Essential Firefox Extensions
Posted on May 24, 2006 in Technology, Websites by Jeff Starr
Firefox users, lend me your ears! As you know, Firefox is like the most excellent, versatile, reliable, and secure browser available today. Extensions are just one of the features that make Firefox so versatile and efficient. Extensions enable Fx users to customize their browsing experience by adding tools that help with security, searching, and multimedia. Here is a list of our favorite — nay, essential — Firefox extensions:
- Adblock Filterset.G Updater 0.3.0.4
- Adblock Plus 0.7.1.2
- All-In-One Sidebar 0.6.4
- Bookmark Backup 0.4
- Broadband Speed Test and Diagnostics 1.0.1
- ChatZilla 0.9.75
- Clear Cache Button 0.3
- Colorful Tabs 1.4
- ColorZilla 0.8.3.1
- Copy All Urls 0.6.2
- Copy as HTML Link 1.0
- CustomizeGoogle 0.50
- del.icio.us 1.1
- Document Map 0.5
- Download Statusbar 0.9.4.1
- Extended Statusbar 1.2.4
- Fasterfox 1.0.3
- Firefox Extension Backup Extension (FEBE) 3.0
- FireFTP 0.94.3
- FlashGot 0.5.96.060823
- Furl Tools 0.6
- Google Pagerank Status 0.9.6
- Html Validator 0.7.9.3
- IE Tab 1.0.9.5
- IE View 1.3.0
- Image Zoom 0.2.6
- InfoLister 0.9e
- LinkChecker 0.4.5
- ListZilla 0.8
- MeasureIt 0.3.5
- Menu Editor 1.2.2
- Noia 2.0 (eXtreme) 3.12
- Ook? Video Ook! 0.5.1
- Orbit Grey Custom 0.7.0
- Resize Search Box 0.0.7
- Restart Firefox 0.3
- Screen grab! 0.8
- SearchWith 0.2
- SEOpen 0.7
- ShowIP 0.8.02
- Small Screen Renderer 1.2
- SpiderZilla 1.5.3
- Tab Mix Plus 0.3.0.5
- Tab Sidebar 1.0.3
- Torrent-Search Toolbar 1.0.1.21
- UnPlug 1.4.1
- User Agent Switcher 0.6.8
- VideoDownloader 1.1
- Web Developer 1.0.2
- Wizz RSS News Reader 2.1.5
- X-Ray 0.8
A note on the Fasterfox plugin: adding the following two lines of code to the root
robot.txtfile will spare servers from heavy loads caused by the plugin's enhanced prefetching feature.user-agent: Fasterfoxdisallow: /to download embedded videos I prefer to use Ook? Video Ook!
tnarik,
thanks for the heads up regarding Ook? Video Ook! — i have downloaded and installed a copy and will give it a try!
that’s terribly ironic or just funny.
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I’ve used Fasterfox for quite a while now, and though it occasionally slows down new pages I visit, pages I regularly visit it speeds up surfing a LOT!
I’ve found a link for a tweaked version of Fasterfox, called rather cheesly Fastererfox. It allows you to grab web pages even faster with some new options which can be changed by the rather cool sounding “Thrash” option in the properties box.
http://rdc.untamed.co.uk/fastererfox/frame.htmThanks Mark — I will definitely check it out!