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Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful
Curt:
In the end of this post I have a question for you!
... explore Firefox once again. Only problem is, we all know it takes at least 10 extensions to achieve the features of an Opera or Maxthon. Ok, so be it, I'd like to ask everyone of their favorite or most useful/powerful extensions...-vegas (December 02, 2005, 12:32 AM)
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After a long brake I have taken up Firefox again.
Applikation: Firefox 2.0.0.11 (2007112718)
- Add to Search Bar 1.7
[email protected]
http://maltekraus.de/Firefox/search-tools
Add any search on any page to the Search Bar.
- All Customized Links 1.5
{E2C5E80C-79B5-485a-A493-3E87E28823A5}
http://www.vietnewsonline.com/phonglu/
Quickly navigate to customized URLs through right-click menu
- ColorfulTabs 2.0.8
{0545b830-f0aa-4d7e-8820-50a4629a56fe}
http://www.thestasis.com/
Colorful Tabs colors every tab in a different color and makes them easy to distinguish while beautifying the overall appeal of the interface.
- CustomizeGoogle 0.69
{fce36c1e-58d8-498a-b2a5-66ad1cedebbb}
http://www.customizegoogle.com/
Forbedrede Google søgeresultater, og fjern reklamer og spam.
- CuteMenus - Crystal SVG 1.9.2
{63df8e21-711c-4074-a257-b065cadc28d8}
http://www.cutemenuproject.com/
Tilføjer ikoner i alle menuer.
- DOM Inspector 1.8.1.11
[email protected]
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/inspector/
Inspects the structure and properties of a window and its contents.
- Download Statusbar 0.9.5.3
{D4DD63FA-01E4-46a7-B6B1-EDAB7D6AD389}
http://downloadstatusbar.mozdev.org/
View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar
- DownloadHelper 2.6.1
{b9db16a4-6edc-47ec-a1f4-b86292ed211d}
http://www.downloadhelper.net
Download videos and images from many sites
- Extended Statusbar 1.2.6
{daf44bf7-a45e-4450-979c-91cf07434c3d}
http://galeb.etf.bg.ac.yu/~ks040161d/firefox/extensions/esb/
A Statusbar with Speed, Percentage, Time and loaded size (like Opera's one)
- Extension List Dumper 1.11.0
[email protected]
http://sogame.awardspace.com/
Dumper en liste over alle installerede udvidelser.
- Extension Manager Extended 2.6.2
[email protected]
http://extended.spanglerco.com/
Use the extension manager to view the id and the folder of an extension.
- Fasterfox 2.0.0
{c36177c0-224a-11da-8cd6-0800200c9a66}
http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/
Performance and network tweaks for Firefox.
- FavLoc 1.1
{472f4ef0-a825-11da-a746-0800200c9a66}
http://favloc.fligtar.com
Nemt download til ofte brugte steder.
- Image Toolbar 0.6.4
{A4732521-77D9-447E-A557-B279AC923F06}
http://www.cusser.net
Provides easy access to common image functions.
- Launchy 4.2.0
[email protected]
http://gemal.dk/mozilla/launchy.html?project=launchy
Open links and mailto's with external applications like Internet Explorer, Netscape, Opera, Outlook etc
- Linkification 1.3.3
{35106bca-6c78-48c7-ac28-56df30b51d2a}
http://yellow5.us/firefox/linkification/
Konverterer tekstlinks til ægte, klikbare links.
- Open In RegEdit 0.1.2
openinregedit@firefox
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/4478/
Select registry keys in the page and open them in the registry editor
- Popup ALT Attribute 1.3.2005092702
{61FD08D8-A2CB-46c0-B36D-3F531AC53C12}
http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/_popupalt.html.en
Popups alternate texts of images or others, and show long descriptions in the multi-row tooltip.
