Essential Browsing Firefox Extensions
June 5th, 2005 | Filed under Firefox, Miscellaneous.I have a few essential firefox extensions on my browser I would like to share with you. These are the first extensions I suggest to install whenever I get a friend to convert to firefox. They make browsing speedy and convinient.
Update: Now compiled the 50 Best Firefox Extensions for Power Surfing, which you should check out first.
All-in-One Gestures
Execute common commands using mouse gestures, rocker navigation, scroll wheel navigation and page scrolling.
Paste and Go
Lets you paste an URL from the clipboard and directly load it, either via the hotkey Ctrl-Shift-V or the corresponding item in the location bar’s context menu.
GoogleBar
Google toolbar for Firefox, with many of the features of the IE version.
Tabbrowser Preferences
Enables enhanced control for some aspects of tabbed browsing.
PDF Download
Allows to choose whether you want to view a PDF file inside the browser (as PDF or HTML) or you want to download it.
Foxy Tunes
Listen to Music and control your favorite media player without ever leaving the browser.
Super Drag and Go
Drag a link or anything like a url (e.g. “abc.com” ), and throw it to anywhere blank on the webpage to open the it in a new tab.
Adsense Notifier
Displays your adsense earnings on the statusbar.
IEview
Adds “View page in Internet Explorer” links to the content and link context menu. Handy for previewing pages in IE, loading up IE-only pages
Target Alert
Provides visual cues for the destinations of hyperlinks.
Gmail Notifier
A notifier for Gmail accounts.
These next ones are for webdesigners -
Web Developer
Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools. Must for web designers.
Colorzilla
Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies. Get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it into another program.
Update: Readers Choice
Adblock
Using the numerous free filter repositories available on the net and the intuitive blocking tools, you are able to customise your Firefox so that the most annoying ads are not displayed.
miniT(drag+indicator)
Adds tab dragging, with a graphical indicator of where the tab will be dropped.
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Comments
Anonymous | 5/06/05 #
Where’s adblock?
Anonymous | 5/06/05 #
Dude, you forgot Greasemonkey and platypus!!
Anonymous | 5/06/05 #
Where is adblock!!
The ALL TIME best extension EVER!
Of course a site that has ads on it, could never recommend adblock. But there are sites out there that don’t rely ads to survive.
billyswong | 6/06/05 #
How about User Agent Switcher? It is better than IE View!
Anonymous | 23/06/05 #
The most essential, got-to-have, coolest, most useful extension is undoubtedly StumbleUpon.
Anonymous | 5/07/05 #
Customizegoogle is my favourite extension
jeff | 29/07/05 #
Dude, Greasemonkey is crippled in its last release, or if you prefer, a gaping security hole in previous releases!! see http://greaseblog.blogspot.com/2005/07/mandatory-greasemonkey-update.html for more info!
Anonymous | 29/07/05 #
The so-called “crippled” version only disables the fancier features of Greasemonkey. The developers are working hard to bring a new version that fixes the security vulnerabilities and will bring back all the features that are disabled. Keep watching Greaseblog for updates.
/prakash
HART | 22/08/05 #
What a great site you have.
Don’t throw your shoes at me, but I hate Firefox with a passion, and prefer I.E. browser. But, that doesn’t mean I don’t use Firefox.
I found that if there is a problem with some design changes, and my site might not look good in either Netscape or Firefox, I just right click and start the AARDVARK firefox extension. All the blocks are visually displayed in red boxes .. for your div tags, p, img, css sections, and the like…
If I’m surfing a site and see a great design, I also often just start up this Aardvark add-on and take a look at the design visually, rather than hoping to figure it out by Viewing Source .. that’s old school.
Get the extension .. Least I can do (since I don’t see it here) .. since I’ve picked up a good handful of pretty durn good tips here. The URL is:
http://www.karmatics.com/aardvark/
~wave
yosefsk | 7/11/05 #
Anyone knows extension for viewing tiff files ?
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