The goal of this pinned topic is to let people know about extensions for Firefox that our members find to be the most useful.

Everyone should contribute their suggestions!

The extensions I am currently using are:

User Agent Switcher - Allows you to change the User Agent that your browser appears as.


BBCode - Inserts the text formatted with bbcode (what we use here at bc) into a forum message.

PrGoogleBar - The google bar for Firefox. This particular one includes the pagerank status for the webpage.

Gmail Notifier - Notifies you if you have mail in Gmail.

IE View 0.83 - Adds a menu option to view the current page in Internet Explorer.

FoxyTunes 0.61 - Control a media player from Firefox. Supports WMP, Winamp, itunes, musicmatch, and many more.

Download Manager Tweak 0.6.0 - Changes the appearance of the download manager.


Image Zoom 0.1.7 - Allows you to zoom images. Excellent!

WeatherFox 0.5.1-Get international weather forecasts from weather.com, and display it in any toolbar or statusbar with this highly customizable extension.

FirefoxView 0.31.1-Open Firefox with the current page or a selected link displayed in Internet Explorer. Adds "View in Firefox" menu items to the content and link context menus. Useful when you have started your browsing session in Internet Explorer by mistake ;-)

I, also, use IE View and BBCode.

Bandwidth Tester:

http://jgillick.nettripper.com/bandwidthtest/

Tiny URL creator:

http://jgillick.nettripper.com/tinyurl/

Mozilla Calendar:

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/

(note: the calender is the begiinning of Sunbird, a stand alone version for Firefox)

and of course, the IE laucher.

There are new extensions every week that add great functionality to both FF and Mozilla. A review of some of the more useful extensions can be found at:

http://www.flexbeta.net/main/articles.php?action=show&id=79

Cheers,
John

SpoofStick - which displays domain info, and helps detect spoofed websites
http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/#spoofstick

I also use TinyURL and BBcode creators.

But since upgrading I can't seem to find any of the old themes - have they gone? (sorry - off topic I know!)

Luci2a

luci2a,
Try here.

Undoclosetab

tg1911

Thanks!

Luci2a

You're welcome.

http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/#rssreaderpanel
RSS feeds on the left side of the browser makes reading headlines quick and easy

http://adblock.mozdev.org/dev.html
I can't live without Adblock,especially on msn sites that are FULL of graphic ads.

Also I'd like to point out that Firefox is very smart.There are a few sites that I can't remember the web site names for so I just type the name in Firefox and it finds the page.

example: gyach

There are others,but I'll let you try them out.

I like bug me not, for those pages that make you register.
And cookie culler.

mine would have to be the alt text thingie... you know
when you pause your mouse over a graphic and it shows
you some text about it??

found here:
Popup ALT Attributes

makes neopets much easier to navigate...

--rex

Who could live without adblock?

Yes meeeeeee, and who could live without CuteMenus

Gmail Notifier

Install New Theme

Zoomy

Toolbar Enhancements


What about this "Mirror" - http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/, better then mozilla.org

Just gettin FF. I like this so far. I want weatherfox. The link dun work or something. They got one from noaa.gov? I go there for my weather reports...much better than weather.com. Bear with me...i'm still a noob. ty -joe

Try downloading the extension from its home page. Once installed close FF and reopen it. Some extensions requite that you manually add that button by choosing View > Toolbars > Customize.
Regards,
John

Joe You might try just making a seperate page for the weather report you prefer. You can have all your favorite pages open at start up. Put all your favorite favorites in one folder and have that folder be your default home page.

edited to close tag

jpbc9999,

The Firefox extension, WeatherFox, has changed it's name to ForecastFox.
Here's a link to the homepage:

ForecastFox

Alll the extensions from mozillas site wont install or dl :-(....the other places doo, and yes I did put them in the allowed sites list.


NVM I can right click and save it somewhere then open it...which is a pain but o well.

downTHEMall

I love that program. Easily allows you to download every picture/movie on the page.

my favorite is the search box. there's alot of engines you can add to it. most of the other extensions i have i don't know how to use but i'm slowly learning them. i do have probs with a few that i had to get rid of.
foxy tunes caused firefox to crash when i closed the browser session because it was hooked into windows media player.
gmail notifier caused firefox to take as much as 90 seconds to load. got rid of it, now takes 3 seconds to load ff. same with yahoo.
i can't get the weather extension to work either.
thanks for the "down them all" referral, heretic monkey. i am playing with that one now.

If you like surfing/browsing around, you'll love StumbleUpon.

Adblocker is great, but my absolute favourite has to be 'I must not fear 1.0'

What does 'I must not fear 1.0' do ? Not a very descriptive extension on its extension page.

