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Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

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brotherS:
I'm new to Firefox after having tried it about a year ago and going back to Maxthon. I'm now using both. One thing I love about Maxthon is the ability to store "groups" of bookmarks together and open them all from one link. This is extended with the ability to open a group of pages at startup (rather than just one home page).
-Darwin (March 20, 2006, 08:01 AM)
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In addition to the last post:

You could use the Session Saver extension, that opens Firefox with the tabs you used when you closed it. You could also save 'special interest' sessions and open those up on demand. I like it.

Carol Haynes:
Just discovered NewsFox which seems to work nicely (at least for a few RSS streams - it tends to fall over if you add loads of stream). You can download it from http://newsfox.mozdev.org/

Currently I have 23 RSS streams installed and it works great - just click on Tools > NewsFox or creat a shortcut to chrome://newsfox/content/newsfox.xul

The most useful feed I have found so far (which also be added to the live bookmarks bar) is https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?type=rss;action=.xml which gives you unread DC forum posts.

In FireFox you click on + above the feed list to add a feed (using the feed URL). Once a feed is added click on it and hit refresh to load up the new messages. You can also right click on the feed and set some options, one of which is to remove old messages (ideal for the unread mail list).

Here is a screen shot:

Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

For a better recommendation see a couple of posts lower (Sage)

abhishek_del:
mine favorite and one i recommend to everyone is the IE tab . already listed above

Carol Haynes:
Don't know if this has already been mentioned but there is a good list of tested extensions that do useful things here:

http://www.scotsnewsletter.com/best_of/firefox.htm

it has also been updated to support only version 1.5 onwards.

There is also an interesting article about heavy memory usage and a fix here:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.cache.memory.capacity

Carol Haynes:
Having been looking through that list one thing I found which is worth mentioning is Sage NewsReader. See http://sage.mozdev.org/ for details

I have to say as soon as I installed this it is much more impressive than FoxNews that I tried before.

You can group your RSS feeds into folders nicely and you can apply your own style sheets (there are loads on the website you can download too) to customise the way the feed pages are displayed.

Here is a screen shot with a feed page for DC.com (I am using sage_synergy2.css style sheet rather than the default).

Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful (click)

Here it is with the default style:

Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful (click)

PS. Just noticed that vegas briefly mentioned this before but I recon it is worth a look. I know a lot of people use NewsGator for this sort of stuff but this is a really simple way to use RSS feeds and you can import OPML files from other readers (and export them too).

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