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Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful
Curt:
Tab Memory Usage :: Add-ons for Firefox
Tab Memory Usage :: MyBrowserAddon
here in "Memory Report Mode: Outside"
IainB:
Quote from: IainB on 2016-05-03, 23:42:04
I think they might have upgraded/superseded this service to some paid alternative called "Blur", or something, but I continue to use my FREE MaskMe account and Firefox Add-on because it is soo useful.
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Apparently you may lose MaskMe etcetera the next time you start using a new machine:
Quote from: a former user's review
Reviews https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/maskme/
Horrible Experience (Rated 1 out of 5 stars) by windyctyprog on September 30, 2015 ·
I am moving to a new laptop and PC, tried to add Mask Me, won't work anymore.
Went to the site, tells me that it only shows my list from 470 days ago.
I've had an account for years, now it won't recognize anything, keeps trying to set up a new account.
I don't want Blur, have no need for it, I just want masked emails - I already use Last Pass, won't shop on-line anymore.
Now I've lost years of masked emails. Trying to deal with Abine over the years has been problematic, not sure they really care.
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Here are a few details from the very fine FAQ section https://dnt.abine.com/#help/faq/faq-blurNonUS :up:
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-Curt (May 04, 2016, 02:04 AM)
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I have been able to continue to operate MaskMe from any PC/laptop, so it's not an issue - i.e., one can continue to use MaskMe etc. the next time one starts using a new machine, and the MaskMe Firefox extension is current, signed, and seems to work just fine (so far). (I just signed in to MaskMe to check whether this still works, right now, and it does.)
However, what was always true - and a potential nuisance - was that users of the FREE version of MaskMe could not rely on MaskMe to store the links between:
* (a) their true email ID and
* (b) which aliases were sent to or provided to which organisations/recipients. - so, users of the FREE version had to manually keep a tally on those connections/associations - I use CHS for that.
If one became a user of the PAID version, then, as I recall, MaskMe automatically kept a tally on those connections/associations by default - which could have been quite handy. I think the new Blur product does much the same.
Abine.com asks for money for the security products with more functionality, because they apparently depend on that income as they get no revenue from advertising.
There's a useful FAQ: MaskMe Frequently Asked Questions
IainB:
Regarding tools for Memory usage or CPU usage monitoring and reporting.
Quote from page Tab Memory Usage :: Add-ons for Firefox
"Can be useful, but make the browser too slow: opening and closing tabs became slow (in particular when a lot of them are manipulated simultaneously), and closing the browser took 37s instead of 7s. I suggest enabling it only when necessary."
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Generally speaking, it is not a good idea to have these tools running all the time as they present a potentially heavy overhead cost when they variously consume CPU/RAM/Disk resources and may even tend to take priority interrupt and access to resources, thus adversely affecting (increasing) real-time resource utilisation and response times.
However, such tools could be very useful for performance evaluation - e.g., (say) assessing the Firefox resource utilisation for a newly-designed web page versus the old version of the same page, or estimating the before/after performance impact of a newly installed extension or script.
One thing about Firefox seems to be worth considering - the resource utilisation cost occasioned by having too many extensions/scripts possibly written in sloppy high-level code and without a thought for performance effects could arguably be killing Firefox. That probably wouldn't be a major problem if Firefox itself wasn't written in sloppy high-level code and without a thought for performance effects - but we can't be sure that it wasn't, given the performance issues one can find highlighted in almost any discussion about Firefox.
dantheman:
Bookmarklets as viable alternative to extensions?
Perhaps this list of bookmarklets can get us motivated to clean up our growing list of power hungry extensions:
http://www.howtogeek.com/125846/the-most-useful-bookmarklets-to-enhance-your-browsing-experience/
Curt:
For two weeks I have been running fewer addons than I used to (sorry for some descriptions and links in Danish):
50 addonsApplikation: Firefox 46.0 (20160414152344)
Operativsystem: WINNT (x86-msvc)
[*]Adblock Plus 2.7.3
[*] http://adblockplus.org/
[*] Reklamer er fortid!
