Wednesday, November 9th, 2005, 5:58 pm
Favourite Firefox Extensions
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Firefox Web Developer extension (click to enlarge)
OME time in the past I mentioned my ‘Firefox essentials’ and a variety of Firefox toolbars. As it has been many months since then, I would like to list extensions and hacks which I am still pleased with.
- CSS-based ads blocker – get rid of nasty advertisements (even the ones that sometimes appear in my site)
- Mouse Gestures (particularly from Optimoz) – browse using your hand motion
- Flashblock – block Flash and permit its invocation using mouseclicks
- Googlebar – better in many respects than the Google Toolbar
- SearchStatus – highlight
rel="nofollow"links in red; display PageRank and Alexa rank in the status bar; check for inclusion in the Google Directory and DMOZ - Web Developer – the ultimate designer/debugger extension (see picture at top)
- Netcraft Toolbar – detailed and rather technical site information
- AdSense Notifier – little notifier for accumulated earnings – updated merely at real-time in the status bar
Redundant extensions that I no longer use or have disabled over time:
- FlashGot – mass downloads (can use
wgetinstead) - SpellBound – spellchecker in textareas (does not work consistently)
- PRGoogleBar – Googlebar with PageRank (Googlebar has evolved more though)
- Live HTTP Headers – if you are curious or develop for the Web and delve into headers-level
- A9 Toolbar – good for boosting your Alexa rank (via history log)
November 9th, 2005 at 7:06 pm
Nice collection of extensions. Try also “Title save” and “Download statusbar” (both on the http://addons.mozilla.org site) if you haven’t already.
November 10th, 2005 at 6:54 am
Thanks for the recommendations. I set the Download Manager to be invisible by default and I can invoke it if something goes amiss.