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Gerri Shin February 26th, 2008 4:07 PM

well I used to use Piclens, Foxytunes, and Download statusbar when I used 2.0, however now that I'm working with 3.0b3 I can only use Download statusbar

Zanacross February 26th, 2008 4:29 PM

Currently have running

Minimize to tray. This is good. Does what the title says.
Stumble upon. This is the best tool bar ever.
Tab rename. Renames my tabs
Try again. Very useful. If a page is down it will reload it until it's back on line
Yahoo mail notifier. Notify's me on my incoming mail.
British English Dictionary. A dictionary which I need.
Chatzilla. An IRC client built into Firefox.
Adblock obviously. Best Addon ever

Eon-Rider February 26th, 2008 4:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ausaudriel (Post 3373600)
(I don't want to see any "I don't use Firefox, I use ___!" replies here. :C If you don't use Firefox, don't reply.)

Aaanyway, what add-ons for Firefox do you have installed? o3o They're one of the things about Firefox that make it my choice as the best browser, I'd die without some of them. :C

I have:
  • Adblock Plus - I know most people will have it, because it's like the best plugin ever. Pretty self explanatory, it lets you block advertisements on sites. It's godsend. :D
  • Ctrl + Tab Preview - when you press ctrl + tab in Firefox, it scrolls between your tabs (it does this by default.) With this add-on, it gives you a preview of the tabs as you're scrolling through. It makes it really easy when I have a ton of tabs open and want to find one in specific
  • FireFTP - an FTP client built right into your browser. I use FTP a lot, and FireFTP has everything I need without any of the bloat that I don't. It's wonderful. :>
  • IE Tab - an extremely useful tool for webmasters who want to test how their sites appear in IE without having to actually open it. Basically what it does is allows you to switch the rendering engine from Firefox to IE, but only in one tab.
  • Save Complete - you know how you can save pages with File -> Save Page As? Well, that's largely ineffective since it doesn't save external CSS nor images referenced in the CSS (background images, etc.) Save Complete replaces that function and saves a PERFECT copy of the page. It's awesome. :D
  • Web Developer - an amazing add-on that adds far too much for me to even begin to explain. (Uploaded a screenshot, click here.) The main thing I use it for is the CSS editing, it lets you edit the CSS of the page you're viewing and see the results in real time, right there on the page. If you're into web development, I totally recommend it.
I used to have more installed, but I had to reinstall Firefox and I lost them all. D: Soo, what does everyone else use? :>

To be honest, I've never actually installed any plugins in FireFox but I think I might get some of those since they sound interesting.

EDIT: I just got Adblock Plus.

mewthree w/armor February 26th, 2008 6:20 PM

*Mewthree smacks audy for making a topic he wanted to* ;)

I'll post my list later, but I love Ad-Block plus and the stink some webmasters make over it. Great download. Might be one of the best ever.

Hotaru February 26th, 2008 6:49 PM

I currently have these plugins installed:

1. DownloadHelper - Captures flash and video content.
2. Firebug - Allows CSS/HTML editing on websites. I recently added this one and haven't had much of a chance to use it yet.
3. IE Tab - Allows you to view sites as IE would render them.
4. PicLens - A really nice full-screen 3-D tool for viewing pictures. Great for browsing DeviantART and Photobucket. :]
5. Save Complete - Saves exact copies of website pages.

I didn't have Save Complete before I read this thread, but I thought it sounded really useful in Ausaudriel's and couldn't resist downloading it. :D

Cherrim February 26th, 2008 7:06 PM

I have a lot that I use all the time and that I can't imagine being without. XD

Livejournal Addons
Greasemonkey
Adblock Plus
Colorzilla
Gmail Notifier
Resizeable Form Fields
Mouse Gestures
Tab Mix Plus
Fire FTP

edit: Ahaha, those are the ones I can't live without. In addition, I have these installed...

Abduction!
Canadian English Dictionary
Download Statusbar
Download Helper
dragdropupload
FasterFox
Firebug
Flashgot
Foxmarks Bookmarks Synchronizer
Gmail Space
Load Time Analyzer
Long Titles
Measure It
Table2Clipboard
WebDeveloper
Window Resizer

Audy, I may have to grab a few from your list there. Save Complete sounds divine and Ctrl+Tab Preview sounds very useful to me, especially right now where I'm not sure what about 6 tabs are since they have similar titles. XD;

Asch_R2 February 27th, 2008 9:04 AM

I really only use ScribeFire for posting to my blog but Save Complete sounds useful i might get that.

Legobricks February 27th, 2008 11:23 AM

I have no plug-ins what so ever. :D
One reason I use Firefox is its simplicity, it does what I need it to do — no sense in me adding anything to it.

Ayano Katagiri February 27th, 2008 8:03 PM

This is why I like Firefox, the addons sometimes are really helpful. But not to the extent where I can't live without them.

