16 Responses for "10 Extensions to Enhance Firefox"

1. Diogo

   November 10th, 2004 at 12:51

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   I find easyGestures way too intrusive. I use all-in-one gestures instead.

   Also colorzilla is a great companion to the web developer extension.

2. Jonathan Hollin (DarkBlue)

   November 10th, 2004 at 13:18

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   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.

3. Zoe

   November 10th, 2004 at 13:28

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   Tried Mc Search Preview? It’s like a turbocharged version of Google Preview. And it works on del.icio.us, Yahoo and A9, too.

4. JC

   November 10th, 2004 at 16:11

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   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.

5. Nicole

   November 10th, 2004 at 16:47

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   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?

6. Diogo

   November 10th, 2004 at 17:58

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   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…

7. JC

   November 10th, 2004 at 18:29

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   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…

8. Diogo

   November 10th, 2004 at 18:58

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   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)

9. Rob

   November 10th, 2004 at 22:59

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   Sage makes me all happy. RSS in my sidebar means 1 less app to open.

10. JC

    November 11th, 2004 at 00:55

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    thanks for pointing that out, diogo. I havent even looked at my blog in ages… I do all my posting here. heh.

11. Kaklz

    November 11th, 2004 at 07:08

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    I must say Plain Text Links is a must-have extension. Just a day after I installed it, I can’t live without it :)

12. Jud

    November 11th, 2004 at 15:40

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    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!)

13. James Colyer

    November 11th, 2004 at 16:18

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    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!

14. JC

    November 11th, 2004 at 16:45

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    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.

15. jonz

    November 22nd, 2004 at 15:24

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    Does anyone know of plugin, that lets user select a text, right click and choose: “Save Text As…”?

16. sanya

    January 11th, 2005 at 07:33

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    outliner 0.5 it’s available at:

    http://outliner.mozdev.org/