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[*]Add to Search Bar 2.9
[*] http://firefox.maltekraus.de/extensions/add-to-search-bar
[*] Tilføj hvilken som helst søgning, på hvilken som helst side, til søgefeltet.
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[*]Add-ons Manager Context Menu 0.4.2.1-signed.1-signed
[*] http://loucypher.github.com/AM_contextmenu/
[*] Add more items to Add-ons Manager context menu.
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[*]Auto Confirm 0.5
[*] https://github.com/myokoym/auto-confirm
[*] Pushs any confirmation button automatically.
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[*]Auto Context 1.5.0.3
[*] (Inkompatible)
[*] https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/5714
[*] Automatically shows User Popup Menu if text is selected
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[*]BetterPrivacy 1.74
[*] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/betterprivacy/
[*] "Super-Cookie Safeguard"
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[*]Bookmark Toolbar Menu Button 1.1.2.1-signed
[*] https://codefisher.org/toolbar_button/
[*] Show the contents of the Bookmarks Toolbar in a drop down menu. This compresses the bookmark menu into one button that you can put on any toolbar you want to.
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[*]Bulk Image Downloader 4.91.0.0
[*] 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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[*]Classic Theme Restorer 1.5.3beta1
[*] https://github.com/Aris-t2/ClassicThemeRestorer
[*] 'Classic Theme Restorer' genskaber Firefox-menuknappen, firkantede faneblade, tilføjelseslinjen, små knapper på navigationslinjen, og andre ældre knapper og mere. Brug 'Tilpas' for at flytte knapperne hen på værktøjslinjerne.
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[*]Clean Uninstall 0.1.6
[*] http://firefox.add0n.com/clean-uninstall.html
[*] Uninstall an extension and clean its fingerprints (stored preference values for instance)
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[*]CoLT 2.6.7
[*] http://www.borngeek.com/firefox/colt/
[*] Tilføjer et Kopier linktekst-punkt til browserens kontekstmenu.
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[*]Context Search 0.6.4
[*] http://www.basson.at/firefox-addons/contextsearch
[*] Expands the context menu's 'Search for' item into a list of search engines.
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[*]Copy Plain Text 2 1.5
[*] https://addons.mozilla.org/da/firefox/addon/copy-plain-text-2/?src=api
[*] Kopierer uden tekstformatering.
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[*]DNS Flusher 4.0.0
[*] http://www.coders.com.br/dns-flusher
[*] DNS Flusher is the ultimate Firefox DNS Cache flush tool
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[*]Download Manager (S3) 4.06
[*] http://www.s3blog.org/
[*] Vis og håndter filhentninger fra en smart nydelig statusbjælke
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[*]Downloads Context Menu 1.7
[*] http://www.bm-productions.tk
[*] Shows the Explorer context menu of downloaded files in the Downloads list
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[*]Easy Youtube Video Downloader Express 9.08
[*] http://yourvideofile.org/
[*] 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 1.5.0.8
[*] http://www.epubread.com/
[*] Read EPUB files just in the browser. No installation of additional software needed.
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[*]ErrorZilla Plus 1.2.4.2
[*] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/errorzilla-plus/
[*] Show a more useful error page when the network address cannot be reached.
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[*]Extension List Dumper 2 1.0.1
[*] https://addons.mozilla.org/da/firefox/addon/extension-list-dumper-2/?src=api
[*] Dumps a list of the installed extensions.
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[*]Flagfox 5.1.11
[*] https://flagfox.wordpress.com/
[*] Viser et flag, der afbilleder den pågældende servers placering
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[*]Flickr Size Pickr 1.0.1.1-signed
[*] https://addons.mozilla.org/da/firefox/addon/flickr-size-pickr/?src=api
[*] Adds a context menu to view or download any Flickr photo
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[*]Google favicons 3.0.1
[*] Website Favicons in Google Search results. Improve your Search experience!
