Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

[Curt]

also to help me remember:

(the so-called "Incompatible"s are of course compatible in Real Life):

Spoiler

Application: Pale Moon 24.3.2 (20140208150555)

• about:addons-memory 8
  
  • https://github.com/nmaier/about-addons-memory
    
  • Adds an about:addons-memory page that details add-on memory usage
• Adblock Plus 2.5.1
  
  • http://adblockplus.org/en/
    
  • Ads were yesterday!
• Add to Amazon Wish List Button 1.10
  
  • https://www.amazon.com/wishlist
    
  • Add any item from any website to your Amazon Wish List.
• Add to Search Bar 2.2
  
  • (Incompatible)
  • http://firefox.maltekraus.de/extensions/add-to-search-bar
    
  • Add any search on any page to the Search Bar.
• Auto Context 1.5.0.3
  
  • (Incompatible)
  • https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/5714
    
  • Automatically shows User Popup Menu if text is selected
• Auto-Sort Bookmarks 2.3
  
  • https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-sort-bookmarks/?src=api
    
  • Sort bookmarks alphabetically
• Back to Top 7.0
  
  • http://softwarebychuck.com/
    
  • Go to the top (or bottom) of a page
• Bulk Image Downloader 4.53.0.0
  
  • http://BulkImageDownloader.com
    
  • Easily download images from image host sites. The Bulk Image Downloader application must be installed on the PC for this to work.
• CoLT 2.6.1
  
  • http://www.borngeek.com/firefox/colt/
    
  • Makes it easy to copy link text and locations.
• Context Search 0.6.2
  
  • http://www.cusser.net
    
  • Expands the context menu's 'Search for' item into a list of search engines.
• Copy Plain Text 2 1.2.1
  
  • https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/copy-plain-text-2/?src=api
    
  • Copies text without formatting.
• Copy Urls Expert 2.2.1
  
  • http://www.kashiif.com/firefox-extensions/copy-urls-expert/
    
  • Provides options to "Copy Urls of All Opened Tabs", "Copy Urls of All Links in Text Selection" and "Copy Urls of All Images in Selection"
• Download Statusbar 0.9.10
  
  • http://downloadstatusbarapp.com
    
  • View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar
• DownloadHelper 4.9.22
  
  • http://www.downloadhelper.net
    
  • Download videos and images from many sites
• Downloads Context Menu 1.5
  
  • http://www.bm-productions.tk
    
  • Shows the Explorer context menu of downloaded files in the Downloads list
• DownloadStudio Integration 9.0
  
  • (Disabled)
  • http://www.conceiva.com/products/downloadstudio/
    
  • Firefox Integration for DownloadStudio
• Easy Youtube Video Downloader Express 7.22
  
  • http://yourvideofile.com/
    
  • Best extension for 'Superfast' and easy video download links in FLV, 3GP, MP3 (192kbps HQ Direct Link), MP4, 720p HD and Full-HD qualities on Youtube pages.
• EPUBReader 1.4.2.4
  
  • http://www.epubread.com/
    
  • Read EPUB files just in the browser. No installation of additional software needed.
• Exit Button Firefox 0.4.2
  
  • http://www.linnhe.net/firefox/extensions.html
    
  • Adds a toolbar button to exit Firefox.
• Extension List Dumper 1.15.2
  
  • http://www.sogame.cat/
    
  • Dumps a list of the installed extensions.
• FastestFox 5.2.1
  
  • http://smarterfox.com/
    
  • View "related articles" box on Wikipedia, search selected text from popup bubble and context menu, search from the Awesomebar, easily switch search engines for a search, and visit bookmarks with keyboard shortcuts!
• Flagfox 5.0.1
  
  • https://flagfox.wordpress.com/
    
  • Displays a flag depicting the location of the current server
• FoxySpider 1.5.3
  
  • http://www.foxyspider.com/
    
  • Creates a gallery of all the links to requested file types in the current page and in the pages it links to.
• Google Reverse Image Search 1.1
  
  • http://barisderin.com/
    
  • Google Reverse Image Search is a simple tool that lets you search the images reversely on Google Images.
• Greasemonkey 1.15
  