It adds an entry to your tools menu that says 'I must not fear' - when you click it it brings up an alert, the text of which begins 'I must not fear. Fear is the Mind-killer...'

Actually it's almost completely pointless, but I like it

LOL...i kinda do in a weird kinda way

I just got that one & am playing around with it now. Seems to be pretty cool & looks like it'll keep me busy for awhile

Tab Mix.

You won't need any other tab related extensions with this.

Its one of my favorite exntensions!

Generated Thu May 05 2005 21:49:56 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)

Enabled Extensions: (20)

A's Currency Converter 0.51 - Currency convertion calculator for exchange rates
Add Bookmark Here 0.5.3 - A convenient way to add bookmarks.
Bandwidth Tester 0.4.1 - Tells you the bandwidth of your current internet connection.
BetterSearch (formerly McSearchPreview) 1.8.1 - Enhances Google, A9, MSN, Yahoo, Answers.com (web results), AllTheWeb, del.icio.us and Simpy.com by adding previews (thumbnails) and Amazon product info (images, prices) as well as new special links to the search results.
Bookmarks Synchronizer 1.0.1 - Bookmarks Synchronizer is a Mozilla Firefox extension that let you connect to an FTP/WebDAV server and synchronize your bookmarks that are stored in an XML file. Setup is easy; just write in your FTP/WebDAV server address, username, password and a name for the XML file (by default called xbel.xml). To start, press Upload to create the file on the server and set if you want to automatically download the file on startup or upload it when you close your browser.
CountdownClock Extension 0.9.4.1 - Displays a clock that counts down to a target date.
Enhanced Bookmark Search 0.1.2.00 - Flexible Bookmark Search
Gmail Notifier 0.4.2 - A notifier for Gmail accounts.
Gmail S/Mime 0.1.1 - Send and receive encrypted S/Mime messages in Gmail.
googlebar 0.9.5.06 - The Googlebar for Firefox
ListZilla 0.5.1 - Outputs an alphabetical list of either extensions or themes to a text, vB code, or HTML file.
Locate in Bookmark Folders 0.1.1 - Locates a bookmark in Bookmarks Manager's folders tree, complementing the Search feature of Bookmarks Manager. If you were missing the 'Locate' button from CHM files, here it is for Firefox.
Net Usage Item 0.6.8 - Displays your internet usage on a tool item.
PONG! 1.3 - Play a game of PONG!
ShowIP 0.7.6 - Show the IP address of the current page in the status bar. It also allows querying custom services by IP (right mouse button) and Hostname (left mouse button), like whois, netcraft. Additionally you can copy the IP address to the clipboard. This extension was formerly known as ipv6ident.
Smiley Xtra 3.1 - Insert smilies from an online database into forum posts, blogs and more!
Sort Bookmarks 0.5.0.2 - This extension sorts your bookmarks alphabetically.
StumbleUpon 1.9995 - StumbleUpon Toolbar
Tabbrowser Preferences 1.2.4 - Enhances control over some aspects of tabbed browsing.
U.S. Homeland Security Threat Level 0.4 - Displays the current U.S. Homeland Security Threat Level as an icon in the status bar.

QuickNote is a note taking extension slightly modeled after "Post-It",

Disable Targets For Downloads 0.9, Dont let download links open a blank tab

I couldn't find the previous topic using the search thing. I could have sworn there was one.

Anywho just list what Firefox Extensions you use:


Generated Wed Aug 24 2005 00:47:55 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)

Enabled Extensions: (17)

Add Bookmark Here 0.5.3 - A convenient way to add bookmarks.
Bookmarks Synchronizer 1.0.1 - Bookmarks Synchronizer is a Mozilla Firefox extension that let you connect to an FTP/WebDAV server and synchronize your bookmarks that are stored in an XML file. Setup is easy; just write in your FTP/WebDAV server address, username, password and a name for the XML file (by default called xbel.xml). To start, press Upload to create the file on the server and set if you want to automatically download the file on startup or upload it when you close your browser.
Download Statusbar 0.9.3.1 - View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar
Enhanced Bookmark Search 0.1.3.02 - Flexible Bookmark Search
Gmail Notifier 0.5.1 - A notifier for Gmail accounts.
Googlebar Lite 2.1.1 - A light-weight Google search toolbar for Firefox.
HostIP.info Geolocation Plugin 0.2.1 - Displays Geolocation information for a website using hostip.info data.
ListZilla 0.5.1 - Outputs an alphabetical list of either extensions or themes to a text, vB code, or HTML file.
NoScript 1.1.1 - Extra protection for your Firefox: NoScript allows JavaScript, Java (and other plugins) only for trusted domains of your choice (e.g. your home-banking web site). This whitelist based pre-emptive blocking approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known and even unknown!) with no loss of functionality... Experts will agree: Firefox is really safer with NoScript :-)
PDF Download 0.5.1 - Allows to choose whether you want to view a PDF file inside the browser (as PDF or HTML) or you want to download it!
PONG! 1.7.1 - Play a game of PONG!
SessionSaver .2 0.2.1.028 - Magically restores your last browsing session.
ShowIP 0.7.9 - Show the IP address of the current page in the status bar. It also allows querying custom services by IP (right mouse button) and Hostname (left mouse button), like whois, netcraft. Additionally you can copy the IP address to the clipboard. This extension was formerly known as ipv6ident.
Sort Bookmarks 0.6.0 - This extension enhances bookmark sorting functionalities.
Sort Extensions 1.1 - Sorts the list of installed extensions alphabetically.
StumbleUpon 2.03 - StumbleUpon Toolbar
Tweak Network 1.1 - Tweak network settings.

