My favourite Firefox extensions
Monday, May 15, 2006
"How many times must people tell us their favourite firefox extensions?"I look at other peoples lists and sometimes I find things I don't know about, so here are mine. By the way, if your don't already have firefox (thats a web browser, like internet explorer, or the blue 'e' as Danny said to me once), then get it, give it a go and maybe drop it later if you don't like it like. I love it though. If you have it but don't know how to instal them, then just go to tools>extensions pop-up appears, click the 'get more extensions in the bottom right corner. This link takes you to the extensions website where you can pick them out and install them.
Ok, the list:
- Tabbedbrowser Preferences: This is always the first thing I grab when I instal a fresh copy. Adds a neat little button to your tab toolbar for new tabs, plus some other little preference settings.
- Download Statusbar: Rather than having a pop-up status box for your downloads it put's them into a status bar at the bottom of your browser. Just one of those annoyance tidiers.
- PDF Download: Because I don't always want to just open them in a new tab.
- Colorful Tabs: I originaly just thought this was geeky supurfluousness but was hassled into getting it by Jay. The colourfulness is nice enough, but the useful part is that the title on any tab you havn't yet looked at is italicised. I find this very useful as I often open many tabs when I flick through the results of a websearch.
- FireFTP: I won't recommend this as a replacement to a dedicated FTP client (for that I'd recommend filezilla, a quality dedicated ftp client). But it is pretty neat if you just want to quickly upload a file or two.
- ColorZilla: It has a colour eyedropper tool, plus various zoom funtions and other such like.
- Reveal: Another one from Jay. It's thumbs up all your tabs on hitting f2. Also gives you a thumb of the previous page on the back button. Has a very irritating tripple click magnifying glass, but that can be disabled through it's preferences
- Del.icio.us: If you have a del.icio.us account than this is a usefull extension for quick and easy tagging.
- JSView: Lets you inspect any javascript and css, like the view source function does for HTML.
posted by SkinOfStars @ 11:49 pm,
