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Add-Ons That Make the Web a Better Place
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Mozilla Firefox was the first web browser that challenged the dominance of Internet Explorer by providing a faster and in many ways more secure alternative to Microsoft's offering. Part of Firefox's appeal stems from its powerful add-ons system, which allows users to install plug-ins that add to the browser's functionality.
Here are 30 different extensions that will turbocharge your surfing experience. By automating tasks, providing more control over how websites are displayed, and adding new ways of searching for information, these extensions will make Firefox even more faster and easier to use. One more thing: it goes without saying that these extensions only work with Mozilla Firefox, which you can download here.
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Kudos for FireFTP, FoxyProxy, TinEye, NoScript, FireBug and Greasemonkey.
Some favourites of mine (for privacy mostly):
'Change Referrer Button'
'CookieCuller'
'HTTPS-Everywhere'
'iMacros for Firefox'
'Modify Headers'
Here's a few more I would recommend:
WOT, Undo Closed Tabs Button, App Button Color, All-in-One Sidebar, Quick Search Bar, Memory Fox, LocationBar2, Adblock Plus Popup Addon and BetterPrivacy.
"more faster" ?
AdBlock. Best. Addon. Ever. 'Nuff said. I LOATHE ads... I bet that ads companies hate AdBlock, since no one sees their $h!t because of it
Here's a few more I would recommend:WOT, Undo Closed Tabs Button, App Button Color, All-in-One Sidebar, Quick Search Bar, Memory Fox, LocationBar2, Adblock Plus Popup Addon and BetterPrivacy.
Firefox has a built-in Undo Closed Tab Button.....
You can find it in View->Toolbars->Customize
No mention of flashblock?
Without flashblock there still are tons of ads in flash, even if you are using adblock+.
DownThemAll is another very popular add-on that should be among the 31 most popular add-ons
Besides Adblock Plus (of course), my favorite add-on must be FireGestures - it's become second nature to me.
The really sad thing about most of these addons, is that they've been found to significantly slow your Firefox. Otherwise it would have been a perfect world.
My favorites:
To use it, open the Windows 7 calculator, pick "View->Unit Conversion". It looks like someone took the awesome freeware app "Convert," and dropped its functionality into the Windows 7 calculator. It converts almost any measurement unit to any other measurement unit including things like angles, power, distance, pressure, etc.
Element Hiding Helper for AdBlock+ Makes hiding various elements like words tagged in web text with popups trivial.
SyncPlaces Easily syncs bookmarks across multiple browsers using a file on your own server, or a sync server elsewhere.
Finally, Unit Conversion is trivial now if you have Windows 7 as the calculator supports it. No need to google the conversion anymore.
for Adblock Plus users
don't forget to uncheck "Allow some non-intrusive advertising" in filter preference....
for Adblock Plus usersdon't forget to uncheck "Allow some non-intrusive advertising" in filter preference....
I haven't seen any ads even with that enabled, so I'm leaving it that way.
I use adblock plus, foobar (omnibar thing), ghostery, stratiform, wot, and xmarks. With that, Firefox is better than I've been able to make Chrome.
Upon reaching the addon Download Statusbar, which i've used for... quite some time now, my eyes read the first sentence over and over again: "Another copy of Google Chrome's..".
Immediately, I knew this was NOT true. So I did some searches: When were the titles became available?
**Earliest version of Download Statusbar for FIrefox - June 11, 2004**
"Version 0.9.0 Released June 11, 2004 22.5 KB Works with Firefox 0.8 - 0.10"
source: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fi [...] ns/?page=1
**Earliest version of Google Chrome - September 2, 2008**
"Word gets out about Chrome a bit ahead of schedule when the comic book that introduces our new open source browser is released earlier than planned on September 1. The browser officially becomes available for worldwide download a day later. "
source: http://www.google.com/about/company/history.html
And a little light reading shows an initial demo of Chrome was built by some Firefox developers..now who's copying from who?
source: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/0 [...] y-he-says/
Mr. Mossesgeld, I'm sure your other facts are correct, but your Download Statusbar info is not. Please do make the appropriate changes, thank you.
Upon reaching the addon Download Statusbar, which i've used for... quite some time now, my eyes read the first sentence over and over again: "Another copy of Google Chrome's..".
Immediately, I knew this was NOT true. So I did some searches: When were the titles became available?
**Earliest version of Download Statusbar for FIrefox - June 11, 2004**
source: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fi [...] ns/?page=1
**Earliest version of Google Chrome - September 2, 2008**
source: http://www.google.com/about/company/history.html
And a little light reading shows an initial demo of Chrome was built by some Firefox developers..now who's copying from who?
source: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/0 [...] y-he-says/
Mr. Mossesgeld, I'm sure your other facts are correct, but your Download Statusbar info is not. Please do make the appropriate changes, thank you.
... downthemall FTW!!!