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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Gilly on June 18, 2008, 12:13:19 AM
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To celebrate the release of Firefox 3.0, name your favorite add-ons. They're what makes Firefox great!
Greasemonkey (obviously)
PicLens
FireGestures
SageToo
OpenSearchFox
Googlepedia
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I don't know any of those, Gilly - what do they do?
I like:
Autocopy - highlight something and it automatically ends up on the clipboard
Download statusbar - no annoying additional windows, everything sits in the statusbar
DownThemAll - perfect for grabbing big downloads
IE tab - for those sites that are still Firefox-unfriendly
ImageShack toolbar - perfect for instant uploading of images to ImageShack
AdBlock Plus - obviously
URL fixer - if you happen to write www.friendsoftom.cmo, it automatically changes it to .com for you!
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I don't know any of those, Gilly - what do they do?
I like Downthemall, IE tab and Adblock as well
Greasemonkey- The best extension available. Install it and then go to userscripts.org to find scripts to make websites better. My favorites are Facebook and Google Image scripts that enlarge thumbnails to full size when you mouse over them.
PicLens- Really cool extension that lets you scroll through (like Ipod coverflow) Google Image, Flickr, Youtube, and a bunch of other sites. This one is only going to get better.
FireGestures- Lets you use your mouse to gesture to do anything Firefox is able to do. For instance, I hold right click and move my mouse to the left and it goes back a page. Hold right click and move mouse down to bring up bookmark sidebar. It's all customizable.
SageToo- RSS reader
OpenSearchFox- Right click on any search bar and add it to your search bar in your navigation toolbar (the Google search)
Googlepedia- Adds a Wikipedia entry to Google search on the right hand side.
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I like M3U Ripper, but it's not compatible with 3.0.
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I like Better GMail, from the Lifehacker crew - it makes that site look less clunky.
Also there's a LiveBookmark addon, but that's not FF 3.0 compatible yet.
EDIT: How could I forget the Smart Bookmarks Bar (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4072)? Easily my favourite.
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these things sound great. why are they add-ons? why aren't they standard? just wondering..
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these things sound great. why are they add-ons? why aren't they standard? just wondering..
I would think they're not standard because they're for more advanced internet/computer users. My parents use Firefox (at my insistence), and they like it, but I think that all the extras would be a little too much for them. So, all these cool add-ons are there for those who want them.
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-Web Developer Toolbar
-DownThemAll
-Del.icio.us bookmarks
-Adblock Plus
-NoScript
The one I am really looking for, but just have been too lazy to find, is where you highlight any text the right click and it automatically looks the word up on M-W.com or Wikipedia
I just realized I could do this a few days ago: if you hover over a jpg or other image online, your cursor becomes a hand and you can drag that image right to your desktop or photoshop or whatever. This might be native, or it might be the screengrab extension that renables this. No more right-click>save image as!
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FireFTP
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I couldn't live without the Mouse Gestures extension.
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these things sound great. why are they add-ons? why aren't they standard? just wondering..
I would think they're not standard because they're for more advanced internet/computer users. My parents use Firefox (at my insistence), and they like it, but I think that all the extras would be a little too much for them. So, all these cool add-ons are there for those who want them.
it would be cool if they were already built in, but just had to be "turned-on" by ppl who wanted them.
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but mabye not all extensions are developed by firefox?
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but mabye not all extensions are developed by firefox?
No, it's all third party which is what makes it great. New stuff is being developed all of the time. The reason it's not standard is that each app makes Firefox use more memory.
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I also like the dictionary that points out misspelled words.
Better Gmail and Better G Reader are both great
I don't understand fire-gestures.
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I'm surprised nobody mentioned ClipMarks. You just highlight any text you want and it gets saved, then you can go get it whenever you want and organize the clips and stuff. Like a folder of clippings. YEAH BRO
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I dont like that the M3u ripper doesnt work with version 3 because thats the way I listened to the Best Show on my Ipod.
Also sad that the allmusic add on doesnt work with the new version.
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surely there is a extension that lets you keep track of the extensions/settings from one machine to another (or at least lets you back them up) I always get it set up nice and then for some reason have to reinstall and lose everything and can never get it back the way I had it.
So I guess I'm looking for something that:
1) Lets me back up my settings and extensions
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2) Maybe lets me sync them between the browsers on two different computers (like my work laptop and my desktop at the house)
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I joined .Mac just to keep my different computors in sync, though Google bookmark sync might give you half of what you're looking for.
The STUPIDEST firefox extensions are the ones that turn the browser into something totally non-browser like or something that a standalone application or a regular old web app would be better at. Like those RSS ones. I also used to use this one file-sharing app that thought it a fine idea to live as a firefox extension.
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I also like the extension that gives your browser a different name ever time you bring it up, like "powerwalrus"
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see what happens when you put about:robots in the address bar of ff3
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I use:
Adblock Plus
IE Tab
Screen grab (lets you take a screenshot of an entire web page at once)
DownloadHelper (INCREDIBLY useful- lets you save most sorts of media [streaming audio, youtube, embedded video, etc.] with one click)
ColorZilla (mostly useless, but it gives you the exact color of anything in the browser)
And I have DownThemAll and the Imageshack toolbar installed but usually disabled.
What I really need is something that will automatically open mailto: links in Gmail. I used to have one that did that, but it was never updated to even FF2.
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What I really need is something that will automatically open mailto: links in Gmail. I used to have one that did that, but it was never updated to even FF2.
I'm pretty sure the Better Gmail 2 add-on will do this for you. One of the options says "Compose mailto: links in Gmail."
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When I use Firefox I find these extensions helpful:
- Flashblock - http://flashblock.mozdev.org/
- Platypus - http://platypus.mozdev.org/
- EditCSS - http://editcss.mozdev.org/
Flashblock stops all the 'DO U LIKE GEORGE BUSH? (YES) (NO)' banner ads
Platypus lets me do simple rewrites for A tags so I can skip ads and EditCSS helps me fiddle with the layout of things I work on.
Firebug and Charles are also pretty neat.
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What I really need is something that will automatically open mailto: links in Gmail. I used to have one that did that, but it was never updated to even FF2.
http://lifehacker.com/392287/set-firefox-3-to-launch-gmail-for-mailto-links
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What I really need is something that will automatically open mailto: links in Gmail. I used to have one that did that, but it was never updated to even FF2.
http://lifehacker.com/392287/set-firefox-3-to-launch-gmail-for-mailto-links
Thanks!
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am I the only one having trouble installing flash on FireFox 3? I've googled the hell out of it, but all I can find is shit about Ubuntu and beta versions of firefox 3
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Did you get a message that you need to install something?
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yep. I've tried installing from the link, going direct to adobe's website, uninstalling and reinstalling, etc... for some reason it won't work.
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I've had some problems in the past installing flash in Firefox. First, try downloading the install file and installing with FF closed. Second, try updating Flash in IE. That actually worked for me a couple times.
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flash still isn't working for me. I've uninstalled and reinstalled every associated program in all different combinations.
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I'm still on FF 2.0.0.16. Haven't gotten any prompts about updating to 3. Is it just me? Hello world!
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I haven't gotten anything about it on this computer either- just normal updates to 2.whatever it's on. Installing anything on this computer is such a mess that I just waited until I got my MacBook to install 3.
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To celebrate the release of Firefox 3.0, name your favorite add-ons. They're what makes Firefox great!
Greasyfounkey (fixed)
PicLens
FireGestures
SageToo
OpenSearchFox
Googlepedia