ExtremeTech has an article about the extensions they like to use for Firefox. The article covers:
- Adblock
- Image Zoom
- FoxyTunes
- easyGestures
- Gmail Notifier
- Image-Show-Hide
- Web Developer
- fireFTP
- WebmailCompose
- Homeland Security Threat Level
I use a couple of those and they make Firefox that much more enjoyable. Of course Firefox was much more enjoyable before I even touched those extensions.
I find easyGestures way too intrusive. I use all-in-one gestures instead.
Also colorzilla is a great companion to the web developer extension.
or “How To Make An Insanely Great Browser Insanely Greater”
I’ve had an interesting time exploring extensions. See: Essential Firefox Extensions and the associated comments.
Tried Mc Search Preview? It’s like a turbocharged version of Google Preview. And it works on del.icio.us, Yahoo and A9, too.
Diogo! Thanks for that… I can’t count how many times I’ve taken screenshots and opened them in photoshop just to pick a color. Very cool.
I use the page rank and web developer extensions extensively. (I mean can anyone really be bothered to use *two* clicks to view source?) However, I just installed the FoxyTunes and colorzilla plugins and am in love. How did I not know about these before?
Let’s not forget that the web developer ‘view source’ opens in a new tab instead of the default behavior of opening up a new window that takes over your whole screen and doesn’t let you use mouse gestures. Saving you *one whole click* is just the cherry on top ;)
Speaking of colorzilla I’m still looking for an extension that lets you change font/div colors on the fly by selecting them on the page. The DOM inspector allows you to do this but it’s not intuitive enough, and when you’re working without a fancy WYSIWYG interface you need a fast way to try out different color combinations and make adjustments. Probably wishing too much, but you never know…
but… the homeland security threat level? come on! How on earth does that fit in with all those others…. I’d make #10 magpie or something.
Diogo… EditCSS maybe?
Now if only someone would write an extension for Thunderbird that’d import your settings from the Sage plugin so I don’t have to do them all over by hand…
The EditCSS sidebar is already present on Web Developer with more or less the same functionality. What I meant by intuitive is to somehow avoid dealing with hex color codes entirely, you’d just click on a section of the page and alter the color through a picker/color wheel.
I’m probably the only one who wants something like this because I’m terrible with color and end up copying and pasting color codes a million times before I get it right.
And btw JC, that color wheel you link to on your page is great ;) (the link needs updating)
Sage makes me all happy. RSS in my sidebar means 1 less app to open.
thanks for pointing that out, diogo. I havent even looked at my blog in ages… I do all my posting here. heh.
I must say Plain Text Links is a must-have extension. Just a day after I installed it, I can’t live without it :)
Thought I’d let you all know what extensions I am currently using!
AdBlock
ieview
Coralize
BugMeNot
WeatherFox
LiveLines
Bloglines Toolkit
Super DragAndGo (my favorite!)
Is there a outliner plug-in for FireFox 1.0? One that shows the elements in hiearchial view in the sidebar?
Outliner v0.2 only works up to FF 0.9!
Thanks!
There’s one built into the web developer toolbar… it doesn’t do the sidebar though I don’t think, it actually outlines elements on the page.
Does anyone know of plugin, that lets user select a text, right click and choose: “Save Text As…”?
outliner 0.5 it’s available at:
http://outliner.mozdev.org/