Useful Firefox Extensions
A list of Firefox extensions I use.
Posted on 2006-06-17 17:29 by Jørn Støylen [permalink]
These are the Firefox extensions I use. This list is primarily for myself, since I use Firefox both at home and at work and need some way to remember what I’ve installed in one place so I can install it on the other too.
However, I’ll include comments as to why they’re great things. Check them out!
Latest additions: Stylish, Foxmarks, Clone Window
The list, in no particular order
| Web Developer | By far the single most useful extension out there for web developers. If you do web development, get this. |
| Greasemonkey | Use JavaScript to alter web pages. It’s very, very cool. |
| Platypus | Holy cow! Now I’m blown away! Edit web pages to suit your taste, then save your edits as a Greasemonkey script! This is powerful stuff! |
| Tab Mix Plus | The two previously listed extensions TabX and miniT are replaced by this one, which does things much better and less intrusive than the old TabBrowser Extension, which seemed to multiply your context menu length by 10, giving you instant access to 100 options you’d never use. |
| Copy Image | Adds “Copy Image to Clipboard” to context menu. |
| Disable Targets For Downloads | Are you annoyed by blank windows popping up when you click download links? Get rid of them with this extension! |
| Stylish | Like Greasemonkey, only for style sheets! In other words, per-site custom style sheets. I use this mainly to change the font on Weboggle. |
| Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer | Finally someone does bookmark synchronizing right! |
| Clone Window | I want to use the Home Page setting to show several tabs (Tracks, Kiko, Backpack and Protopage). But once you set the Home Page to anything, every new window you create will sport all those tabs, which is clearly not what I want, and exactly why I’d hitherto set it to “about:blank”. “Clone Window” to the rescue. While its name might suggest that its purpose is to enable you to clone a window, it lets you choose one of three alternatives for what new windows should contain: Home Page, blank window or a clone of the current window. |
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Why use TabX, when you can close the tab with the middle click on your mouse?
Because not everyone has a three-button mouse. I just tested scroll wheel click in the tab bar, and that opens a new tab, something I rather do with Cmd-T.