Comments on: 10 Extensions That Make FireFox A Killer App

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By: freebies

freebies — Fri, 22 May 2009 12:48:02 +0000

thanks for this list i am using many of these!

By: free samples

free samples — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:20:39 +0000

seo for firefox addon!!

By: Lassar

Lassar — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:33:28 +0000

My favorite extensions are: Autofill forms: Makes filling out web forms a lot easier. FEBE: Backs up your Firefox data. Session Manager: Saves your web sessions. Tab Overflow Scrollbar: Makes moving from tab to tab easier. Tabs Open Relative: Opens tabs to the right of the current one. These are my must have extensions.

By: RyanNicholson

RyanNicholson — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:36:55 +0000

Thanks for an awesome list of plugins, I use Twitkit already but the FTP client was new to me…what a time saver that will be!

By: Jeff Chandler

Jeff Chandler — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:54:23 +0000

I didn’t include Firebug because it is a web developers toy and is not really required for bloggers.

By: eugene noodleman

eugene noodleman — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 14:14:19 +0000

I can’t believe this plugin hasn’t been mentioned…. or has it and I just missed it? It’s one of the preeminent web developer plugins!! Quickly inspect your code, make edits in real time, check image sizes, and a whole lot more that is best explain at the website: http://getfirebug.com/

By: online banking

online banking — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:01:33 +0000

Great post, thanks!

I am still using sage and this was the first time I heard of SageToo, much appreciated.

Gbutts also looks interesting.

By: Chris@Photomania

Chris@Photomania — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 07:23:52 +0000

I am going to look at the snag it plug in but have any of you seen the FireShot plug in? I use this one for screen shots and it works great!! Something to check out if you get time. Great list btw, I got some new links to go check out now…..

By: Mark-reverse balding

Mark-reverse balding — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:38:45 +0000

I didn’t know about that real time monitoring extension and thought I knew them all. that is a pretty handy tool.

By: Brad - Office Supplies

Brad - Office Supplies — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:03:07 +0000

Good post as I had heard of most all of these apps except the Snag It extension. I have Snag It installed, but had no idea that there was a FF extension for it. I just installed it and what a time saver that will be. Every time I need a screenshot, I’ve going into Start=>Programs=>ETC so this will save me some time and every little bit counts in a workday.

By: Jeff Chandler

Jeff Chandler — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:22:22 +0000

I too use colorpicker. Boy has that little gem saved me some time! It can also be used to search out various CSS bits on a webpage.

By: Stacy

Stacy — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:40:46 +0000

I hadn’t heard of whos.amung.us. I’ve bookmarked that for a closer look. I have the oldbar extension, because FF3 is a pain without it (nope, the new url bar will never win me over). I also like color picker, which lets me look at the color code of any color I see on a webpage.

By: AlexNote

AlexNote — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:46:49 +0000

Thanks for Easy “Access To Google Services”. I will use it.

By: virtual vesting

virtual vesting — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:45:29 +0000

Thanks for sharing. These are some great plugins and I use several of them on my browser and for my sites. I especially like the built in FTP software. This thing rocks and beats installing another ftp client.

Peter

By: Movie Review

Movie Review — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:34:47 +0000

I heard about this GreaseMonkey addons, It’s a firefox extension right? Well i surfed the internet and found out that greasemonkey can embed price comparison. Whoa! this is great…

By: Billy Swordman

Billy Swordman — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:00:22 +0000

Can you help me where to get Google Toolbar 4 for FF?

By: Jeff Chandler

Jeff Chandler — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:47:10 +0000

@Mike D: I’ve heard quite a bit about ubiquity but I have yet to play around with it. Glad to hear it is working for you. Anything interesting within those translated spam messages?

@Ganja: Sounds like a complicated setup. Any chance you could link us to a screenshot of your Firefox in use?

@PHP Tut: I have been very reluctant to go to FireFox 3 due to extension incompatibilities. The other day though, I finally made the plunge and was thankful that all of the extensions I depend on were compatible.

@The Adventurist: Speed Dial sounds like a feature Chrome has built in. I’m not much of a visual guy and prefer to click on links or type a few letters into the address bar and quickly get back to where I’ve been.

@carlC: Ahh, Greasemonkey. Definitely a tool worth having in ones arsenal. Although I don’t use it, I’ve heard how extensible it can make Firefox beyond what it can already do.

@Hart: I thought about using Foxmarks for awhile but have since substituted that extension with my use of delicious. Twitterbar was the first extension I used which tied twitter into FireFox but now Twitbin has taken over.

By: 1-800-HART

1-800-HART — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:13:44 +0000

Ones that I’ve grown to appreciate.

Aardvark
Foxmarks Bookmarks Syncrhonizer
Fireshot
Shareaholic
Twitterbar

(among other stuff you have or listed above in the comments)

By: CarlC

CarlC — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:05:43 +0000

Customize Google is a pretty awesome one - it lets you do all sorts like anonymise your searching, automatically change to HTTPS for mail, click straight through to the image for image search and so on. Also, the best one ever is GreaseMonkey which allows you to run any JavaScript on a page. It's like a plugin system in a plugin. There are thousands of scripts written by people to slightly improve the browsing experience on particular sites. UserScripts has an archive of them, for example this one which "Loads older tweets endlessly when you're scrolling on the Twitter timeline."

By: The Adventurist

The Adventurist — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:31:01 +0000

You have mentioned some pretty good applications for Firefox 3. I am a fan of Scribefire and have used it for quite some time. It really makes blogging in more than one place easier to handle.

Another application that I was at first a bit reluctant to try out is Speed Dial. This takes a snap of your most visited sites and let’s you click the image and go straight to that page. In the past two years, this has become one of the great time saver apps that I use constantly. It really saves an enormous amount of time by not having you type in a new address every time you want to get someplace.

Nice article and thanks for the tips!

Jason A. Hendricks

By: Php Tutorials

Php Tutorials — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 07:20:14 +0000

wow.. what can i say? im proud i tried firefox 3. It is really great and it is just amazing because it works good on my vista. great post!

By: Ganja Blue

Ganja Blue — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:27:31 +0000

I use a combination of All-in-One sidebar, Twitbin, and Rightbar. In my All-in-one sidebar I dropped the icons for FireFTP, Scribefire, Twitbin and the Web Developer Toolbar. In the status bar I have FoxyTunes, TwittyTunes, Greasemonkey, AdBlock Plus, Foxmarks and FoxyProxy. I’m also a big fan of Lifehacker’s Better Google Reader and Better Gmail extensions. On my bookmarks toolbar folder I’m using a ton of bookmarklets. IS.GD!, PressThis, GmailThis, FacebookChat sidebar, and View source sidebar. To top it all off I use Yubnub address bar for my searches. I virtually use Firefox as my operating system.

BTW, the View source sidebar bookmarklet was something I put together myself. It will allow you to browse the source and the originating page in a slit window. Add a bookmark to your toolbar, put the follow code in the Location, and check the box that says “open in sidebar”.
javascript:void(window.open('view-source:'+window.location.href));

By: Mike D

Mike D — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:05:02 +0000

I have been playing around with Ubiquity, and it has quietly turned into my natural way to do a quick search (usually Google, but it works the same with Yahoo, though I have not tried MSN Search), post to Twitter.

The best part, it will do a decent translation of the Chinese spam that has been arriving lately (yes, it started arriving before I installed Ubiquity).