(Parrot) Firefox Extensions, Share Yours

Ihmhi · 02-03-2009, 06:55 PM

Along the lines of the similarly popular "Utilities, Share Yours" thread.

What Firefox extensions do you use? (This thread is also appropriate for themes and other Firefawks-related stuff.)

Be kind, link to them via this site:

If they're not on addons.mozilla for some weird reason, link to a site where you can download it.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox

NoScript
Every person who uses Firefox should use this. It prevents any scripts or Flash from auto-executing unless you explicitly allow it.

Adblock Plus
Blocks Ads and better than Adblock IMO. You used to need Filterset.G to go with this, but not really anymore as Adblock Plus has filters built in.

ForecastBar Enhanced
Enhanced version of ForecastFox. Highly customizable. I love being able to look at animated radar because I can estimate roughly how much time I have before a storm hits. Great for general use but supreme fun for weather geeks.

ColorZilla
ColorZilla basically lets you figure out what a color is on a page. Click the lil' ColorZilla icon and then hover over a color, and it gives you a RHB and hex value for it. Great for web developers, artists, etc.

MeasureIt
Click the icon and drag a box that tells you the size of stuff in pixels. I mostly use it for making websites, .html files, etc.

ChatZilla
IRC in Firefox. Sadly this runs in a seperate windows instead of as a tab. If someone knows of an extension where I can run IRC in a tab within Firefox, I'd love to hear about it!

Paft · 02-03-2009, 07:53 PM

Tab Mix Plus
"Tab Mix Plus enhances Firefox's tab browsing capabilities. It includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more. It also includes a full-featured session manager."

Smart Bookmarks Bar
"Not enough place on your bookmarks bar ?...
Smart Bookmarks Bar extension comes right here by hiding bookmarks names and only showing icons.
Bookmark names will be displayed on mouse over."

Session Manager
"Session Manager saves and restores the state of all windows - either when you want it or automatically at startup and after crashes. Additionally it offers you to reopen (accidentally) closed windows and tabs."

DownThemAll!
"The first and only download manager/accelerator built inside Firefox!"

OpenDownload
"Allows you to open any file from the internet into the OS assigned program. This is similar to IE's 'Open' or 'Run' file download functionality. ..."

Split Browser
"This splits the content area of the browser window as you like."

Flashgot
"Download all the links, movies and audio clips of a page at the maximum speed with a single click, using the most popular, lightweight and reliable external download managers."

Greasemonkey
"Allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript. ..."

Greasefire
"Automatically find Greasemonkey scripts on Userscripts.org (requires Greasemonkey)"

Stylish
"Customize the look of the application and of websites with Stylish, a user styles manager."

Show Go!
"Always show the go button in the location bar...not just when you type in the location bar" (Yeah, you can get it back other ways but why not do it the lazy way.)

IE Tab
"IE Tab - an extension from Taiwan, features: Embedding Internet Explorer in tabs of Mozilla/Firefox... "

Stuff I have installed out of curiosity but not experimented much with:

Ghostery
Adblock Plus Filter Uploader
Adblock Plus: Element Hiding Helper
Mr Uptime
New Tab Button Position (Mix Tab Plus fooks it up, I think)
SmoothWheel
Undo Closed Tabs Button (Mix Tab Plus fooks it up, I think)
Nuke Anything Enhanced
Bookmark Duplicate Detector

[For Thunderbid]
MinimizeToTray - (work(s)ed with FF) Out dated but still works with TB for me.

Contacts Sidebar
"Displays the address books in a sidebar in Thunderbirds 3-pane-window and can be toggled with the F4 key or a toolbar button." Like OE

*Installs MeasureIt*

Mooga · 02-04-2009, 02:17 AM

Linkification
Converts text links into genuine, clickable links...
((Seriously an amazing and simple piece of work))

ReloadEvery
Reloads web pages every so many seconds or minutes. The function is accessible via the context menu (menu you get when you right click on a web page) or via a drop down menu on the reload button ...

