Extensions - Not just for hair anymore

Goose!

So I happen to use Firefox, and I am assume I'm not alone in this. I just had to reformat my netbook and started downloading my old FF extensions and add-ons and discovered a few new ones. So I got to thinking which ones were my favorites. And then I figured I'd pose the question to you all.

So which add-ons for Firefox do you prefer most?

First of all, I discovered Fire.fm and was so glad to not need to redownload a music player (for now anyway). This extension is excellent in that it hooks directly into your Last.fm account and plays your favoirte music like a radio station (ala Pandora) OR you can enter your friend's username and listen to his/her radio station OR you can type in an artist's name and listen to their music + music from similar artists. Though typing in this form while using it seems to be slowing down Firefox, I would sooner blame the netbook for that though.

Then there is Yoono, for all you social networkers out there. You can access stuff from Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, AIM, and several other popular sites. It allows you to update status, write comments/IMs, etc. all from a sidebar. Which I love because I don't have to download AIM 6.9 (which I don't enjoy as a program).

Then there's the usual standbys: Adblock, DownThemAll, NoScripts

What about you?

exoplasm

Download Statusbar, OpenDownload, and Link Alert are the ones I always install after ABP.

All-glass mod for Vista/7 users is great, too.

Malyonsus

My new firefox installs always end up with the same stuff: Adblock, No Script, Forecast Fox, Web Developer, on a Littlefox theme.

Desert_Eagle25

TabKit is a great one if you work with lots of browser tabs.

Nightslyr

Let's see...I'm currently running with:

ABP
AniWeather (I used to use ForecastFox, but I like this one better)
Better Gmail 2 (I'm not sure if it actually does anything :? )
Download Statusbar
Firebug
FirePHP (essentially a Firebug for PHP...only useful on sites you create, as you need to install FirePHP files onto the web root for it to work)
GooglePreview (I love this little add-on)
OrganizeStatusbar (it allows you to get rid of status bar icon clutter)
Personas for Firefox (currently rocking the Dark Fox theme)
Remove New Tab Button (only because Tab Mix Plus isn't updated)
SQL Inject Me (a web development tool that will test to see if a site is vulnerable to an SQL injection attack)
TwitterFox
Web Developer

Jasconius

I enjoy AutoAuth.

It is good if you access a lot of sites that utilize windows/.htaccess authentication.

Ash-Housewares

Xmarks.

It allows me to keep the same set of bookmarks on my netbook and desktop.

Klorgnum

Hey, maybe I could ask this here.

I've always been wary of FF extensions and keep my use to an absolute minimum. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but is there any reason someone couldn't put a keylogger or something malicious in one? Are the add-ons on the official site checked out first to make sure they won't try to steal banking information?

exis

Klorgnum wrote: »

Hey, maybe I could ask this here.

I've always been wary of FF extensions and keep my use to an absolute minimum. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but is there any reason someone couldn't put a keylogger or something malicious in one? Are the add-ons on the official site checked out first to make sure they won't try to steal banking information?

Add-ons go through some sort of testing process. Before that they are marked as "experimental".

What are experimental add-ons? wrote:

Experimental add-ons are newer add-ons which have not yet undergone our public review process. Many of these add-ons may be in prototype form. Since they are untested by our editorial team, they may be alpha, beta or pre-production in quality, performance and features.

Caution should be used when installing experimental add-ons, as they have not been tested by an editor and may harm your computer configuration.

Frem

(I really wish Opera had a real plugin system. Widgets just don't count. :-P)

TabMix Plus
Adblock Plus
Fission (safari-style progress bar)
Google Gears

I also like the Daum theme.

Does anyone have any experience with Jetpack? It supposedly makes extensions easier to write, and you don't have to restart the browser after installing extensions written using Jetpack.

Woggle

My current list:

Adblock
Download Statusbar
Fasterfox Lite
Flashblock
Ghostery - Dunno why I have this...
IE Tab
Morning Coffee
NoScript
PDF Download
Read it Later - I haven't really used this much, middle click to open stuff in a tab for later is much simpler for me

Darth Nathan

Autopager. Add it, and thank me later.

Daedalus

I wish Glasser worked with the new version of Firefox.

GrimReaper

Daedalus wrote: »

I wish Glasser worked with the new version of Firefox.