  • http://www.greasespot.net/
    
  • A User Script Manager for Firefox
• Hola Unblocker 1.2.957
  
  • (Disabled)
  • https://hola.org
    
  • Uncensored Internet - access any site from anywhere!
• IE View 1.5.6
  
  • http://ieview.roub.net/
    
  • Open pages in IE via Firefox menus
• Image Toolbar 0.6.14
  
  • http://www.cusser.net
    
  • Provides easy access to common image functions.
• InFormEnter 0.76
  
  • http://firefoxer.ru/
    
  • Helper for form filling in semi-automatic mode.
• Interclue 1.6.3
  
  • http://interclue.com/
    
  • The ultimate link augmentation multitool
• Lazarus: Form Recovery 3.2
  
  • http://getlazarus.com/
    
  • Autosaves everything you type so you can easily recover from form-killing timeouts, crashes and network errors.
• Memory Restart 1.16
  
  • http://www.teamextension.com
    
  • Gives you a quick way to restart if memory usage is too high.
• MinimizeToTray revived (MinTrayR) 1.1.2
  
  • https://tn123.org/mintrayr/
    
  • Minimizes windows into the system tray
• MyBookmarks 0.6.13
  
  • http://www.catsyawn.net/ma2ten/soft/mybookmarks_en.html
    
  • Creates a formatted page from bookmarks.
• Nightly Tester Tools 3.7
  
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Auto-tools/Automation_Development/Projects/Addons/NightlyTesterTools
    
  • Useful tools for the nightly tester.
• Open In RegEdit 0.1.2.4
  
  • (Incompatible)
  • https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/4478/
    
  • Select registry keys in the page and open them in the registry editor
• Pale Moon Commander 1.3.6
  
  • http://www.palemoon.org/commander.shtml
    
  • Advanced preferences for Pale Moon (and Firefox)
• QCLean - Remove Facebook Ads Suggested Pages and Posts 0.3.1.2
  
  • http://qcl.github.io/QCLean
    
  • Remove Ads, Suggested Pages and Posts on News feed of Facebook.
• QuoteURLText 1.0.9b
  
  • http://qoelabs.com/quoteurl.php
    
  • Quote URL text will copy selected text to the clipboard including Page Title, Location and copy date.
• RAM Tab 1.0
  
  • https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/user/emadramlawi/
    
  • Relies on the popular about-addons-memory and creates easy shortcut to view your addons ram usage, please install about-addons-memory addon prior, then after installing this, right click your navigational toolbar -> customize, and add Ram Tab to anywhere you like
• Readability 2.4
  
  • http://www.readability.com/
    
  • Readability is a web and mobile app that zaps clutter and saves web articles in a comfortable reading view.
• Restartless Restart 9
  
  • http://github.com/erikvold/restartless-restart-ffext
    
  • Fennec users enable to restart, otherwise a File -> Restart menu item will be added.
• Resurrect Pages 2.0.6
  
  • http://trac.arantius.com/wiki/Extensions/Resurrect
    
  • Resurrect dead pages, by finding their ghosts.
• RightToClick 2.9.5
  
  • http://nc.ddns.us/extensions.html
    
  • Allows right clicks, highlighting and more where forbidden by javascript
• Save File to 2.5.1
  
  • http://savefileto.googlecode.com/
    
  • Save files to user-defined folders and their sub-folders straight from context menu.
• Save Session 1.3.1.6
  
  • http://diary.noasobi.net/
    
  • Save Session can save the session only once.
• Search Highlight 1.0.1
  
  • https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/search-highlight/?src=api
    
  • Lets you highlight search bar keywords in the current page via the context menu.
• Search Site 4.2
  
  • https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/search-site/
    
  • Searches current site from searchbar or context menu.
• SearchPreview 7.0
  
  • http://searchpreview.de/
    
  • Inserts web site previews in Google, Yahoo and Bing search results.
• Self-Destructing Cookies 0.4.3
  
  • https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/self-destructing-cookies/?src=api
    
  • Cookies when you need them, not when others need them to track you - gets rid of a site's cookies and LocalStorage as soon as you close its tabs. Protects against trackers and zombie-cookies. Trustworthy services can be whitelisted.
• Stylish 1.4.2
  
