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What is your Favorite Firefox Extension

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I'm trying to get some new FF Exts. . . . So I figure I would see what everyone's #1 favorite is.

Mine is hands down "Adblock." Basically this does what you would think it would do, blocks ads. And rather then have in a Blacklist/Whitelist format you chose the ads you do not wish to view. This has improved my surfing experience immensely. Even on sites such as CNN, Yahoo, Hotmail. I never realized how many Ads come from the same companies.


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Forecastfox is cool. It's way easier than going all the way outside to see what the weather is.
I like mouse gestures alot, but I mostly only seem to use the back and forward mouse click option.
 
ForcastFox was one of the first Extensions I installed. I work in a bunker and thus no windows :( to see outside.
I was toying with the idea of installing mouse gestures. I liked the concept when used in the PC game "Black & White."
 
The Googlebar is, of course, absolutely necessary.

Mouse Gestures is cool once you get used to it.

I also like Tabbrowser Preferences and Auto Copy.

~~ Paul
 
I know you asked for favorite (as in one) but my top faves in order are

  1. adblock - described above
  2. all in one gestures - once you get used to it you can't live without it (up-right to go a tab to the right, down right to close a tab, and lots more - you can add a gesture for "increment a digit in url" for eg. Now what could that be useful for? :p )
  3. ieview - for the odd page that won't display properly in firefox, just right click and choose "open in IE"
  4. conquery - right click context for sending highlighted text to any search engine in your search bar - my most used being google, wikipedia, my work phonebook, IMDB and google maps
  5. flashgot - integrates the firefox download management into "free download manager" a free open source dl manager that I think is the bee's (or several other DL managers but DLM is my one of choice)
  6. greasemonkey - takes scripts that fix up web sites or adds funtionality to them!! For eg you can add a "delete" button to gmail
  7. foxytunes - control almost any music player from the status bar at the bottom of your browser (much like windows media player docks on the toolbar but for many more players)
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I use Adblock, Auto Copy, and Forecast Fox. The only thing about Adblock is I haven't figured how to unblock an ad that you've inadvertantly blocked.
 
Psi Baba said:
I use Adblock, Auto Copy, and Forecast Fox. The only thing about Adblock is I haven't figured how to unblock an ad that you've inadvertantly blocked.
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I can't imagine an ad I'd want to unblock :p

But just for you, click "tools->adblock->preferences" (or press control+shift+p) and delete the line in your block list that you want to stop blocking.
 
AdBlock. I also have installed FlashGot, BugMeNot, Disable Targets and FavIcon Picker.
 
Donks said:
AdBlock. I also have installed FlashGot, BugMeNot, Disable Targets and FavIcon Picker.
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Two things:

1) What is up with firefox and JREF? There's a bug somewhere that limits the number of times I can refresh a JREF forum page. I know that sometimes it is the JREF server but more often it is my browser. I can wait twenty minutes for a page to reload and nothing. Close the browser and reconnect to JREF and everything is fine and dandy. This is troublesome mostly because my normal surf routine in this forum is to use the "View New Posts" link from the main forum menu. By closing the active instance of my browser I return to only a page or two of new posts as opposed to the several I had not yet reviewed.

2) Bugmenot does not seem to work very well for me. I must be doing something wrong. All of the email/username/password auto-entries are rejected repeatedly. I haven't had a single success yet in 10+ different sites. A 'wallet' extention would suit me but nobody's developed one yet.
 
Rob Lister said:
Two things:


2) Bugmenot does not seem to work very well for me. I must be doing something wrong. All of the email/username/password auto-entries are rejected repeatedly. I haven't had a single success yet in 10+ different sites. A 'wallet' extention would suit me but nobody's developed one yet.
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Try going to the firefox etensions page and searching for "password" there are several password managers
 
Rob Lister said:
Two things:

1) What is up with firefox and JREF? There's a bug somewhere that limits the number of times I can refresh a JREF forum page. I know that sometimes it is the JREF server but more often it is my browser. I can wait twenty minutes for a page to reload and nothing. Close the browser and reconnect to JREF and everything is fine and dandy. This is troublesome mostly because my normal surf routine in this forum is to use the "View New Posts" link from the main forum menu. By closing the active instance of my browser I return to only a page or two of new posts as opposed to the several I had not yet reviewed.
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I used to have some issues with Firefox and JREF, but they prety much dissapeared once I configured Firefox properly for broadband. See here.

2) Bugmenot does not seem to work very well for me. I must be doing something wrong. All of the email/username/password auto-entries are rejected repeatedly. I haven't had a single success yet in 10+ different sites. A 'wallet' extention would suit me but nobody's developed one yet.
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Strange. I've yet to encounter a site that didn't accept the BugMeNot ID. Do you have the latest version of BugMeNot?
 
Donks,

Thanks. I just did the fix and I'll let you know in a few days if it is faster or not. It does appear faster but the server load could be less.

Heath,

Thanks. I'll look into that. I'll let you know if it fixes the problem.
 
My favorite is StumbleUpon - it lets you channel-surf the internet based on what you tell it you're interested in. Pretty cool.

Very close is the GreaseMonkey/Platypus combo.
 
Getting a lot of good ideas, seem mouse gestures is a hit. I was unaware that people had created filter sets for Adblock. I just made my own, sometimes I even surf sites just to block the ads. :)
 
After adblock, it's got to be CustomizeGoogle. You can remove google text ads from everything, add in automatic filtering, etc.
For example, I hate looking up technical questions and finding the first ten results are from experts-exchange.com, where I can only see the *question* without signing up. So I use CustomizeGoogle to remove all results matching *.experts-exchange.com/*
 
heath said:
I can't imagine an ad I'd want to unblock :p

But just for you, click "tools->adblock->preferences" (or press control+shift+p) and delete the line in your block list that you want to stop blocking.
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Thanks for the tip. I kept clicking on the Adblock indicator in the status bar at the bottom right corner, but that only brings up a list of blockable items for the current page.
I probably should have put "ad" in quotes in my question. Some website graphics can get labeled as ads but aren't necessarily ads, and if you block it by being overzealous, you might want to get it back. No, a real ad I'm not likely to want to unblock either.
 
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