Which Firefox extensions do you recommend?

sra

Hungersite - Reminds every day to do your clicks for the Hunger Site and associated pages.
Scrapbook - keep whole webpages and parts of webpages in one or more sidebar scrapbooks. Has built in notebook and dozens of other features
Feed Your Reader - Use Firefox's RSS autodiscovery system to add feeds to your prefered reader rather than creating Live Bookmarks
Performancing - If you blog then this is fantastic. You can post a blog entry, add Technocrati tags, bookmark the blog post at del.icio.us, ping a ping service - all in a few minutes

sra

wolfman wrote:

Have you tried IE Tab?

It's similar but launches IE inside Firefox. Keeps everything within the one app, very handy.

I only tried it when it first came out so it may have changed...

I found it meant you were getting the worst of both worlds

When you've switched to an IE tab, you can't use the Firefox controls or the IE controls.

indiegirl_2

I'm a big fan of NoScript , personally, it allows me to block any unwanted Java apps (and block out flash ads as well, which is nice).

Other than that, a big thumbs up to:

Mouse Gestures (or all-in-one gestures), IE View, IE Tab.

No so impressed with:
FasterFox (it doesn't seem to make much of a difference to me...)

wolfman

cloud_dog wrote:

One not mentioned, that I luuuuuvvv is mouse gestures. Strokes of the right click button to open/close tabs/windows, zoom in/out, forward, backwards, etc, etc, and you can create your own. Luv it.

Try Opera if you like mouse gestures. It handles them much better. It also has a trash can so you can recover tabs you closed accidentally. Is there a similar extension for Firefox? Plus it remembers what you had open when you load it up again.

avantra

1. Grab and Drag : gives you a fist coursor (like in Acrobat) to drag pages up and down

2. Session saver: save your tabs when you close the fox

3. PDF download : gives you better control over pdf content

4. Page zoom: zoom in and out text and pictures at the same button

5. Colorful tabs

6. All in one side bar (use only the latest version)

7. IE tab: open pages in IE as another tab

8. Customise Google: manymore options for google search

9. Line marker: highlight words

10. Tab x: adding a close 'X' button to tabs

11. Duplicate tab

12. Fasterfox: make loading pages faster

13. Foxytunes : let you play music from within the browser

14. 1-click weather : add local weather station at the bottom bar

15. Referrer history: let you see popular searches in google (autocomplete style)

Lauting

Without a doubt mouse guestures, just such a simple idea and when your used to it you just rely on every pc that you browse the internet has firefox and mouse guestures. Got all my mates hooked on it as when i go round there's i just install it and they use it and love off firefox. Also found auto-copy quite useful, along with answers and lastly tab mixed plus (takes a while to get used to).

Blackjack_Davy

1. Download Embedded 0.1 - downloads all embedded objects on a webpage including Flash files.

2. Greasemonkey 0.6.4 - with a couple of scripts for downloading Flash movies from various sources that I'm not that I can mention here!

Both on Firefox 1.5 - doesn't work on the latest.

fgaughan

marka87uk wrote:

All depends what you want them to do really!

As a web developer, I find the web developer toolbar invaluable. I also use DownThemAll when downloading a large amount of images from one page - no more right click > save as...

I have never quite grasp how that works

What i would love for example is see 20 links on one page and it open them all in tabs instaed of ctl and click on each link
Does such extensions exist?

gunneradt

flashgot - the firefox version of flashget.

avantra

...open them all in tabs instaed of ctl and click on each link
Does such extensions exist?...

Yes there is an extension that do this its call 'Linky'