A listing of the firefox addons I use and consider a must have to complete my browsing experience. Yeah, it adds some bloat, but add functionality that outweighs the bloat. Questions? Comments? Know of a killer addon I left out? Am I totally jacked up? Let me know by posting comments!
UPDATED FOR FIREFOX 3
Better Gmail
- Make Gmail Better with user suggested features
ColorfulTabs
- Make Multiple tabs easier on the eyes
Colorzilla
- Grab the exact color of an object on a webpage (web developing tool)
Extended Copy Menu
- To grab info (text) without all the fancy formatting
Customize Google
- Add some nifty features to Google Search
Del.icio.us Bookmarks
- Social Bookmarking site Tool, Basically, keep all your bookmarks in sync no matter where you are at
Extended Statusbar
- Add some detail to status bar like CPU usuage and Memory Usuage
Greasemonkey
- Allow use of user created customizations for popular websites (post of favorites coming later)
Hide Menubar
- Gain screen real estate by hiding the menubar (You can show it quickly by pressing ALT key)
Locationbar2(Squared)
- Makes address bar more readable by breaking it up into sections
MeasureIt
- Measure on screen actual pixel width of elements (Web Developing Tool)
PDF Download
- Add extra options when viewing a PDF file such as save, view in browser, etc
StatusbarEx
- Some extra detail such as page load time, image total, transfer rate, etc
StumbleUpon
- To truly surf the web. Give it your interests, press stumble, find awesome sites related to your interests, user contributed.
Web Developer
- Tool to see DIV borders, table layouts, extract CSS, validate page, etc (Web Developer Tool)
Stop Autoplay
- To stop the annoying autoplay songs like on MySpace or from stumbles (sometimes this extension causes issues with certain sites, I leave it disabled until I go on facebook or myspace)
Other:
Turn off IP6 DNS Lookup
- Speed up DNS Lookups
1. In the Firefox Location bar, enter about:config.
2. In the displayed list, enter network.dns.disableIPv6 in the Filter textbox.
3. Find the network.dns.disableIPv6 preference. The value should be true.
4. If the value is false, right-click it and select Toggle.
5. Close Firefox, then start it again, and try to connect.
Small Icons
- Gain Screen Real Estate
1. Right Click Toolbar, select "Customize", checkmark the small icons box.
Title bar, 1 toolbar, Statusbar
- Configuration to gain screen real estate
1. Right Click toolbar, select "Customize", drag buttons to and fro, make pretty
Foldershare to keep in Sync (No Google Gears!) - (Windows Only)
- Keep your Firefox extension in sync from PC to PC, but do not install Google Gears as this will break it (at the time of this writing - too long file names) Ironic using a Microsoft product to help a direct Microsoft competitor.
-Z
