FF Extensions,whats your poison?

[Metla]

Just another nosy thread, The subject being How many extensions do you have installed under Firefox,and how many are good,or alternativly garbolishious.(and yes i just invenvented that word, I know because of my dictionary extension)

Anyhow, Im not big on bells and whistles,I have

Dictionary
Flashgot
Ad-block
Tabbrowser preferences.

Dictionary is self-explanitary, simply highlight a word, right click it and select search dictionary, Which opens up in a new tab. I rate it excellent cause I suk at spelling and compreeehenission.

Flashgot is a god-send, Finally giving us untergration wirh real download managers....and not just Flashget, Though why you would use anything else is just bizarre.And it also makes you wrong......HA.

Ad-block,...Annoying with its geela tabs on everything and editing the path inorder to block the server, Proximiton makes it redundent and works on any browser.

Tab-Browser preference, Nice idea but the shortcut it places on my tabs toolbar guts me, I already have a new tab button above it,Plus they have added a lock tab button in teh drop down menu and I now constantly find myself locking tabs instead of closing them.I could adapt but add that to the fact that the extra configuration options just aren't enough to make it a keeper.........

[Edward]

adblock -necessity
undoclosetab -godsend

for server:
autohide -status window
adblock -14" screen anyone?
foxytunes -don't ask

[wmoore]

Tab-Browser preference, Nice idea but the shortcut it places on my tabs toolbar guts me, I already have a new tab button above it,Plus they have added a lock tab button in teh drop down menu and I now constantly find myself locking tabs instead of closing them.I could adapt but add that to the fact that the extra configuration options just aren't enough to make it a keeper.........[/QUOTE]

Try Tab Mix instead.

My Extensions

Adblock
ieview
All in one Gestures
image zoom
Quick note
Sage-News reader
super drag and go
Gmail notifier
scrap book
bugmenot
dict search

[Jen]

Adblock
Duplicate Tab
Tabbrowser Preferences

I try to keep my extensions minimal, but seeing the other's lists reminds me that "undo last closed tab" is great, you always have those d'oh! moments - must get that one again :p

[lagbort]

foxytunes
fireFTP
chatzilla

[beetle]

currently i have.....

Tab browsing extension thingy
Adblock
Session saver every time i shut my browser it remembers all window i had open, and refresh and walla here i is all up to date, i close about 8 - 10 tabs when i do this, great little gadget.

:D


last time before update i had
Dictionary.
IE veiw

do like the sound of undo close tab......may have to look at that one.

beetle

[wintertide]

At home:
Tabbrowser preferences
QuickNotes
ChatZilla

At work:
QuickNotes

[Prescott]

Adblock
Chatzilla
Bookmark Back up -> very good, it backups your bookmarks to a seperate folder when ever you close FF, i learnt my lesson after all my 100's of bookmarks just vanished....

[bob_doe_nz]

adblock and flashblock

[Morgenmuffel]

Most of mine are work related, although the weather forecast one is handy,
Web developer //needed for work
googlebar //needed for work but quite handy
PRGoogleBar // even more useful for work
Forecast fox // tells me the local weather
FlashGot //useful
Adblock // damn useful

[sal]

I have quite a few extensions (http://sal.neoburn.net/imagef1/files/My_Firefox_Extensions.gif), I find all of them useful. One I havent loaded on yet i the bugmenot one.

[Neil McC]

Only using Optimoz Tweaks,automatically show/hide bookmarks.But now must get a couple more!!

[Neil McC]

Well I have searched all through the extensions,but can't find Bookmark Backup or undoclosetab.Using 1.01.Any clues please.

[PaulD]

A Google search will take you to them. Not all extensions are on Mozilla.org.
Useful article http://www.scotsnewsletter.com/best_of/firefox.htm#ffextensions

[Jeremy]

SA Last Read.

This is the one and only extension that I use.

[FoxyMX]

Since Firefox is my secondary browser the only extension I require is Tabbrowser Preferences.

A huge number of the Firefox extensions people have listed here are already available built-in to my default browser, Opera, plus a whole lot more neat and nifty tricks. Opera is also way more customisable than Firefox and the download still manages to be a whole megabyte smaller in size.

On top of that, on older slower computers Opera is way faster on the internet than Firefox as I have proven on my Win 98 PII 266 and other similar computers so I can't understand why more people don't use it.

[sal]

Opera is way faster on the internet than Firefox...so I can't understand why more people don't use it.
Because unless you pay for it, theres a nice advertising across half the top.

Besides that, it IS a pretty good browser which should be supported by those who enjoy it enough.

