Firefox 2 - Add-on Recommendations

[vfx_buddy]

I am using these.......

Answers

Auto Copy

Disable targets for downloads - Disabled in FF 2

Faster fox - Disabled in FF 2

Flashgot

Google Web Accelerator - Disabled in FF 2

MR Tech Disable XPI Install delay

PDF Download

Torrent Search Bar

Video Downloader

[Andy07]

Tiny Menu

UI Tweaker

Tab Browser Prefs

Adblock + filter updater

[Jase]

I want Fasterfox to work with my 2.0, is there an update yet?

FasterFox now works with Firefox 2

[ice0669i]

How much faster does FireFox actully run with the FasterFox extention? And what does it actully do to your browser? I don't understand how it makes FireFox faster - What does it do?

Compunctions for going off-topic, I was just roused to find out about this extention.

[blabla1]

Enabled Extensions: [12]

- Adblock Plus 0.7.2.2: http://adblockplus.org/

- All-in-One Sidebar 0.7: http://firefox.exxile.net/aios/

- Fasterfox 2.0.0: http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/

- Firefox Showcase 0.8.0.4: http://showcase.uworks.net/

- FireFTP 0.94.6: http://fireftp.mozdev.org

- IE Tab 1.1.1.4: http://ietab.mozdev.org/

- keyconfig 20060828: http://mozilla.dorando.at/

- Menu Editor 1.2.3: http://menueditor.mozdev.org/

- MR Tech Local Install 5.3.1.1: http://www.mrtech.com/extensions/local_install/

- Tab Mix Plus 0.3.49.061009: http://tmp.garyr.net

- Talkback 2.0: http://talkback.mozilla.org/

- UI Tweaker (Formerly Toolbar Cleanup) 1.7.0: http://www.supernova00.biz/firefox-downloa...aker/index.html

Disabled Extensions: [1]

- IDM CC 1.0: http://www.google.com/search?q=Firefox%20IDM%20CC

Total Extensions: 13

Installed Themes: [1]

- Firefox (default): http://www.mozilla.org/

Installed Plugins: (7)

- Java 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0 Update 6

- Microsoft? DRM

- Mozilla Default Plug-in

- PCMan's IE Tab Plug-in for Mozilla/Firefox

- Shockwave Flash

- Windows Genuine Advantage

- Windows Media Player Plug-in Dynamic Link Library

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[blabla1]

NEW, damn this thread was very useful, so now after checking all the extensions ppl where providing, now i have 26 extensions

Generated: Wed Nov 01 2006 19:05:56 GMT-0500 (SA Pacific Standard Time)

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

Build ID: 2006101023

Enabled Extensions: [25]

* Adblock Plus 0.7.2.2

* All-in-One Sidebar 0.7

* Auto Copy 0.6.3

* ChatZilla 0.9.75

* Dictionary Tooltip 0.9.2.5

* Drag de Go 0.2.5

* dragdropupload 1.5.21

* Fasterfox 2.0.0

* Firefox Showcase 0.8.0.4

* FireFTP 0.94.6

* IE Tab 1.1.1.4

* Image Zoom 0.2.7

* keyconfig 20060828

* lget 0.3

* Linkification 1.3.0

* Menu Editor 1.2.3

* MinimizeToTray 0.0.1.2006102615+

* MR Tech Local Install 5.3.1.1

* Searchbar Autosizer 1.1.3

* Splash 1.2

* Tab Mix Plus 0.3.49.061009

* Talkback 2.0

* Text to Image 1.1.1

* UI Tweaker (Formerly Toolbar Cleanup) 1.7.0

* Unhide Passwords 1.1.3.1

Disabled Extensions: [1]

* IDM CC 1.0

Total Extensions: 26

Installed Themes: [2]

* Firefox (default)

* Noia 2.0 (eXtreme) 3.30

Installed Plugins: (7)

* Java 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0 Update 6

* Microsoft? DRM

* Mozilla Default Plug-in

* PCMan's IE Tab Plug-in for Mozilla/Firefox

* Shockwave Flash

* Windows Genuine Advantage

* Windows Media Player Plug-in Dynamic Link Library

[Echilon]

Menu Editor

IEView

TabClickingOptions

Stylish

Errorzilla

StumbleUpon

[wot605]

