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Title: Your favorite Firefox add-ons
Post by: Mathexpert on August 27, 2009, 23:24:18
We all know that firefox is the best browser. Why? Well its fast, but mostly because it has many useful add-ons, from themes to organizers to gadgets. Whats your favorite Firefox add-on? (add link)  Here are some of mine:

For blocking ads: Adblock Plus (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865)

Seems like a bookmark organizer, but is much, much more. X marks (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2410)

Makes your scrolling smooth. Really cool add-on  ;) Yet another smooth scrolling (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5846)

Organizes your downloads. Handy.  :) Download statusbar (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/26)

More like a theme. Just try it! Personas for Firefox 1.2.2  (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10900)

Whats your favorite?  :D

[mod]Removed a false discussable statement to prevent this topic to turn into a browserwar, which unfortunatelly already started to happen[/mod]
Title: Re: Your favorite Firefox add-ons
Post by: Purple Pineapple on August 28, 2009, 01:10:20
Illimitux (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11037), for sure. But that's just my needs.
Title: Re: Your favorite Firefox add-ons
Post by: StaticRomantic on August 28, 2009, 01:20:32
In reply to now deleted post(s):
on xp, firefox takes about an hour and a half to start up (exaggeration, but kinda true), and it's slow when it's running.
google chrome is faster, simple yet useful if you know how to use it, and better looking (i know firefox has themes, but none of them are as cool as chrome).
firefox is versatile, but takes up a ton of RAM and when loaded up with many addons, often has a ton of errors.
i've crashed firefox hundreds of times, but never had any problems with chrome.
maybe thats just mine though.


just to keep on topic, i'd recommend sxipper (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4865)
Title: Re: Your favorite Firefox add-ons
Post by: Shawnachu on August 28, 2009, 01:23:09
WOT (World of Trust). (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3456) Shows little icons and warns you if you're entering a poorly rated site.
AnyColor. (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6991) Really nice interface changer.
Twitterfox (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5081) for my tweets.
Statusbar Calculator. (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6521) Awesome little tool that fits at the bottom, great for quick calculations.
Fission (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1951) puts your loader into the URL bar. It's just really cool.

EDIT
on xp, firefox takes about an hour and a half to start up (exaggeration, but kinda true), and it's slow when it's running.
Dude, 1 hour and a half? How old is your computer? O_o
Title: Re: Your favorite Firefox add-ons
Post by: googoogjoob on August 28, 2009, 01:28:43
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In my experience Firefox never takes up very much RAM at all (unless it is, for example, running a huge Flash game, which is hardly Firefox's fault), and only crashes when I do something stupid and avoidable.

Chrome can be faster, but only if you have a multi-core processor, since Chrome runs each tab as a separate process or something.


Anyway, I recommend NoScript (http://noscript.net/), which stops Java, Flash, etc from running on a web page without your permission. It can take a little while to get used to at first, but in the long run it's a good thing.
Title: Re: Your favorite Firefox add-ons
Post by: LPChip on August 28, 2009, 13:22:31
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I still think that Opera beats FireFox in many ways. Its much faster, very good display of pages, mouse gestures, great interface, less prone to vulnerabilities (something even Firefox has nowadays).


So I think its very very wrong to state that firefox is the best, cus its clearly not! You may like it alot, and you still may ask what addins people use, but don't claim it to be the best, or you'll get yourself into a browserwar, and that means a lock on the topic for off-topicness.

Lets discuss the matter at hands: Favorite Firefox addins.
Title: Re: Your favorite Firefox add-ons
Post by: Mathexpert on August 29, 2009, 06:57:39
What ^ said. Lets get back on topic. :)
anyway, I also like:

IE tab (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419)

Quote from: Maximum PC
Don?t you hate those websites that refuse to work with any other browser besides Internet Explorer? IE Tab?s mission is to remedy this annoying problem. It will emulate Internet Explorer and allow you to use most of the websites that require Internet Explorer.
Title: Re: Your favorite Firefox add-ons
Post by: Purple Pineapple on August 29, 2009, 07:27:47
IE tab (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419)

Quote from: Maximum PC
Don?t you hate those websites that refuse to work with any other browser besides Internet Explorer? IE Tab?s mission is to remedy this annoying problem. It will emulate Internet Explorer and allow you to use most of the websites that require Internet Explorer.
Sounds neat. I'll have to install if I ever hit that problem.
Title: Re: Your favorite Firefox add-ons
Post by: AClockworkLemon on August 30, 2009, 03:01:02
Spoiler: well... (click to show/hide)
I use Firefox on mac, which has most of those things built-in, my favourite being the apocolypse skin (inverted colours)
Title: Re: Your favorite Firefox add-ons
Post by: Xia on September 10, 2009, 03:35:04
WOT.
personas.

Both are awesome.
Title: Re: Your favorite Firefox add-ons
Post by: Purple Pineapple on September 16, 2009, 06:59:04
Oh. *facepalm*

Firebug (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843)
Title: Re: Your favorite Firefox add-ons
Post by: Razzorman on September 16, 2009, 15:08:55
I barely use any add-ons at all. However, iMacros (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3863), and the any of the dictionaries (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=&cat=3%2C0) are pretty good.