The Firefox add-ons I use
When I saw this post and a print screen of a Firefox window in it with a lot of add-ons, I wondered about which were being used. Some I could guess as I also had them installed but I ended up asking Luke about the others. The question resulted in a follow-up post where he lists all the nice and cute third-party features he uses that you can add to your browser to make it even better!
From his list, I also use Adblock Plus, Fasterfox, Faviconize Tab, Firebug, Google Notebook, and PDF Download. They are all excellent utilities that come in hand often. Now, before I get into the other add-ons I use which are not listed there, let me add a word about the difference between Adblock Plus and Adblock. The second, in my opinion, is very obsolete right now and the maintenance of the project is almost abandoned. Besides, most pre-made block filters developed by other groups are only being updated for Adblock Plus these days. In any case, however, you can improve both with another add-on called Adblock Filterset.G. It essentially adds and maintains its own set of filters for you.
Now, to my add-ons:
FireFTP
This is a very simple and fast FTP client working inside your Firefox tabs. It is really easy to use and support many nice features such as SSL and integrity checks. Besides, it offers you the ability to store profiles of FTP servers you work more often with.
Resizeable Textarea
This is a tiny add-on that lets you resize textareas. Very useful in forms of blogs and forums that offer you a limited space for all your great set of arguments!
Locationbar²
A recent addition to my collection. I discovered it reading the comments of a post evaluating the new IE8 beta release on Google Blogoscoped. A new feature of this new version of the Microsoft browser is basically a copy of this add-on: It highlights and decodes the URL you are current on for a variety of reasons:
There are many weather forecast add-ons available for Firefox. I use this one when I’m travelling because it is the less obtrusive among the ones I evaluated. Just add your cities and voilà!
From his list, I also use Adblock Plus, Fasterfox, Faviconize Tab, Firebug, Google Notebook, and PDF Download. They are all excellent utilities that come in hand often. Now, before I get into the other add-ons I use which are not listed there, let me add a word about the difference between Adblock Plus and Adblock. The second, in my opinion, is very obsolete right now and the maintenance of the project is almost abandoned. Besides, most pre-made block filters developed by other groups are only being updated for Adblock Plus these days. In any case, however, you can improve both with another add-on called Adblock Filterset.G. It essentially adds and maintains its own set of filters for you.
Now, to my add-ons:
FireFTP
This is a very simple and fast FTP client working inside your Firefox tabs. It is really easy to use and support many nice features such as SSL and integrity checks. Besides, it offers you the ability to store profiles of FTP servers you work more often with.
Resizeable Textarea
This is a tiny add-on that lets you resize textareas. Very useful in forms of blogs and forums that offer you a limited space for all your great set of arguments!
Locationbar²
A recent addition to my collection. I discovered it reading the comments of a post evaluating the new IE8 beta release on Google Blogoscoped. A new feature of this new version of the Microsoft browser is basically a copy of this add-on: It highlights and decodes the URL you are current on for a variety of reasons:
- Helps identify spoofing;
- the readability of the address;
- Allows you to quickly click a directory in the address to navigate through the hierarchy of the web page.
There are many weather forecast add-ons available for Firefox. I use this one when I’m travelling because it is the less obtrusive among the ones I evaluated. Just add your cities and voilà!
Labels: Geek Talk
posted by Ricardo at
12:04 AM
3 Comments:
I suggest you to try showcase, speeddial, mouse gestures and greasemonkey!
Nice suggestions. I checked them out and I will try out more the mouse gestures. Seems like a really cool idea.
The others are just not for me yet, I think.
Using greasemonkey I do what textarearesizer do - and do it with other things beyond textarea
Showcase is simply adictive :)
And the most interesting thing about mouse gestures to me is to create (or download from their site) customized gestures in Javascript. I've created one to open Showcase's tab.
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