[Rob99]

Tabbed Browser
Adblock
Weather
Gmail
Smooth Scroll

I think Opera sounds like a womens TV show or mag, this is probally why men do not go for it. :D

[Edward]

"A huge number of the Firefox extensions people have listed here are already available built-in to my default browser, Opera, plus a whole lot more neat and nifty tricks."

Opera fans see Firefox as lacking. Firefox fans see Opera as bloated. It works both ways

"Opera is also way more customisable than Firefox and the download still manages to be a whole megabyte smaller in size."

Much more customisable... how many extensions and themes does Opera have in comparison with Firefox? I call customisable being able to add stuff later, rather than disabling features that I don't need.

"On top of that, on older slower computers Opera is way faster on the internet than Firefox as I have proven on my Win 98 PII 266 and other similar computers so I can't understand why more people don't use it."

And I've found Firefox to be faster on my old computer (AMD 166mhz PR, 32MB RAM, Windows ME). So one person on the intarweb is hardly universal condemnation.

[george12]

I agree, I tried Opera and didn't like it. FF is great. Sorry Opera fans, sorry.

[personthingy]

weather (sometimes it tells the truth)
g-mail (this is redundant because g-mail has pop3 access)

i think a horoscope extension to match the weather extension is needed. :lol:

[zqwerty]

I have so many extensions installed I don't want to undertake the typing task, is there any way of getting Firefox or whatever to put them into a list?

[sal]

I have so many extensions installed I don't want to undertake the typing task, is there any way of getting Firefox or whatever to put them into a list?By way of another extension, Filezilla (http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=783), lol. Well, kinda.

[Prescott]

Well I have searched all through the extensions,but can't find Bookmark Backup or undoclosetab.Using 1.01.Any clues please.

bookmark backup: http://www.pikey.me.uk/mozilla/

[zqwerty]

Thanks Sal.

Here are the extensions I have on FireFox:

Generated Tue Mar 08 2005 19:51:46 GMT+1300 (New Zealand Daylight Time)

Enabled Extensions: (48)
About site 0.1.1
Adblock 0.5.2.039
Add Bookmark Here 0.5.3
Allow Right-Click 0.1.1
Always Remember Password 0.1.1
AniDisable 1.0
BlogThis 0.3
BugMeNot 0.6.1
ChromEdit 0.1.1.1
ColorZilla 0.8.2
CookieCuller 1.1.0
Copy Plain Text 0.2.1
del.icio.us 0.3.3.1
DictionarySearch 0.7
Diggler 0.9
Download Statusbar 0.9.2
DragToTab 0.1.2
eWebMail Color and Graphics 1.6
Ext2Abc 0.2.1
Flashblock 1.2.9
Full Screen context 0.1
Gcache 0.2.1
Google Images Re-Linker 0.1.1
Hotmail Tabs 0.9
ieview 0.84
Image Toolbar 0.5
Image-Show-Hide 0.1.4.4
ImageZoomer 0.2
ListZilla 0.5.1
Open link in... 1.1
OpenBook 1.2.0
PrefButtons 0.3.2
Print It! 0.3.1
Productivity and Networking Information Component 0.1.1
QuickNote 0.6
Sort Bookmarks 0.5.1
SpoofStick 1.05
Super DragAndGo 0.2.4
Tab Clicking Options 0.5
Tabbrowser Preferences 1.2.2
Tweak Network 1.0
User Agent Switcher 0.6.1
View Cookies 1.2
Wayback 0.1.1
Web Developer 0.9
Word Count 0.1.1
x 0.6.3
xMirror 0.1.1

[Edward]

oh my GOD! :O

Even 10 extensions slowed firefox to a crawl for me, so how does 48 afect it?

[zqwerty]

I am using MOOX build Firefox and always was quite slow to load initially, but all the extra extensions have not made any difference I don't think. I have an old comp too, PentPro200S true 32 bit machine made for NT.

MOOX from here:

http://www.moox.ws/tech/mozilla/

[Edward]

I tried a MOOX build. Couldn't see any point in it =/

[zqwerty]

There is a version 1.0 specially optimised for PentPro so I got it, unfortunately he has not made one for version 1.0.1. I use version 1.0 standard FireFox on 98SE, dual booting, and the MOOX version seems faster and slicker on the same hardware although admittedly a different OS, 2KPro.

[Edward]

I don't see AMD K-5 there ¬_¬

[Altec_]

My Extentions:

Nice, eh? Firefox does everything I want it to without extensions. Apart from loading to slow, oh, and Orcon's crap service (worse than dialup now, 20 seconds to load PF1), but that's not Firefox's fault.

The feature I love the most (unsure if it's available in Win versions) if the abiliuty to right click a search box and say 'add keyword' This works for places like AllMusicGuide where you can simply define a custom search in opera as the string is like this:

amg.dll?a65dbvg6ad1v6a81v6as1v6a1vadv