Firefox has for a long time now been the browser of choice for me. For quite a while I had the impression that I was keeping it pretty lean and not adding in too many extensions but it they just seem to keep creeping in. Here is my current list:
- Colorful tabs: The description for this goes “Colorul Tabs colors every tab in a different color and makes them easy to distinguish while beautifying the overall appearance of the interface”. While I agree with the first part, you can make your own mind up about the last claim in this sentence. Still, it is a useful add-in.
- ColoUnReadTabs: Marks unread tabs in red-bold-italic allowing to easily identify them. Well.. having a tab with a red-bold-italic title almost forces you to click on it to get rid of the red-bold-italic.
- DOM Inspector. Probably useful to developers but I never use it.
- Download statusbar: “View and manage downloads from a tidy status bar”. This one is pretty useful but takes up too much space at the bottom of the window for me. Will probably disappear off my list soon.
- Forecastfox: My weather station. For some reason I just really like it.
- IE Tab: “Enables you to use the embedded IE engine within Mozilla/Firefox”. Definitely in my top 3. There are a couple of sites I have to access in IE and this goes some way to making that a more pleasant experience.
- lori: “For tracking the life of a request”. Gives me useful information on how long a page takes to download etc. Very useful but the only problem is there seems to be a bug in it. The seconds/milliseconds timer seems accurate enough but the minute timer seems stuck on 30 minutes so every page seems to load in 30m (x)s (y)ms. Now I realise that broadband in Australia is pretty poor but really…
- Mozcc: “Provides an interface for viewing embedded Creative Commons Licenses”. This is disabled at the moment as it won’t work on current versions of Firefox but it was a truly useful extension. I hope some work gets done on it.
- Sage: A useful RSS/Atom aggregator.
- Tab Effect: For those of us that wish we had a Mac this provides a lift to an otherwise dull Windows interface.
- Tab History: “links opened in a new tab retain their history”. Very useful.
- Undo Closed Tabs Button: ” Add a toolbar button to undo closed tabs”. Again, very useful.
I’d love to know what others are using.
Cheers.
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My current list:
http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/mtillinger/2007/02/22/my-firefox-add-ons/
I work for a truck insurance company (http://www.commercialtruckinsurancenitic.com) and have used Safari and Camino on a mac platform. After reading your article I decided to install firefox and try it out. I was amazed at all the features that it offered and was even more amazed at the speed of how quickly web pages download.
There is another feature that I have to point out and ask a question on. The insurance company has a firewall that will block a lot of sites but using firefox I am able to bypass the firewall and view these sites.
Can anyone comment on why firefox is able to bypass the firewall?
Hi Joe,
I like the speed of Firefox too. There is something to say about not overloading programs with features so that they can run efficiently but having the ability to plug in just the features that you want.
As to how you are able to access sites that the firewall should be blocking, I am not sure. There are many types of security mechanisms - hardware and software - and it may be some software that is installed that is doing this. Others may know. Just a word of caution though and I apologize if this sounds dumb, but be very wary of providing any details on the Web/to people you don’t know about your environment.
Re: lori with extra 30 min. I’ve fixed it. The current version should display the time correctly.
Thanks Hung - I had updated the plugin and it works great.
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