I've taken so much out of this I felt obliged to toss in my 2 cents

Generated: Wed Nov 15 2006 21:47:04 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

Build ID: 2006101023

Enabled Extensions: [31]

* Adblock Filterset.G Updater 0.3.0.4 - Synchronizes Adblock with Filterset.G (in case it isn't obvious: updates adblock and adblock plus

* Adblock Plus 0.7.2.2 - Ads were yesterday! (this has been explained enough)

* Add N Edit Cookies 0.2.1.0 - Cookie Editor that allows you add and edit session and saved cookies

* All-in-One Sidebar 0.7 - Sidebar control with award-winning user experience! (combines many system views and a full page view into a "tabbed" side-bar)

* BugMeNot 1.3 - Bypass compulsory web registration with the context menu via www.bugmenot.com. (extension to pull down and automatically use logins form the popular site)

* Cooliris Previews 2.0 - A simple and powerful way of navigating through Google search results and Google image searches! Cooliris was designed to be an 'intuitive' way of browsing (works on all pages if set in preferences)

* CuteMenus - Crystal SVG 1.7.2 - Adds icons to all menu items.

* DOM Inspector 1.8.1 - Inspects the structure and properties of a window and its contents. (Default)

* Download Statusbar 0.9.4.5 - View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar (unobtrusive, very customizable, inc. wonderful "speed based" color settings, helpful when watching my servers)

* Extended Statusbar 1.2.5 - A Statusbar with Speed, Percentage, Time and loaded size (like Opera's one) (One drawback: takes up lots of space, can't remove info you don't want)

* Fasterfox 2.0.0 - Performance and network tweaks for Firefox. (As a web admin I, along with probably 99% of others PLEASE don't use "Turbo" mode or, if in custom, don't increase the connection settings past "optimized". Really, we'd prefer you use courteous mode but pipelining isn't the end of the world. I just use it for cache and rendering tweaks)

* fayt 1.0 - Takes back the 'old styled' Find As You Type bar as in Firefox 1.5 (A pet peeve of mine)

* Firefox Extension Backup Extension (FEBE) 4.0 - Firefox Extension Backup Extension (Better than syncing profiles by copying the folder esp. because I have proxy settings on some etc.)

* Firefox Showcase 0.8.0.4 - Easily locate any tab you've opened in Firefox. (Nice extension, unfortunately the extension that used to be required for hotkeys is still not 2.0 read, and I haven't found a JS to use with mouse gestures which I'd prefer anyway)

* FireFTP 0.94.6 - FTP Client for Mozilla Firefox. (Fully integrated, no outside javascript, fully featured FTP client. Even uses firefox's connections settings)

* Forecastfox Enhanced 0.9.3.1 - Get international weather forecasts and radar images and display it in any toolbar or statusbar with this highly customizable extension. (I'm pretty sure the only difference anymore is the big radar view, but I've had enhanced for so long I don't bother switching)

* Google Toolbar for Firefox 2.1.20060807W - Take the power of Google with you anywhere on the Web! (Don't really even know if I still need this, though I do still use it for search and highlight, along with a gmail link and the up one level function)

* Greasemonkey 0.6.6.20061017.0 - A User Script Manager for Firefox (This has only been briefly touched upon, but its absolutely awesome... scripts are used to modify the page as it renders, before I got google toolbar I used one that directed all mailto: links to gmail, I still have one that makes links form plain text urls instead of an extension, one that forces ALL javascript into new tabs, and one that converts UPS/FedEx tracking numbers into links)

* IE Tab 1.2.0.20061113 - Enables you to use the embedded IE engine within Mozilla/Firefox. (Loads a tab using IE for the rendering... allows you to set preferences to automatically force various URLS into it such as windows update. DOES work with IE 7.0 and I recommend it because 7 is a security upgrade)

* Image Toolbar 0.6.4 - Provides easy access to common image functions. (just like IE: in the top corner of the image buttons for print, save, et. al when mouse pauses for a while. You can change what appears in it's prefs)

* Mouse Gestures 1.5.2 - Allows you to execute common commands using mouse gestures. (Sure, I cheat and have a card I've written out and I don't use diagonals. Even when I've dumbed it down for my clumsy self it's very useful because it helps you keep your hand on the mouse all the time and go faster. Allows you to code more actions in simple Java Script. Works great in combinations with hotkeys if you can write the JS to "enter" those keys when you can't the JS for the actual funciton.)