It does, if you tweak the xpi file to include upto version 3.5. Alternatively you can use all-glass, however that makes the tabs and bookmark bar use glass.. unfortunately it makes them very hard to read as such I use stylish to tweak the look:



Here are the add-ons on my work machine:

Adblock Plus
Adblock Plus: Element hiding helper
Add N Edit Cookies (disabled, not using atm)
All-Glass Firefox mod
British English Dictionary
Cache Status (disabled, not using atm)
Context search
FireGestures
Flashblock
Greasemonkey (disabled, not using atm)
IE Tab (disabled, not using atm)
Mac Shortcuts (ctrl+q is fantastic, regardless of how many windows i've got open I can do that key combo and later can open firefox with all my windows, tabs etc.. simple extension but so very useful)
Nightly Tester Tools (that just reminded me to disable it because I currently don't use it)
Personal Menu
Resizable textarea (disabled, not using atm)
Sage 1.4.2 (disabled, not using atm.. because i'm using the spin-off)
Sage-Too
Stylish (with three user styles, 2 of which created the tweaked bookmarks and tabs bars.. the third removes the stylish status bar icon)
User agent switcher (disabled, not using atm.. infact I haven't used this in a long time)

If anyone wants the styles I use in stylish to get the above look then ask away.


EDIT:

By the way, Mozilla are planning to finally implement glass into Firefox 3.7.

For example:



I don't know about any of you, but that looks damn good.

exoplasm

Daedalus wrote: »

I wish Glasser worked with the new version of Firefox.

Disable addon compatibility checking.

extensions.checkCompatibility false

theSquid

No love for Speed Dial?

Finally we can tell Opera and Safari users to shut the fuck up.

ronya

Tab Mix Plus
Gmail Manager
Cookie Monster
Flashblock
Hide Menubar
Google Gears
Image Zoom

... am I the only one who doesn't use ABP?

Also, re: FF3.7 glass. awesome

urahonky

You should be using ABP. Best invention ever and I can't stand using any other browser without it.

GrimReaper

Just on noscript, ever since the guy who wrote it decided to start modifying other extensions (specifically adblock) I have had zero trust in the author and will never use the noscript extension. The guy only apologised after he got caught out and was threatened with being chucked off the Mozilla extensions site.

Everyone knows to go to the Mozilla addons site, hence if noscript was taken off the site the noscript author would lose a hella lot of money from people suddenly not downloading noscript. (noscript has a nasty default behaviour of taking you to the noscript site, complete with advertising and the author rather spuriously frequently releases "updates" so after every update it's back to the site.. it can be disabled if you dig through a bunch of settings)

Mike Danger

My necessities:
ForecastFox
GMail Notifier (set to play the HAL 9000 saying "There is a message for you." upon new inbox messages)
TinyURL Creator (Does anyone know of an extension that can autocreate nice URLs like Safari?)
Ubiquity
XMarks (holy shit, how did I ever live without this?)
Download Statusbar
1Password
Adblock Plus (see xmarks; every time I have stopped using a browser it has been because the adblocking has not been sufficient)

I should really put Speed Dial on here.

Puddlesworth

Mike Danger wrote: »

My necessities:
ForecastFox
GMail Notifier (set to play the HAL 9000 saying "There is a message for you." upon new inbox messages)
TinyURL Creator (Does anyone know of an extension that can autocreate nice URLs like Safari?)
Ubiquity
XMarks (holy shit, how did I ever live without this?)
Download Statusbar
1Password
Adblock Plus (see xmarks; every time I have stopped using a browser it has been because the adblocking has not been sufficient)

I should really put Speed Dial on here.

Yes Ubiquity!

I have a lot of extensions people have already posted but Ubiquity it probably my favorite. It's difficult to explain but think of it like Launchy or Gnome-Do with web search, gCal Gmail and weather checking, translation and a ton of other crap I don't even fully understand yet.

Mike Danger

Sometimes I will go to do something, and then wonder, "Can Ubiquity do this?"

The answer, surprisingly, is usually "yes".

Michael H

Another vote for Morning Coffee.

My other two faves are Fireftp and Twitterfox.

Fodder

No love for vimperator?

Michael H

Fodder wrote: »

No love for vimperator?

Wait, people want to make other things like vim? That's like going out of your way to get thumbscrews installed on your car's steering wheel.

Frem

Michael H wrote: »

Fodder wrote: »

No love for vimperator?

Wait, people want to make other things like vim? That's like going out of your way to get thumbscrews installed on your car's steering wheel.

Firefox would be a great operating system if it only had a decent text editor.

Daedalus

That FF3.7 screenshot/mockup looks damn good. I'm wondering how it'll work for Linux, though; I tend to like my Linux apps more... I dunno, subdued and uniform.

Ayulin

These are the ones I use on my laptop and desktop (both running Windows 7, hence the all-glass add-on.)

I used to use Xmarks, but dropped it for Mozilla Weave.

Allatar

The extensions I use are:
ABP
Fasterfox
Glasser
Greasemonkey
IE tab
PDF download
Read It Later
Stealther
Stylish
Tab Mix Plus
Ubiquity

I don't know what I'd do without any if these.

Frem

Mike Danger wrote: »

Sometimes I will go to do something, and then wonder, "Can Ubiquity do this?"

The answer, surprisingly, is usually "yes".

I installed it yesterday. The tutorial is pretty impressive. Then I thought: how much do I actually do any of this stuff? The answer for most of it is "not very much." It needs a few more random useful commands.