Was this the reference?

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/Fav...sion-t3951.html

I use IEView, and the BBC code extensions the most. Let me know if you want me to append your post to the the one I cited.

Regards,
John

Yes it was. Could you please append my first post in this topic to that topic. I tried searching for "Firefox Extension" and didn't get anything. :-\

Done.
John

After using 1.5 for a while (the beta). My extensions have change significantly. And I've found some nice little tricks with some of these.

Generated Sat Nov 19 2005 00:46:22 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)

Enabled Extensions: (25)

Add Bookmark Here 0.5.5 - A convenient way to add bookmarks.
BetterSearch 1.9 - Enhances Google, A9, MSN, Yahoo, Answers.com (web results), AllTheWeb, del.icio.us, Dogpile and Simpy.com by adding previews (thumbnails) and Amazon product info (images, prices) as well as new special links to the search results. (This extension was formerly known as McSearchPreview.)
Bookmarks Synchronizer 1.1.2 - Bookmarks Synchronizer is a Mozilla Firefox extension that let you connect to an FTP/WebDAV server and synchronize your bookmarks that are stored in an XML file. Setup is easy; just write in your FTP/WebDAV server address, username, password and a name for the XML file (by default called xbel.xml). To start, press Upload to create the file on the server and set if you want to automatically download the file on startup or upload it when you close your browser.
ColorZilla 0.8.3.1 - Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies.
CountdownClock 1.3.1 - Displays a clock that counts down to a target date.
Disable Targets For Downloads 1.0 - Prevents download links opening a blank window.
Download Statusbar 0.9.4 - View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar
Extended Statusbar 1.2.4 - A Statusbar with Speed, Percentage, Time and loaded size (like Opera's one)
Fasterfox 0.7.9 - Performance and network tweaks for Firefox.
Gmail Notifier 0.5.3 - A notifier for Gmail accounts.
Googlebar Lite 3.1 - A light-weight Google search toolbar for Firefox.
Html Validator 0.7.6 - Adds HTML validation to the View Page Source of the browser. The validation is done by Tidy from W3c.
IE Tab 1.0.6.3 - Open IE-only pages in "embedded IE" !!!
Leet Key 1.0.0 - Transforms typed or static text to L337, ROT13, BASE64, HEX, URL, BIN, Morse Code and DVORAK.
ListZilla 0.7 - Outputs an alphabetical list of extensions to a text, vB code, or HTML file.
MR Tech Local Install 4.0 - Local Install power tools for all users.
Noia 2.0 (eXtreme) 2.991 - Fully skinned based on Noia icon set.
NoScript 1.1.3.4 - Extra protection for your Firefox: NoScript allows JavaScript, Java (and other plugins) only for trusted domains of your choice (e.g. your home-banking web site). This whitelist based pre-emptive blocking approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known and even unknown!) with no loss of functionality... Experts will agree: Firefox is really safer with NoScript :-)
Outlook 2003 Blue 1.5.1 - Outlook 2003 Theme in Blue
PDF Download 0.5.1.2 - Allows to choose whether you want to view a PDF file inside the browser (as PDF or HTML) or you want to download it!
Screen grab! 0.6 - Takes a screen shot using Java.
ShowIP 0.7.99.11 - Show the IP address of the current page in the status bar. It also allows querying custom services by IP (right mouse button) and hostname (left mouse button), like whois, netcraft. Additionally you can copy the IP address to the clipboard.
(0.7.99.11 == 0.7.11, just circumvent an addons.mozilla.org ordering bug)
Split Link 1.3 - Split a link into multiple urls.
Stealther 0.11 - Surf the web without leaving a trace in Firefox.
StumbleUpon 2.2 - StumbleUpon Toolbar