* MR Tech Local Install 5.3.1.1 - Local Install power tools for all users. (en-US) (Sweet beyond all description... spat this out for me w exception to what I've put in parentheses)

* NoScript 1.1.4.5.061030 - Extra protection for your Firefox: NoScript allows JavaScript, Java (and other plugins) only for trusted domains of your choice (e.g. your home-banking web site). This whitelist based pre-emptive blocking approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known and even unknown!) with no loss of functionality... Experts will agree: Firefox is really safer with NoScript :-) (Just got this one... I used to think I was safe becuase "no one ever uses scripts" I was wrong, and a lot of them are frivolous anyway.

* Ook? Video Ook! 0.6.2 - [email protected] - Ook? Video Ook! is able to download embedded videos from several web sites. (The first of three extensions I have to help be download embedded content and a greesemonkey script. One of them is bound to work. While you really can't consider using these "legal", please continue to respect the author's creation)

* Splash 1.2.1 - Adds a splash screen. Supported in Firefox, Flock, Thunderbird and Sunbird. (en-US) (just some fun and games... its worth the extra resources just to see "Good browsers are like taking a crap... good ones take time" every time firefox starts. Uses images for a splash which DOES accept transparency, text like what I set, and a progress bar)

* Tab Mix Plus 0.3.5 - Tab browsing with an added boost. (Knocks out 4 old extensions in one fell swoop... if you use tabs its a must have)

* Talkback 2.0 - Sends information about program crashes to Mozilla. (Default)

* Temporary Inbox 1.5.4 - Temporary Inbox (Extension that interfaces with the popular site)

* UnPlug 1.4.5 - UnPlug your Plug-ins, free your Media (Another embedded content downloader)

* Update Notifier 0.1.5.2 - Notifies you when updates are available for your extensions and themes. (Checks for updates for ANYTHING at set intervals and notifies you if you need to restart. Note: I really don't recommend using the check at start of firefox because if, for some reason, you don't have internet firefox will hang a while before it gives up.)

* VideoDownloader 1.1.1 - Download videos from Youtube, Google, Metacafe, iFilm, Dailymotion... and other 60+ video sites ! And all embedded objects on a webpage (movies, mp3s, flash, quicktime, etc).

(Final embedded content downloader)

Sorry the links didn't make it through the copy paste... all extensions are easily googled if you can't find it on Mozilla's ad-on site.

[Berserk87]

ty, for the great suggestion :)

im now using

download statusbar

videodownloader

fasterfox

[Toology]

Enabled

Adblock Plus - Ads were yesterday!

BugMeNot - Bypass compulsory web registration with the context menu via www.bugmenot.com

DownThemAll! - The mass downloader for Firefox.

Disabled

VideoDownloader - Download videos from YouTube, Google, Metacafe, iFilm, Dailymotion... and other 60+ video websites! And all embedded objects on a web page (movies, mp3's, Flash, Quicktime, etc.)

I uninstalled previous extensions that I hardly used like IE View Lite and Image Toolbar.

[DELTA75329]

Here's my list of installed extensions. The blue highlights indicate very useful extensions that should be as popular as Adblock, IETab, FlashGot, NoScript - I consider them just as essential to my browsing. The red highlights are extensions that have made Firefox indispensable to me. These are deal breakers - part of the reason I really fell in love with Firefox after swearing by IE for 7 years.

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Generated: Wed Nov 15 2006 22:55:08 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

Build ID: 2006101023

Enabled Extensions: [31]

- Adblock Plus 0.7.2.2 : http://adblockplus.org/ - Ads were yesterday!

- Alexa Sidebar Again 1.1 : http://www.google.com/search?q=Firefox%20A...Sidebar%20Again - The Alexa Sidebar (What's related) Here Again. Press Alt+A to show the sidebar; toolbar button also available.

- All-in-One Gestures 0.18.0 : http://perso.wanadoo.fr/marc.boullet/ext/extensions-en.html - This extension allows you to execute common commands using mouse gestures, rocker navigation, scroll wheel navigation and page scrolling.

