support this format, IE & Opera do.

Very usefull when u want to save a webpage but having to manage a single file instead of .html and associated files.