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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):
SpoilerApplication: 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
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[*]Adblock Plus 2.5.1
[*] http://adblockplus.org/en/
[*] Ads were yesterday!
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[*]Add to Amazon Wish List Button 1.10
[*] https://www.amazon.com/wishlist
[*] Add any item from any website to your Amazon Wish List.
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[*]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.
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[*]Auto Context 1.5.0.3
[*] (Incompatible)
[*] https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/5714
[*] Automatically shows User Popup Menu if text is selected
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[*]Auto-Sort Bookmarks 2.3
[*] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-sort-bookmarks/?src=api
[*] Sort bookmarks alphabetically
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[*]Back to Top 7.0
[*] http://softwarebychuck.com/
[*] Go to the top (or bottom) of a page
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[*]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.
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[*]CoLT 2.6.1
[*] http://www.borngeek.com/firefox/colt/
[*] Makes it easy to copy link text and locations.
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[*]Context Search 0.6.2
[*] http://www.cusser.net
[*] Expands the context menu's 'Search for' item into a list of search engines.
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[*]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.
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[*]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"
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[*]Download Statusbar 0.9.10
[*] http://downloadstatusbarapp.com
[*] View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar
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[*]DownloadHelper 4.9.22
[*] http://www.downloadhelper.net
[*] Download videos and images from many sites
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[*]Downloads Context Menu 1.5
[*] http://www.bm-productions.tk
[*] Shows the Explorer context menu of downloaded files in the Downloads list
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[*]DownloadStudio Integration 9.0
[*] (Disabled)
[*] http://www.conceiva.com/products/downloadstudio/
[*] Firefox Integration for DownloadStudio
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[*]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.
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[*]EPUBReader 1.4.2.4
[*] http://www.epubread.com/
[*] Read EPUB files just in the browser. No installation of additional software needed.
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[*]Exit Button Firefox 0.4.2
[*] http://www.linnhe.net/firefox/extensions.html
[*] Adds a toolbar button to exit Firefox.
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[*]Extension List Dumper 1.15.2
[*] http://www.sogame.cat/
[*] Dumps a list of the installed extensions.
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[*]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!
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[*]Flagfox 5.0.1
[*] https://flagfox.wordpress.com/
[*] Displays a flag depicting the location of the current server
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[*]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.
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[*]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.
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[*]Greasemonkey 1.15
[*] http://www.greasespot.net/
[*] A User Script Manager for Firefox
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[*]Hola Unblocker 1.2.957
[*] (Disabled)
[*] https://hola.org
[*] Uncensored Internet - access any site from anywhere!
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[*]IE View 1.5.6
[*] http://ieview.roub.net/
[*] Open pages in IE via Firefox menus
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[*]Image Toolbar 0.6.14
[*] http://www.cusser.net
[*] Provides easy access to common image functions.
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[*]InFormEnter 0.76
[*] http://firefoxer.ru/
[*] Helper for form filling in semi-automatic mode.
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[*]Interclue 1.6.3
[*] http://interclue.com/
[*] The ultimate link augmentation multitool
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[*]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.
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[*]Memory Restart 1.16
[*] http://www.teamextension.com
[*] Gives you a quick way to restart if memory usage is too high.
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[*]MinimizeToTray revived (MinTrayR) 1.1.2
[*] https://tn123.org/mintrayr/
[*] Minimizes windows into the system tray
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[*]MyBookmarks 0.6.13
[*] http://www.catsyawn.net/ma2ten/soft/mybookmarks_en.html
[*] Creates a formatted page from bookmarks.
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[*]Nightly Tester Tools 3.7
[*] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Auto-tools/Automation_Development/Projects/Addons/NightlyTesterTools
[*] Useful tools for the nightly tester.
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[*]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
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[*]Pale Moon Commander 1.3.6
[*] http://www.palemoon.org/commander.shtml
[*] Advanced preferences for Pale Moon (and Firefox)
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[*]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.
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[*]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.
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[*]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
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[*]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.
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[*]Restartless Restart 9
[*] http://github.com/erikvold/restartless-restart-ffext
[*] Fennec users enable to restart, otherwise a File -> Restart menu item will be added.
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[*]Resurrect Pages 2.0.6
[*] http://trac.arantius.com/wiki/Extensions/Resurrect
[*] Resurrect dead pages, by finding their ghosts.
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[*]RightToClick 2.9.5
[*] http://nc.ddns.us/extensions.html
[*] Allows right clicks, highlighting and more where forbidden by javascript
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[*]Save File to 2.5.1
[*] http://savefileto.googlecode.com/
[*] Save files to user-defined folders and their sub-folders straight from context menu.
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[*]Save Session 1.3.1.6
[*] http://diary.noasobi.net/
[*] Save Session can save the session only once.
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[*]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.
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[*]Search Site 4.2
[*] https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/search-site/
[*] Searches current site from searchbar or context menu.
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[*]SearchPreview 7.0
[*] http://searchpreview.de/
[*] Inserts web site previews in Google, Yahoo and Bing search results.
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[*]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.
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[*]Stylish 1.4.2
[*] http://userstyles.org/
[*] Restyle the web with Stylish, a user styles manager.
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[*]Tab Mix Plus 0.4.1.3.1
[*] http://tmp.garyr.net
[*] Tab browsing with an added boost.
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[*]Text to Voice 1.10
[*] (Disabled)
[*] http://www.workkafe.com
[*] http://en.wikipedia.org/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.
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[*]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.
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[*]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.
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[*]Undo Bookmarks Menu 1.7
[*] http://space.geocities.yahoo.co.jp/gl/alice0775
[*] Undo Bookmarks Menu
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[*]Unsorted Bookmarks Folder Menu 3.0.1
[*] http://space.geocities.yahoo.co.jp/gl/alice0775
[*] Add Unsorted Bookmarks Folder to Bookmarks Menu
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[*]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.virustotal.com/documentation/browser-extensions/mozilla-firefox/
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[*]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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[/list]-Add-ons Manager > Dump list
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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)
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I went to http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/photos-of-the-day/2014/04/03/54bec128-bb26-11e3-9a05-c739f29ccb08_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!
:o
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.
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