Comments on: Hunting for Firefox Extensions

By: Carl

Carl — Wed, 30 May 2007 17:29:41 +0000

Other extensions I use are

FoxyTunes – lets you control your media player in your browser. (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/219)

Linkification – automatically scans pages for links and makes them clickable (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/190)

Fasterfox – tweaks firefox for faster surfing (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1269)

ColorfulTabs – does what it says, colors your tabs (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1368)

By: Seth Wagoner

Seth Wagoner — Wed, 30 May 2007 15:41:07 +0000

Do try Interclue (linked from my name) as an alternative to Cooliris, you may well find it’s more useful on the whole.

By: K-IntheHouse

K-IntheHouse — Wed, 30 May 2007 13:22:08 +0000

I put together a list of Firefox extensions that I use neatly categorized here for mt friends who were frequently askin me the same question. Feel free to take a peek and let me know if you found it useful..
I have linked the blog post in my name.

By: Janice Dowdeswell

Janice Dowdeswell — Wed, 30 May 2007 05:26:16 +0000

I use a lot of the ones already mentioned plus: Sage (RSS reader); Save Image in Folder (you can specify a number of folders then just right click on the image and choose which folder to save to); MeasureIt (measures screen area); ColorZilla (color picker etc); All-in-One Sidebar (for extensions, Sage, Bookmarks, History, Downloads, etc)and Gmail Manager (shows you email waiting on multiple gmail accounts).

By: Soni Pitts

Soni Pitts — Wed, 30 May 2007 02:21:35 +0000

I like Answers – when you mouse on a word and right click, your menu includes an option to look that word up on Answers.com, while Alt-clicking gives you a pop-up window with that information (definitions, links, site descriptions etc).

Great for surfing the net and looking up new terms and sites without breaking stride. One of my all-time favorite handy little widgets.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 29 May 2007 21:17:46 +0000

I recently got my first Mac and decided to use Firefox instead of Safari, knowing that both are safer than IE. The deciding factor, though, was two extensions:

Adblock Plus, already mentioned and

Flashblock,which turns embedded Flash objects into blank boxes which can be enabled with a click. Since Flash based ads tend to be the most obnoxious, blocking them is really worthwhile.

I also have bugmenot, which fills free registration login forms with a right click and video downloader, which makes a file from streaming video. I don’t use either of these too often any more.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 29 May 2007 21:13:37 +0000

I cannot live without MouseGestures similar to what was talked about above (I believe it is more similar to how Opera operates) and GooglePreview. I think GooglePreview is a little more lightweight compared to other Google add-ons in that it just adds a picture to the left side of results and reformats the page so that it fits better with the previews. I don’t mind the text ads as sometimes they are relevant for what I’m searching for.

By: Emma

Emma — Tue, 29 May 2007 20:53:44 +0000

Yay for Firefox- love that browser!

I, too, do not use many FF extensions, but the few I do use, I use a lot.

FoxyTunes- Great for music. Can be used with all sorts of different media players, and means you can skip and pause and stop in one window. It does tend to drag a bit, though, when you have a lot of stuff open. (But doesn’t everything?)

Greasemonkey- Good for all sorts of little scrips. Used it for DeviantArt scripts until they went and changed their layout.

Layouts are fun too, if you get bored of the normal one. Mine is Tangerine.

By: aija

aija — Tue, 29 May 2007 20:25:17 +0000

Super Drag and Go is my fav extension– highlight any text, drag it to any area of the webpage, and a new tab will open displaying a search (or a new page) of that highlighted text.

By: LlannaLee

LlannaLee — Tue, 29 May 2007 19:53:58 +0000

I’m in love with Dictionary Tooltip (I wish I had it when I’m reading printed materials, too!).

Another add-on that I like, but doesn’t have a ton of use is Colorful Tabs. I like having pretty colors on my screen. :P