Caroline · 02-04-2009, 10:23 AM

Web Developer toolbar
The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools. It is designed for Firefox, Flock and Seamonkey, and will run on any platform that these browsers support including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It's aweseome if you're in to stuff like that.

Bridget · 02-04-2009, 12:41 PM

I've been using Vimperator (http://vimperator.org/trac/wiki/Vimperator) lately. It's a plugin for Firefox that strips it down to only a tab bar and adds a command bar at the bottom. It allows for mouse-free browsing in the style of the VIM text editor. My mouse died four days ago and I won't have a replacement for a while (up to a month if Logitech decides to be an asshole) so it comes in handy. There's a tough segment of learning how to use it at the beginning, but once you become fluent with it (Luckily, I had experience using VIM when I messed around with Python) you can easily browse the internet quicker with your keyboard than your mouse.

OneManArmy · 02-04-2009, 05:13 PM

StumbleUpon, nice stuff when ya got bored :P

**mervaka** · 02-04-2009, 05:46 PM

Source Viewer Tab

Mulchman MM · 02-05-2009, 08:48 PM

FoxyProxy, AmaroK XUL remote, Stylish, Tab Mix Plus, & DownThemAll

Paft · 03-23-2009, 11:08 AM

Resizeable Textarea 0.1d
"resize small textareas" (doesn't work here, so usless to me

)

Can't tell which is better:
SmoothWheel
"Scrolls the document smoothly when scrolling the mouse wheel (or using keyboard arrows)."

Yet Another Smooth Scrolling
"Replaces scroll behavior with both mouse wheel and cursor key into fully customizable natural smooth one."

Everything · 03-23-2009, 04:11 PM

Media Converter
"Download and convert online videos directly from your browser without the need for special software. This is a video downloader and video converter in one simple extension."

Paft · 05-09-2009, 12:20 AM

Remove It Permanently 1.0.6.4

"Permanently hide content from web pages using the Context Menu. Simply, click and "Remove it Permanently". Now includes previewing of items before removal, support for IFrame as well as lots of advanced features to make it easy for..."

GeoKill-----> · 05-10-2009, 05:52 AM

I been using that for years, I love it on sites I frequently use

Paft · 05-10-2009, 04:08 PM

There are quite a few of similar ones, not had the chance to give them a real go really:

Platypus
Nuke Anything Enhanced

GeoKill-----> · 05-10-2009, 07:23 PM

I used Nuke it for a while but it does not save the page Like RIP does
Never heard of Platypus though

hlstriker · 05-10-2009, 09:25 PM

Live HTTP Headers
View HTTP headers of a page and while browsing.

(Sometimes easier for certain things instead of Wireshark

)

**Ricey** · 05-23-2009, 04:57 PM

Web Developer and Cooliris , was running other web designer/dev ext but they dont work for the beta.

Paft · 07-16-2009, 09:05 PM

Multiple Tab Handler

"Provides feature to close multiple tabs."

Dr.Satan · 11-26-2009, 07:21 AM

ah, I love this thread...just got mozilla back and man did I miss some of these!

Paft · 11-26-2009, 07:33 AM

Heh, I have used this thread in the past to remind myself of some of the things I used. When doing a clean install.

Mooga · 01-15-2010, 06:12 PM

This is a wonderful little plugin that is so simple, it's just a gift!
Long URL Please
If extends those short URLs into real link!