  • http://userstyles.org/
    
  • Restyle the web with Stylish, a user styles manager.
• Tab Mix Plus 0.4.1.3.1
  
  • http://tmp.garyr.net
    
  • Tab browsing with an added boost.
• Text to Voice 1.10
  
  • (Disabled)
  • http://www.workkafe.com
    
  • http://en.wikipedia....g/wiki/Text-to-voice. TTS gives Firefox the power of speech. Select text, click the button on the bottom right of Firefox window and this add-on speaks the selected text for you. Isn't it brilliant? Audio is downloadable.
• Textarea Cache 0.8.10
  
  • https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/textarea-cache/
    
  • Allows to save automatically the content in a text input field.
• TryAgain 3.4.6
  
  • http://getsatisfaction.com/tryagain/products/tryagain_tryagain_for_firefox
    
  • TryAgain keeps trying to load a webpage when the server cannot be reached.
• Undo Bookmarks Menu 1.7
  
  • http://space.geocities.yahoo.co.jp/gl/alice0775
    
  • Undo Bookmarks Menu
• Unsorted Bookmarks Folder Menu 3.0.1
  
  • http://space.geocities.yahoo.co.jp/gl/alice0775
    
  • Add Unsorted Bookmarks Folder to Bookmarks Menu
• VTzilla 1.5
  
  • https://www.virustotal.com/documentation/browser-extensions/mozilla-firefox/
    
  • Right-click on any link and scan the target with VirusTotal, scan your downloads with VirusTotal before storing them in your PC, free and easy. More information at: https://www.virustot...ons/mozilla-firefox/
• WikiLook 2.7.0
  
  • https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7675
    
  • WikiLook is a Wikipedia and Wiktionary look up. Fast, light, open source tool that define words for you without need to open new tabs or extra windows.

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[Curt]

FoxySpider is (...) a very handy tool if you want to investigate a site and take a look at all its images. (...)
As a test, after you have installed it, go to http://www.google.com/intl/en/about/ and right-click on the page and invoke FoxySpider. Interesting result.

-IainB (March 12, 2014, 06:04 AM)

I went to http://www.washingto...8_gallery.html#item0 to see if FoxySpider could get the Russian austronaut picture that my normal favourite (Bulk Image Downloader) couldn't. After a long freezing, it could. Bravo!

HOWEVER, there was a but, (a frozen butt?), and it really was a huge, enormous, gigantic but: The accumulated memory usage was 3710MB ! Yes: three (3) point (.) seven (7) GIGA bytes (GB) memory usage !!!!!!! No wonder it froze!
  

click thumb to enlarge picture (memory consumption is told by add-on "Memory Restart"):
(and Yes, it took a loooong time to produce this screenshot, waiting for things to happen)

Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful


In my opinion, this is not "handy", but "unwanted behaviour".

[IainB]

^^ Wow, there are a lot of humungous images on that site! Some very nice pix though. Impossible to download the whole lot into a FoxySpider window. Those aren't thumbnails! S-L-O-W. It tried to download them, but I killed it. Did not crash.
Bandwidth killer.
That's rather a feature of the website being crawled though, isn't it - rather than FoxySpider, I mean?

[Curt]

I changed the number of downloadable pages to "2", pictures only, and only if sized larger than 1000x500 pixels - and suddenly the total number of pictures via the same page was a mere 55 => which took up 51MB on my PC when downloaded. Yet, the memory usage was 1½ GB! At first it was acceptable 350MB, but I waited a minute, and it rose to 1373MB!!!



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memory usage (Pale Moon = Firefox):

[IainB]

I closed down FF after that run of FoxySpider and ran CCleaner whilst I made a cuppa tea. When I came back I saw that CC had removed over 2Gb of surplus data...compared to the usual max of 400Mb or so that it would otherwise usually do!
It would be interesting to see if one of those large images, when saved to disk and then opened and re-saved using (say) irfanview, would still be as big on the re-save - even without compression. I recall a discussion a while back on DCF where someone had these humungus image files - wedding photos - that he had recovered from disk. I noticed that after re-saving them in uncompressed form, they were of a "normal" size, and still had the same resolution. The conclusion was that recovered files can contain a load of redundant/surplus data, and I have found that to be consistent with my own experience since in recovering deleted image files from disk.

