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« on: May 06, 2012, 05:16:40 AM »
Looking for something to replace the Firefox Add-on Mr Tech Toolkit, I was browsing some earlier posts in another thread - Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful - and I saw @Curt's post:
« Reply #446 on: 2012-03-22, 09:52:05 » in this discussion thread. In it he says:
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After two weeks with Waterfox I am pleased with this setup:
Application: Firefox 10.0.2 (20120219181052)
Operating System: WINNT (x86_64-msvc)
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- and then follows a list of all the Add-ons in his configuration.

I thought "How the heck did he make that list?", and rummaged through the list and discovered Extension List Dumper..
After downloading and installing it, and then playing about with it, I realised that it's a potentially hugely useful tool to help manage Firefox Add-ons.
Here are some a shots of its UI, showing what I selected to produce my list below, and the 2 drop-down menus:



After a minimal amount of learning time, I got it to make this list of my Add-ons. Note that I set it to display the ID, which is the extension's curly-bracketed file name in the user profile, as for example, in the path:
C:\Users\[USER]\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\2vuv8r8c.default\extensions\{bcd47b5a-43be-433f-9051-7ce2cdf94ac0}

If an add-on is giving me strife, and the inbuilt methods for turning them off are locked (as happens from time to time), then I now I have a tool for targetting the ID of that add-on's installation folder and I can just zap it. I've had to do that before, and it was really difficult not knowing the folder's exact ID.
Thanks to Extension List Dumper, I am now better-informed.
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« Reply #1 on: May 06, 2012, 03:53:38 PM »
faviconize tab's functionality is now offered by firefox itself you know.
right click on any tab and select "pin as app tab"

one less add-on, one less memory leak.
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« Reply #2 on: May 06, 2012, 04:02:13 PM »
That's a lot of add ons!  ohmy
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« Reply #3 on: May 06, 2012, 04:20:06 PM »
Quote from: eleman on May 06, 2012, 03:53:38 PM
faviconize tab's functionality is now offered by firefox itself you know.
right click on any tab and select "pin as app tab"
one less add-on, one less memory leak.
Quote from: TaoPhoenix on May 06, 2012, 04:02:13 PM
That's a lot of add ons!  ohmy

Thanks @eleman and @TaoPhoenix!
Yes, I put up that list of add-ons at the start of a long-overdue weeding-out process that I had been putting off for ages. A lot  of those accumulated add-ons have already been either disabled or deleted by now (Faviconize has been deleted).
I keep some of my favourites amongst them in a disabled state (e.g., Mr Tech), hoping that the developers will rejuvenate them at some point, because their functionality may still be special/unique, but when they are clearly obsolete/redundant, then they get deleted.
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