- RealPlayer Browser Record Plugin 1.0
{ABDE892B-13A8-4d1b-88E6-365A6E755758}
http://www.real.com
Detects all recordable content on the browser
- Restarter 1.0
[email protected]
http://bazzargh.blogspot.com/
Add 'restart' to file menu see bug 336050
- RichScrollbar 0.1
{9859aa37-9d17-4558-8ddd-11042c6f3390}
http://dafizilla.sourceforge.net/richscrollbar
Add to scrollbars some buttons to simplify common scrolling operations
- Stop-or-Reload Button 0.2.2
{61D0D7AF-4FF6-476a-B68F-6531F613A6D8}
http://v2studio.com/k/moz/
Turns the stop and reload buttons into a single one.
When you can stop, you have a Stop button, otherwise you have a Reload button. (Like Safari)
- Talkback 2.0.0.11
[email protected]
http://talkback.mozilla.org/
Sends information about program crashes to Mozilla.
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Two of the many things I like about Maxthon 1.6 ("Classic") are 1) the Maxthon Start Page which gives me my recent favourite links at once, and 2) the extra toolbar with shortcuts to programs of my own choice.
Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful
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All Customized Links is an "okay" substitute for half of the Maxthon Start Page, so my biggest problem with Firefox is that the only add'on I have found that comes close to the toolbar for "fav progs" is Launchy, and the author gave up updating this program two years ago, even though I think it still needs a lot in userfriendliness. The prime feature of Launchy is still working fine, but it is a nightmare to add links to other programs if you are not a coder. And it is for such a feature, links to other programs, I became interested in the first place.
So I came here to ask if 'you' know of a program / an add'on that will add such a feature to Firefox, making it easy to reach my favourite programs from the inside of Firefox 2, please?
:tellme:
Curt:
Oh, I forgot to tell that the primary reason I installed Firefox again is the program Firefox Preloader which CyberNet News just wrote about. The preloader is from February 2005 but is working okay with both Firefox 2 and 3, and I cannot understand why 'no-one' have told about it before. Of course you might not care for Firefox Preloader if you are running Vista with Superfetch enabled, but on my XP the preloader does magic. Nothing less!
(...) the open source Firefox Preloader. It can be set to startup when you turn your computer on, and with it Firefox will always be at your beckon call. If there are multiple versions of Firefox installed on your computer you can decide which one you would like it to work with.
This feature does come at a cost though. When the preloader first started up on my computer it used about 4MB of memory itself, and Firefox was using about 10MB. Those aren’t drastic numbers, but for those of you conscious about the memory usage you might want to think twice before using the preloader. Also, when you close Firefox it doesn’t actually close all the way, instead it’s just tucked away so that it will still start quickly the next time you go to use it.
Firefox Preloader (for Windows only)
http://cybernetnews.com/2008/02/06/make-firefox-start-faster-with-a-preloader/
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https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=129464 :up:
tinjaw:
I use a different version of a preloader. It comes standard on all Windows version and consists of two parts. The first is the Startup folder and the second is the Minimize Window button. :P
Curt:
Yes, I should have stressed out that I didn't had Firefox as my default browser. I didn't want it in Start. But now I have it placed in Start, and I don't use the Preloader anymore, because I've found two old add-ons doing an even better job:
- MinimizeToTray 0.0.1.2006102615+
{31513E58-F253-47ad-86DB-D5F21E905429}
http://minimizetotray.mozdev.org/
Firefox 1.0 - 2.0.0.*
Minimizes Mozilla windows into the system tray
- Minimize To Tray Enhancer 0.7.5.3
{de1b245c-de57-11da-ba2d-0050c2490048}
http://codefisher.org/projects/minimize_to_tray_enhancer
Firefox 1.5 - 2.0.0.*
Adds extra things to Minimize To Tray.
Because of these two useful extras, I now have Firefox as my default browser again. In Start.
- I hope Firefox 3 will have some similar features.
f0dder:
The preloaders/minimizetotray do work, but imho it's bad little workarounds, when the real focus should be on optimizing the startup sequence... it's not that it's worries me much constantly wasting 25, 50, or even 100 megabytes of memory, even when not using a browser, but it's just not a solution, it's symptomatic treatment. And that's wrong :)
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