02-03-2009, 06:55 PM	#1
Ihmhi [AE] 0112 Ihmhi SJB Wiki Team Fortress Forever Staff Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Newark, NJ, United States Class/Position: A little bit o' everythin' Gametype: Also a little bit o' everythin' Affiliations: [AE] Asseater, SJB Straight Jacket Brigade Posts Rated Helpful 3 Times	Firefox Extensions, Share Yours Along the lines of the similarly popular "Utilities, Share Yours" thread. What Firefox extensions do you use? (This thread is also appropriate for themes and other Firefawks-related stuff.) Be kind, link to them via this site: If they're not on addons.mozilla for some weird reason, link to a site where you can download it. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox NoScript Every person who uses Firefox should use this. It prevents any scripts or Flash from auto-executing unless you explicitly allow it. Adblock Plus Blocks Ads and better than Adblock IMO. You used to need Filterset.G to go with this, but not really anymore as Adblock Plus has filters built in. ForecastBar Enhanced Enhanced version of ForecastFox. Highly customizable. I love being able to look at animated radar because I can estimate roughly how much time I have before a storm hits. Great for general use but supreme fun for weather geeks. ColorZilla ColorZilla basically lets you figure out what a color is on a page. Click the lil' ColorZilla icon and then hover over a color, and it gives you a RHB and hex value for it. Great for web developers, artists, etc. MeasureIt Click the icon and drag a box that tells you the size of stuff in pixels. I mostly use it for making websites, .html files, etc. ChatZilla IRC in Firefox. Sadly this runs in a seperate windows instead of as a tab. If someone knows of an extension where I can run IRC in a tab within Firefox, I'd love to hear about it! __________________ Support FF: Anime: The Thread: Reloaded The one and only anime thread on these here forums. Select the pistol, and then, select your horse. Last edited by Ihmhi; 02-04-2009 at 02:31 AM.

02-03-2009, 07:53 PM	#2
Paft Beta Tester Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: UK - http://forums.fortress-forever.com Class/Position: [O] Med Gametype: CTF/Skills Posts Rated Helpful 67 Times	Tab Mix Plus "Tab Mix Plus enhances Firefox's tab browsing capabilities. It includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more. It also includes a full-featured session manager." Smart Bookmarks Bar "Not enough place on your bookmarks bar ?... Smart Bookmarks Bar extension comes right here by hiding bookmarks names and only showing icons. Bookmark names will be displayed on mouse over." Session Manager "Session Manager saves and restores the state of all windows - either when you want it or automatically at startup and after crashes. Additionally it offers you to reopen (accidentally) closed windows and tabs." DownThemAll! "The first and only download manager/accelerator built inside Firefox!" OpenDownload "Allows you to open any file from the internet into the OS assigned program. This is similar to IE's 'Open' or 'Run' file download functionality. ..." Split Browser "This splits the content area of the browser window as you like." Flashgot "Download all the links, movies and audio clips of a page at the maximum speed with a single click, using the most popular, lightweight and reliable external download managers." Greasemonkey "Allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript. ..." Greasefire "Automatically find Greasemonkey scripts on Userscripts.org (requires Greasemonkey)" Stylish "Customize the look of the application and of websites with Stylish, a user styles manager." Show Go! "Always show the go button in the location bar...not just when you type in the location bar" (Yeah, you can get it back other ways but why not do it the lazy way.) IE Tab "IE Tab - an extension from Taiwan, features: Embedding Internet Explorer in tabs of Mozilla/Firefox... " Stuff I have installed out of curiosity but not experimented much with: Ghostery Adblock Plus Filter Uploader Adblock Plus: Element Hiding Helper Mr Uptime New Tab Button Position (Mix Tab Plus fooks it up, I think) SmoothWheel Undo Closed Tabs Button (Mix Tab Plus fooks it up, I think) Nuke Anything Enhanced Bookmark Duplicate Detector [For Thunderbid] MinimizeToTray - (work(s)ed with FF) Out dated but still works with TB for me. Contacts Sidebar "Displays the address books in a sidebar in Thunderbirds 3-pane-window and can be toggled with the F4 key or a toolbar button." Like OE Installs MeasureIt __________________ TFC Resource TFC/FF/TF2 customs at: ZZUBYTTIHS - www.tfcgaschamber.com - www.ozfortress.com - www.fpsbanana.com - mrclan.com - TFC Essentials Jan 2012 Last edited by Paft; 02-03-2009 at 08:18 PM.