- All-in-One Sidebar 0.7 : http://firefox.exxile.net/aios/ - Sidebar control with award-winning user experience!

- BugMeNot 1.3 : http://roachfiend.com - Bypass compulsory web registration with the context menu via www.bugmenot.com.

- Custom Buttons 0.0.2 alpha 0.0.2 - [email protected]: http://xsms.nm.ru/custombuttons/en/ - Gives a possibility to create custom toolbarbuttons.

- Dictionary Tooltip 1.0 : http://www.rjonna.com/ext/dictionarytip.php - Press ctrl+shift+K (or) double-click (or) right-click after selecting a word to see its meaning.

- DOM Inspector 1.8.1 - [email protected]: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/inspector/ - Inspects the structure and properties of a window and its contents.

- dotCOMplete 1.4.2 : http://www.google.com/search?q=Firefox%20dotCOMplete - Advanced URL expansion when you press (Ctrl, Shift or Ctrl+Shift and) Enter in the URL bar.

- Extended Statusbar 1.2.5 : http://galeb.etf.bg.ac.yu/~ks040161d/firefox/extensions/esb/ - A Statusbar with Speed, Percentage, Time and loaded size (like Opera's one)

- Firefox Search Sidebar 0.1.9.2 : http://searchsidebar.mozdev.org/ - Enjoy searching through multiple search engines with one query, and managing search plugins through one interface.

- Firefox Showcase 0.8.0.4 : http://showcase.uworks.net/ - Easily locate any tab you've opened in Firefox. (This is a biggie for those of you who like IE 7's thumbnail/tile preview.. the one thing I thought IE7 had over everything else.)

- FireFTP 0.94.6 : http://fireftp.mozdev.org - FTP Client for Mozilla Firefox.

- FlashGot 0.5.97.01 : http://flashgot.net - Enables single and massive ("all" and "selection") downloads using the most popular external download managers for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and FreeBSD (dozens currently supported, see Extension's Home Page for details). FlashGot offers also a Build Gallery functionality which helps to synthetize full media galleries in one page from serial contents originally scattered on several pages, for easy and fast "download all".

- Google Toolbar for Firefox 2.1.20060807W : http://www.google.com/ - Take the power of Google with you anywhere on the Web!

- IE Tab 1.2.0.20061113 : http://ietab.mozdev.org/ - Enables you to use the embedded IE engine within Mozilla/Firefox.

- Image Toolbar 0.6.4 : http://www.cusser.net - Provides easy access to common image functions.

- Image Zoom 0.2.7 : http://imagezoom.yellowgorilla.net/ - Adds zoom functionality for images

- MinimizeToTray 0.0.1.2006102615+ - : http://minimizetotray.mozdev.org/ - Minimizes Mozilla windows into the system tray

- MR Tech Local Install 5.3.1.1 : http://www.mrtech.com/extensions/local_install/ - Local Install power tools for all users. (en-US)

- NoScript 1.1.4.5.061030 : http://noscript.net - Extra protection for your Firefox: NoScript allows JavaScript, Java (and other plugins) only for trusted domains of your choice (e.g. your home-banking web site). This whitelist based pre-emptive blocking approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known and even unknown!) with no loss of functionality... Experts will agree: Firefox is really safer with NoScript :-)

- Ook? Video Ook! 0.6.2 - [email protected]: http://ook.dedos.net/ - Ook? Video Ook! is able to download embedded videos from several web sites.

- Organize Status Bar 0.5 : http://yellow5.us/firefox/ - Organize your status bar icons.

- People Search and Public Record Toolbar 1.0 - [email protected]: http://www.skipease.com - Firefox People Search and Public Record Extension.

- QuickZoom 1.0.4 : http://www.mtbase.com/QuickZoom - Adds two icons to the status bar which enable quick access to the "Enlarge Text" (Ctrl++), "Reduce Text" (Ctrl+-) and "Normal Text" (Ctrl+0) commands.

- ScrapBook 1.2.0.6 : http://amb.vis.ne.jp/mozilla/scrapbook/ - Helps you to save Web pages and organize the collection.

