Firefox extensions: Which do you have?

[Kyle Love]

I am a relatively new Firefox user, I was wanting to know which extensions are worth getting?

[Billfred]

Well, I no longer use Firefox (Safari just seems to work better with my iBook), but I definitely was a big fan of Adblock. If you don't have any other RSS reader, you may want to get Sage as well. Everything else is simply a matter of seasoning to taste.

[Conor Ryan]

-google sms messanger: text message a phone from your computer, free for you, cheap for them
-Tabbed Browser Extension: Tabbed Browsing > My socks
-Weather Fox is pretty cool, i like looking at the radar
-Add more search engines too! (don't forget the CD search engines by Dave Scheck, get them by going Quick Links in the User Bar->Extras. I also reconmend the Wikipedia Search engines if you don't have it already

[Adam Richards]

I liked FootieFox [soccer for the yanks], but it wasn't very helpful, as the games I wanted were having some issues being selected... good concept though if you have no way of watching or listening to radio streams for matches

Other good ones:
-- Download Manager Tweak - mods the appearance of the download manager
-- PDF Download - allows you to select options about what to do with PDFs
-- ReloadEvery - Good for refreshing websites over intervals (i.e. you MUST find out about when the reg dates are, and are OCD about being first with the information; I orignally used it to get the Battlefield 2 Demo)

[kjhobin]

you have to have greasemonkey! bugmenot is cool too.

[mechanicalbrain]

I love the adblock i use it to disable the reputation bar (i think it doesnt speak fairly for good or bad for people) on CD. Does anyone know how to remove extensions?

[Adam Richards]

Originally Posted by mechanicalbrain

I love the adblock i use it to disable the reputation bar (i think it doesnt speak fairly for good or bad for people) on CD. Does anyone know how to remove extensions?

Tools -> Extensions -> Select Extension -> Click Uninstall

[Alex Pelan]

I have overdone it with the extensions in the past.

At one point or another, I have had
-Adblock
-Gmail Notifier
-Adsense Notifier
-Foxytunes (note that all four of these in the status bar actually cut away part of the status bar :-D)
-The IRC extension (can't remember name)
-BlogThis rightclick option

At the moment, I'm not running any extensions, however I did install a cool new theme, Noia 2.0. For those of you who don't know, the url for all of these is addons.mozilla.org.

[Ryan M.]

Well, there is this thread, but...

I currently have (on this computer, my other computer is different because of different needs):

• Google suggest (Turns the google search bar up in the corner into Google suggest, so it suggests stuff. )
• Gmail notifier
• Web developer
• HTML Validator

[JohnBoucher]

• Gmail notifier
• Web developer

I love the web developer bar. It is a huge timesaver.

[Jessica Boucher]

Right now I have...

Adblock
Tabbrowser preferences
Stumbleupon - suggests pages for you in categories that other people have rated. Great when you're bored and want to find good stuff on the net.
IE View - adds "view this in Internet Explorer" onto the box that pops up when you right-click a link. Clicking on the function will automatically open an IE browser with the link already in the address bar. Great for sites that just don't look right in Firefox and saves you the hassle of copying/opening IE/pasting.

In the past I've also had foxytunes and the weather thing. Both were ok, but seemed to be too much trouble for what they were worth (especially foxytunes). I did enjoy having the weather in somewhere other than my tray, though

[artdutra04]

At the moment, I like the extensions that add greater capability of Firefox, like

• Iget (downloads any file given the URL)
• ColorZilla (Advanced Eyedropper, Page Zooming, Colorpicker, etc tool)
• Firefox View (Loads pages from IE into Firefox)
• IEView (Loads pages from Firefox into IE)
• ImageZoom (Zooms in on images)
• Show Image (Similar to the IE feature if an image doesn't load)
• CountdownClock Extension (this one will create a countdown clock in the status bar, which I usually use to countdown to FIRST events)
• PrintPreview (makes a nice print preview feature)

And of course I also use Adblock and the CD search extensions (thanks Dave Scheck)

[Clark Gilbert]

My favorites:
All-In-One Sidebar (awesome if you've used Opera)
Customize Google (let's you change the layout of Google results)
DictionarySearch
fireFTP (FTP program built into Firefox)
Forecastfox
IE View (perfect for those websites that don't work with Firefox)
Paste and Go (paste an address and go to it with one click)
PDF Download (allows you to view a pdf in html or download)
Tab Mix (tabbed preferences)

[Ryan M.]

Originally Posted by Clark Gilbert

PDF Download (allows you to view a pdf in html or download)

Just out of curiousity, why do so many people like this extension? You can just click the save button from within Acrobat...

Oh, wait, while writing this post, I did think of the fact you don't have to wait from Acrobat to load. Is that the only reason?

[mechanicalbrain]

Originally Posted by Ryan M.

Just out of curiousity, why do so many people like this extension? You can just click the save button from within Acrobat...

Oh, wait, while writing this post, I did think of the fact you don't have to wait from Acrobat to load. Is that the only reason?

The site says:

Originally Posted by FireFox

Allows to choose whether you want to view a PDF file inside the browser (as PDF or HTML) or you want to download it!

Solved a problem in PDF to HTML conversion.

Personally i like keeping my pdf's on its own tab so i don't actualy have to switch from my browser (i even have the media extension so i can play music through my browser.)