I've currently got these installed:
- Countdownclock
- Download statusbar (better than opening FF's download menu)
- DownThemAll
- FoxyTunes (handy sometimes, but slows down FF =\)
- IE Tab (good for those MS sites where IE must be used. x.x)
- Now Playing X (Helpful addon for WLM purposes)
- Speed Dial
- VideoDownloader

FourFourTwo February 27th, 2008 8:05 PM

i love the ad block and videodownloader. =]

peirateis February 29th, 2008 5:50 AM

I use three:
Adblock Plus - of course;
Download Statusbar - nice and neat :] ;
Firesizer - I always put my window in the lower half of my screen, so it's at a weird size. So whenever crappy sites come along and resize my window, I can just pop it back to what I had it as (1024x600).

doesn't matter March 1st, 2008 7:46 AM

Adblock Plus, though not on all sites.
Download Statusbar, just for it's convenience.
Extended Statusbar (just like in Opera). I have this to prove that a watched pot boils :P
Firebug, just for whenever I feel like looking at webpage code.
IE Tab, for convenience.
Long Titles, exclusively for the purpose of reading xkcd ♥

uh, I also use Page Title Eraser, for the secretive times ;D, and Paste and Go 2, which I have been forgetting to use, but it's pretty useful. I used to use chatzilla a lot as well, but now I have a separate client.

Saryka March 1st, 2008 2:06 PM

I use IE Tab so I can test all my layouts in IE and FF without having to open IE (because it SUCKS D:) ;D
I also use Colorzilla, Web Developer, and Mouse Gestures, the latter because I missed having that when I used Opera.

Faltzer March 2nd, 2008 9:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ausaudriel (Post 3373600)
(I don't want to see any "I don't use Firefox, I use ___!" replies here. :C If you don't use Firefox, don't reply.)

Aaanyway, what add-ons for Firefox do you have installed? o3o They're one of the things about Firefox that make it my choice as the best browser, I'd die without some of them. :C

I have:
  • Adblock Plus - I know most people will have it, because it's like the best plugin ever. Pretty self explanatory, it lets you block advertisements on sites. It's godsend. :D
  • IE Tab - an extremely useful tool for webmasters who want to test how their sites appear in IE without having to actually open it. Basically what it does is allows you to switch the rendering engine from Firefox to IE, but only in one tab.
  • Web Developer - an amazing add-on that adds far too much for me to even begin to explain. (Uploaded a screenshot, click here.) The main thing I use it for is the CSS editing, it lets you edit the CSS of the page you're viewing and see the results in real time, right there on the page. If you're into web development, I totally recommend it.
I used to have more installed, but I had to reinstall Firefox and I lost them all. D: Soo, what does everyone else use? :>

Oh god, freaking this. Except, you're missing the epic Download Statusbar and Firebug.

Chikara March 2nd, 2008 10:04 AM

-Gaiaonline Toolbar *shotshotshot*
-Colorzilla
-Livejournal Addons
-Mouse Gestures

'Tis what I live for.

supertails March 19th, 2008 3:50 PM

I found one just today. It's called NoScript.

DarkGreg March 19th, 2008 4:08 PM

Adblock plus.

Best addon ever.

The only addon I need.

Period.

supertails March 19th, 2008 6:56 PM

No Script won a 2006 PC World World Class Award. I dought adblock plus got that.

score_under March 29th, 2008 3:14 PM

I use:
*Score_Under browses through plugins*
British English Dictionary,
Deutsches Wörterbuch,
Download Statusbar
DownThemAll!,
Firebug,
HackBar,
IE Tab,
Japanese-English Dictionary for rikaichan,
Mobile Barcoder,
PermaTabs,
refspoof,
Restart Firefox,
Rikaichan,
StumbleUpon,
Tab Effect,
Tab Scope,
Tamper Data,
TortoiseSVN Menu,
User Agent Switcher,
Veoh Browser Plug-in,
WOT.

There's my industrial-standard firefox setup :)


Eureka1 March 30th, 2008 5:33 AM

4chan plugin
not4chan plugin
adblock plus
colourful tabs
bazzacuda image saver

Faltzer March 30th, 2008 6:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by supertails (Post 3414650)
NoScript won a 2006 PC World World Class Award. I dought adblock plus got that.

Fixed.

Second, AdBlock Plus did receive in award. If you for some reason don't believe me:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adblock#Awards

Bejesus March 31st, 2008 9:51 AM

The plugins and stuff make Firefox for me completely different. Even when i go on a plain version of Firefox, say at colloge i go 'ekhh...can't use!'.

I'll just mention the RedShift V2 skin (no one mentioned not mentioning skins right?) because that's what also makes plain Firefox unusable to me lol.

Anyways:

All-in-one Sidebar - the layout went all weird in this at one point, might be my set-up or one of the updates.
Download Statusbar - puts all yer downloads in lil boxes at the bottom of the screen
Downloadhelper - helps in easily getting most videos off sites, works with some other flash like stuff aswell
Firefox Showcase - Shows all yer tas open in a preview window, never use or need really, don't even know the button for it lol
RSS Ticker - scrolling RSS feeds along the bottom, very useful
Smart Bookmarks Bar - Gets rid of all the text in the Bookmarks Toolbar, looks much better.

Must say thanks for making this thread lol, it's given me some great plugins to go off and get...now.

usami March 31st, 2008 10:12 AM

AdBlock Plus, CacheViewer, IE Tab and Session Manager.
I don't really use many addons.

DaiLinn March 31st, 2008 10:21 AM

I need AdBlock plus... lol I've been meaning to get it. I also must get that web development one. o_o

As for what I use...?

Well, ironically, I have both the 4chan plugin and the Mixi plugin, and hardly use either of them. I do use the Yuku plugin though. =D I have a few other plugins but I don't use them much at all...

Hayate March 31st, 2008 10:41 AM

None at the moment...I'll have to look into a few mentioned at the first page...Adblock Plus sounds like a nice one =D


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