[Curt]

QClean stopped having any effect whatsoever,
so I was pleased to discover that facebook-cleaner version 2
(https://addons.mozil...don/facebook-cleaner)
is working very well.
 

[IainB]

I've just downloaded and installed Privacy Badger ß Add-on from the EFF.
(Copied below sans embedded hyperlinks/images.)

Privacy Badger blocks spying ads and invisible trackers. It's there to ensure that companies can't track your browsing without your consent.

This extension is designed to automatically protect your privacy from third party trackers that load invisibly when you browse the web. We send the Do Not Track header with each request, and our extension evaluates the likelihood that you are still being tracked. If the algorithm deems the likelihood is too high, we automatically block your request from being sent to the domain. Please understand that Privacy Badger is in beta, and the algorithm's determination is not conclusive that the domain is tracking you.

Our extension has three states. Red means block the tracker. Yellow means that we don't send cookies or referers to the tracker. Green means unblocked (probably because the third party does not appear to be tracking you). You can click on the Privacy Badger icon in your browser's toolbar if you wish to override the automatic blocking settings. Or, you can browse in peace as Privacy Badger starts finding and eating up web trackers one by one.

Nothing can stop the Privacy Badger from eating cookies when it's hungry!

Privacy Badger is a project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

[ewemoa]

Scrolling down the page leads to a link to the following image with the title "Display Advertising Technology Landscape":

  http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/files/2010/09/LUMA-display-ad-map.jpg

[MilesAhead]

I notice Color Toggle doesn't work in 27+ FF or latest Pale Moon.  Anyone have an alternative?

[IainB]

Color Toggle

-MilesAhead (May 24, 2014, 01:25 PM)

Would NoSquint :: Add-ons for Firefox be of any use to you instead?

[MilesAhead]

Thanks.  I'll give it a go. 

[MilesAhead]

I got ColorToggle to work(latest Pale Moon x64) just by changing the hotkey modifiers to Control and Alt.  I tried changing the letter before but no dice.  It just doesn't seem to like having Shift in the sequence. 

[IainB]

I got ColorToggle to work(latest Pale Moon x64) just by changing the hotkey modifiers to Control and Alt.  I tried changing the letter before but no dice.  It just doesn't seem to like having Shift in the sequence. 
________________________

-MilesAhead (May 27, 2014, 07:29 AM)

Yes, I'm not surprised. I briefly trialled PaleMoon x64 and rapidly uninstalled it when I found it conflicted with several hotkey combinations that either I or the system already used. Just too much trouble - PITA. I couldn't see much value in it if one had to invest one's time in adapting one's "ecosystem" to suit the browser.

[MilesAhead]

I don't know what it is, but it seems like every time I try vanilla FF x64 it's a dog.  So I end up using PM as my installed FF.

[MilesAhead]

Not really an extension and many of you may be aware of it already, but I just found how to do it today.  Jump to the last tab that had the focus by pressing Control Tab.  Just set about:config
browser.ctrlTab.previews to True

I love it because I always do a google search using the context menu.  Then I forget which tab I was typing into.

[tomos]

Not really an extension and many of you may be aware of it already, but I just found how to do it today.  Jump to the last tab that had the focus by pressing Control Tab.  Just set about:config
browser.ctrlTab.previews to True

-MilesAhead (May 29, 2014, 05:23 PM)

thanks for that tip Miles - works out of the box in PaleMoon

I remember in FF that clicking on the tab with focus would move the focus to the last focused tab (try saying that fast :p).
I think that was inbuilt, but stopped working at some stage - a good while back now...

[MilesAhead]

Also works in FF 27.0 portable.  That "about:config" stuff is almost as undocumented as the Windows Registry. 

[IainB]

Seriously useful - OpenDyslexic - Firefox Facts

Ergonomically, serifed fonts were apparently the best fonts for recognition, speed-reading and comprehension.
Maybe the Open Dyslexic font changes that. I wonder how OCR copes with it?

[IainB]

I have for years used and currently use ScrapBook to capture and search specific web pages. I have a huge library of such captured material.