- ShowIP 0.8.05 : http://l4x.org/showip - Show the IP address of the current page in the status bar. It also allows querying custom services by IP (right mouse button) and Hostname (left mouse button), like whois, netcraft. Additionally you can copy the IP address to the clipboard. This extension was formerly known as ipv6ident.

- Stylish 0.4 : http://userstyles.org/stylish/ - Customize the look of websites and of the user interface.

- Tab Mix Plus 0.3.5 : http://tmp.garyr.net - Tab browsing with an added boost.

- Talkback 2.0 - [email protected]: http://talkback.mozilla.org/ - Sends information about program crashes to Mozilla.

- VideoDownloader 1.1.1 - [email protected]: http://videodownloader.net/ - Download videos from Youtube, Google, Metacafe, iFilm, Dailymotion... and other 60+ video sites ! And all embedded objects on a webpage (movies, mp3s, flash, quicktime, etc).

Disabled Extensions: [1]

- IDM CC 2.0 : http://www.google.com/search?q=Firefox%20IDM%20CC - Internet Download Manager integration module for Mozilla

Total Extensions: 32

Installed Themes: [1]

- Firefox (default) : http://www.mozilla.org/

Installed Plugins: (15)

- Adobe Acrobat

- Adobe Acrobat Plug-In Version 7.00 for Netscape

- DivX Player Netscape Plugin

- npdivxplayerplugin

- DivX? Content Upload Plugin

- DivX? Content Upload Plugin

- DivX? Web Player

- DivX? Web Player

- Java 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0 Update 7

- Java Plug-in 1.5.0_07 for Netscape Navigator (DLL Helper)

- Microsoft Office 2003

- Office Plugin for Netscape Navigator

- Microsoft? DRM

- DRM Store Netscape Plugin

- Mozilla Default Plug-in

- Default Plug-in

- PCMan's IE Tab Plug-in for Mozilla/Firefox

- IE Tab Plug-in developed by Hong Jen Yee

- QuickTime Plug-in 7.1

- The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in Web pages. For more information, visit the <A HREF=http://www.apple.com/quicktime/>QuickTime</A> Web site.

- RealPlayer Version Plugin

- 6.0.12.1465

- RealPlayer G2 LiveConnect-Enabled Plug-In (32-bit)

- RealPlayer LiveConnect-Enabled Plug-In

- Shockwave Flash

- Shockwave Flash 9.0 r16

- Windows Genuine Advantage validation plug-in

- 1.4.0410.0

- Windows Media Player Plug-in Dynamic Link Library

- Npdsplay dll

[esquisoblogs]

Adblock Plus

DownloadThemAll

NoScript

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[dreamb0x]

how do you guys save the bookmarks that you have saved in the Bookmarks Toolbar Folder?

its kinda of a chore to keep readding them back after every format..

[noroom]

dotCOMplete

- Allows you to customise keyboard short cuts.

- For example I like to have SHIFT+ENTER automatially fill out .net (e.g. type in "neowin" and then use the shortcut to add the www. and .net part around the text).

I can do that without any extensions. Ctrl+Enter -> .com, Shift+Enter -> .net, Ctrl+Shift+Enter -> org. :huh:

[sbrads]

FxIF..............see EXIF info (camera settings) with on-line photos.

Mr Tech Link Wrapper.........Firefox can mess up web pages' width when there's a long link, this fixes.

POTO sidebar extension........This should be the default way of getting to bookmarks easy. Put mouse to left and click.

NoScript...............Essential for security these days.

Tab Mix Plus............Can't use tabs without it, undo closed tabs, variable width tabs & colours, many right click options etc etc etc.

[nXqd]

Nothing special, Firefox is useful and this topic too :)

[jafoman]

[Jack 0Neill]

Fasterfox is evil, it kills server's bandwidth. Just use Firetune

[Elliot B.]

[primexx]

Fasterfox is evil, it kills server's bandwidth. Just use Firetune

You do realise that they both do the EXACT same things (enable pipelining and increase # of connections) right?

[tehmemories]

Adblock.

[crimsonhead]

Some useful ones :)

[sebaz]

Here are my Add-ons for Firefox 2.x on a mac of course ;).

[Hills420]

I don't use very many:

Fasterfox

Gmail Manager

Download Manager

Video Download Manager

[anarkhy]

is there any extension to allow cookies only for some pages?