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[*]Google Reverse Image Search 45.1
[*] 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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[*]Google Search Disable Before You Continue 43.5
[*] https://addons.mozilla.org/da/firefox/addon/google-search-disable-before-y/?src=api
[*] Disable Before You Continue dialog for Google Search
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[*]Google search link fix 1.5.3
[*] https://github.com/palant/searchlinkfix
[*] Prevents Google and Yandex search pages from modifying search result links when you click them. This is useful when copying links but it also helps privacy by preventing the search engines from recording your clicks.
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[*]HD Converter Free 1.0.10.8
[*] HD Converter Free
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[*]I don't care about cookies 2.5.7
[*] https://addons.mozilla.org/da/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-about-cookies/?src=api
i-dont-care-about-cookies
[*] Get rid of annoying cookie warnings from tens of thousands of 'infected' websites
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[*]Image Toolbar 0.6.18
[*] http://www.basson.at/firefox-addons/imagetoolbar
[*] Provides easy access to common image functions.
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[*]InFormEnter 0.765
[*] http://firefoxer.ru/
[*] Hjælper til fomular udfyldning i semi-automatisk modus
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[*]Interclue 1.6.3.1-signed.1-signed
[*] http://interclue.com/
[*] The ultimate link augmentation multitool
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[*]IP Address and Domain Information 2.0.4
[*] http://www.tcpiputils.com
[*] The Ultimate online investigation tool! See detailed information about every IP Address, Domain Name and Provider.
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[*]Multi-process staged rollout 1.0
[*] Staged rollout of Firefox multi-process feature.
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[*]MyBookmarks 0.6.17
[*] http://www.catsyawn.net/ma2ten/soft/mybookmarks_en.html
[*] Creates a formatted page from bookmarks.
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[*]Nightly Tester Tools 3.7.1-signed.1-signed
[*] 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
[*] (Inkompatible)
[*] https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/4478/
[*] Select registry keys in the page and open them in the registry editor
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[*]Open With 6.6
[*] https://github.com/darktrojan/openwith
[*] Quickly test out your web pages in Internet Explorer, Chrome, Safari, or Opera. Open With opens the current page in your other browsers with just one click.
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[*]Restart 1.2.8
[*] http://www.schuzak.jp/
[*] Adds "Restart" menu and button.
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[*]Save Session 1.3.1.6.1-signed.1-signed
[*] http://diary.noasobi.net/
[*] Save Session can save the session only once.
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[*]Saved Password Editor 2.9.6
[*] https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/saved-password-editor/
[*] Adds the ability to create and edit entries in the password manager.
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[*]Self-Destructing Cookies 0.4.10
[*] https://addons.mozilla.org/da/firefox/addon/self-destructing-cookies/?src=api
[*] Fix the web. 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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[*]Show my Password 2.0.1-signed.1-signed
[*] http://netcat.ath.cx/extensions.html
[*] Shows your password in readable letters
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[*]Status-4-Evar 2015.11.16.23.1-signed.1-let-fixed
[*] http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=2001965
[*] Status-widgets og forløbsindikatorer til Firefox 4+
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[*]Stylish 2.0.6
[*] https://userstyles.org/
[*] Gendesign internettet med Stylish, en user styles manager.
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[*]Textarea Cache 0.9.3.4
[*] 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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[*]Torrent Status 2.0
[*] https://addons.mozilla.org/da/firefox/addon/torrent-status-tool/?src=api
[*] Torrent status in my browser and one click submission of torrents.
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[*]Video DownloadHelper 5.6.1
[*] http://www.downloadhelper.net/
[*] Download Videos from the Web
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[*]Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate 7.1.0
[*] http://www.Wondershare.com
[*] Download YouTube and other online videos
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[*]Youtube's Annotations No More 0.3
[*] http://www.kiboke-studio.hr/browser-extensions/
[*] Disable Youtube's annotations.
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[*]Youtube's Autoplay No More 0.3
[*] http://www.kiboke-studio.hr/browser-extensions/
[*] Disable Youtube's up-next autoplay feature.
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