ScrapBook
About this Add-on
ScrapBook is a Firefox extension, which helps you to save Web pages and easily manage collections. Key features are lightness, speed, accuracy and multi-language support. Major features are:
* Save Web page
* Save snippet of Web page
* Save Web site
* Organize the collection in the same way as Bookmarks
* Full text search and quick filtering search of the collection
* Editing of the collected Web page
* Text/HTML edit feature resembling Opera's Notes

The reason I have stuck with Scrapbook is that there is nothing else quite like it. However, today I came across this:Chrome extension All Seeing Eye indexes all text in your Web history - CNET, and found in the Chrome Web Store:

Chrome Web Store - ALL SEEING EYE
Record All Browsing in Screenshots & Full Text. Search For Anything At Any Time. Never Forget Where You Read Something. 100% Private

How to use:
After installing, browse to a few web sites of your choice (e.g. yahoo.com, facebook.com, etc) so that the browser  creates some new entries  in your web history. After that go to Show All History from your browser's History menu
Every time you see a new page while browsing it will be saved as a screenshot and all its contents will be remembered so you can go to Show All History from your browsers History menu and search for things in your web history, with a visual interface that helps you find stuff.

NEW: you may now use tags in the Options tab to tell the extension not to capture certain sites.

What it does:
If you want to remember everything you see on the web and have a way to search your web history with full content then this extension will help you do just that. The normal browser history does not save the text inside the pages you visit so you can't search for anything except the title and URL. This extension saves and indexes all the text in all the pages you visit so you can find everything in your history with a few keystrokes. It also takes screenshots of all pages so you can locate to the right page with visual memory. It makes it easier to find stuff that you've already come across in your browsing, so you don't have to search for it again on the web.

I developed this extension to help me find information I come across much more easily than having to search for it again on the web. If it's in my history, I can find it. This has given me all seeing powers. You can have that power too, dear user.

This extension does NOT send any of your browsing info to the cloud or anywhere. It keeps everything on your machine. It will respect your privacy and not work in Incognito mode, so all your browsing in Incognito mode is never saved.

This extension is Open Source. If you're a developer feel free to examine the code and ask any questions or submit issues directly on Github: https://github.com/i...bidiart/AllSeeingEye

Currently, only English is supported for searchable content. Other languages will added in the future.

If this were a FF extension, it would be potentially one of the most useful that I could imagine - with the "missing" functionality that I would like Scrapbook to be capable of, to better meet my peculiar requirements.

[dr_andus]

... today I came across this:Chrome extension All Seeing Eye indexes all text in your Web history - CNET, and found in the Chrome Web Store:

-IainB (June 17, 2014, 08:56 PM)

Maybe it's time for a "Chrome Extensions: Your favorite or most useful" thread? 

[Tuxman]

Yes, please. Get out.

[Curt]

important link if you ever want to install a userscript:

>>http://userscripts-m...pts/show/487275.html<<

Redirect Userscripts.org to Userscripts-MIRROR.org

Script Summary:On any web page it will check if the clicked links goes to userscripts.org. If so, the link will be rewritten to point to userscripts-mirror.org

PROBLEM: Userscripts.org is unreachable.
SOLUTION: On any web page, this script will redirect userscripts.org links to userscripts-mirror.org.
DETAILS: The source code is very short and simple to understand.

-userscripts-mirror

[Cuffy]

I'm easily confused so please talk s...l.....oooo.......w!
I'm still looking for the "supposed" script to disable lazyload.
I just came from that site with over 137,000 scripts on over 5,000 pages.
I'll need a clue as to how we do business there.
Got any tips>
 

[IainB]

@Curt: Ah, many thanks for posting that. You saved me the trouble - I hadn't been sure where to post it (had forgotten this discussion thread) when I saw it yesterday in my feed-reader, referenced in this post in The Windows Club: Greasemonkey scripts for Firefox: What it does and how to use it

How did you find out about that mirror? It seems to have been a little-known item, which always makes me curious.

I had been presuming that somebody was deliberately killing off usercripts.org as it has become well nigh impossible to connect to them, and so I had been resorting to using the Wayback machine (where many/all the scripts seem to be have been stored) - but it seems that, to make use of Wayback as a script archive, you probably first need to know the ID of the script you want!   

[Tuxman]

userscripts.org seems to just have gone. Well, there are some alternatives.

http://wiki.greasesp.../User_Script_Hosting