Firefox Plugins

[Jay-qu]

This thread is dedicated to all the cool plugins that you can get for firefox :QuestionM

 

I recently found one that gives you extra smilies its called Smiley Xtra 4

 

just a few previews:

 

The more useful plugins I use are:

-Adblock plus, blocks ads

-Flashblock, replaces flash objects with a button to view it

-NoScript, stops javascript running unless you allow

-Gmail manager, notifies you when you recieve new mail via gmail

-Stumble Upon, randomly opens a webpage to do with topics of your choice

 

 

so what do you use?

[Tormod]

BBCode is my favorite! It lets you use forum codes by right-clicking in the post form.

[alexander]

you need to run Adblock Ubdater.d updates your adblock library with a server, and so far i have not seen one ad.

also QuickJava is a better plugin then noscript, bercause it alows you to block Java apps as well as JS (and java apps start at a whopping 300megs of ram, so unless you alow it to, those wont run, and JS, if disabled does not run either

i also run the DrWeb link scanner plugin, that scans links for viruses without downloading them to your system

down them all is an excellent plugin

web developer toolbar is excellent

i also run a plugin that aloows me to translate en to rus, rus to en, type in english but make it sound like russian and it switches it to cyrilic, also i can type in cyliric, but its oriented towards people who type in english a lot, it does not switch to russian layout (and its sweet)

bout it, i used to run faster fox, but since i figured out what it actually does, i have uninstalled it and turned on a few options to speed up FF

 

in about:config

browser.blink_allowed to false - i hate blinking elements on a website, so this is an annoyance

browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs to true - this allows you to go into edit/preferences and have extra tab options, like open links in new tabs

nglayout.initialpaint.delay to 0 - so the page gets rendered as i am getting it not afterwards

network.http.pipelining to true

network.http.proxy.pipelining to true

network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to 8 - to enable pipelining

[Loftus]

Where can I get 'JavaAid' from, please?

[alexander]

oops i meant QuickJava, plugin is available at http://quickjavaplugin.blogspot.com/

[Galapagos]

Hyperwords is cool.

When you highlight a word or phrase, a menu tab(like when you right-click) opens with options to search several reference sources, including but not limited to wikipedia, google definition, google search, and imdb.com .

 

I also use the translator addon. It adds a 'translator' option to the menu-tab thing, which can translate English both to and from various languages. The translations aren't perfect, but I have found it particularly useful on a few occasions.

[harmonSmith]

Mine favorite is Google toolbar. ok guys bring up some more cool plugins

[alexander]

Why in the world would you run google toolbar in Firefox?

 

then again people do do crazy things...

[alexander]

I have come accustomed to stylish, tor button and html validator ;)

 

infact thats on all of my machines, total list of 6:

web developer toolbar

html validator

adblock plus

stylish

quick java

DownThemAll

 

i also tend to run user agent switcher, so firefox poses as other browsers, or search bots... useful at times

 

looking for a good flash blocker and i'm checking out hypowords

[maddog]

I have a few I like to use a lot and small group of "must haves".

 

MustHave Group

AIOS <-- All-in-One Sidebar

Adblock Plus

Bookmark Duplicate Detector

Colerful Tabs

CustomizeGoogle

Download Statusbar

FEBE

Flagfox

Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer

IE Tab (PC Only)

Menu Editor

MR Tech Toolkit

OPIE

Organize Status Bar

PDF Download

Tab Mix Plus

Update Notifier

 

(note: those highlighted in blue are of Critical Need!!!)

 

Like / Useful Group

404:File is Not Found ? Now it will be

BBCode

Brief

CLEO

Ctrl-Tab

CuteMenus2

Forecastbar Enhanced

FoxClocks

Mid

Organize Search Engines

QuickJava

Zotero

 

Though I admit at work I am running about 68 so far.

I expect a lot of these will become part a future install of Firefox.

 

Best all around favorite is hard to choose from; after much deliberation,

I would give that award to AIOS for just being so slick it just becomes

part of the GUI ! I would like it to have custimization working on the

sidebar though for the Mac. Oh well.

 

:)

 

maddog