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My Top Must Have Firefox Extensions

Posted in Firefox and Greasemonkey, Technology by engtech on March 24th, 2007

I’m always amazed that people use Internet Explorer over Firefox. With the available extensions Firefox becomes the nerve center of your Internet activity. Lifehacker quite often has good suggestions for FF Extensions to try out.

These are what I use. All links go to more information about the extension.

General

Bookmarking / Sharing Sites

  • del.icio.us - I use religiously, even automatically generating blog posts off of it and sharing my del.icio.us links with people on Twitter
  • stumbleupon - not a productivity tool :)

Web Development

  • Greasemonkey - I’ve written several greasemonkey scripts to make blogging with WordPress easier
  • DOM Inspector - needed for coding with Greasemonkey
  • Web Developer - CSS development, mainly because I haven’t figured out Firebug yet. The easiest way to create a skin for a theme without having to spend a lot of time learning the underlying structure - click on an element and find out how to access it.

Some I plan to try out: Firebug, Stylish, IETab, CustomizeGoogle

What do you use/recommend?

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  1. judyb12 said, on March 24th, 2007 at

    My very modest contributions to this topic:
    Reliby (reload your live bookmarks in one click)
    Download Statusbar (i like to see my downloads, but not obtrusively)
    Reload Tab on Doubleclick (does what it says)

  2. Cat said, on March 24th, 2007 at

    DownThemAll! and
    Sage

    I couldn’t live without Sage. It’s my life….

    Adblock PLus [as you said] is a must as well.

  3. Michael Sync said, on March 24th, 2007 at

    I used to use Firebug for my web development… Firebug is amazing..

  4. qureyoon said, on March 24th, 2007 at

    What do you use/recommend?

    - Linkification
    - Smart Bookmarks Bar

  5. Tony said, on March 26th, 2007 at

    Can’t live without All-in-one Gestures.

    SEO for Firefox also makes my list.

  6. Peter Binderup said, on March 27th, 2007 at

    Firebug is the best extension for productivity - I find it better and quicker to use than Webdeveloper.

    I also use showip - this little extension displays the current webpage’s IP address. Useful for when you are developing on sites on localhost but with the full hostname (edit the host file)

  7. Alpesh Nakar said, on March 28th, 2007 at

    Signature and Gmail Skins, Gmail Manager

  8. Lori said, on March 28th, 2007 at

    StumbleUpon is great — but yeah, not for productivity.

    I’ve found I like Cooliris for peeking at links

    I also use GTDGmail — adds useful productivity features to your gmail

    And I use EverNote on my computer, so I’ve got an EverNote grabber extension

  9. passing by said, on April 1st, 2007 at

    I find that my most useful extensions are:
    Cooliris Previews - could not do without it - try watching a youtube clip with this and it’ll only show you the video
    Forecastfox - always good to know what the weather is like
    IE Tab - sometimes you need IE functions..
    Adblock - goes without saying.

    These are musts for a good firefox experience :D

  10. Khaidar said, on April 6th, 2007 at

    DownThemAll and VideoDownloader. I use them to download video from youtube.