02-04-2009, 02:17 AM	#3
Mooga Colorless FTW D&A Member Beta Tester Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: A Small Box Affiliations: SRCDS.com Posts Rated Helpful 1 Times	Linkification Converts text links into genuine, clickable links... ((Seriously an amazing and simple piece of work)) ReloadEvery Reloads web pages every so many seconds or minutes. The function is accessible via the context menu (menu you get when you right click on a web page) or via a drop down menu on the reload button ... __________________ ~ Mooga ...w00t? SRCDS.com \| Twitter

02-05-2009, 08:48 PM	#8
Mulchman MM Retired FF Staff Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Lacey, WA Posts Rated Helpful 0 Times	FoxyProxy, AmaroK XUL remote, Stylish, Tab Mix Plus, & DownThemAll __________________ Head of the Orca Revolution (TM)

03-23-2009, 11:08 AM	#9
Paft Beta Tester Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: UK - http://forums.fortress-forever.com Class/Position: [O] Med Gametype: CTF/Skills Posts Rated Helpful 67 Times	Resizeable Textarea 0.1d "resize small textareas" (doesn't work here, so usless to me ) Can't tell which is better: SmoothWheel "Scrolls the document smoothly when scrolling the mouse wheel (or using keyboard arrows)." Yet Another Smooth Scrolling "Replaces scroll behavior with both mouse wheel and cursor key into fully customizable natural smooth one." __________________ TFC Resource TFC/FF/TF2 customs at: ZZUBYTTIHS - www.tfcgaschamber.com - www.ozfortress.com - www.fpsbanana.com - mrclan.com - TFC Essentials Jan 2012

02-04-2009, 10:23 AM	#4
Caroline Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts Rated Helpful 0 Times	Web Developer toolbar The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools. It is designed for Firefox, Flock and Seamonkey, and will run on any platform that these browsers support including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It's aweseome if you're in to stuff like that.

02-04-2009, 12:41 PM	#5
Bridget Banned Join Date: Sep 2008 Class/Position: Soldier Gametype: AVD Affiliations: TALOS Posts Rated Helpful 5 Times	I've been using Vimperator (http://vimperator.org/trac/wiki/Vimperator) lately. It's a plugin for Firefox that strips it down to only a tab bar and adds a command bar at the bottom. It allows for mouse-free browsing in the style of the VIM text editor. My mouse died four days ago and I won't have a replacement for a while (up to a month if Logitech decides to be an asshole) so it comes in handy. There's a tough segment of learning how to use it at the beginning, but once you become fluent with it (Luckily, I had experience using VIM when I messed around with Python) you can easily browse the internet quicker with your keyboard than your mouse.

02-04-2009, 05:13 PM	#6
OneManArmy Ka-boom! Join Date: May 2008 Location: Ukraine Class/Position: Demo, Solly, Pyro Gametype: CTF Posts Rated Helpful 0 Times	StumbleUpon, nice stuff when ya got bored :P

02-04-2009, 05:46 PM	#7
mervaka A Very Sound Guy! Fortress Forever Staff Join Date: May 2005 Location: UK Posts Rated Helpful 15 Times	Source Viewer Tab

03-23-2009, 04:11 PM	#10
Everything This is still alive? Wiki Team Beta Tester Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Naples, FL Posts Rated Helpful 3 Times	Media Converter "Download and convert online videos directly from your browser without the need for special software. This is a video downloader and video converter in one simple extension."

05-09-2009, 12:20 AM	#11
Paft Beta Tester Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: UK - http://forums.fortress-forever.com Class/Position: [O] Med Gametype: CTF/Skills Posts Rated Helpful 67 Times	Remove It Permanently 1.0.6.4 "Permanently hide content from web pages using the Context Menu. Simply, click and "Remove it Permanently". Now includes previewing of items before removal, support for IFrame as well as lots of advanced features to make it easy for..." __________________ TFC Resource TFC/FF/TF2 customs at: ZZUBYTTIHS - www.tfcgaschamber.com - www.ozfortress.com - www.fpsbanana.com - mrclan.com - TFC Essentials Jan 2012

05-10-2009, 05:52 AM	#12
GeoKill-----> Community Member Server Owner Beta Tester Forum Moderator Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Hawthorne, California Class/Position: Soldier/Spy/Scout Gametype: AvD Affiliations: :e0:Eternal Order Leader Posts Rated Helpful 12 Times	I been using that for years, I love it on sites I frequently use __________________ Fortress-Forever Guides All Your Mapping Needs :e0: Will live on Forever Support FF:

05-10-2009, 04:08 PM	#13
Paft Beta Tester Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: UK - http://forums.fortress-forever.com Class/Position: [O] Med Gametype: CTF/Skills Posts Rated Helpful 67 Times	There are quite a few of similar ones, not had the chance to give them a real go really: Platypus Nuke Anything Enhanced __________________ TFC Resource TFC/FF/TF2 customs at: ZZUBYTTIHS - www.tfcgaschamber.com - www.ozfortress.com - www.fpsbanana.com - mrclan.com - TFC Essentials Jan 2012

05-10-2009, 07:23 PM	#14
GeoKill-----> Community Member Server Owner Beta Tester Forum Moderator Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Hawthorne, California Class/Position: Soldier/Spy/Scout Gametype: AvD Affiliations: :e0:Eternal Order Leader Posts Rated Helpful 12 Times	I used Nuke it for a while but it does not save the page Like RIP does Never heard of Platypus though __________________ Fortress-Forever Guides All Your Mapping Needs :e0: Will live on Forever Support FF:

05-10-2009, 09:25 PM	#15
hlstriker QUAD ROCKET Server Owner Fortress Forever Staff Join Date: Jul 2007 Class/Position: Soldier Gametype: Rocket Jumping Affiliations: -g1 ]qS[ -eC- :e0: [ESAD] Posts Rated Helpful 11 Times	Live HTTP Headers View HTTP headers of a page and while browsing. (Sometimes easier for certain things instead of Wireshark )

05-23-2009, 04:57 PM	#16
Ricey UI Designer Front-End Developer Fortress Forever Staff Join Date: May 2008 Location: Winter Park, FL Class/Position: D Eng Gametype: CTF 9v9 Affiliations: .gr , smr Posts Rated Helpful 46 Times	Web Developer and Cooliris , was running other web designer/dev ext but they dont work for the beta. __________________ Support FF: Maps : Haste \|Scrummage \|Mulch_Trench Voltage \| Exchange Classic \| Fortsake ricecakes: I demand SGs get a buff squeek.: buy it a gym membership 'I have an eye for design' - Kube 2014

07-16-2009, 09:05 PM	#17
Paft Beta Tester Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: UK - http://forums.fortress-forever.com Class/Position: [O] Med Gametype: CTF/Skills Posts Rated Helpful 67 Times	Multiple Tab Handler "Provides feature to close multiple tabs." __________________ TFC Resource TFC/FF/TF2 customs at: ZZUBYTTIHS - www.tfcgaschamber.com - www.ozfortress.com - www.fpsbanana.com - mrclan.com - TFC Essentials Jan 2012

11-26-2009, 07:21 AM	#18
Dr.Satan Wiki Team Fortress Forever Staff Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Greeley, CO Class/Position: Med / Solly Gametype: PAYLOAD Affiliations: DET- Posts Rated Helpful 19 Times	ah, I love this thread...just got mozilla back and man did I miss some of these! __________________ FF Community Map Pack(s): 1 / 2 (Released) conc_school \| hellion_classic \| ksour_PAYLOAD \| mulch_faf (Beta) alchimy_b1 (Lua) base_payload_2015 (Models) props_trainyard Support FF:

11-26-2009, 07:33 AM	#19
Paft Beta Tester Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: UK - http://forums.fortress-forever.com Class/Position: [O] Med Gametype: CTF/Skills Posts Rated Helpful 67 Times	Heh, I have used this thread in the past to remind myself of some of the things I used. When doing a clean install. __________________ TFC Resource TFC/FF/TF2 customs at: ZZUBYTTIHS - www.tfcgaschamber.com - www.ozfortress.com - www.fpsbanana.com - mrclan.com - TFC Essentials Jan 2012

01-15-2010, 06:12 PM	#20
Mooga Colorless FTW D&A Member Beta Tester Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: A Small Box Affiliations: SRCDS.com Posts Rated Helpful 1 Times	This is a wonderful little plugin that is so simple, it's just a gift! Long URL Please If extends those short URLs into real link! __________________ ~ Mooga ...w00t? SRCDS.com \| Twitter

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